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Ancestors

Samuel Peck

1659-1746 · Guilford CT
Born 1659, Guilford, Connecticut
Died 1746
Father: Rev. Jeremiah Peck
Mother: Johanna Kitchell
Children include Samuel

Samuel Peck was born at Guilford, Connecticut, on 18 January 1659, the eldest son of the Reverend Jeremiah Peck and Johanna Kitchell. His childhood followed his father's ministry, to New Haven, Saybrook, Newark and Elizabethtown in New Jersey. He came to Greenwich with his father in 1678, when Jeremiah became the town's first settled minister. The family genealogy says he was well educated.

On 27 November 1686 he married Ruth Ferris, said to have been a daughter of Peter Ferris, a son of Jeffrey Ferris of Stamford. He became the founder of the many Peck families of Greenwich. He was a man of large wealth and influence. For about fifty years he was a justice of the peace, the local magistrate who heard small cases, took depositions and married couples, and he held other important offices in the town.

Ruth died at Greenwich on 17 September 1745, aged eighty-three. Samuel died there on 28 April 1746, aged eighty-seven. Their gravestones were still standing in the old Greenwich cemetery in 1877.

Parents

Johanna Kitchell (1638-1711)

Rev. Jeremiah Peck 1623-1699

Children

Samuel Peck (1688-1733)

Sources

Darius Peck, A Genealogical Account of the Descendants in the Male Line of William Peck (Hudson, New York, 1877), archive.org genealogicalacco00inpeck, p. 12.
Darius Peck, A Genealogical Account of the Descendants in the Male Line of William Peck (Hudson, New York, 1877), archive.org genealogicalacco00inpeck, p. 16.
Abstract of Probate Records at Fairfield, Connecticut, down to 1721, archive.org abstractofprobat00slsn, p. 119 (Fairfield Probate, Book 1689-1701, p. 190).
Find a Grave memorial 20868947 (Rev Samuel Peck, 1658-1746), photographs 2016 and 2025.
Darius Peck, A Genealogical Account of the Descendants in the Male Line of William Peck (Hudson, New York, 1877), archive.org genealogicalacco00inpeck, pp. 12, 16, entries 6, 30-33.

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