Joseph Peck

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Died:
He was unmarried.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Moved To: 1678, Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut; He was with his father.
• Military: Oct 1696, Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut; He was chosen a Lieutenant in the local training band (militia).
• Offices Held: say 1700, Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut; He was a Justice of the Peace.
• History: Oct 1700; In case the government of Newyorke shall desire the line between their Province and this Colony to be renewed by persons appointed by both Governments, this assembly doth appoint and empower Capt Jonathan Selleck, Lieut Samuel Peck (and one other) to Join with those appointed by the governm^t of Newyorke in running said line and erecting bound marks.
• Military: Oct 1720, Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut; He was appointed a Captain of the East Training Band.

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Buried:
Here lies the Body of Samuel Peck Esq.
who died
April y^e 28 A. D. 1746
Aged 90 years

Samuel married Ruth Ferris on 27 Nov 1686 in Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut. Ruth (daughter of Peter Ferris) was born on 18 Jan 1659 in Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut; died on 17 Sep 1745 in Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut; was buried in Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Buried:
Here lies the Body of
Mrs Ruth Peck
wife of Samll Peck Esq.
who died Sep y^e 17^th 1745
about 83 years of Age

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: 4 Jun1637, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts; He arrived, with his parents, 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.
• Education: say 1638; He is said by Cotton Mather to have been bred at Harvard College, but, though probably a student, his name does not appear in the catalog of the graduates of that institution.
• History: 1660; According to Peck (1877) and Selleck (1912), "He was then, and for some time previously had been, preaching or teaching school at Gruilford, and he continued to be thus engaged until 1660, when he was invited to take charge of the Collegiate school at New Haven, Conn. This was a colony school, and had been instituted by the General Court, in 1659. It was open to students from other colonies, and in it were to be taught Latin, Greek and Hebrew, and young men fitted for college. He accepted the invitation, and removing from Guilford to New Haven, entered upon his duties as its instructor and continued to discharge the same until the summer of 1661, when the school was temporarily suspended for want of adequate support. It was revived, however, after a few years, and has continued and flourished until the present day under the name of the Hopkins Grammar School. In the autumn of 1661 he was invited to preach at Saybrook, Conn., where there is much reason to suppose that he was ordained, and where he settled as a minister, succeeding Rev. James Fitch ; the agree few years there was some dissatisfaction with his ministry, and a misunderstanding as to the provisions of his agreement of settlement, which being amicably arranged he left Saybrook removing to Gruilford early in 1666. He was then, and for some time had been, together with numerous other Ministers and churches in the New Haven and Connecticut Colonies, decidedly opposed to what was called the "Half-way Covenant," adopted by the General Synod of 1662, and with many of the leading ministers and the people of the New Haven Colony was especially and irreconcilably hostile to the Union of the New Haven and Connecticut Colonies under the charter of Charles II., which, however, after a protracted struggle, was finally effected in 1665, and he resolved to emigrate from the colony. Removing from Guilford in 1666, he "became one of the first settlers of Newark, N. J. His home lot and residence in Newark were on the northeasterly comer of Market and Mulberry streets. He does not appear to have officiated as a minister at Newark. He preached to the neighboring people of Elizabethtown soon after his removal to Newark, and finally settled there as their first minister in 1669 or 1670. In 1670, and again in 1675, he was invited by the people of Woodbridge, N. J., and in 1676 by the people of Greenwich, Conn., to settle with them in the ministry, but he declined these several invitations. In Sept., 1678, he was again invited to settle as a minister at Greenwich, and in Oct., 1678, he had a similar call from Newtown, Long Island, N. T. He accepted thie last call from Greenwich, and removing thither late in the autumn of 1678 from Elizabethtown, N. J., he became the first settled minister in Greenwich, Conn., where his pastorate was a very quiet and useful one, and only disturbed by his refusal in 1688 to baptize the children of non-communicants, allowed by the "Half-way Covenant," the introduction of which still, agitated the churches in Connecticut. Though sustained by a majority of the members of his church, the dissatisfaction of the minority probably led to his resignation in 1689. He then commenced preaching in Waterbury, Conn., and having received and accepted the unanimous invitation of the residents of that town to settle with them in the ministry, he removed thither early in 1690, and became the first settled minister of the church in Waterbury in 1691. He was then nearly seventy years of age. In a few years his health gradually failed, but he continued the pastor of the church and discharged the most of his official duties until his decease at Waterbury, June 7, 1699. He seems to have possessed considerable energy and ability, and to have been a man of much usefulness, both as a teacher and minister in the frontier settlements, among the early colonists of this country. The first salary paid him at Greenwich for preaching was £50 per year with fire-wood, or £60 without. He chose the latter."
• Proprietor: 1672, Saybrook, Middlesex County, Connecticut; He became one of the twenty-seven Proprietors of Common Lands.
• Land/House: May 1693; The Court grant to Rev. Jeremiah Peck 2oo acres of land for a farm, provided he take it up where it may not be prejudicial to any former grant or plantation.
• Will: 14 Jan 1696/97

Jeremiah married Johannah Kitchell on 12 Nov 1656 in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut. Johannah (daughter of Robert Kitchell and unknown) died in 1711 in Waterbury, New Haven County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Will: 7 Oct 1696

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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Other Events and Attributes:

• Moved To: 1638, New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut; He came with Governor Eaton and John Davenport.
• Moved to: 1639, Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut
• Moved to: 1666, Newark, Essex County, New Jersey

Robert married unknown on Yes, date unknown. unknown died in 1682 in Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: 1635; He came to the New World in 1635.
• Freeman: 6 May 1635, Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; On 6 May 1635 he was admitted as a freeman in Watertown, Massachusetts.
• Moved To: About 1636, Wethersfield, Hartford County, Connecticut; He bought It acres of land and built a house in Wethersfield, Connecticut about 1636.
• Moved To: 1640, Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut; He had bought land there from the Indian, Keofferam, before July 1640.
• Last Full Review: 7 May 2021

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Jeffrey married first wife on Yes, date unknown. first died on 31 May 1658. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Last Full Review: 7 May 2021