Per notes from Marilyn O'Leary [email protected], 8/2001 Peabody, Selim Hobart. Peabody Genealogy. Charles H. Pope, Publisher. Boston, Massachusetts 1909. Call number CS71.P35 "Benjamin Peabody was an Officer in the Revolutionary War and afterward a Colonel of Militia. He was stationed at West Point at the time of Arnold's treachery. He was a man of high personal character, a Deacon in the church.