Rev. Jeremiah Peck

1623 - 1699  (76 years)

• Name	Jeremiah Peck
  Relationship	with Robert Alan Roy
  Birth	1623	London, England   [1, 2]
  Immigration	4 Jun1637 (Age 14)	Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts   [1, 2]
  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 (Age 15)  [2]
  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  [1, 2]
  	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 (Age 49)	Saybrook, Middlesex County, Connecticut   [1]
  He became one of the twenty-seven Proprietors of Common Lands.
  Land/House	May 1693 (Age 70)  [1]
  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 (Age 74)  [2]
  Death	7 Jan 1699	Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts   [1]
  	Agency: Harvard University
  Siblings	3 Siblings
  1. Rev. Jeremiah Peck,   b. 1623, London, England d. 7 Jan 1699, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts  (Age 76 years) ▻ Johannah Kitchell,  m. 12 Nov 1656   2. Lt. John Peck,   b. 1638, New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut d. 1724, Wallingford, New Haven County, Connecticut  (Age 86 years)   3. Joseph Peck,   b. Jan 1641, New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut d. 25 Nov 1718, Lyme, New London County, Connecticut  (Age 77 years)   4. Elizabeth Peck,   b. Apr 1643, New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut
  Person ID	I13707	| Whelpley Line
  Last Modified	18 Dec 2017

  
  

  Father	Deacon William Peck,   b. 1601, London, England d. 4 Oct 1694, New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut (Age 93 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth   d. 5 Dec 1683, New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut
  Marriage	Abt 1622	London, England
  Age at Marriage	He : ~ 21 years - She : ??.
  Family ID	F794	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Johannah Kitchell   d. 1711, Waterbury, New Haven County, Connecticut
  Marriage	12 Nov 1656	Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut   [1, 2]
  Age at Marriage	He : ~ 33 years and 11 months - She : ??.
  Children	1. Captain Samuel Peck,   b. 18 Jan 1659, Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut d. 28 Apr 1746, Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut (Age 87 years)   2. Ruth Peck,   b. 3 Apr 1661, New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut   3. Caleb Peck,   b. 1663, Saybrook, Middlesex County, Connecticut d. 10 Mar 1725, Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts (Age 62 years)   4. Anne Peck,   b. 1665, Saybrook, Middlesex County, Connecticut d. 23 May 1718, Farmington, Hartford County, Connecticut (Age 53 years)   5. Deacon Jeremiah Peck,   b. 1667, Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut d. 1752, Waterbury, New Haven County, Connecticut (Age 85 years)   6. Joshua Peck,   b. 1673, Elizabethtown, Union County, New Jersey d. 14 Feb 1736, Waterbury, New Haven County, Connecticut (Age 63 years)
  Family ID	F793	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	17 Dec 2017

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 1623 - London, England Immigration - 4 Jun1637 - Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Marriage - 12 Nov 1656 - Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut Child - Captain Samuel Peck - 18 Jan 1659 - Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut Child - Ruth Peck - 3 Apr 1661 - New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut Child - Caleb Peck - 1663 - Saybrook, Middlesex County, Connecticut Child - Anne Peck - 1665 - Saybrook, Middlesex County, Connecticut Child - Deacon Jeremiah Peck - 1667 - Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut Proprietor - 1672 - Saybrook, Middlesex County, Connecticut Child - Joshua Peck - 1673 - Elizabethtown, Union County, New Jersey Death - 7 Jan 1699 - Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Sources

  [S768] Selleck, William Edwin. Selleck and Peck Genealogy, (Chicago: privately printed, 1912). [S769] Peck, Darius. A Genealogical Account of the Descendants in the Male Line of William Peck, one of the Founders in 1638 of the Colony of New Haven, Conn, (Hudson, New York: Bryan, Bryan & Goeltz Steam Book Printers, 1877).