Joseph Peck
Of Rehoboth, where he and his wife Hannah had eight children between 1650 and 1672; probably the son of Joseph Peck and Rebecca Clark, baptized in 1623. His will of 1697 leaves his daughter Hannah, wife of Daniel Reed, "all my medow in the north purchase & twenty pounds".
Life
- 1623Bornbp. 23 Aug 1623
Mollie Pfeiffer gives this as his birth date; Ira Peck has it as his baptism.
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Family
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Pedigree
Notes
Came over as a boy with his father in 1638, from Hingham, Norfolk, to Hingham, Massachusetts, in the Diligent (printed as “Diligence” by Mollie Pfeiffer). His father’s holograph will left him “my gould Ringe,” and a deathbed addition recorded by the sons gave him “half his meddow that hee purchased of Mr Bradford lying on the further side of the new Meddow River” (Plymouth Colony wills, printed by Ira Peck pp. 19-20).
Of Rehoboth. His will is dated 5 July 1697, with a codicil of 11 Mar 1701 (compiled transcript). It leaves “unto my daughter Hannah wife of Daniel Reed & to her heirs forever all my medow in the north purchase & twenty pounds”.
Children (Rehoboth VR p. 703): Rebecka 1650; Hannah, Mar 25, 1653; Elizabeth 1657 (married Capt. Samuel Mason); Jathniel 1660; Mary 1662; Ichabod 1666; Patience 1669; Samuel 1672.
Mollie's typescript
Mollie says he appears often in the Seekonk records, settled on Palmer's River in 1660, and left his daughter Hannah Read his meadows in the north purchase and £20.
Joseph Peck (2) the second in America frequently appears in the town records of Seekonk. In 1660 he left the plain and settled on Palmer's River in the southwesterly part of Rhehoboth.
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Connections
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Every notable ancestor and famous relative that Joseph's own ancestors lead to, with the lines drawn down to him.