Peckham Stephen

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

Family/Spouse: White Elizabeth. [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]

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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]

James married Hathaway Lydia in 1680 in Portsmouth, Newport, RI. Lydia (daughter of Hathaway Arthur and Cooke Sarah) was born in 1662 in Dartmouth, Bristol County, MA; died on 23 Jun 1714 in Newport, Newport County, RI; was buried in Common Burial Ground, Newport, Newport County, RI. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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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.)

John married Crafts Eleanor. Eleanor was born about 1605. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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According to "Genealogies of Rhode Island Families" Eleanor was the second wife of John Peckam.

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Married:
ABT 1647/1648
abt ABT 1647

Arthur married Cooke Sarah on 20 Nov 1652 in Duxbury, Plymouth Co., MA. Sarah (daughter of COOKE John and WARREN Sarah) was born in 1635 in Duxbury, Plymouth Co., MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]