Peckham John

Notes:

John Peckham probably immgrated between 1634-1638 and appears in Newport, R. I. in 1638. He was associated with the Clarkes and others, who were among the active supporters of Anne Hutchinson. His name is not found in any passenger list, nor in the Boston records. It is probable that he came with the Hutchinson party on the "Griffin" He was a zealous Baptist, but his name does not appear in the list of those disarmed in Boston, nor among the followers of Wheelwright,nor was he one of the signers of the Portsmouth covenant. He was a brother-in-law of John Clarke, and his lands were allotted along with those of William Freeborn, John Coggeshall and others who were the first settlers of the Island of Aquidneck in 1638, where, on May 20th his name is in a list of those who were admitted inhabitants of Newport. In 1640, the bounds of his lands were established. March 16, 1641 he was admitted a freeman. In 1648, he was one of the ten male members of the first Baptist Church of Newport,in full communion. This same year, Eleanor Peckham, his second wife, was baptized. His residence was in that part of Newport that afterwards became Middletown, and a stone marked I. P. is supposed to mark his grave. A reference to his will is found in a list of seventeen wills (between 1676 and 1695) that were presented to the court in 1700, by parties interested, the law requiring three witnesses and these wills having but two.

John Peckham and his sons became, prior to 1700, very extensive landholders. They were first, amoung the proprietors of the Petaquamscot purchase in 1660; second, in the Westerly purchase in 1661; third, in the East Greenwich purchase in 1677. These tracts reached across southern Rhode Island from Westerly to Narragansett Bay. Their purchases also included Connannicut Island and Dutch Island, in the Bay, besides large tracts on the island of Rhode Island, where the original settlement was made. Soon after the first settlement of Rhode Island, the Peckhams bought a tract of land one mile square in Little Compton, on which they buit a house in 1640,which stood two hundred years and in which six generations of Peckhams were born. Their purchases also extended into Dartmouth, Massachusetts, to the Acushnet River, where a part of the city of New Bedford now stands. The great-grandchildren of John Peckham were among the settlers of Stonington and other towns of eastern Connecticutt; Westerly, Charlestown, Hopkinton, North and South Kingstown, East Greenwich, Scituate, Gloucester, Providence, Jamestown, Newport, Middletown, Portsmouth, Tiverton and Little Compton, R. I.; and Darmouth, Westport, New Bedford, Rehoboth and Petersham, Massachusetts. The succeeding generation migrated to Dutchess County and central New York.

In a deed dated May 30, 1651, from Joshua Coggeshall and his mother, Mary Coggeshall, to Walter Connigrave, the land is described as bounded "on land granted to Mary Clarke, now deceased, sometime the wife of John Peckham."
The grant referred to was made previous to 1644. Mary Clarke was the sister of the five brothers, Carew, Thomas, Jeremiah, John and Joseph, and was born in 1607. It is not known where or when she was married, or when she died. The date of John Peckham's second marriage, the surname of his second wife, and the date of his death, are also unknown. There are reasons for believing that Mary Clarke was the mother of his sons John,Thomas and William. (The above was written by Stephen Farnum Peckham, A. M., of New York City, NY in 1903.)

Family/Spouse: Clarke Mary. Mary was born in 1607; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Crafts Eleanor. Eleanor was born about 1605. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Newport Sarah. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Clarke Hannah (Weeden). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

William was supposed to be the first Baptist minister ordained on the continent, and thus became the fourth pastor of the Baptist Church of Newport.

William was supposed to be the first Baptist minister ordained on the continent, and thus became the fourth pastor of the Baptist Church of Newport.

Family/Spouse: Weeden Phoebe. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Clarke. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Spooner John. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Stephen lived in Dartmouth, Bristol County, MA and was one of the original proprietors of East Greenwich in 1677. Jan., 1679, he had a grant of land in the Narragansett, but probably never went there. December 9, 1679, he bought of Captain Seth Pope a one-quarter share right in Dartmouth, MA. The original proprietors of this territory lived in Plymouth. It comprised New Bedford, Fairhaven, Westport and the present town of Darmout. Previous to the Revolution, the district on the west side of the Accushnet River, between Clarke's Point and the "Head of the River," was occupied by a few substantial farmers, in the following order, from the point north: Benjamin Allen, Joseph Russell, Jr. and Sr., Manesseh Kempton, Samuel Willis and Stephen Peckham. The latter's farm extended from what is now Linden St., northward within the limits of New Bedford. Stephen Peckham's name is amoung the list of proprietors to whom a confirmatory deed was given by Governor William Bradford, November 12, 1694. He married, probably before leaving, Newport, Rhode Island, Mary______. He died on 23 April, 1724. (This was a written by Stephen Farnum Peckham, A. M., from New York City and was printed in the New Enlgand Historic and Genealogical Society, Volume 57, 1903)

ABSTRACT OF WILL OF STEPHEN PECKHEM
Bristol County, Massachusetts Probate Records

Will of Stephen Peckhem of Dart.,Yeoman, dtd. 1 Dec. 1722, prb. 19 May 1724. Wife mentioned but not named. Sons: Stephen, Willaim, John, Joseph and Josiah. 5 daus: Aloner, Mary, Hannah Deborah and Jean. Wtns: Samuel Willis, Phillip Cannon & Increase Allen, Jr. [4:318/19/20].

Order for inv. to Mrs. Mary Peckhem, Exec. of Est. of her husb. STEPHEN PECKHEM of Dart., dtd. 21 Joly 1724 [4:317/8].

Inv. of Est. of STEPHEN PECKHEM, of Dart., who died 23 Apr. 1724, pres. by Mary Peckhem, his widow & Exec. Apprs: Joseph Russsel,Jr., Benjamin Allen & Samuel Willis. [4:320/1/2/3/4].

Acct. of Mary Peckham, Exec. of Est. of her husb. STEPHEN PECKHEM of Dart., dtd. 18 Mar 1728/9 [6:221]

Stephen lived in Dartmouth, Bristol County, MA and was one of the original proprietors of East Greenwich in 1677. Jan., 1679, he had a grant of land in the Narragansett, but probably never went there. December 9, 1679, he bought of Captain Seth Pope a one-quarter share right in Dartmouth, MA. The original proprietors of this territory lived in Plymouth. It comprised New Bedford, Fairhaven, Westport and the present town of Darmout. Previous to the Revolution, the district on the west side of the Accushnet River, between Clarke's Point and the "Head of the River," was occupied by a few substantial farmers, in the following order, from the point north: Benjamin Allen, Joseph Russell, Jr. and Sr., Manesseh Kempton, Samuel Willis and Stephen Peckham. The latter's farm extended from what is now Linden St., northward within the limits of New Bedford. Stephen Peckham's name is amoung the list of proprietors to whom a confirmatory deed was given by Governor William Bradford, November 12, 1694. He married, probably before leaving, Newport, Rhode Island, Mary______. He died on 23 April, 1724. (This was a written by Stephen Farnum Peckham, A. M., from New York City and was printed in the New Enlgand Historic and Genealogical Society, Volume 57, 1903)

ABSTRACT OF WILL OF STEPHEN PECKHEM
Bristol County, Massachusetts Probate Records

Will of Stephen Peckhem of Dart.,Yeoman, dtd. 1 Dec. 1722, prb. 19 May 1724. Wife mentioned but not named. Sons: Stephen, Willaim, John, Joseph and Josiah. 5 daus: Aloner, Mary, Hannah Deborah and Jean. Wtns: Samuel Willis, Phillip Cannon & Increase Allen, Jr. [4:318/19/20].

Order for inv. to Mrs. Mary Peckhem, Exec. of Est. of her husb. STEPHEN PECKHEM of Dart., dtd. 21 Joly 1724 [4:317/8].

Inv. of Est. of STEPHEN PECKHEM, of Dart., who died 23 Apr. 1724, pres. by Mary Peckhem, his widow & Exec. Apprs: Joseph Russsel,Jr., Benjamin Allen & Samuel Willis. [4:320/1/2/3/4].

Acct. of Mary Peckham, Exec. of Est. of her husb. STEPHEN PECKHEM of Dart., dtd. 18 Mar 1728/9 [6:221]

Stephen married Pope Mary about 1680. Mary was born about 1650 in Dartmouth, Bristol County, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He remained unmarried. He had a will and and inventory of his estate in Newport, R. I .

He remained unmarried. He had a will and and inventory of his estate in Newport, R. I .

Family/Spouse: Lydia. Lydia was born about 1653. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Taylor Robert. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She married Thomas Gray, son of Edward and Dorothy (Lettice) Gray of Little Compton, R. I. They had no children.

She married Thomas Gray, son of Edward and Dorothy (Lettice) Gray of Little Compton, R. I. They had no children.

Family/Spouse: Warren Nathaniel. Nathaniel was born in of Plymouth, Plymouth County, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Gray Thomas. Thomas was born in of Little Compton, RI. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Taylor Peter. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Barker Peter. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Wells Peter. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Weeden William. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Barker Peter. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Stephen lived in Dartmouth (now New Bedford), MA and was a farmer. He was a Friend (Quaker), and his second marriage was in Friend's Meeting Records. Of his children, Elizabeth, Eunice and Richard are mentioned as minors in their father's will, dated March 19, 1757. The estate was divided between James, Stephen and Richard. He died in June, 1764.

There are two different dates for his birth; Oct. 23, 1683 and Feb. 23, 1683. The dates for his death also vary; June 1764 and July 3, 1764.

Stephen married Sisson Content about 1715. Content (daughter of Sisson James and Hathaway Lydia) was born about 1694; died before 1734. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Stephen married Arthur Keturah on 08 Jan 1739 in Nantucket, Nantucket Co. or Dartmouth, Bristol Co. Ma. Keturah was born on 29 Jun 1706 in Nantucket, Nantucket County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Jenne Hannah. Hannah was born about 1685. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Hathaway Mary. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: West Almy. Almy was born about 1688. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Jones Adam. Adam was born about 1690. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
28 Jan 1691/1692

Family/Spouse: Delano Jabez. Jabez was born about 1690. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
15 Jan 1697/1698

Family/Spouse: Boston Mary. Mary was born about 1698. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Deborah married Nye Thomas on 19 Jan 1727. Thomas was born about 1698. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
2 Feb 1701/1702

Family/Spouse: Jennings Penelope. Penelope was born about 1702. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Russell Dinah. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
23 Jan 1702/1703

Jean married Delano Thomas on 04 Nov 1727 in Dartmouth, Bristol County, MA. Thomas (son of Delano Lt. Jonathon and Warren Mercy) was born on 10 May 1704 in Dartmouth, Bristol County, MA; died after 28 Oct 1778 in Dartmouth, Bristol County, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Morton Ruth. Ruth was born about 1706. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Welles James. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

James Peckcom left a will, dated November 13th, 1779 leaving his wife, Deborah Hammond Peckcom and their chilren his estate. (Typed as written)

WILL OF JAMES PECKCOM
DARTMOUTH, BRISTOL COUNTY, MA


This thirteenth day of November, A.D. One thousand seven hundred and seventy nine I James Peckcom of Darmouth in the County of Bristol with in the State of Massachusetts Bay in New England, yeoman, being now in the sixty fourth year of my age by reason of infirmyty of body , I cannot expect to be continued long in this world.
Therefore it might be best to settle my estate (while God was pleased to continue my memory,reason and understanding with me) By making this my last Will and Testament: and as to my worldly estate which God has been pleased to bless me with in this life, I give, devise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form:

Imprimis My Will is that all my just debts, funeral charges and just expenses of all sort should be first paid by my Executor hereafter named, out of my Live Stock.

Then I give to Deborah my beloved wife the use and improvement of that part of my now dwelling howse that is called the citchen and clouset at one end of the same with the Stowe Room together with a privelage in the Chamber to set meal casks and to set casks to keep grain in and a privelage in the Sellor to put Sider apples and all other saus as she shall have need of and to the well to draw water and a privelage in my barn for her haye and good room for her cowe with the Liberty to pass and repass to and from all and every of said privelages and the use of my gardens for her to raise such there on as may best suit her and what summer and winter apples she shall have need of out of my orchard and all other fruit therein as she shall ever mind (?) for together with all my live stock after bills are paid and all my store of (?) that I shall (?) me at my demise and all other nesesarys for the comfort of this life.

I likewise give her my great old coat and the use and improvement of all my howsell stuff of all sorts so long as she remains my widow together with what I shall order to be done for her and performed to her by my two sons all which is in lew of her right of Laws.

Then I give and bequeath to my son, Isaiah Peckcom and to his heirs and assign forever the one half of my tender swamp in Dartmouth, it being the third part of a lot of tender swamp I bought of one of the heirs of (?) Seth Pope, late of (?) Dartmouth deceased.

He my said son to pay and perform as shall be hereafter expressed in this my will that-- is to pay to his mother my wife yearly and every year so long as she remains my widow Three bushels of good Indian corn and one bushel of Rye and five cord of Wood to the doore of my now Dwelling House for her use if by her call for.

Then I give and bequeath to my son Caleb Peckcom and to his heirs and assign forever my homested farm with the buildinds their on except the privelages aboved expressed to his mother together with the other half of the above said swamp and my gun; he my said son to pay and perform as shall be hereafter exprest in this my Will that is to say to his mother my Wife yearly and every year three bushels of good Indian corn and one bushel of Rye and to keep her a cow Summer and Winter with suitable keeping for the same and six cord of Wood to her Door if it be by her needed yearly and seasonably during the time she remains my widow.

Then I give to my above said two sons all my Wearing apparriel and all my farming Implyments or utincials. I likewise give to my said two sons all my tools common used about Handy Craft Work and my boat and furnature and all my fishing implyments for fishing of sorts to be Equally Divided between them.

Further more my Will is that my said son Caleb finds and provides one hundred and sixty pound of good beef and forty pound of well fed pork to yearly and every year during the time she reamins my widow. Further more my will is that in case she shall marry for her to have the use and the improvement of one feather bed and furniture and other necessarys for hous keeping during her natural life and to be returned so as to be divided to and amongst my daughters.

Further more my Will is that the housel goods which I gave my wife the use of shall be and go to and amongst my said five daughters so and in such amounts as to make them equil With What they have already had that is to say Susanna Taber, Lydia Annable, Deborah Myrick, Content Hathaway, Hannah East

Then I give to my Daughter Lydia Annable -six shillings
Then I give to my Daughter Deborah Myrick six shillings
Then I give to my Daughter Content Hathaway six shillings
Then I give to my Daughter Hannah East six shillings
To be paid by my Executor here after named within one year after my Decease my will is then what money I shall have by me at my Decease and what Debts are due to me are to goe to pay my debts with the live stock.

Then I constitute make and ordain my son Caleb Sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament hereby makeing all others Before this Voide In Witness
Where of I the said James Peckcom have here unto sett my Hand and Seal the
Day and Date aforesaid

Signed Sealed Published and Declaired by the said James Peckcom as his last Will and Testament in the Presence of us this Day and Year above written.

In the precence of

(Signed)
Caleb Hathaway James Peckcom

Richard Hathaway

Samuel West (?)

(Note at bottom of page: the money that I have by me and Debts Due to go to pay Debts With the live Stock interlined Before sined.)

James Peckcom left a will, dated November 13th, 1779 leaving his wife, Deborah Hammond Peckcom and their chilren his estate. (Typed as written)

WILL OF JAMES PECKCOM
DARTMOUTH, BRISTOL COUNTY, MA


This thirteenth day of November, A.D. One thousand seven hundred and seventy nine I James Peckcom of Darmouth in the County of Bristol with in the State of Massachusetts Bay in New England, yeoman, being now in the sixty fourth year of my age by reason of infirmyty of body , I cannot expect to be continued long in this world.
Therefore it might be best to settle my estate (while God was pleased to continue my memory,reason and understanding with me) By making this my last Will and Testament: and as to my worldly estate which God has been pleased to bless me with in this life, I give, devise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form:

Imprimis My Will is that all my just debts, funeral charges and just expenses of all sort should be first paid by my Executor hereafter named, out of my Live Stock.

Then I give to Deborah my beloved wife the use and improvement of that part of my now dwelling howse that is called the citchen and clouset at one end of the same with the Stowe Room together with a privelage in the Chamber to set meal casks and to set casks to keep grain in and a privelage in the Sellor to put Sider apples and all other saus as she shall have need of and to the well to draw water and a privelage in my barn for her haye and good room for her cowe with the Liberty to pass and repass to and from all and every of said privelages and the use of my gardens for her to raise such there on as may best suit her and what summer and winter apples she shall have need of out of my orchard and all other fruit therein as she shall ever mind (?) for together with all my live stock after bills are paid and all my store of (?) that I shall (?) me at my demise and all other nesesarys for the comfort of this life.

I likewise give her my great old coat and the use and improvement of all my howsell stuff of all sorts so long as she remains my widow together with what I shall order to be done for her and performed to her by my two sons all which is in lew of her right of Laws.

Then I give and bequeath to my son, Isaiah Peckcom and to his heirs and assign forever the one half of my tender swamp in Dartmouth, it being the third part of a lot of tender swamp I bought of one of the heirs of (?) Seth Pope, late of (?) Dartmouth deceased.

He my said son to pay and perform as shall be hereafter expressed in this my will that-- is to pay to his mother my wife yearly and every year so long as she remains my widow Three bushels of good Indian corn and one bushel of Rye and five cord of Wood to the doore of my now Dwelling House for her use if by her call for.

Then I give and bequeath to my son Caleb Peckcom and to his heirs and assign forever my homested farm with the buildinds their on except the privelages aboved expressed to his mother together with the other half of the above said swamp and my gun; he my said son to pay and perform as shall be hereafter exprest in this my Will that is to say to his mother my Wife yearly and every year three bushels of good Indian corn and one bushel of Rye and to keep her a cow Summer and Winter with suitable keeping for the same and six cord of Wood to her Door if it be by her needed yearly and seasonably during the time she remains my widow.

Then I give to my above said two sons all my Wearing apparriel and all my farming Implyments or utincials. I likewise give to my said two sons all my tools common used about Handy Craft Work and my boat and furnature and all my fishing implyments for fishing of sorts to be Equally Divided between them.

Further more my Will is that my said son Caleb finds and provides one hundred and sixty pound of good beef and forty pound of well fed pork to yearly and every year during the time she reamins my widow. Further more my will is that in case she shall marry for her to have the use and the improvement of one feather bed and furniture and other necessarys for hous keeping during her natural life and to be returned so as to be divided to and amongst my daughters.

Further more my Will is that the housel goods which I gave my wife the use of shall be and go to and amongst my said five daughters so and in such amounts as to make them equil With What they have already had that is to say Susanna Taber, Lydia Annable, Deborah Myrick, Content Hathaway, Hannah East

Then I give to my Daughter Lydia Annable -six shillings
Then I give to my Daughter Deborah Myrick six shillings
Then I give to my Daughter Content Hathaway six shillings
Then I give to my Daughter Hannah East six shillings
To be paid by my Executor here after named within one year after my Decease my will is then what money I shall have by me at my Decease and what Debts are due to me are to goe to pay my debts with the live stock.

Then I constitute make and ordain my son Caleb Sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament hereby makeing all others Before this Voide In Witness
Where of I the said James Peckcom have here unto sett my Hand and Seal the
Day and Date aforesaid

Signed Sealed Published and Declaired by the said James Peckcom as his last Will and Testament in the Presence of us this Day and Year above written.

In the precence of

(Signed)
Caleb Hathaway James Peckcom

Richard Hathaway

Samuel West (?)

(Note at bottom of page: the money that I have by me and Debts Due to go to pay Debts With the live Stock interlined Before sined.)

James married HAMMOND Deborah P. in 1736 in Rochester, Plymouth County, MA. Deborah (daughter of HAMMOND Josiah and BARLOW Mary) was born in 1720 in Rochester, Plymouth County, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Boss Sarah. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: White Elizabeth. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Seth died young.

Seth died young.

Notes:

Content died young.

Content died young.

Birth:
16 Feb 1728/1729

Died:
Died young

Notes:

George died young.

George died young.

Died:
Died young

Family/Spouse: Swain Elizabeth. Elizabeth was born on 20 Oct 1729 in Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isaiah married Kirby Elizabeth on 17 Nov 1765. Elizabeth was born about 1730. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]