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Peter married Peckham Content on 07 Sep 1789. Content (daughter of Peckham James and HAMMOND Deborah P.) was born in 1754 in Freetown, Bristol County, MA; died on 27 Oct 1826 in Freetown, Bristol County, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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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]

Notes:

Deborah was probably a descendant of William Hammond of London, County of Kent, England and Elizabeth Penn. sister of Admiral Sir William Penn and aunt to William Penn, the Quaker.

William of London and Elizabeth had a son, Benjamin,b. 1621, d. 1703, and three daughters; Elizabeth, Martha and Rachel all born in England. After William died, she broght her family to Boston on Sept 18, 1634, having sailed on the Griffin, having with them the Rev. Lothrop, theri minister.

She lived in Boston and in Watertown, MA until the year 1638, when she joined Rev. Lothrop's church in Scituate, Aprl 16, 1638. being the 33rd member of his church. She probably returned to Boston near the close of the year 1639, as she died and was buried there in 1640.

Son, Benjamin married Mary Vincent and first settled in Sandwich, Barnstable County, MA. Benjamin and his wife moved to Rochester in 1684.

Benjamin and his wife, Mary had six children: Samuel, John, Nathan, Benjamin, Jr., Rose and Mary.

Deborah, b. 1720 in Rochester, was probably the daughter of one of Benjamin's sons and was a resident of Rochester, Plymouth County, MA at the time of her marriage to James Peckham.

Notes:

Married:
Int. 10 Nov 1739
In the Vital Records of Rochester, MA it is listed as; PECHAM, James of Dartmouth and Deborah Hammond, int. Nov. 10, 1739.

In the Vital Records of Rochester, MA it is listed as; PECHAM, James of Dartmouth and Deborah Hammond, int. Nov. 10, 1739.

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]

Notes:

Josiah Hammond lived first on the southeast part of his father's farm, the house standing quite near the waters of Buzzard's Bay. He afterwards sold this farm near the salt water, to his son Josiah, and received land to the north of his father's place, where he built a second house. Although the house has disappeared, the place is still pointed out as the "Siah" place.

Josiah married BARLOW Mary. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]