Lt. John Peck

Other Events and Attributes:

• Married: 3 Nov 1664, New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut; Mary Moss, the daughter of John Moss. She died 16 November 1725 in Wallingford, Connecticut. Issue: 1. Mary Peck (1666-1710) 2. Elizabeth Peck (1668-1668) 3. John Peck (1670-1670) 4. John Peck (1671-1768) 5. Elizabeth Peck (1673-1723) 6. Lydia Peck (1677-young) 7. Ruth Peck (1679-1738) 8. Abigail Peck (1682-____) 9. Ann Peck (1684-young) 10. Ann Peck (1686-1716)
• Freeman: 1669, New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut
• Moved To: 1672, Wallingford, New Haven County, Connecticut

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: 4 Jun1637, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts; He arrived in Boston on board the Hector in the company of Governor Eaton and the Rev. Davenport. This company was principally from the city of London, where Mr. Davenport had been a celebrated minister, and consisted of many wealthy merchants, and others of great respectability from London, and of farmers from Yorkshire, Hertfordshire and Kent, and some from Surrey and Sussex. They had suffered much from the intolerance and persecution of Archbishop Laud during the reign of Charles I., and the object of their emigration was the unmolested enjoyment of civil and religious liberty.
• History: 1638; He was one of the founders of the New Haven Colony. In signed the colonial Constitution dated 4 June 1639.
• Occupation: say 1640, New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut; He was a merchant. He was also the trustee, treasurer, and business agent for the Colony Collegiate School.
• Freeman: 20 Oct 1640, New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut
• Will: 9 Mar1689, New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut
• Probate/Proved: 11 Oct 1694, New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut

Notes:

Name:
His surname was often written by him, and by his oldest son, Rev. Jeremiah Peck, with a final "e", but it was dropped in the latter part of their lives.


Buried:
His grave is in that part of the old burial ground, now under Centre Church in New Haven. His gravestone was moved to the new cemetery in the northern part of the town in 1821.

William married Elizabeth about 1622 in London, England. Elizabeth died on 5 Dec 1683 in New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: 4 Jun1637, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts; She, with her husband and son, arrived in Boston on board the Hector in the company of Governor Eaton and the Rev. Davenport. This company was principally from the city of London, where Mr. Davenport had been a celebrated minister, and consisted of many wealthy merchants, and others of great respectability from London, and of farmers from Yorkshire, Hertfordshire and Kent, and some from Surrey and Sussex. They had suffered much from the intolerance and persecution of Archbishop Laud during the reign of Charles I., and the object of their emigration was the unmolested enjoyment of civil and religious liberty.

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