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Joseph Peck, Jr. ★ (Joseph, Rebecka) was baptized on August 23, 1623 in Hingham, Norfolk, England NO11. “Josepth” was named in his undated father’s will MA24. Prior to relocating to Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts from Hingham, Suffolk County (now Plymouth County), Massachusetts, he was required to provide the value of his estate; the purpose of this was so that the proprietors of Rehoboth could divide up the land proportionally BL7. Leonard Bliss, Jr. transcribed this town record which was located on the first page of the Rehoboth Proprietor’s Records, Volume I, which has been copied below BL7:
About the year 1643, a joynt agreement was made by the inhabitants of Sea-conk alias Rehoboth, ffor the bringing in of their estates; that soe men’s lotments might be taken up according to person and estate, as alsoe for the carrieing on of all publick chardges both for present and future; furthermore the means and interest of what is heare expressed is by which lands, now granted by the Court of Plymouth to the towne, is to be divided according to person and estate, as is expressed in this following list.
Three Peck men were on that list, and they were Mr. Peck, Joseph Peck, and John Peck BL7. Mr. Peck and John Peck were very probably his father and brother. The value of Mr. Peck’s estate in that record, dated about 1643, was £535, while the value of Joseph Peck’s estate was £306 BL7. He was still a very young man at this point. The value of his land (£306) was mentioned in a deed that was recorded on July 3, 1664 (“[3: 5] 1664”) which stated that Edward Gilman of Ipswich, Massachusetts sold his house, land, meadows, and commons in Rehoboth to “Josepth Pecke the younger of Rehoboth”; this deed may have been written in 1649 or 1650 PL12. Edward Gillman (or Gilman) was his uncle – his mother’s sisters’s husband (Edward Gillman married Mary Clark, who was Rebecka (Clark) Peck’s sister, who was Joseph Peck’s mother). The deed was interesting because of the method in which Joseph Pecke was meant to take possession of the various parcels of land PL12. He could “enter the meddow and the house and all other his accomodations; the 29th of the seaventh month except eleven acrees of which hee is to enter foure acres[s] the 29th of the seaventh month 1651 and three acrees att or upon the 29th of the seaventh month 1652 and 4 acrees att or upon the 29th of the seaventh month 1653” PL12. Edward Gillman also set up a payment plan for these parcels: “in consideration of the aforsaid bargaine the aforsaid Josepth Pecke Junr is to pay” forty-five pounds initially, and an additional fifteen pounds for each parcel thereafter by September 29 in 1650, 1651, and 1652 PL12. This deed was witnessed by John Peck and signed by Edward Gilman and Joseph Peck, Jr. PL12. The bounds of this land were transcribed probably by George Ernest Bowman, who provided abstracts for certain early Plymouth Colony deeds and partially transcribed them; a copy of this partial transcription stated PL12:
The pticulares of the land above in generall mentioned containes…
first twelve acrees… upon the east side of the towne butting upon the comon on the south west; Thomas Cooper Junr on the northwest & Peter Hunt on the North east… of Comoning belonging to these lands the home lott is to bee recorded first in order [this apparently was valued at £306]…
2 thirty five acrees… in the 2cond Devision being the 46 lott buting on the highway to the south and Stephen Paine Junr on the west James Riddaway on the east the Comon on the north…
3 three acrees and an halfe fifteen Rodd… of fresh mersh lying in the 40 acrees being the 46 lott buting on the woodland on the. East John Reed on the north Robert Abell on the south and the wood land on the west…
4 seaven acrees and an halfe and thirty Rodd of salt marsh… neare the hundred acrees buting on the woodland on the east Samuell Carpenter on the north John Fitch on the south and the River on the west…
5 twenty two acrees and an halfe of upland… upon Wachemaquate necke being the thirtieth lott buting on the Comon southeast Thomas Loringe on the southwest James Riddaway on the Northwest…
6 one lott upon the great plaine and twelve acrees and a quarter… on the west side of the plaine being the fourth lott buting on the highway on the east widdow martins on the south James Riddaway on the north; the woodland on the west…
7 one lott on the east side of the great plaine containing twelve acrees and a quarter… being in Number the 4th buting on the highway on the east widdow martin on the south James Riddw[ay] on the north the woodland on the east;
This is a true Coppy taken out of the records of the Towne of Rehoboth by mee
Richard Bullock[e] Clarke
He probably married Hannah sometime before the birth of his first child on November 6, 1650 AR4. Josepth Peck, Jr. took the Oath of Fidelity and became a freeman in Rehoboth in 1657 SH16 and he drew a lot for the meadow which was located on the north end of Rehoboth on June 22, 1658 AR4. Joseph Peck, Sr., Joseph Peck, Jr., and roughly two hundred additional people were included in a list of proprietors and inhabitants of Rehoboth in a deed from William Bradford to the inhabitants of Rehoboth on February 7, 1689 BL7:
William Bradford of New-Plimoth, son and heir to the said William Bradford deceased aforesaid… for and in consideration of the sum of fifteen pounds in current money of New-England, to me in hand… paid by Daniel Smith, Esq’r. Capt. Peter Hunt, Capt. John Brown, Esq’r. John Peck, Lieut. Nicholas Peck, Gilbert Brooks, Thomas Cooper, Samuel Newman, William Carpenter, Samuel Peck, Stephen Paine, Richard Bowen, and Ensign Thomas Willmath, yeomen, some of the proprietors of said tract and tracts, and most of them ancient inhabitants of said town of Rehoboth, the receipt whereif I do hereby acknowledge… have granted, remised, released, and forever quit-claim… unto the said Daniel Smith, Peter Hunt, John Brown, John Peck, Nicholas Peck, Gilbert Brooks, Thomas Cooper, Samuel Newman, William Carpenter, Samuel Peck, Stephen Paine, Richard Bowen, Thomas Willmarth, and to their heirs and assigns forever, in the behalf and use of themselves and all other the allowed inhabitants and proprietors of the said town of Rehoboth, whose names are entered in the town records of Rehoboth… and… shall be specified by name in the schedule or list of names hereto annexed, in their and every of their full and peaceable possession and seizen now being according to their and every of their common or several and respective interest… all such right, estate, title, interest, possession and demand whatsoever which I, the said William Bradford, have or ought to have
A list of the names of the inhabitants and proprietors of the Towne of Rehoboth having Rights and Titles to the Measuages, Tenements and Lands contained in the above written Instrument hereunto annexed and affixed, which hath been reade and allowed in a full Towne meeting, ffebruary the 7th, 1689
Joseph Peck, Sr. died in November 1705 in Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts AR4. The will of Joseph Peck, called a Yeoman of Rehoboth, was dated July 5, 1697 and probated on December 5, 1705 MA58. It named his sons, Jathnell/Jethniell Peck and Samuel Peck, and his daughters, Patience, the wife of Richard Bowen, Mary, the wife of Benjamin Hunt, Elizabeth, the wife of Captain Mason, and Hannah, the wife of Daniel Reed MA58. A codicil was witnessed by Thomas Ormsbee, William Blantine, and Hannah Ormsbee and was presented on December 5, 1705 MA58. The inventory of his estate was appraised by Thomas Ormsbee and John Barney on December 1, 1705 and was presented before Nathaniel Byfield, Esquire, Judge of the Probate of Wills for Bristol County on December 5, 1705 by his son, Samuel Peck of Palmers River in Rehoboth MA58. The total value of his estate was appraised at £207 and 16 shillings MA58. A transcript of the will, addendum to the will, and the inventory of his estate follow MA58:
In the Name of God Amen in the year of o[u]r Lord one Thousand six Hundred Ninety and seven in the Ninth year of his Majest[i[]es Reign the fifth day of the seventh month Called July I Joseph Peck of the Town of Rehoboth of ye County of Bristoll within his Majties Province of ye Massachusett Bay in New England senr yeoman being now aged and weak of Body and in Expectation of my Chainge Yet through the mercey of I am whole and sound in my memory & understanding and of a disposeing mind Do make this my last will & Testament for the disposeing & settleing the things of this world. Which the lord has Entrusted me To & among my Children in mann[er] & form as followeth And in primis I bequeath my soule into the hands of my most Blessed Savior and Dear Redeemer and my body to the Dust untill the Resurection Day which I Dye in the firm beleiffe & Expectation of ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠
Item 1ly: I give unto my Daughter Patience wife of Richard Bowen & to her heires forEver Twenty acers of land in the first Division last agreed upon and Twenty pounds
Item 2dly I give unto my Daughter mary the wife of Benjamin Hunt and to her heires for Ever half my Lott in the north Purchased lands belonging to Rehoboth Purchase & Twenty pounds
Item 3dly I give unto my Daughter Elizabeth wife of Capt Mason & to her heires for Ever the other halfe of my Lott in the aforesd north Purchass & Twenty pounds
Item 4thly I give unto my Daughter Hannah wife of Daniel Reed & to her heires for Ever all my meadow in the north Purchass and Twenty pounds: And my mind will is the abovesaid sums given to my Daughters (Each being Named) be by my Executr: of this my last will and Testament well and truely payd within the Terme of Tenn years after my Decease furthermore my mind and will is that if all or any of my Daughters shall Happen to dye before the time prefixed by me for my Executors paying the severall sums before Espressed unto them: Then my mind and will is that Each Daughters legacie that shall happen so to Dye shall be well and truely payd to her Children by an Equall Distribution ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠
Item 5ly I give unto my son Jathnell Peck as an Adition to what I have before given unto him, the lott upon which his Dwelling house now stands Containing Twenty acres be it more or less which lott I had of William Carpenter of Rehoboth in Exchainge: and allso one percell of land being a Lot of Twenty & six acres Lyeing on the Eastwardly side of Palmers River in Rehoboth near the Oake Swamp be the same more or less: And allso I give him my ffresh meadow formerly Purchased of william Bucklin [the previous word has been obscured by an ink smudge] late of Rehoboth and allso six acres lyeing on the Eastwardly side of upland adjoyning to the said meadow, & allso my uper meadow upon Palmers River: and allso the great peice of meadow that lyeth in the meadow that is Called the great meadow Abutting upon the meadow of Joshua Smith one ye one side & the meadow of Preserved Abell on the other side and allso that part of my salt Marsh lyeing on the southerly side of the Creek bounded from a Pine tree unto a Little Creek upon a strait line, and allso half my Common Rights in ye Town of Rehoboth and all my Common Rights in the North Purchased lands yet undivided All and Each of these lands I give unto my said son Jethniell Peck & to his heires fore Ever ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠
Item 6ly I give unto my son Samuel Peck and to his heires for Ever my Dweling House Barn and out Houses & all my lands whereso Ever & whatsoEver which by Deeds & grants their Quantity & placces being and bounds will Appear: which in this my last will & Testament are not before by me given with the Residue of my Common Rights
Item 7ly My mind and will is that after my Debts & ffunerall Charges be payd out of my Moveables Estate that then the whole & Residue thereof be Equally Divided amongst all my Children or those of their Chilldrenthat survive if any of them be Dead before that time shall come ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠
Item 8ly I Do by this my last will and Testament make Null Voyde & of none Effect all other and fformer wills be me mades ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠
Item Finally I do nominate Constitute appoint and ordain my son Samuel Peck my sole Executor of this my last will and Testament unto who I Commit all power for the Execution & performance hereof and for ye Buriall of my body in Decent & Christiuan manner and for all other things Requisite unto him as my Executor and in Testimony that this above written is my true and last [an ink blotch obscured the letters between “last” and “will”] will & Testament I the said Joseph Peck have hereunto set my hand & seale the day and year first above written
Read signed and sealed in presence of
John Peck
William Dean
Jonah Palmer
These presents may serve to Declare to all whom it Doth and may Concern that whereas I Joseph Peck senr Liveing at Palmers River within the Township in the County of Bristoll in the Province of the Massachuset Bay in New England have made my last will and Testament bearing date the fifth day of July in the year of Our Lord 1697 for the settleing of my Estate upon my Sirviveing Children & for the preventing of trouble & Difference after my Decease Do allso now for the same End & Cause make this declaration as an Explanation of my said last will and testament unto which these presents are Annexed
That is to say, that all the lands that I have given & bequeathed to any of my Children sons or Daughters I give to them and to Each of them & to Each of their Respective heires and Assignes for Ever with out any Designe of Entaylement of the said lands or any of them ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠
And ffurther whereas I have given to my son Jethniel Peck that part of my meadow or salt marsh lyeing on the southerly side of the Creek bounded from a Pine tree to a Little Creek upon a straite line etc. it is to be understood of that part of my salt marsh Lyeing and being on the southerly side of the Creek Bounded from the Pine tree standing by the Indian Graves & from said tree to the River,
And to this Declaration & Explanation of my last will as above Exprest I have set my hand and seal this Eleventh day of march in the year of o[u]r Lord one thousand seven-Hundred & one in the Eleventh year of his Majesties reign William the third over England &c.
Signed and sealed in the presence of us (as an Explanation of the last will and Testament of the sd Joseph Peck) vizt.
Thomas Ormsbee
William Blantine
Hanna Ormsbee
An Inventory of the Estate of mr Joseph Peck senr of the town of Rehoboth late Decd: Taken by Sarjt Thomas Ormsbee & John Barney on the first day of Decembr in the Year 1705/6 as followeth
Vizt: his Apparrell and Books… his Bed and beding & bedsteeds… his Brass & pewter… Iron ware… Wooden ware… Cubbards Table and Chairs… A Horse & two Cowes… 20 Acres of land at the half Mile Swamp… 50 Acres of land in the North Purchass Near Chotsly [perhaps this was meant to state “Chartley”]… 20 Acres of land and a house where Jathniel Peck now Dwells… 26 Acres of land at the Oake swamp… 6 Acres of land and a peice of fresh meadow Adjoyning… A peice of fresh meadow called the upper meadow… the great peice of meadow in the great meadow… A peice of salt marsh near Miles his Bridg [probably “Mile High Bridge”]… his Commonage in Rehoboth Township… the Common Rights in the North Purchase… 25 acres of land lyeing (on ye southside of Taunton Road) in Rehoboth:
Hannah was the mother of Rebecka, Hannah, Elizabeth, Jathniall, Mary, Ichabod, Patience, and Samuell AR4.
Rebecka Peck was born on November 6, 1650 in Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts AR4. She married Thomas Paine on April 25, 1671 in Dedham, Massachusetts and she may have been the Rebeca Payne who died on November 26, 1682 in Dedham, Suffolk County (now Norfolk County), Massachusetts MA26.
Hannah Peck was born on March 25, 1653 in Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts AR4. She married Daniel Reed MA58 or Daniell Read AR4 on August 20, 1677 AR4. Hannah, the wife of Daniel Reed, was named in her father’s will dated dated July 5, 1697 MA58. Hannah and Daniell Read were the parents of six children whose births were recorded in Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts AR4. These were Hannah, born on June 30, 1678, Daniell, born on January 20, 1680, John, born on February 25, 1682, Sary, born on April 1, 1684, Noah, born on May 17, 1687, and Abigail, born on June 5, 1690 AR4. Several members of her family died in the autumn of 1710 AR4. Abigail Read, the daughter of Daniel, died on September 20, 1710, Daniel Read, Sr. died on October 17, 1710, and Noah Read, the son of Daniel, died on October 20, 1710 AR4. Another Abigail, daughter of Daniel Read, died on November 23, 1711, so it is unclear which Daniel Read was the father of which Abigail Read AR4.
Elizabeth Peck was born on November 26, 1657 in Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts AR4. She married “Captain Mason”, as he was called in her father’s will MA58; a marriage record from Stonington, Connecticut dated July 4, 1694 indicated that Elizabeth Peck married Samuell Mason in Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts SC13. Samuel Mason, the son of Major John Mason and Anna Peck, first married Judith Smith in June 1670, with whom he was the father of five children WH17. Elizabeth and Samuel Mason were the parents of three children whose births were recorded in Stonington, New London County, Connecticut SC13. These were Samuel, who was born on August 26, 1695 and died on November 28, 1701, Elizabeth, born on May 6, 1697, and Hannah, born on April 14, 1699 SC13. “Elizabeth wife of Capt Mason” was named in her father’s will dated dated July 5, 1697 MA58. Major Samuel Mason died on March 30, 1705 in Stonington, New London County, Connecticut SC13. Elizabeth married Gershom Palmer of Stonington after Samuel’s death in 1705 TO1 or on November 11, 1707 WH17. Elizabeth was alive after the death of Deacon Gershom Palmer in 1719 WH17.
Jathniall Peck was born on July 24, 1660 in Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts AR4. “Jathmial” Peck” married Sarah Smith on January 28, 1688/9 AR4. Jathniell Peck was included in a list of the Proprietors and Inhabitants of Rehoboth on February 7, 1689 AR4. He was named in his father’s will dated dated July 5, 1697 MA58. Jathniell and Sarah Peck were the parents of fourteen children whose births were recorded in Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts AR4. These were Daniell, born on January 30, 1689/90, Icabod, born on March 9, 1690/1, Solomon, born on September 20, 1692, Ester, born on April 30, 1694, Jathniell, born on September 10, 1695, Ebenezer, born on April 20, 1697, Sarah, born on March 1, 1698, Rebeka, born on October 10, 1700, Joseph, born on April 18, 1702, Ann, born on April 7, 1704, Benjamin, born on January 18, 1705/6, Elizabeth, born on October 13, 1707, Henry, born on December 7, 1709, and Nathaniell, born on September 14, 1712 AR4. “Jathuial” Peck who died on April 5, 1742 in Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts AR4.
Mary Peck was born on November 17, 1662 in Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts AR4. Mary Peck married Benjamin Hunt MA58, AR4 on February 4, 1690/1 AR4. Mary, the wife of Benjamin Hunt, was named in her father’s will dated dated July 5, 1697 MA58. Mary and Benjamin Hunt were the parents of three children whose births were recorded in Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts AR4. These were Tabitha, born on November 17, 1691, Sibel, born on July 14, 1695, and Hulde, born on December 10, 1697 AR4. Mary Hunt gave a receipt for a legacy from the estate of Joseph Peck of Rehoboth on December 8, 1715, which was paid for by the executor of the estate, Samuel Peck RO30. A gravestone located at Newman Cemetery in … indicated that “M.rs MARY HUNT, Relict of M.r Benjamin Hunt Gent. Dec.d Au-gust 22.d 17 in ye 78 Year of her Age.” RH2. The final two digits of the year of her death were never cut into the stone, as there is a gap after “17” RH2. Because Mary Peck was born in 1662, her death probably occurred in 1741.
Ichabod Peck was born on September 13, 1666 in Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts AR4. He may have been the Ichabod Peck who was called a town soldier who died at Anticosta in March 1690/1 AR4. Anticosta was likely Anticosti Island in Québec, Canada.
Patience Peck was born on October 11, 1669 in Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts AR4.
Samuell Peck was born on October 11, 1672 in Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts AR4. He was named in his father’s will dated dated July 5, 1697 MA58 and he may have been the Captain Samuel Peck who died in Rehoboth on June 9, 1736 AR4.
Hannah probably died sometime between 1672 and 1697; her last known child, Samuel, was born in October 1672, and her husband’s will which did not name his wife was written on July 5, 1697 MA58.