Joseph Pease also known as 'Friend of India' bought a dwelling house in 1801 making it ready for his bride. As the Religious Society of Friends - The Quakers - tended to live very closely it may also have been the place of several other Quaker families. The Quakers were very active in helping to abolish slavery in the Africas and West Indies and it is Joseph Pease who first highlighted the plight of the Indian poor and thier pitiful wages and working conditions that the defunct slave owners used to farm the plantations. His son John Beaumont Pease was also instrumental in bringing about reform. His daughter Elizabeth Pease who later married John Pringle Nichol spent many hours at Fleethams being instrumental in helping bringing about such significant changes. It is sad that the only connection given claim to it now is that it is the grounds of (a now) an abandoned football and sports club.
