Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from History of Peter and Mary Best and Their Family: Read Before a Reunion of Their Descendants, Held Near the Old Homestead, in Hilliar Township, Knox County, Ohio, on the Centenary of the Birth of Peter Best, May 13th, 1897
The uniting of these two lines is next to be chronicled. Peter Best, though born in New Jersey, had grown up just across the Delaware in Northum berland County, where his parents located in his childhood. 'he came to be sturdy young yeoman of a vigorous and courageous type of manhood. As young men have always the habit, as much in one generation as in another, he went in those days a wooing after a young maiden whose charms held his fancy and who in his judgment, well approved by later time, was pre-eminently the fittest of women to be his wife. It was his happiness to win the girl of his choice, and the consummation came when, on the 2d of January, 1823, at German Valley, N. J., Peter Best and Mary Trimmer were united in the bonds of holy matrimony.
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