Joseph Peck

Joseph Peck

Male Abt 1587 - 1663  (~ 76 years)

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  • Name Joseph Peck 
    Born Abt 30 Apr 1587  Beccles, Suffolk, UK Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Christened 30 Apr 1587  Beccles, Suffolk, UK Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 23 Dec 1663  Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried 23 Dec 1663  Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • From the History of the state of Rhode Island and Providence PlantationsBiographical NY: The American Historical Society, Inc. 1920 p. 2-5:

      "Frederick S. Peck -- -- On May 22, 1639, the Great and General Court of
      Massachusetts Bay Colony met at Boston, electing John Winthrop governor,and
      other Colonial officers. The name of Mr. Joseph Peck, of Hingham, standsat
      the head of the list of deputies, twenty-eight in number, who met to make
      Puritan laws for a Puritan Colony. In that historic assembly oflegislators
      were John Endicott, Richard Bellingham, Simon Bradstreet, IsrealStoughton,
      and Richard Saltonstall, while Humphrey Atherton, noted in Rhode Island
      history, Robert Keayne, Thomas Mayhew, Simon Willard, Edward Rawson,William
      Hawthorne, and others, were of the legislative group that were destined to
      win high honors in civil life in the Bay Colony. On May 13, 1640, theGreat
      Court met at Boston and again the name of Mr. Joseph Peck leads the
      deputies, now thirty-one in number. Of this number, twenty-three bear the
      title 'Mr.' , four are captians, one lieutenant, one ensign, and two carry
      no title. In 1641 the General Court of Elections met at Boston, on January
      2, and Mr. Joseph Peck is still a deputy from Hingham, with distinguished
      associates, over whom Richard Bellingham was chosen as governor. Amongthem
      are William Carpenter, Henry Smith, William Cheesbrough, Alexander
      Winchester, Stephen Paine, and others, who, in 1641, through the agency of
      Captain Myles Standish and Mr. John Browne, purchased a township of land,
      eight miles square, of Massossoit, and later called Rehoboth.
      Mr. Joseph Peck, who, with his brother, Rev. Robert Peck, Jr., were the
      founders of the Peck family in America, was the son of Robert Peck, a
      resident of Suffolk county, England. The son Joseph was baptized inBeccles,
      Suffolk county, April 30, 1587. Robert Peck, Jr., received his Master's
      degree at Cambridge University in 1602; was a Puritan minister in Hingham,
      England, and with his brother Joseph, came to New England in 1638,settling
      at Hingham, in the Bay Colony, where English settlers of Norfolk countyhad
      founded a new Hingham on the Bay coast. Robert and Joseph took thefreeman's
      oath, March 13, 1638-39, and Robert was ordained teacher of the church at
      Hingham, Mass., 1639. On October 27, 1641, Robert, his wife and son,Joseph,
      embarked from Boston from his native land, having been invited, saysCotton
      Mather, to renew his pastoral office over the Puritan Church in Hingham,
      England, 'where he is greatly serviceable for the good of the Church'. He
      died in 1656, in the midst of a loved and beloved people.
      Concerning Mr. Joseph Peck and his family, Mr. David Cushing, town clerkof
      Hingham, Mass., has this record: 'Mr. Joseph Peck and his wife and three
      sons and daughter, and two men servants, and three maid servants, camefrom
      old Hingham and settled at New Hingham."
    Person ID I1945  Complete
    Last Modified 22 Jul 2006 

    Father Robert Peck, (4),   b. 28 Nov 1548, Beccles, Suffolk, UK Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 Mar 1593, Beccles, Suffolk, UK Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 44 years) 
    Mother Helen Babbs,   b. Sep 1546, Guilford, Surrey, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 31 Oct 1614, Beccles, Suffolk, UK Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 87 years) 
    Married 22 Jul 1573  Beccles, Suffolk, UK Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F5685  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Rebecca Clark,   b. 2 May 1585, Hingham, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 24 Oct 1637, Hingham, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married 21 May 1617  Hingham, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Anna Peck,   b. 12 Mar 1617, Hingham, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Jul 1636, Hingham, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 19 years)
     2. Rebecca Peck,   b. May 1620, Hingham, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location
    +3. Joseph Peck,   b. Abt 23 Aug 1623, Hingham, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 6 Feb 1708, Palm River, Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusets, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 84 years)
     4. John Peck,   b. Abt 1626
    +5. Nicholas Peck,   b. 9 Apr 1630, Hingham, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 27 May 1710, Seekonk Plain, Bristol, Massachusettes Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 80 years)
     6. Rebekkah Harrelson,   b. 17 January 1667, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States of America Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1 April 1734, Hanover County, Virginia, United States of America Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 67 years)
    Family ID F630  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Deliverance,   b. WFT Est 1588-1622,   d. WFT Est 1646-1710 
    Married Aft 1637  Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
    +1. Samuel Peck,   b. Abt 3 Feb 1638/39, Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 6 Feb 1708, Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. Israel Peck,   b. Abt 4 Mar 1643/44
    +3. Nathaniel Peck,   b. Abt 31 Oct 1641, Bingham, MA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt 12 Aug 1676  (Age ~ 34 years)
    Family ID F677  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - Abt 30 Apr 1587 - Beccles, Suffolk, UK Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsChristened - 30 Apr 1587 - Beccles, Suffolk, UK Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - 21 May 1617 - Hingham, Norfolk, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - Aft 1637 - Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 23 Dec 1663 - Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBuried - 23 Dec 1663 - Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA Link to Google Earth
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    Peck Coat of Arms, Peck of Rehoboth and Hingham
    Peck Coat of Arms, Peck of Rehoboth and Hingham
    The coat of arms of the Peck family of Beccles, Suffolk, England, and Hingham and Rehoboth, Massachusetts from "A Genealogical History of the Descendants of Joseph Peck: Who Emigrated with HIs Family to This Country in 1638; and Records of His Father's and Grandfather's Families in England and Records of His Father's and Grandfather's Families in England with the Pedigree Extending Back from Son to Father for Twenty Generations, with their Coat of Arms and Copies of Wills," Ira Ballou Peck, Alfred Mudge & Son, Boston, 1868" [1]