The Pineo Family Family History: Henry Gesner Pineo Sr. & Jr. (1817-1874)
by James Smith (excerpted by John MacQuarrie - 1979)
Published by Northumberland Historical Society - 1977
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Cyrus Eaton bought the Pineo House in 1929 and turned it into a Bed and Breakfast
The Pineos: A Political Pair From Pugwash by James Smith
Melanie Clay-Smith, a descent of the Pineo family, wrote to explain the Clay connection to Pineo Lodge.
“While I am the family historian, sadly those who had a direct connection to the Lodge are now dead. My uncle, Mike (Carlyle Ethelbert) Clay spend summers at the lodge when he was a child. He was born in 1898. My father, Carl, was six years younger, and died six months after Mike. It was Dad who told me about Pineo Lodge, and that it was built for Edwin and Sophia (Pineo) Clay by Henry Gesner Pineo.
However, a look at The History of Pugwash, by John Smith, tells a slightly different story. The Seamans, who were pioneers of the area, had the land originally, and Stephen Seaman lost the land through misfortune, and it land in the hand of Henry Gesner's father, David Sampson Pineo. Interestingly, Henry married Harriet Sophia Seaman, so the land did return to the family. The book mentions the building on the land that the Pineos moved into:
from History of Pugwash, page 12. Stephen Seaman built a house in 1807 "approximately where Eaton Lodge now stands". These lands then fell into David Sampson Pineo's hands after Seaman lost the mortgage to the lands in an auction of which he was unaware. Page 14: "Now he moved his family into the Seaman house, the property of which his descendants occupied for nearly a century". This would mean that Pineo Lodge was built in 1807 by Stephen Seaman, and not built specifically for Mary Sophia as I was always told.
One of Edwin's son's widows, Leila, sold the house to Cyrus Eaton, and the rest is [Eaton] family history.”
November 29, 2017
“While I am the family historian, sadly those who had a direct connection to the Lodge are now dead. My uncle, Mike (Carlyle Ethelbert) Clay spend summers at the lodge when he was a child. He was born in 1898. My father, Carl, was six years younger, and died six months after Mike. It was Dad who told me about Pineo Lodge, and that it was built for Edwin and Sophia (Pineo) Clay by Henry Gesner Pineo.
However, a look at The History of Pugwash, by John Smith, tells a slightly different story. The Seamans, who were pioneers of the area, had the land originally, and Stephen Seaman lost the land through misfortune, and it land in the hand of Henry Gesner's father, David Sampson Pineo. Interestingly, Henry married Harriet Sophia Seaman, so the land did return to the family. The book mentions the building on the land that the Pineos moved into:
from History of Pugwash, page 12. Stephen Seaman built a house in 1807 "approximately where Eaton Lodge now stands". These lands then fell into David Sampson Pineo's hands after Seaman lost the mortgage to the lands in an auction of which he was unaware. Page 14: "Now he moved his family into the Seaman house, the property of which his descendants occupied for nearly a century". This would mean that Pineo Lodge was built in 1807 by Stephen Seaman, and not built specifically for Mary Sophia as I was always told.
One of Edwin's son's widows, Leila, sold the house to Cyrus Eaton, and the rest is [Eaton] family history.”
November 29, 2017