1. | Peckham Stephen was born about 1649 in Of Newport, RI (son of Peckham John and Crafts Eleanor); died on 23 Apr 1721 in Dartmouth, Bristol County, MA. 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) Stephen married Pope Mary about 1680. Mary was born about 1650 in Dartmouth, Bristol County, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart] Children:
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2. | Peckham John was born about 1595 in Boxgrove, Sussex County, England; died in 1677 in Middletown, (Newport), Newport County, RI; was buried in A stone for his gravestone marked I. P. is believed to be his.. 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 married Crafts Eleanor. Eleanor was born about 1605. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart] |
3. | Crafts Eleanor was born about 1605. Notes: According to "Genealogies of Rhode Island Families" Eleanor was the second wife of John Peckam. Notes: Married:
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