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child) (a child) 1594 - 1597 John Hussey 3 3 1638 - 1732 Mary Hussey 93 93 1610 - 1680 Ann Mingay 70 70 [Judy Wypych.ged]

Widow of Jeffery Mingay

... 1643 - 1718 Stephen Hussey 75 75 [Lucy Folger.ged]

"He was a sea-faring man, had lived at Barbados and had accumulated a little property.  At the time of the organization of the Friends' Society, in 1708, he was one of the petitioners, a somewhat anomalous condition as he was a most persistent litigant.  He several times held office and appeared to be quite a politician, and during the local turmoil following the temporary overturn of the New York government, he was severely denounced by Peter Folger for endeavoring to improperly affect the voting."
According to The Great Migrations:
"All sources give Stephen as the eldest child of Christopher and Theodate (Bachiler) Hussey, and claim that this couple had married in England prior to 1632 and came to New England with Reverend STEPHEN BACHILER.  There is no evidence, however, for placing Stephen as the eldest child, and his marriage date of 1676, and other records, argue for a date of birth in the 1640s, and so he has been placed here as the fourth of five children.  Thus John becomes the eldest child, which is consistent with the page of baptisms, apparently kept by Stephen Bachiler as he travelled from Lynn to Newbury to Hampton, where John is the first child baptized, at Lynn in 1636.  (This also puts the lie to the myth that in the first week he was at Lynn Bachiler had baptized his own grandson Stephen Hussey before the child of another couple.) "
Friends Cemetery
He was the first child baptized by his grandfather, Stephen Bachelor, in the church at Lynn.

... 1598 - 1685 Christopher Hussey 87 87 [Lucy Folger.ged]

One of nine persons who purchased the Island of Nantucket in 1659.
He was one of the nine original purchasers of Nantucket.

[Judy Wypych.ged]

CHRISTOPHER HUSSEY

ORIGIN: Dorking, Surrey
MIGRATION: 1633
FIRST RESIDENCE: Lynn
REMOVES: Newbury by 1638, Hampton 1639
Church MEMBERSHIP: Admission to Lynn church prior to 14 May 1634 implied by freemanship. He certainly remained a member of Bachiler's church as it moved about, and in Hampton became deacon [ Hampton Hist 760].
FREEMAN: 14 May 1634 [ MBCR 1:369].
EDUCATION: He signed his deeds and his will. His inventory included "one Bible" valued at 5s. and "one book" valued at 5s.
OFFICES: Deputy for Hampton to MA Bay General Court, 19 May 1658, 11 May 1659, 30 May 1660, 19 December 1660, 15 May 1672 [ MBCR 4:1:321, 364, 416, 449, 4:2:507]. Empowered to marry at Hampton, 18 October 1659 [ MBCR 4:1:382-83]. Magistrate, 7 September 1680, 7 June 1681, 6 December 1681, 5 September 1682 [ NHPP 40:361, 374, 379, 389]. Empowered to end small causes for Hampton, 22 May 1639, 2 June 1641, 13 October 1663, 10 October 1665, 13 April 1669, 12 October 1669 [ MBCR 1:259, 329; EQC 3:100, 280, 4:131, 186]. Highway committee, April 1665 [ EQC 3:253]. As "Lt. Hussie," committee to lay out colony land, 12 November 1659, 16 October 1660 [ MBCR 4:1:403, 440].
He was lieutenant and then captain of the train band in Hampton.
ESTATE: A copy of the book of abatements for Hampton was brought to court in November 1679, indicating that Christopher Hussey of Hampton had been granted one hundred and fifty acres of upland, meadow and marsh, for a farm [ EQC 7:285].
On 2 April 1681 Christopher Hussey of Hampton granted to his son John Hussey of Hampton one half acre of land of "my farm in Hampton" in a place convenient for the setting up of a grist mill [ NHPLR A:65; EIHC 49:34-35]. On 8 April 1673, Edward Colcord, aged about fifty-six and William Fifield deposed that "when Mr. Steven Batcheller of Hampton was upon his voyage to England they heard him say to his son-in-law Mr. Christopher Hussey that as Hussey had no dowry with Batcheller's daughter when he married her, and that he had given to said Hussey all his estate" [ Essex Ant 5:173, citing Old Norfolk County Records].
He was one of the eight purchasers of Nantucket in 1659, and in 1671 sold his land to his sons John and Stephen [ Nantucket Land 53, 69]. On 6 December 1681 Christopher Hussey confirmed a deed of 23 October 1671 in which he had sold all his lands and rights on the island of Nantucket to his sons Stephen Hussey and John Hussey [ NHPLR 3:168a].
In his will, dated 28 February 1684/5 and proved 7 October 1686, "Christopher Husy ... in health of body ... & yet being stricken in years" bequeathed to "my two sons Steeven Husy & John Husy my farm ... the hundred & fifty acres of meadow & upland granted me by the town as also fifty acres more of marsh which I bought adjacent to it" in equal parts "only they paying to my daughter Mary" as follows: to "my daughter Mary Husy now WifeofThomas Page my seven acres of meadow ... & that piece of meadow through which the highway lieth, and also two shares in the ox common and also two shares of cows common ... also ... my son John Smith shall pay her £30 and my two sons John & Steeven shall pay her £40 apiece"; to "my daughter Hulda in the like manner all the rest of my lands and housing & common rights in the town of Hampton and all the household stuff ... remaining ... my house & all in it or with it with all the land adjacent and the planting lot & three acres meadow lot toward the spring, two shares in the ox common & two shares in the cow common & do order & appoint that he [John Smith] shall pay to my daughter Mary £30 toward her pension"; "my daughter Mary" to have her part of the land immediately after "my decease" and the £30 from "my son John Smith the husband of my daughter Hulda" to be paid two years after "my death" and the other two sons to pay her within the end of two years next; "in case of failure she my said daughter shall have in lieu thereof thirty acres of the farm"; "my said sons Steven and John" having paid Mary the said sum, to have the farm in equal portions, "only my son John shall not be ... hindered of what have built on nor his building accounted in the valuing of the farm"; "upon further consideration ... my said daughter Mary's choice whether she will have the land aforementioned in the farm or the £80 of my two sons Steeven & John Husy"; "my son John Husy & my son John Smith" joint executors, and if they die "my daughter Mary" and if she die, then "my son Steephen"; "my trusty friends Major Richard Waldron & Major Robt. Pike" overseers [ NHPP 31:287-89]. In a codicil dated 28 October 1685 (at Salisbury) "upon a considering of some dubiousness in the expression of some things in this my will" the common rights to go proportionally to the inheritors with the inherited land [ NHPP 31:289].
The inventory of the estate of Capt. Christopher Hussey, taken 25 March 1686, totalled £651 13s., including £589 in real estate: "house, orchard & land adjoining," £42; "12 acres of pasture land," £20; "planting land," £28; "Spring Meadows," £30; "7 acres of meadow," £14; "meadow towards Boulter's," £6; "4 shares at the ox commons," £24; "4 shares cow pasture," £30; "land at the new plantation," £15; "land in the north division," £6; "the upland in the farm," £200; "50 acres of meadow belonging to the farm," £100; "a lot of marsh, 40 acres," £60; and "a lot of marsh, 15 acres," £24 [ NHPLR 1:318-19; NHPP 31:290].
BIRTH: Baptized Dorking, Surrey, 18 February 1598/9, son of John and Mary (Wood) Hussey [ GDMNH 365].
DEATH: Hampton [7?] March 1685/6 "being about 90 years of age" [ HampVR 9].
MARRIAGE: (1) By 1635 Theodate Bachiler, born say 1610, daughter of STEPHEN BACHILER ; "Theodata Husse the wife of Christopher Husse died in the 8th mo[nth] 1649" at Hampton [ HampVR 557].
(2) Hampton 9 December 1658 Ann (Capon) Mingay [ HampVR 74, 556]. She had married first Denton, Norfolk, 30 September 1630 Jeffrey Mingay [ NHGR 8:148]. She died at Hampton 24 June 1680 [ HampVR 117].
CHILDREN:
With first wife

i   John, bp. Lynn 29 February 1635[/6?] [ HampVR 3; "the last day of the last month" - the day of the month depends on the interpretation of the double-date, since 1636 was a leap year; note that the year chosen here would result in a two-year gap before the birth of the next child]; m. Hampton 21 September 1659 Rebecca Perkins [ HampVR 74, 556].

ii   MARY, bp. Newbury 2 April 1638 [ HampVR 3]; m. (1) Hampton 21 January 1664[/5] Thomas Page [ HampVR 75, 556]; m. (2) Hampton 10 March 1690/1 Henry Green [ HampVR 1:78]; m. (3) Hampton 10 November 1704 Henry Dow [ HampVR 1:58]. (On 23 April 1706 "Mary Dow of Hampton ... with the consent of my now husband Henry Dow of Hampton" sold to Hezekiah Jennings two shares of land in the north division, fifty acres, "given to me by my honored father Christopher Hussey of Hampton aforesaid late deceased" [ NHPLR 5:197].)

iii   THEODATA, bp. Hampton 23 August 1640 [ HampVR 3]; d. Hampton 20 October 1649 "Theodata the daughter of Christopher Husse died the 20th of October 1649" [ HampVR 557].

iv   STEPHEN, b. say 1643; m. Nantucket 8 October 1676 Martha Bunker.

v   HULDA, b. say 1646; m. Hampton 26 February 1666[/7] John Smith [ HampVR 75, 556]. [ GDMNH absentmindedly calls this child "Hannah."]

ASSOCIATIONS: The widow Mary Hussey who appears in early Hampton records is almost certainly mother of Christopher [ GDMNH 364-65].
COMMENTS: In 1686 "Captain Henry Dow wrote in cipher in his diary for Monday, Mar. 8, that he was `at Captain Hussey's burial.' It is therefore certain that he died in Hampton and was not, as stated by Savage, cast away off the coast of Florida" [ Hampton Hist 760].
All sources give Stephen as the eldest child of Christopher and Theodate (Bachiler) Hussey, and claim that this couple had married in England prior to 1632 and came to New England with Reverend STEPHEN BACHILER . There is no evidence, however, for placing Stephen as the eldest child, and his marriage date of 1676, and other records, argue for a date of birth in the 1640s, and so he has been placed here as the fourth of five children. Thus John becomes the eldest child, which is consistent with the page of baptisms, apparently kept by Stephen Bachiler as he travelled from Lynn to Newbury to Hampton, where John is the first child baptized, at Lynn in 1636. (This also puts the lie to the myth that in the first week he was at Lynn Bachiler had baptized his own grandson Stephen Hussey before the child of another couple.)
If John was the eldest child, then his parents need not have married earlier than 1635, and Hussey may not have met his wife until both were in New England. This would remove any evidence that Bachiler and Hussey would have been associated in England, and so any evidence that they might have sailed together in 1632. Since the earliest record of Hussey in New England is his admission to freemanship on 14 May 1634, we need not assume that he had arrived any earlier than 1633.
If Theodate Bachiler did not marry until about 1635, then she need not have been born until about 1615, although her birth could have been earlier (but certainly not so early as 1588, as claimed by GDMNH and others). Her given name is a Greek construct meaning "gift of God," which would be appropriate for a child born to a woman at the end of her child-bearing period, long after all her other children had been born. Aside from Theodate, the youngest known Bachiler child was Ann, who was born about 1601. We argue here that Theodate was born several years after Ann, and have chosen somewhat arbitrarily 1610 as her year of birth.
Savage and Dow have included a son Joseph, but this derives from an error in Dow's list of representatives from Hampton to the General Court, which gives a Joseph Hussey in 1672, a misreading for Christopher Hussey [ Hampton Hist 566].
On 11 October 1664 "Mr." Christopher Hussey was bound to pay Jno. Mason, his apprentice, £4 at the end of his apprenticeship [ EQC 3:202].

Christopher Hussey came on the "William and Francis" 1630 and settled at Lynn, Mass, then went to Hampton as a Grantee of that town.  He was a captain in the militia, a magistrate, town clerk, selectman and when NH was made a royal provence, he was named on the royal commission.  He died Mar 6 1686 at 90 years and was buried Mar 8,

... 1610 - 1649 Theodate Batchelder 39 39 [William D. Romanski.ged]

According to Sanborn, Hussey and family moved with the Rev. S. Batchelder from Lynn to Ispwich to Newbury to Hampton.

... 1570 - 1632 John Hussey 62 62 1650 - 1695 Thomas Lee 45 45 1610 William Lee 1668 - 1711 Jemima Morgan 43 43 1608 - 1663 William "lliam Dhoan" CHRISTIAN 54 54 [BILLIE J. HALL.ged]

[Thomas Christian Sr-Nov 23-2003.ged]

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William Christian was born on the Isle of Man in 1608. At the time the Stanley family, the Earls of Derby controlled the Island, they had been given it by the King of England.  William was born to a powerful family and was a Member of the House of Keys (the Manx parliament) by 1643.  Soon afterwards, the Earl of Derby made him Receiver (second in charge of the Island).  When the English Civil War began, the Earl went to fight leaving his wife, and William Christian in charge ......

The Civil War
The Parliamentarians soon captured the Earl of Derby.  The Countess, the Earl's wife offered them the Island in return for her husband!  William, now known as Illiam Dhone (Illiam is Manx for William and Dhone means brown - haired) decided that the Island Shoudy not be given to anyone!  The Manx were very angry about certain taxes the Earl had forced them to pay, and about the English soldiers living there and joined Illiam in attacking the English forts on the Island.  Meanwhile the parliamentarian's killed the Earl of Derby.

Illiam decided the parliamentarians would protect the Island from the King trying to get it back from the Manx and invited them to the Island.  Illiam was made governor of the Island and reigned for six years.

Illiam's fall
In 1658 Illiam was accused of stealing money meant for the poor, he fled the Island in disgrace, despite there being no proof.  He returned to the Island in 1662, when he was sentenced to death for his rebellion against the Earls of Derby.  Illiam was put on trial and was sentenced to death.  He was shot dead on the 2nd of January 1663.  A pardon from the King was delayed by bad weather and arrived one week after the execution!

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William Christian (Illiam Dhone)
Born: 1608 - Died: 1663

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Popularly known as 'Illiam Dhone', (Brown William), he was the son of Demster Ewan Christian of Milntown.  Nothing is known of his early life.  He was a steward of the Abbey Lands in 1640 and a member of the House of Keys (Manx Parliament) in 1643.  In the same year his farther presented him with the property of Ronaldsway, which he agreed to hold from the Earl of Derby on a lease for three lives instead of by the old straw tenure.  He and his family were consequently received into favour, and he was appointed to the then high office of 'receiver'.

William Christian must have thoroughly gained the earl's confidence, since, when Lord Derby left the Island in August 1651 to join the Royalist forces, he not only put him in command of the insular militia, but committed his countess, the famous Charlotte De La Tremoille, to his care.  It is exceedingly difficult to ascertain precisely what part William Christian played in the subsequent transactions, since the only statements that remain are conflicting and obscure.  We know that the countess, on hearing that her husband was a prisoner, made proposals to Parliament for the surrender of the Isle of Man in the hope of saving his life.  It is known also that William Christian and some of the most influential Manx men suspected she had done so, and they then excited their countrymen against her by declaring that the countess intended to save herself by sacrificing them.  This being so, it is of no surprise to learn that on the night on which the bearer of these proposals sailed, insular militia, under William Christian's command, rose and attempted to seize all the forts, but failed to take Rushen and Peel.  Burton, Governor Musgrove s biographer, remarked that they plundered the earl's property and ill used all the English that fell into their hands.  This statement, however, is uncorroborated.  Musgrave demanded an explanation of the rising from Christian who replied that it was to procure the redress of certain grievances; and he added that the countess had sold the country into the hands of the Parliament.  These grievances are known to have been connected with the 7th earl's action in depriving the people of their old system of land tenure, and there were also complaints of the free quarterage of troops upon them.

It is said that an agreement was then entered into between William Christian and the governor to defend the Isle of Man until satisfactory terms could be obtained, but, as both parties were negotiating with the Parliament, whose troops were now mustering for its capture, the agreement was, in reality, a mere pretence for the sake of gaining time.  These troops arrived on the 20th October, but, being delayed by storms  did not land until the 28th.  They had been assured by William Christian that they would not be opposed by the soldiers under his command.

On the 3rd of November, the countess, finding that she could not rely upon the fidelity of her soldiers, surrendered the castles of Rushen and Peel, and soon afterwards she left the Island.  In December, William Christian and his brother John, the Deemster, who were described in the Journals of the House of Commons as "two of the ablest and honest gentlemen in the Island", were summoned to London to be consulted about the Manx Laws and other matters.  He was continued in his office of receiver under Lord Fairfax, and, between 1656 and 1658, he also held the office of governor.  In the latter year, James Chaloner, who had then been appointed governor, ordered his arrest on the charge of having misappropriated the revenues of the sequestrated bishopric, which Fairfax intended to be used for the support of the Grammar Schools, and for the augmentation of the stipends of the poor clergy.  The accusation does not seem to have been proved, and William Christian, through his son George, produced statements showing the substantial accuracy of his accounts.  However, it is curious that he should have fled to England without attempting to defend himself personally..

It is not known where he spent the interval years between 1658 and 1660.  In the latter year he went to London with many others to have a sight of the King.  His visit however was an unfortunate one, for he was arrested for a debt of £20,000, and put into the Fleet prison, where he was kept for nearly a year until he was able to find bail.  Some months after his release, being assured that the 'Act of Indemnity' secured him against all the legal consequences of his political actions, he rashly returned to the Isle of Man.  His advisors forgot that his offences were not against the Crown, but against the Lord of Man, who, in September 1662, issued a mandate to his officers to proceed against him.  "for all his illegal actions and rebellions" in 1651, or before that Year.  He was thereupon imprisoned in Castle Rushen.

At the trial which followed, William Christian refused to plea.  This was a fatal mistake, because he thereby subjected himself to the same judgement as if he had pleaded guilty, or had been found guilty by a jury.  In consequence of this, no evidence was taken on his behalf, so that he was virtually condemned without a trial.  His sentence was to be "hanged, drawn and quartered", but this was commuted by an order of the deputy-governor that he be "shot to death".  This was accordingly carried out on the 2nd January 1663.  An entry relating to his execution in the Parish Register of Malew states that "he died most penitently and most courageously, made a good end, preyed earnestly, made a good speech, and next day was buried in the chancel of Kirk Malew".

According to his dying speech he protested against the charge of treason brought against him by "a prompted and threatened jury, a pretended Court of Justice, of which the greater part were by no means qualified".  He appealed to those present to bear witness how unjust the accusation against him was, and he declared that "the rising of the people" in which he had engaged, "did not at all, or in the least degree, intend the prejudice or ruin of the Derby family".  During William Christians imprisonment in Castle Rushen, he had addressed a petition to the King and Council, pleading that the proceedings taken against him by the Earl of Derby were a violation of the Act of Indemnity, and praying that his case might be heard before them, but it did not reach London until a week after his execution.

In ignorance of this event, orders were sent to Lord Derby to produce his prisoner.  Illiam Dhone's sons, George and Ewan, presented petitions for redress, and, after some delay, the earl, the Deemster, and three other members of 'the pretended court of justice' were brought before the King in Council, who decided that "the Act of General Pardon and Indemnity did and ought to be understood to extend to the Isle of Man".

William Christian has been variously represented as a perjured traitor, or as the patriotic victim of a judicial murder, according to the sympathies of the writer. Whatever his faults, William Christian undoubtedly suffered for the part he took in endeavoring to protect his countrymen's laws and liberties.  It is this that has enlisted their sympathies in his favour, while the plaintive ballad Baase Illiam Dhone "Brown William's Death" has invested his memory with the halo of a martyr.

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Extracts taken from the book Manx Worthies by A W Moore, First published in 1901.

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Ballad of Iliam Dhone
(source unknown, English translation from Manx, anyone have the Manx original?)

In so shifting a scene, who would confidence place
In family, youth, power, or personal grace?
No character's proof against enemy foul;
And thy fate, Iliam Dhone, sickens my soul.

You are Derby's receiver of patriot zeal,
Replete with good sense, and reputed genteel,
Your justice applauded by the young and the old;
And thy fate, Iliam Dhone, sickens my soul.

A kind, able patron both to church and state
What roused their resentment but talents so great?
No character's proof against enmity foul;
And thy fate, Iliam Dhone, sickens my soul.

Thy pardon, 'tis rumour'd, came over the main
Nor late, but conceal'd by villian in grain;
'Twas fear forced the jury to a sentence so foul;
And thy fate, Iliam Dhone, sickens my soul.

Triumphant stood Calcott, he wish'd for no more,
When the pride of the Christians lay welt'ring in gore,
To malice a victim, though steady and bold;
And thy fate, Iliam Dhone, sickens my soul.

With adultery stain'd, and polluted with gore,
He Ronaldsway eyed, as Lough Molly before,
'Twas land sought the culprit, like Ahab of old;
And thy fate, Iliam Dhone, sickens my soul.

Proceed to the once famed abode of the nuns,
Call the Calcotts aloud, till you torture your lung,
Their short triumph's ended, extinct are the whole;
And thy fate, Iliam Dhone, sickens my soul.

For years cruel Robert lay crippled in bed,
Nor knew the world peace while he held up his head,
The neighbourhood's scourge in iniquity old;
And thy fate, Iliam Dhone, sickens my soul.

No one's heard to grieve, seek the country all through;
Nor lament for the name that Bemaccon once knew;
The poor rather load it with curses untold;
And thy fate, Iliam Dhone, sickens my soul.

Ballalough and the Creggans mark strongly their sin,
Not a soul of the name's there to welcome you in;
In the power of the strangers is entered the whole;
And thy fate, Iliam Dhone, sickens my soul.

The opulent Scarlet on which the sea flows,
Is piecemeal disposed of to whom the Lord knows,
It's heirs without bread or defence from the cold;
And thy fate, Iliam Dhone, sickens my soul.

They assert then in vain, that the law sought thy blood,
For all aiding the massacre never did good;
Like the rooted up golding deprived of its mould,
They languish'd, were blasted, grew rotten and cold.

When the shoots of a tree so corrupted remain,
Like the brier or thistle, they goad us with pain;
Deep, dark, undermining, they mimic the mole;
And thy fate, Iliam Dhone, sickens my soul.

Round the infamous wretches who spilt Cesar's blood,
Dead spectres and conscience in sad array stood,
Not a man of the gang reach'd life's utmost goal,
And thy fate, Iliam Dhone, sickens my soul.

Perdition, too, seized them who caused thee to bleed;
To decay fell their houses; their lands and their seed
Disappear'd like the vapour when morn's flushed with gold;
And thy fate, Iliam Dhone, sickens my soul.

From grief all corroding to hope I'll repair,
That a branch of the Christians will soon grace the chair,
With royal instructions his foes to control;
And thy fate, Iliam Dhone, sickens my soul.

With a rock for my pillow, I dreamt as I lay
That a branch of the Christians would hold Ronaldsway;
His conquest his topic with friends o'er a bowl;
And thy fate, Iliam Dhone, sickens my soul.

And now for a wish at concluding my song -
May th' Almighty withhold us from doing what's wrong;
Protect every mortal from enmity foul,
For thy fate, Iliam Dhone, sickens my soul.

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Bridge House Collection.

Document No. 69.

1663.

AN INVENTORY OF THE GOODS OF William Christian: A NEW 'ILLIAM DHONE' DOCUMENT.
The collection of MSS. generously given to the Museum by Miss Quayle and Mrs. Tomlin includes a most interesting document.  It is endorsed: An Inventory of William Christian's goods, moveable & un-movable.

An Inventory of all ye goods movable & unmovable of Mr Wm Christian of Raynolds-way deceased & his Widdow hath given upon oath to Itlr Quayle Atturney genrall & Mr Robt Calcott Coronr of Rushen Sheadinge whereof there is one half due unto yo Right Honrble Lord of this Isle & ye other halfe due unto ye widdow accordinge to ye Lawes of this Isle.

Imprimis:


In Kill loft 40 barrells of oates in ye farr house loft 24 barrells of oates
in yo Cattle house loft 45 barrells of barley
in ye old house 4 hogs-heads 3 Tubbs 3 barrels priced to 18s


In ye Stable 7 carres 5 straddles 4s 100 oke poules & 4 oulder poules its vjd on(e) old plue [plough] & old plue beame & other peeces of old Tymber 4s 4 peeces of [Toyly] is 4d on old Chist & hatchett 3s 6d 7 Skines 4s 3 pike forkes 2 grappes 3s 2 hackes 2 Mankes spaddes 2 English spaddes 4s on(e) saddle & bridle 8s ye old beame ye old carther geares 5s


In ye Oxe house a old wearne & paire of wheeles 12s 2 plues [ploughs] & old cart 5s a Coop & paire of wheeles 2lb 10s


In ye hall a table frame & forme tens, one settle threes, a Chist a deske & 3 small boxes 7s one old Chist 2s 6d 2 Chaires 3s 6d, a paire of Tables 5s 2 Cov"ed Stoules 5s 191b of white woolen yarne 10s a paire of boutes 10s a linnen wheele & woolen wheele 3s 6d.


In the Parler 1 Table & frame llb 10s 4 throne Chaires 8s 6d on(e) Rowne Table frame 10s 3 Carpetts 12 s. 7 Cussens 10s, a wooden Handish 2s 6d a blue stoule & Chaire 3s 6d 2 letther Chaires & lether Stoules 7s.


In Patricks loft 4 paire of harrowes 16s all els in Patricks loft savinge yo Iron and ye Tarre 14s 8d.


In his owne Chamber of ye best pewter fourscore beatinge one 31b 19s.


30lb of old pewter llb 5s 16 lb of raging Pewter 10s 13lb Chamberpot Pewter. 3s 8d 7lb & half of Candlesticke Pewter 4s a stile an closse Stoule 121b 8s old brasse Candle-stickes 5lb & ei 4s 6d 51b & ei of linnen yarne 5s one peece of Corke and of Tan'd lether 3s 2 dossen of Pewter Spoones 2s 2lbs & ei of Plate 81b 2s.

Note : 'ei' indicates a half.


five Muskett barrells & a old Stocke sent to ye Castle.


More in his owne Chamber 7 paire of y_ best Sheetes an a od one 31b 15s 12 paire of yo second soart of Sheetes 41b 10s 7 paire of ye course Sheetes llb 16s 13 Pillo beares 16s 20 & one Flaxen Napkins 12s 10 french Cloath Napkins 8s one dozen of Manske Cloo Napkins 9s 8 Tray Napkins Table Cloath 14s 24 Course Napkins & Table Cloath 10s 6 Touells 6s 2 large Table Cloathes 15s 4 Table Cloathes llb. 5 Cuppert Cloathes 13s Her owne bed an Cloathes 21b. One Trunkell bed & Cloathes belonginge llb 10s a old Chist 6s a wenscoate Chist 12s one old Trunke 6s a warming Pan 4s one Stoule 2s 6d


In ye Clossett Chamber a bed an[d] Cloathes 2lb 15s on[e] Chist bound wth Iron 7s on[e] Boxe 4s 2 Chaires & old Stoule 4s 2 old Trunkes & old small firkin 6s 2 doz. yards of red Cloath 21b 6s on[e] Trounke 5s on[e] Cubbert & Cussen l1b 4 French Chaires 4s 5 blue stoules & Chaire 18s ye best Bed & cloathes 71b 10s a Trounkell Bed & cloathes 21b 10s 4 Stoules & Tables 10s 6 glasse bottles & on[e] looking glasse 6s


In Buttry Chamber: ye best stand bed an[d] cloathes 61b another stand bed & cloathes 21b 15s a table & frame a old chist stoule llb. ~ In ye old Deemster's Chamber: ye cloathes of ye bed & ye bed 31b. a trounkell bed & blankett coverlett 21b 5s. on[e] old Chaire on[e] stoule 6s. a Table & frame 6s all thinges upon ye high loft 15s.


In my antes Chamber: a bed steed & hangings & trounkell bed llb 2s a small prest 12s. a small Table & frame 8s.


In ye buttry all ye Earthen weare upon ye Cubbert 6s ye Cubbert itself llb 3s. 3 dozen Trounkell (i e., Truckle) bed : a low bed on wheels. of Threncers 3s a old chist 5s a small canvas ( ?) Is. a baskett to take away ye Table 1s. 2 hogsheads 2 barrells 5 firkins & a old salt barrell & Cubbert 11b 2s. 24 Cowes & a yearlinge 401b. 6 heifers 3 steeres 131b. 12 of 2 year old 121b. 8 of one year old 51b 19 oxen 431b. 14 horses maires & coults 271b sixe score sheep young of [and?] old 201b.


In ye kitchen : 4 old brasse potts 2 iron potts & mortar & pestell 31b. on[e] bigg brasse pan & 2 small pans & skellett 2 brasse laddles & skimr llb 9s 3 spits 3 Racks 1 fryinge pan an old dripinge pan 1lb.


In ye milk-house: a large wenscoat chist 18s. on[e] old chist on[e] churne on[e] can on[e] Tubb on[e] cover 3 small Can[n]es a butter bason I Is 6d a old Table is 6d.


In ye milke house loft: a bed steed 10s a small barrell 2s 6d 2 cheese fleahes 2s.


In ye Clossett : 7 cheese fates 3 panes 4 Tubbes 5s 5 pan muggs 2s 2 old firkins 2s. milkinge vessells 4s.


In ye meale lofft : on[e] hogshead 3 barrels & Tubb 8s 6d 4 Sives is 6d.


In ye Brue house: 3 hogsheads 4 barrells 17s a come & cooler & come stoule 10s a Table & f rame 7s.

The Corne is not as yet praised because there is more to be added wch is yet unpriced.

There is alsoe 2 boates & nets yet unpraised as likewise certayne swine and poultery unpriced.

And for ye wearinge apparells Mrs Christian widdow desires yt her husband apparell to stand in lieu of her owne & that his may be praised & her owne to be reserved.

The Inventory hath been taken in November last & lately priced as afforesd.

William Christian (popularly known by the pet name 'Illiam Dhone') was born in 1608 and was shot to death in 1663. He was a younger son of Deemster Ewan Christian of Milntown. In 1643, he was a member of the Keys, and in the same year his father gave him Ronaldsway estate.  The Earl of Derby soon after made him Receiver, and in 1651 put him in command of the Militia When the Earl was made a prisoner in England, the Countess made proposals to Parliament for the surrender of the Island, in the hope of saving his life. We know also that Christian and some of the most influential Manxmen suspected she had done so, and that they excited their countrymen against her by declaring that the Countess intended to save herself by sacrificing them. On the night on which the bearer of these proposals sailed, the Insular Militia, under Christian's command, rose and attempted to seize all the forts.  They took all with the exception of Rushen and Peel. The English authorities (through Musgrove) demanded an explanation of the rebellion, and Christian replied that it was to procure the redress of certain grievances; and, he added, that the Countess had sold the country to the Parliament. These grievances we know (says A. W. Moore in `Manx Worthies' p. 64) to have been connected with the 7th Earl's action in depriving the people of their old system of land tenure and substituting the English system of three lives. There were also deep complaints of the free quarterage of the troops upon the farmers throughout the Island. The Parliamentary troops arrived and took the Island on the 28th October. On the 3rd November, 1651, the Countess surrendered to the Parliament the castles of Rushen and Peel, and soon afterwards she left the Island. Christian was continued in his office of Receiver under Lord Fairfax, and between 1656 and 1658 he also held the office of Governor. In 1660 he was in London, where he was arrested for a debt. He afterwards returned to the Isle of Man. James the 7th Earl had been beheaded at Bolton on 15th Oct. 1651, and when Charles the 8th Earl was re-instated in his `Kingdom of Man' he took measures to bring to justice those whom he considered had been instrumental in the `Rebellion' in the Island. He issued a mandate for the trial of Christian on 12th Sept. 1662. Christian refused to plead to the indictment. He was on the 31st December, 1662, sentenced to be shot to death at Hango Hill, which was carried into effect on 2nd January, 1663.

It would appear that after. the above Inventory was made, the goods were equally divided according to law between the Lord of the Isle and the widow.

It remains to be stated that Illiam Dhone's son George made a successful appeal to King Charles 11, which resulted in the estate of Ronaldsway and other properties being restored to the family. Those responsible for the death of Christian were removed from office, including Henry Nowell, the Deputy Governor at the time.

...x 1586 Harrison 1604 Margery Christian 1606 - 1673 John CHRISTIAN 67 67 [BILLIE J. HALL.ged]

[cannell.FTW]

He was the leader of the deputation that surrendered the Isle of Man to Oliver
Cromwell.

... 1628 - 1660 Edward Christian 32 32 1640 Mabel Christian 1640 - 1618 Ewan Christian 22 22 1580 - 1655 Iom McChristen 75 75 [BILLIE J. HALL.ged]
[lareau-02.ged]

Deemster (1605-53); Deputy Governor of Man (1634-7).  Probably the most diplomatic deemster as he held power during the Commonwealth.  Although many members of the family were imprisoned and executed, he escaped retribution. Yet he was by no mean s cool of temper.  The records are full of tales of litigation, charges, and countercharges, with the Deemster often admitting guilt and paying a bloodwite for having struck someone with whom he disagreed. (Christian: Fragile Paradise).

[lareau-02.ged]

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William "Illiam Dhone", was the leader of a Manx rebellion and was shot to death.

A quote from that time:

Mr. William Christian of Ronaldsway, late Recr. was shott to death att Hangoe Hill the 2nd of January; he dided most penitently, and most courageously, made a good end prayed earnestly, made an excellent speech and the next day was buried in the Chancle of Kirk Malew."

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Three hundred and fifty years ago, on October 31st 1651, the Isle of Man was taken by the forces of Oliver Cromwell: it was the last place in the whole of the British Isles to fall to Parliament at the end of the Civil War, although the Channel Isles did not fall until December 1651. The fact that it surrendered quickly and almost without bloodshed was a tribute to the pragmatism of the Manx - as well as to the honour and restraint of the invading soldiers. It was especially remarkable because it was only two years earlier that the feudal Lord - and effective King - of Man, the staunchly Royalist James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby, had responded to a request to yield the Island by replying, that if he was troubled "with any more messages", he would "burn the paper and hang the bearer". It happened because the Manx rebelled: the Earl might have been prepared to resist at all costs, but they weren't - all they really wanted was to be left in peace. This was later to be called the "Manx Rebellion" and the man who led it was William Christian, Illiam Dhone.

The rising was not, however, a spontaneous affair: it had been brewing for a long time. The Manx had become increasingly unhappy with being ruled by the Earls of Derby, who had been pressing to change the whole system by which their property was let (and to increase the rents). Unhappiness changed to alarm at the outbreak of the English Civil War in 1642: the Island was strategically placed and exposed to invasion by a number of opposing forces, including Catholic Irish (who had mounted a terrifying and bloody revolt against the Protestant settlers of Ulster in 1641) and the Scots (who were then fighting on the side of the English Parliament). And from 1644 onwards the Earl was himself living on the Island and the Manx had to harbour a man who was an inflexibly loyal supporter of the King and who had also been condemned by parliament as a traitor. Not only was his presence a threat to their own peace but they had to support him, as well as his wife and young family, household, soldiers and sundry Lancashire English expatriates.

Things became desperate by 1649. The initial phase of the war had been won by Parliament and the King had been publicly beheaded. Successive poor harvests brought the island to the brink of starvation - and news began to filter in of the massacres by Cromwell of all those who resisted him at Drogheda and Wexford in Ireland. If the Earl was planning to hold out - as he showed every sign of doing - then the Manx faced a similar fate. In 1650, someone tried to assassinate him while he sat in a small boat at Derbyhaven, but the shot missed and killed someone else by mistake.

The Earl left the Island in the middle of August 1651 and joined Prince Charles at the Battle of Worcester on 3rd September. The battle was lost; the Prince escaped to France but Derby was caught and later executed. However the Manx had already started to make their move: there was a "murmuring" on the Island, and it seems that the initial plan being to take the castles at Castletown and Peel. However this changed when an English invasion fleet of 44 boats and three divisions set out from Chester on October 18th. Christian summoned the captains of each parish, together with their men, and they agreed at a mass meeting of some 800 people at his farm at Ronaldsway to disregard the Countess and make sure that the English invaders knew that they had no intention of offering any resistance.

The invasion fleet was held up by bad weather for a week at Beaumaris, but it eventually arrived off Castletown Bay at about 2 o'clock in the morning of October 25th. The night was clear and it must have been a frightening sight for the Manx who were ranged on the shore watching them. The initial plan was to land at Derbyhaven but the wind sprang up again and so the ships sailed north towards the safer anchorage at Ramsey. As they passed Douglas at 1 am on the 26th, one of Christian's co-conspirators, Hugh Moore, sailed out to them in a small boat and presumably reinforced the message that the Manx militia would not resist. They were also told that the rebels had captured Peel Castle but lost it again, while Castle Rushen remained in the hands of the Countess. The same message was relayed to them after they anchored in Ramsey Bay later the same day. All the Manx wanted was to be "allowed to enjoy their laws and liberties as formerly they had?" - especially as they now knew that the reign of the Earls of Derby had come to an end. The garrisons at Castletown and Peel held out for a couple of days, even though it was so clear that resistance was useless, that a number of men jumped over the walls and ran away. The castles surrendered on October 31st.

In 1663, William Christian was himself to be shot for his involvement in this rising, but a dispassionate analysis of the events indicates that the Manx really had no option. The fact that they (temporarily) escaped the Derby yoke at the same time was a coincidental bonus.

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[From Manx Soc, vol. 26]

No. IX.
The LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR'S ORDER for the DEEMSTERS to pronounce Sentence of Death Upon William Christian.

Castle Rushen, 31st Decembr 1662.

MR. DEEMSTERS,

fforasmuch as yourselves & the 24 Keys have enabled me to declare the maner of death touching the prisoner now at Barr and the place alsoe, And that such doome and sen-tence as I shall make known unto you, is prime and authen-ticke in Law, I doe therefore comand & require you or the one of you to pronounce the sentence of death unto & against him the said prisoner, And to lett him understand that bee stands guilty of most notorious treason comitted in the yeare 1651, which demeritts in the strictness of law, a most haynues & ignominious death, being hanged & quartered & his head smitten of, & afterwards drawn wth wild horses, and ye quarters of his body severed & sect one on one of the Towers of this Castle, and soe in the sevrall markett townes as is recorded in an ancient Statute of this Isle for Treason, Nevertheless, upon the earnest peticõn of his wife & consideracon of her very disconsolate condition, I have thought fitt, And so require and order you to pronounce for sentence (usinge such accustomed fforme as apperteynes to a sentence) that bee bee brought to the place of execution called Hango Hill, and there Shott to death that thereuppon his liffe may departe from his bodie.

HEN. NOWELL.'

1 Capt. Henry Nowell, younger son of Roger Nowell of Read, Esq., by his second wife, Catherine Hyde of Hyde and Norbury. He was Deputy-Governor of the Isle of Man when Wm. Christian was tried, and ordered sentence upon him.

Att Castle Rushen, 31st Decemb' 1662.

Mm.

That this day Wm. Christian late of Raynoldsway & prisoner in ye sd Castle came to ye publique barr wth a guard of soldiers, And there according to ye purport of the right bon"' ye Lord of ye Isle his order in yt behalfe & ye prceedinges of ye Court by ye Deemsters & 24 Keyes hereunto annexed, ye words of sentence under ye Govrn's hand in ye conclusive pte thereof was pronounced by the Deemster i wth a formall & patheticall speech touchinge ye nature of ye misdemeanor ye formd abillity of ye prisoner & his present condicõn, wth recitall of ye proceedings (wch before in this booke are recorded, and all this in a full Court before ye Officers Civill and Millitary, ye 24 Keyes & divers of the Countrey being then present.

1 Thomas Norris, Deemster 1660, sat as Judge, and delivered sentence of death on William Christian, 31st December 1662. Deemster John Christian did not appear, and Edward Christian his son and assistant did not sit in Court.

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[From Manx Soc, vol. 26]

No. X.
The LAST SPEECH Of William Christian, Esq., who was Executed 2d January 1662-3.

GENTLEMEN, and the rest of you who have accompanied me this day to the gate of death.-I know you expect I should say something at my departure; and indeed I am in some measure willing to satisfy you, having not had the least liberty, since my imprisonment, to acquaint any with the sadness of my sufferings, which flesh and blood could not have endured, without the power and assistance of my most gracious and good God, into whose hands I do now commit my poor soul, not doubting but that I shall very quickly be in the arms of His mercy.

I am, as you now see, hurried hither by the power of a pretended court of justice, the members whereof, or at least the greatest part of them, are by no means qualified, but very ill befitting their new places. The reasons you may give yourselves.

The cause for which I am brought hither, as the prompted and threatened jury has delivered, is high treason against the Countess Dowager of Derby, for that I did, as they say, in the year fifty-one, raise a force against her for the suppressing and rooting out that family. How unjust the accusation is, very few of you that hear me this day but can witness; and that the then rising of the people, in which afterwards I came to be engaged, did not at all, or in the least degree, intend the prejudice or ruin of that family; the chief whereof being, as you well remember, dead eight days or thereabout, before that action happened. But the true cause of that rising, as the jury did twice bring in, was to present grievances to our Honourable Lady; which was done by me, and afterwards approved by her Ladyship, under the hand of her then secretary, M. Trevach, who is yet living, which agreement hath since, to my own ruin, and my poor family's endless sorrow, been forced from me. The Lord God forgive them the injustice of their dealings with me, and I wish from my heart it may not be laid to their charge another day.

You now see me here a sacrifice ready to be offered up for that which was the preservation of your lives and fortunes, which were then in hazard, but that I stood between you and your (then in all appearance) utter ruin. I wish you still may, as hitherto, enjoy the sweet benefit and blessing of peace, though from that minute until now I have still been prosecuted and persecuted, nor have I ever since found a place to rest myself in. But my God be for ever blessed and praised, who hath given me so large a measure of patience

What services I have done for that noble family by whose power I am now to take my latest breath, I dare appeal to themselves, whether I have not deserved better things from some of them than the sentence of my bodily destruction, and seizure of the poor estate my son ought to enjoy, being purchased and left him by his grandfather. It might have been much better had I not spent it in the ser-vice of my Honourable Lord of Derby and his family, these things I need not mention to you, for that most of you are witnesses to it. I shall now beg your patience while I tell you here in the presence of God, that I never in all my life acted anything with intention to prejudice my sovereign lord the king, nor the late Earl of Derby, nor the now Earl; yet notwithstanding, being in England at the time of his sacred Majesty's happy restoration, I went to London with many others, to have a sight of my gracious king, whom God preserve, and whom until then I never had seen. But I was not long there when I was arrested upon an action of twenty thousand pounds, and clapped up in the Fleet; unto which action, I being a stranger, could give no bail, but was there kept nearly a whole year. How I suffered God he knows; but at last having gained my liberty, I thought good to advice with several gentlemen concerning his Majesty's gracious Act of Indemnity, that was then set forth, in which I thought myself concerned; unto which they told me, there was no doubt to be made that all actions committed in the Isle of Man, relating in any kind to the war, were pardoned by the Act of Indemnity, and all other places within his Majesty's dominions and countries. Whereupon, and having been forced to absent myself from my poor wife and children near three years, being all that time under persecution, I did with great content and satisfaction return into this Island, hoping then to receive the comfort and sweet enjoyment of my friends and poor family. But alas! I have fallen into the snare of the fowler, but my God shall ever be praised, though he kill me, yet will I trust in him.

I may justly say no man in this Island knows better than myself the power the Lord Derby hath in this Island, subordinate to his sacred Majesty, of which I have given a full account in my declaration presented to my judges, which I much fear will never see light, which is no small trouble to me.

It was his Majesty's most gracious Act of Indemnity gave me the confidence and assurance of my safety; on which, and an appeal I made to his sacred Majesty and Privy Council, from the unjustness of the proceedings had against me, I did much rely, being his Majesty's subject here, and a denizen of England both by birth and fortune. And in regard I have disobeyed the power of my Lord of Derby's Act of Indemnity, which you now look upon, and his Majesty's Act cast out as being of no force, I have with greater violence been persecuted; yet, nevertheless, I do declare that no subject whatever can or ought to take upon them acts of indemnity but his sacred Majesty only, with the confirmation of Parliament.

It is very fit I should say something as to my education and religion. I think I need not inform you, for you all know, I was brought up a son of the Church of England, which was at that time in her splendour and glory; and to my endless comfort I have ever since continued a faithful member,-witness several of my actions in the late times of liberty. And as for government, I never was against monarchy, which now, to my soul's great satisfaction, I have lived to see is settled and established. I am well assured that men of upright life and conversation may have the favourable countenance of our gracious king, under whose happy government God of his infinite mercy long continue these his kingdoms and dominions. And now I do most heartily thank my good God that I have had so much liberty and time to disburden myself of several things that have laid heavy upon me all the time of my imprisonment, in which I have not had time or liberty to speak or write any of my thoughts; and from my soul I wish all animosity may after my death be quite laid aside, and my death by none be called in question, for I do freely forgive all that have had any hand in my persecution; and may our good God preserve you all in peace and quiet the remainder of your days.

Be ye all of you his Majesty's liege people, loyal and faithful to his sacred Majesty; and according to your oath of faith and fealty to my Honourable Lord of Derby, do you likewise, in all just and lawful ways, observe his commands; and know that you must one day give an account of all your deeds. And now the blessing of Almighty God be with you all, and preserve you from violent death, and keep you in peace of conscience all your days.

I will now hasten, for my flesh is willing to be dissolved and my spirit to be with God, who hath given me full assurance of his mercy and pardon for all my sins, of which his unspeakable goodness and loving kindness my poor soul is exceedingly satisfied.

Note.-Here he fell upon his knees, and passed some time in prayer; then rising exceedingly cheerful, he addressed the soldiers appointed for his execution, saying, Now for you, who are appointed by lot my executioners, I do freely forgive you. He requested them and all present to pray for him, adding, There is but a thin veil betwixt me and death; once more I request your prayers, for now I take my last farewell.

The soldiers wished to bind him to the spot on which he stood. He said., Trouble not yourselves or me, for I that dare face death in whatever form he comes, will not start at your fire and bullets, nor can the power you have deprive me of my courage. At his desire a piece of white paper was given him, which, with the utmost composure, he pinned to his breast, to direct them where to aim ; and after a short prayer addressed the soldiers thus, Hit this, and you do your own and my work ; and presently after, stretching forth his arms, which was the signal he gave them, he was shot through the heart and fell.

VA-The above note is annexed to the copies of the printed speech which appeared in a broadside in the year 1776, one hundred and thirteen years after Christian's death.

The following entry is in the parish register of Malew :-"Mr. William Christian of Ronaldsway, late Receiver, was shott to death att Haugoe Hill, the 2nd of January (1662). He died most penitently and most curragiously, made a good end, prayed earnestly, made an excellent speech, and the next day was buried in the chancle of Malew."

It has been said that blankets were spread on the green under his feet, that not a drop of blood should be spilt when he fell ; others, again, assert that not a drop of Christian's blood issued from his wounds when he fell, but that he bled inwardly. Of the file of soldiers who were drawn out for the duty, one only took effect, that of William M'Cowle, and who is reported to have been rewarded with a grant of land in the north of the Island for doing his duty; this has been recorded in the following Manx distich :-

" Lhigg fer ayns y Thalloo ferelley 'syn an,
Agh Illiam M'Cowle lhigg'sy voayl chair.
Illiam M`Cowle sliught ny va büee
She dty vaase, Illiam Dhone ren brishey nyn gree."
It has been surmised by some that Christian's speech has been the composition of some friend at a much later date than that at which it was said to have been delivered, at least the major part of it. Be that as it may, it is here given from the printed broadside of 1776, and that is said to have been taken from a copy preserved in the family of a clergyman, but no such copy is now known to be in existence.

... 1620 - 1662 Elizabeth Green 42 42 [Art Finch.ged]

Name: Elizabeth Blott
Given Name: Elizabeth
Surname: Blott
Sex: F
Birth: BEF 8 MAR 1613/14 in Harrold, Bedfordshire, England
Baptism: 8 MAR 1613/14 Harrold, Bedfordshire, England 1

Father: Robert Blott b: ABT 1584
Mother: Susanna SELBEE

Marriage 1Ralph Green

Marriage 2 TOZIER
Married: 1

Sources:
Abbrev: Great Migration 1634-35
Title: Robert Charles Anderson, George F. Sanborn Jr., Melinde Lutz Sanborn, The Great Migration,Immigrants to New England, 1634 - 1635 (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 1999)
Repository:
Name: Personal Collection of James B. Bullock
Littleton, CO 80120
USA

Page: p. 336

...x

. 1540 - 1584 Joan Warren 44 44 1534 - 1588 William WINTER 54 54 1594 - 1660 William MORGAN 66 66 1538 - 1591 Maria Langton 53 53 1502 Cathrine Mathew 1500 Thomas Langton 1588 - 1638 Elizabeth Morgan 50 50 1564 - 1650 Elizabeth Winter 1 wife 86 86 1515 - 1553 Ralph Warren 38 38 1495 - 1573 Joan TRELAKE 78 78 1574 - 1664 Elizabeth Cromwell 90 90 1580 Mary Cromwell 1583 Dorothy Cromwell 1579 Frances Cromwell 1571 Philip Cromwell 1573 - 1651 Ralph Cromwell 78 78 1538 - 1604 Sir Henry Williams Cromwell 66 66 1552 - 1641 Joan Cromwell 89 89 1560 - 1617 Robert Cromwell 57 57 1567 Henry CROMWELL 1569 Richard Alias Cromwell Williams 1574 Jane Morgan 1585 - 1649 William Morgan merchant 64 64 1563 - 1655 Sir Oliver Cromwell 92 92 [Sharen Neal]

b. 1562, Hinchinbrooke, Englandd. 8/28/1658, Ramsey, England wife may have been Elizabeth Bouchier.  Uncle Of  "lord protector" Oliver Cromwell

Oliver CROMWELL (Sir Knight)

Born: ABT 1550 / 1562, Hunchenbrook, England

Died: 28 Aug 1655, England

Buried: Romsey, England

Notes: He was sheriff for county Hants. and Cambridge. Oliver was knighted by Queen Elizabet h 1598. He was uncle and god-father to famed Oliver, Lord Protector .Oliver was most popula r and beloved. He received vast wealth from his uncle Richard Warren , but dissipated the mon ey and sold his estates to pay his debts. Oliver was a knight of the Bath. The King stayed ma ny times at his home in 1603, 05, 16, 17 and possibly many others on his way north to hunt. O liver was created Knight of the Bath. He was a member of the House of Commons, Queen Anne ' s attorney in 1604. Oliver sold Hunchenbrook. He was a subscriber toward Virginia.

He captured between three and four hundred Scottish prisoners, at the battles of Dunbar and W orcester. These Cromwell transported to New England to be sold as slaves. He had defeated th e Royalists in England and beheaded the King in 1649. Then he proceeded to the conquest of Ir eland.

Did he have a son Thomas , who was related to Giles , perhaps a brother? Debug. Giles objecte d to the will of Thomas .Rev. John Wheelwright graduated with Oliver and intimate friend retu rned to England when Oliver (another) was Protector on behalf of colonists then run to Gasbur y where he died

Father: Henry (Williams) CROMWELL (Sir Knight)

Mother: Joan WARREN

Married 1: Elizabeth Bromley (dau. of Thomas Bromley and Elizabeth Fortescue )

Children:

1. Henry CROMWELL
2. Thomas CROMWELL
3. John CROMWELL of Upwood
4. William CROMWELL
5. Elizabeth CROMWELL
6. Catherine CROMWELL
7. Joan CROMWELL
8. Jane CROMWELL
9. Oliver CROMWELL

Married 2: Anne HOOFTMAN (1565 - d. 28 Apr 1624 in Hunchenbrook, England) (dau. of Egidius H ooftman - widow of Sir Horatio Palavicini, Knight , a noble genoese of Baberham ) 07 Jul 1601

Children:
10. Giles CROMWELL
11. Anna CROMWELL (b. 1603 - d. 13 Apr 1663, Great Stoughton)
12. Mary CROMWELL

Sir Henry Cromwell's eldest two sons - Oliver and Robert (father of the great Oliver Cromwell ) both matriculated at Queens' early in 1579 (a year before their cousin Henry). A third son , yet another Henry, went to St John's College, Oxford, where he became a Fellow. He served a s MP for Huntingdonshire and was one of the gentlemen adventurers who financed the colonisati on and planting of Virginia. The next brother, Richard, was also an MP during the reign of El izabeth I. The fifth brother, Philip Cromwell, followed Henry to St John's, Oxford, and was k nighted by James I. The fate of his sons, all first cousins of the Protector, illustrates th e terrible divisions in families caused by the Civil War. The eldest surviving son, Philip Cr omwell, was a Major in the Parliamentary Army. He died of wounds sustained in the storming o f Bristol. The next son, Thomas, was a Colonel in the opposing Royalist Army. The third son , Oliver, was an MP and also a Colonel in the Parliamentary Army. Sir Philip's youngest son R ichard wisely kept out of the military and at the Restoration rapidly changed his name back t o Williams.

Sir Oliver Cromwell, the famous Oliver's uncle, was also his godfather. He was a long-servin g MP for Huntingdonshire in the reigns of Elizabeth I, James I and Charles I over at least 3 6 years and inevitably Sheriff of Hunts and Cambs. He is best remembered for his extraordinar ily lavish entertainment of James I at Hinchinbrook House on the King's progress south from S cotland on his accession to the English throne in 1603. He was rewarded with a gold cup, som e choice horses, hounds and hawks and a Knighthood of the Bath. It was to Hinchinbrook that t he representatives of Cambridge University came to pay their respects to the new King. Jame s I returned to stay with Sir Oliver on at least three more occasions, as probably did Charle s I. Sir Oliver was briefly Attorney to Queen Anne of Denmark, a Commissioner for draining th e Fens and also subscribed to the Virginia venture. However, his extravagance was his undoing . In 1627 he was forced to sell Hinchinbrook House to Sir Sidney Montagu. He withdrew from pu blic service, sold most of the rest of his estates and retired to Ramsey. At the outbreak o f the Civil War he supported the Royalist cause with all the resources at his disposal. He ra ised men, gave money, obliged his sons to take up arms and incurred the ire of Parliament. Th ey sent his nephew, Oliver, with a troop of horse to remonstrate. Oliver disarmed the old kni ght, seized his plate, but also asked for his godfatherly blessing. Nevertheless, old Sir Oli ver persisted in his support of the Royalists, even as their cause waned. This time, the youn ger Oliver threatened to burn down Ramsey. He parleyed with his uncle on the town bridge an d extracted a fine of ?1,000 and 40 saddle horses. Sir Oliver was unrepentant, supporting th e Royalist cause to the end. Parliament voted to sequester all his estates, but, through th e intervention of his nephew, by now Lieutenant-General of Ireland, the order was reversed. T he old man made no attempt to court favour with the Protector and insisted that the flags tak en by his sons from Parliamentary forces remain hanging in Ramsey church. He died oppressed w ith his debts in August 1655 aged 92. He was remembered for his prodigious hospitality, his l oyalty to the Crown, his upright dealings and his vivacity, but also for dissipating his prop erty and impoverishing his family.

********* 1623 - 1697 Thomas Morgan CPT 74 74 1630 Mary Cromwell 1661 Sarah Morgan 1663 Martha Morgan 1560 - 1653 William MORGAN 93 93 1588 - 1664 Thomas Morgan 76 76 1587 - 1629 Blanch Morgan 42 42 1592 - 1661 Edward Morgan 69 69 1604 - 1661 Rowland Morgan 57 57 1597 John Morgan 1586 - 1639 Mary Morgan 53 53 1596 Frances Morgan 1646 - 1720 Mrs. Behethland Gilson 74 74 1608 - 1720 Mary BEHETHLAND 112 112 W.M. Mercer William Lewis 1562 - 1653 Edward MORGAN 91 91 [Linda Bianchi.ged]

From: http://booneinfo.com/boone/morgan.html

Sir Edward Morgan, son of William Morgan and Lady Frances, Second Baronet of Llantarnam (b 15 62, d 1653), married (1) Mary, daughter of Sir Francis Engelfield, and married (2) Frances Morgan, widow of William Lewis.  He held also Pencoed Castle.

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. 1620 Frances Morgan 1590 George Morgan 1592 - 1634 William Morgan 42 42 1596 Margaret Morgan 1598 Winifred Morgan 1600 Mary Morgan Elizabeth Windham 1644 - BET 1687 AND 1743 Deliverance 1630 - 1693 Mary Lee 63 63 1600 - 1681 Robert Lee 81 81 [Polly Quinn.ged]

listed on some trees as Waring
Immigrated from Barbados 1625

... 1606 - 1681 Mary Awood 75 75 1625 - 1697 Ann Lee 72 72 1578 - 1647 Henry Lee 69 69 1580 - 1626 Elizabeth Fletcher 46 46 1620 WifeofWilliam Lee 1584 - 1665 Thomas Blott 81 81 1587 - 1659 Susanna SELBEE 72 72 1556 - 1617 John (Poss.) 61 61 1600 - 1640 Sharon Buckner 40 40 [David V. Hughey.ged]

Birthyears for Sharon "Buckner" range from abt. 1555 to abt. 1615.  The later date doesn't match the birthyears of the children--1612 and 1620.  That means she was likely born abt. 1600 or before.  It is extremely unlikely that she was old as her husband (b. abt. 1555).  Given a normal pregancy span from age 12 to age 50, she may have been born around 1570 at the earliest.

... 1620 - 1693 Rebecca Peck 73 73 1587 - 1663 Joseph Peck 76 76 [Don Dickenson.ged]

Joseph Peck was baptized in Beccles, Suffolk, England on April 30, 1587.  He was the son of Robert Peck, and a descendant, in the twenty-first generation, from John Peck of Belton, Yorkshire, England.  He came to New England in the "Diligent", reaching Boston on August 10, 1638 from Ipswich, Suffolk, England.  He settled in Hingham, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts; where he served as a representative in  1639, 1640, 1641 and 1642.  He moved to Rehoboth, Bristol Co., Massachusetts in 1645 and settled in the area now known as Seekonk Plain where he was a very active and influential citizen.
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WILL OF JOSEPH PECK

The Last Will ... of Mr Josepth Pecke of Rehoboth Deceased; exhibited to the Court held att Plymouth 3 March, 1663.

Josepth Pecke senr: of Rehoboth made bequests as follows:

To my son Josepth all my lands and meddowes ... neare unto the River called Palmers River" also "my old blacke mare and my great Chist in the Parlour;

To my son John my house and lands which I purchased of Josepth Torrey; and the halfe of the meddow betwixt mr Newman and mee on the other side of the new meddow River also my great Chist in the hall;

To my son Nicholas all my meddow att the hundred acrees; and the meddow called bushey meddow and all my meddowes on the north side of the towne.

To my son Samuell my house where I now Dwell with all the houses standing there; the orchyards and all my house loft and all my land in the 2cond Devision; and my plaine lotts excepting halfe my furthest which I give unto my son Nicholas; and also I give unto him my meddow called Cheesebrookes meddow; and also my salt marsh att broad cove.

To my sonnes Nathaniel and Israell all my lands which I purchased of John Adames and Mr Bradford with the meddow called the longe beach which is betwixt mr Newman and mee; and all my meddow att squamquanmett which is betwixt John Allin and mee; and also my meddow att Papasquash betwixt John AIIin and mee;

I give my pte of meddow att kekemuett unto. John Pecke my son; and alsoe all my lands att Wackemauquate; I give unto my sonnes Josepth and Nicholas to bee equally Devided betwixt them.

To my Daughter hubbert [Hobart] thirty pounds in such pay as can bee Raised out of the goods I shall leave to pay by my executors within one yeare after my Decease and alsoe ... my wifes best cloake; one fine pillowbeer and my Damaske napkin;

To my son Samuell my silver beaker and two silver spoones and one gould Ringe which was his mothers and also one paire of fine holland sheets one Diaper Tablecloth and six Diaper Napkin's 2 fine pillowbeares and the feather bed and bolster and pillow and two blankets wheron I now lye; my second Rugg with some other smale linnine In my trunke in the parlour which I alsoe give unto him; and the other Chist under the window in the parlour and my best Curtaines and Curtaine Rodds;

To son Nathaniel my bigest silver Cupp one gould Ringe two silver spoones my best feather bed one bolster two blanketts the Rugg that now lyeth upon mee my trunke in the Parlourchamber my Round table three Diaper napkins one long table Cloth between Israell and him; Item I give unto Israell my son my silver salt 2 silver spoones my two new bedteekes with the bolsters the old flocke bed two blanketts my best Coverlid one bolster one pillow two pillow beares; alsoe unto Nathaniel one pillow 2 pillow beares.

I give unto Israell ten of my best ewes and my sorrelled mare two of my best Cowes and my bull and my segg and three Diaper napkins;

To my son Joseph five ewes; and to my son Samuell my two oxen Called bucke and Duke and two Cowes my Cart and one of my little plowes one chaine with the Copses for the Cart; and I give unto Nathaniel two steers and two Cowes;

To my son Nicholas the feather bed which hee hath alreddy and my best Rugg;

To my son John I give the featherbed and bolster which hee alreddy hath and 40s to buy him a Rugg; and to Israell I give the two little Chistes in the Chamber and his mothers little trunke;

To my son Samuel I give my bedstead in the parlour Chamber;

To my son Josepth my gould Ringe and unto John and Nicholas my two silver wine Cuppes; my mind is that my three younger sonnes should have each three platters; and all the rest of my pewter should bee equally between my six sonnes and all my apparell I give unto my three elder sonnes and an my wifes apparrell I give unto my three youngest sonnnes to bee equally Devide betwixt them.

all the Rest of my goods Cattles and Chattles; my Debtes and legacies being payed (and my body brought to the grave) I give unto my six sonnes equally to bee Devided amongst them the youngest and weakest to have as good a share as the eldest and strongest; Desireing Mr Newman and my brother Thomas Cooper to bee the supervisors of this my Testament and last Will; and I Doe ordaine my son Nicholas and my son Samuell the exequitors of this my last Will.

The last Will and Testament of mee Josepth Pecke written with my owne hand; The will was not dated.

March the 3th 1663 In Reference to the amplyfication of the Will of mr Josepth Pecke Deceased; before entered this following writing was ordered to bee Recorded;  December 24; 1663

A further Amplyfication of our fathers Will upon his Death bed which was not expressed in his written Will; Item hee gave to his son Josepth halfe his meddow that hee purchased of Mr Bradford lying on the further side of the New meddo River; To his son John thirty five pounds of Comon; To his son Samuell two hundred and fifty pounds of Comon; to his son Nathaniel two hundred pounds of Comon these giftes were given to them and theire heires for ever; Morover our father aded to his Daughter hubbert ten pounds more then was sett Downe in his written will; Item that Nathaniel and Israell shall have equall shares of the corne that shalbee Raised upon that ground which hee hath given to his son Samuel! for this yeare ensueing; they bestowing an equall share of labour with them upon the land; It was further expressed by him that seeing those oxen expressed in his will that was given to his three younger sons; was Disposed of before his Death; that those younge oxen and steeres that are coming on in theire Romes should bee made Choise of by them in manor as followeth; his son Samuell first Choosing; his son Israell next and Nathaniel last; It was his will alsoe that those two mares which were given to his sonnes Josepth and Israell; being not extant; That Josepth should have his old mare; and Israell his young mare in stead of the other; further wheras our father gave his sonnes Josepth five sheep and Israell ten; they alsoe being sold before our fathers Death; wee have agreed that they shall have in valluation as they were sould which was nine shillinges apeece  This wee owne to bee our fathers will expressed by him unto us; when hee was in his pfect memory which wee owne as his proper will and Desire; In Witnes wberof wee have sett to our hands.

This agreement was signed by Joseph Pecke, John Pecke, Nicholas Pecke, Samuel Pecke, Nathaniel Pecke and Israel Pecke.

The witnesses were Stephen Paine, Thomas Cooper and John Reed.

January the 11th 1663 An Inventory of the goods of mr Josepth Pecke whoe expired December the 22cond (63) and exhibited to the Court held att Plymouth the 3 of rnarch 1663.  The appraisers, Stephen Paine, Thomas Cooper and John Reed made oath to the inventory 18 February. 1663, before Thomas Willett. No real estate is mentioned;  The inventory covers three and one-half pages of the record.

(The Mayflower Descendant - Vol. 15, pages 236-239 - Plymouth Colony Wills and Inventories)
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A GENEALOGICAL DICTIONARY OF THE FIRST SETTLERS OF NEW England, BEFORE 1692 - Vol. 3 - Savage, James - 1860-62:

PECK, JOSEPH, Hingham, came in the Diligent, arr. at Boston 10 Aug. 1638, from Ipswich in Suff'k with w. three ch. two men and three maid sev. freem. 13 Mar. 1639, rep. 1639-42, rem. 1645 to Rehoboth, there d. 22 Dec. 1663. Prob. he had liv. at Hingham in Norf. for his suppos. br. Robert was min. in that pleasant town many yrs. [See Lincolns' Hist. of H. and ] Centu. Disc.

[Joan Olsson]

JOSEPH PECK came from Old Hingham in 1638 with 132 other Puritans and his brother Robert Peck, their pastor, in the "Diligent" (John Martin, Master) bringing his second wife, two sons, one dau., two men servants and three maid servants and settled in New Hingham. He was the son of Robert Peck and Helen Babbs of Beccles, Suffolk Co., England., where he was baptized Apl. 30, 1587. He was a descendant in the 21st generation of John Peck of Belton, Yorkshire. His first wife, Rebecca Clark, whom he married May 21, 1617, died Oct. 24, 1637. The name of his second wife is not known. He was made freeman March 13, 1638-9, and was chosen representative to the General Court in 1639, 40, 41 and 42.

In 1641 he was one of the purchasers of Seaconk from Massasoit, and Gov. Bradford granted the same land, eight miles square, which was incorporated as Rehoboth. He removed there in 1645, losing three horses and goods of ?50 value by the burning of an Indian wigwam where he stopped for shelter on the journey. He was Selectman, Assessor and Justice of the Peace. He was rated the same as Stephen Paine, ?535, only one being larger.

"Plymouth, July 3, 1656. The Court have appointed and deputed Mr. Joseph Pecke to administer marriage at Rehoboth: and the said Mr. Pecke, Mr. Stephen Paine and Richard Bowen are appointed and authorized to hear and determine all controversies there between any, so as it amount not to above the value of three pounds."

He died Dec. 23, 1663, aged 77 years. His will divided a large property among his children, Joseph, John, Nicholas, Samuel, Nathaniel and Israel and dau. Hubbert. "I do ordain my son Nicholas and my son Samuel the executors of this my last will, desiring the Lord to guide theire hartes to do all according unto my intent heer sett down." His six sons signed an agreement for distribution of the estate according to the will as amplified by their father upon his death bed, but not expressed in the writing, with Stephen Paine, Thomas Cooper and John Reed as witnesses.

Children.
Anna bapt. Mar. 12, 1617-8. buried July 27, 1636.
Rebecca bapt. May 25, 1620. m. Hubbert or Hobart.
Joseph " Aug. 23, 1623.
John " 1626.
Nicholas " Apl. 9, 1630.
By second wife:
Samuel bapt. Feby. 3, 1638-9. d. 1708. m. Sarah Hu
2d Rebecca Paine.
Nathaniel " Oct. 31, 1641.
Isaac " Mar. 4, 1644.
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A Genealogical History of the Descendants of Joseph Peck
Author: Ira B. Peck
This book contains the history and genealogy of the Joseph Peck family of Massachusetts.
Bibliographic Information: Peck, Ira B. A Genealogical History of the Descendants of Joseph Peck. Alfred Mudge & Son. Boston. 1868.

JOSEPH PECK, the emigrant ancestor of the Pecks in this country, known as the Massachusetts Pecks, now a numerous and extensive race scattered throughout the United States, its Territories, the British Provinces, and the Canadas, was baptized in Beccles, Suffolk Co., England, April 30, 1587.(*)

He was the son of Robert Peck, as will be seen by a reference to the chart, being a descendant in the twenty-first generation from John Peck, of Belton, Yorkshire. He settled at Hingham, Norfolk Co., England. In 1638, he and other puritans, with his brother Robert Peck, their pastor, fled from the persecutions of the church to this country. They came over in the ship Diligent of Ipswich, John Martin, master.

Daniel Cushing, then town clerk here at Hingham, Norfolk Co., New England, in speaking of his arrival in this country says: "Mr. Joseph Peck and his wife with three sons and daughter and two men servants, and three maid servants, came from Old Hingham, and settled at New Hingham." His children were as follows:

Anna, baptized in Hingham, England, March 12, 1617-18,(+) and buried there, July 27, 1636.
Rebecca, baptized in Hingham, England, May 25, 1620; and, as appears by her father's will, married a
Hubbert [Peter Hobart].
Joseph, baptized in Hingham, England, August 23, 1623. For the history of him and his descendants, see Part I.
John, baptized about 1626. For a history of him and his descendants, see Part II.
Nicholas baptized in Hingham, England, April 9, 1630. For his history, see Part III.
Samuel, baptized here at Hingham, in New England, February 3, 1638-9, see Part IV.
Nathaniel, baptized here at Hingham, New England, October 31, 1641, Part V. Israel, baptized here, March 4, 1644, Part VI.

(*) Upon early records, births and deaths are not often given. They were generally kept by Parish clerks, who only gave the baptisms and burials.

He was twice married. His first wife was Rebecca Clark. They were married at Hingham, England, May 21, 1617. She died and was buried there, October 24, 1637. The name of his second wife, and the baptism of his son John, was not found. It was not upon the records at Hingham, where his first marriage and the baptisms of his other children were recorded. It probably took place in another parish where the records were not preserved.
He seems to have belonged to that class in England known as gentlemen or the gentry entitled to coat-armor, etc., who ranked next to Baronets.(*)
Soon after his arrival here, he settled in Hingham, Mass. The records there in 1638 say:

Mr. Joseph Peck(+) received a grant of seven acres of land, for a house lot, next to Robert Peck his brother; he also received other grants of land.

(*) In relation to his political, public or private life in England, or that of his father, I did not attempt to learn anything. To have done so at this late day, now more than two hundred years since they lived, would have been attended with great expense and much uncertainty as to finding anything reliable
in relation to them. My resources had been heavily drawn upon in tracing him back to England, connecting him with his ancestors there, and learning what I had in relation to them; and as none of my friends, although many of them were abundantly able, offered to contribute towards the expense, I
was obliged to content myself with what I had already learned there, that I might devote my means to tracing out his descendants here.

(+) This prefix or title of Mr., which is found with his name wherever it appears upon record, indicates the position he occupied in society. It was of much more import and significance then than now. There were but a few of those who came over to whose name it was ??ed: they generally occupied a lower position in society. He remained at Hingham about seven years, when he removed to Seekonk.

While he remained at Hingham, he was one of its leading men. He was Representative, or deputy to the General Court in 1639, 1640, 1641 and 1642. He took an active interest in the business of the town. He was one of the selectmen, justice of the peace, assessor, etc.

He was appointed by the court to grant summons and attachments, to see people joined in marriage, to keep the records, etc.

In 1641, he became one of the principal purchasers(*) of the indians of that tract of land called by them Seacunk or Seeckonk, afterwards incorporated into a town since known as Rehoboth, Mass., at first called eight miles square, but afterwards found to be about ten. It comprised what is now Rehoboth, Seekonk, and Pawtucket.(+) He did not however remove there until 1645.

Upon the Rehoboth records is the following notice of an accident which befel him on his removal thither:

"Another strange accident happened by fire about this time. Mr. Joseph Peck, and three others of Hingham, being about to remove to Seaconk, (which was concluded by the Commissioners of the United colonies to belong to Plymouth,) riding thither they sheltered themselves and their horses in an indian wigwam, which by some occasion took fire, and (although there were four in it, and labored to their utmost) burnt three of their horses to death, and all their goods, to the value of fifty pounds."

(*) See confirmation deed from the colony to the town of Rehoboth, in 1685,
(Plymouth Colony Records, B. 5 P. 341,) also quitclaim deed from William Bradford, in 1689.

(+) The proprietors of Rehoboth also purchased other lands of the indians. Their second purchase was a tract known as Wanamoiset, being what was afterwards a part of Swansey and Barrington.

Their third purchase was in 1661, from Wamsitta, brother of King Philip, called the north purchase, including what was afterwards Attleborough, Mass. and Cumberland, R. I. It was incorporated into a town, taking the name of Attleborough, in 1694. It remained Attleborough until the settlement of the
line between the Plymouth and Rhode Island colony, when the part since Cumberland was set off to Rhode Island. It was incorporated into a town in 1746, taking its present name. It has since been divided, a portion of it taking the name of Woonsocket, the Indian name of the locality.
After his removal to Seekonk, his name continually appears upon the records of the town, in the management of its affairs, until his age precluded him from such duties.

His name also appears upon the Plymouth Colonial records, as it did upon those of Massachusetts.

He was appointed to assist in matters of controversy at court. In 1650, the court appointed him to administer marriage. In 1651, he was appointed to determine all controversies, not exceeding a certain amount. He was also appointed to administer oaths, issue warrants, etc.

He seems to have been one of the principal men here, as he had been at Hingham, as well as one of the wealthiest.

In the purchase of the town as in the appraisal of the purchaser's rights for the apportionment of a tax, there was but one who paid more or whose rights were prized more than his.

In addition to his interest in the first purchase of the town, he afterwards bought other rights which made him a large owner.

His rights in the common undivided lands at his decease were given to his sons, as well as those which had then been divided. In some instances, these lands still remain in the name and are owned and occupied by his descendants. The Pecks of Barrington (Ellis, Asa and others) now occupy lands given to his youngest sons, Nathaniel and Israel.

The proprietors of Rehoboth first settled upon what has since been known as Seekonk Plain,(*) a tract of cleared land which had been the planting grounds of the indians. The settlers appropriated it to the same purpose until its fertility became exhausted, when they were obliged to leave the plain and seek the smaller openings which were more productive, thus gradually penetrating the wilderness, and extending the settlements of their town.

The house of Joseph, which seems to have been of the better class, stood upon the plain in the northerly part of the "Ring of the town."(*)

It was here that he lived, and died December 23, 1663, in the seventy-seventh year of his age, far from the tombs of his fathers, the associations of his youth, and the scenes of his early life, but doubtless happy in the thought of having been able to worship God after the dictates of his own conscience, and of being surrounded by his children, in whose care his remains would be left to be buried where they would be surrounded by those of his descendants.
No stones, now more than two hundred years since, mark the spot of their interment, but the subsequent graves of his descendants indicate the place.(+)

(+) The gravestones of his son Israel were still standing in a good state of preservation when I last visited the place, although he had then been deceased over one hundred and forty years. For the inscriptions, see Israel, Part VI.
(*) The proprietors first selected their lots and erected their dwellings in a semicircle, the circle opening towards the Pawtucket or Seekonk River, with their parsonage and meeting-house in the centre. The circle was called the ring of the town. It can still be seen in the present location of the houses there, in an eastern view from the church.
(*) Bliss, in his history of Rehoboth, supposes this word to be composed of the indian words seaki, meaning black, and honk, goose--black goose being the indian name for the wild goose, and thinks the place received its name from the fact of great numbers of wild geese in their s??ui-annual migrations,
alighting here in the river and cove adjacent the Town."
(*) Its location was near the junction of the present Pawtucket with the old Boston and Bristol road, so called, westerly and not far from the present depot of the Boston and Providence Railroad as it crosses the plai

The following is a copy of his will:
Know all men by these presents that I joseph Peck Senr of Rehoboth do ordain and make this my last will and testament in manner and form following Item--I give and bequeath unto my son joseph all my lands and medows lying and being near unto the River called Palmers River to him and his heirs forever Item--I give unto him my old black mare and my great chist in the parlor.

Item--I give unto my son john my house and lands which I purchased of joseph Torry and the half of the meddow betwixt Mr Newman and mee on the other side of the new meddow river to him and his heirs forever Also I give unto him my great chist in the hall.

Item--I give and bequeath unto my son Nicholas all my meddow at the hundred acres and the meddow called bushey meddow and all my medows on the north side of the town to him and his heirs forever Item--I give and bequeath unto my son Samuell my house where I now dwell with all the houses standing there The outyards and all my house lott and all my land in the second Division and my Plaine lotts excepting half my furthest which I give unto my son Nicholas; and also I give unto him my meddow called cheesbrooks meddow and also my salt marsh att broad cove To him and his heirs forever Item--I give unto my sonns Nathaniel and Israel all my lands which I purchased of John Adams and Mr. Bradford with the meddow called the long beach which is betwixt Mr Newman and mee, and all my meddow at Squamquammett which is betwixt John Allin and mee; and olso my meddow at Papasquash betwixt John Allen and mee to them and their heirs forever.

Item--I give my use of the meddow att Kekemuett unto John Pecke my son and also all my lands att Wackemauquate I give unto my sonnes Joseph and Nicholas to be equally devided betwixt them Item--I give and bequeath unto my Daughter Hubbert thirty pounds in such pay as can be raised out of the goods I shall leave to be paid by my Executors within one year after my decease and also I give unto her my wifes best cloak and one fine Pillowbeer and my Damask Napkin

Item--I give unto my son Samuell my silver beaker and two silver spoons and one gould Ringe which was his mothers and also one paire of fine holland Sheets and one Diaper Tablecloth and six Diaper Napkins 2 fine pillow beares and the feather bed and bolster and pillow and two Blanketts whereon I now lye my second Rugg with some other small linnene in my Trunk in the parlor which I also give unto him and the other chist under the window in the parlor and my best curtains and curtain rodds Item--I give unto my son Nathaniel my biggest silver cupp and gould Ringe two silver spoons my best feather bed one bolster two Blanketts the Rugg that now lyeth upon mee my trunk in the parlour chamber my round table three Diapir napkins one long table cloth betwixt Israell and him

Item--I give unto Israell my son my silver salt 2 silver spoons my two bed teckes with the bolesters the old flocke bed two blanketts my best coverlid one bolster one pillow two pillowbears also unto Nathaniel one pillow 2 pillowbears.

Item--I give unto Israell ten of my best ewes and my sorrelled mare two of my best cowes and my bull and my segg and three Diaper napkins Item--I give unto my son Joseph five ewes and to my son Samuel my two oxen called Bucke and Duke and two cowes my cart and one of my little Plowes one chain with the copses for the cart and I give unto Nathaniel two steeres and two cowes Item--I give unto my son Nicholas the feather bed which he hath alreaddy and my best Rugg and unto my son John I give the feather bed and bolster which he alreaddy hath and 40s to buy him a rugg and to Israell I give the two little chists in the chamber and his mothers little trunke and unto my son Samuel I give my Bedstead in the parlour chamber Item--I give unto my son Joseph my gould Ringo and unto John and Nicholas my two silver wine cupps--My mind is that my three younger sonnes should have each three platters and all the rest my pewter should be equally between my six sonnes and all my apparrel I give unto my three elder sonnes and all my wifes Apparrell I give unto my three youngest sonnes to bee equally divided betwixt them Item--I give and bequeath all the rest of my goods cattles & chattles my debts and legacies being payed and my body brought to the grave unto my six sonnes equally to be divided amongst them the youngest and weakest to have as good a share as the eldest and strongest dsireing Mr Newman and my brother Thomas Cooper to be the supervisors of this my Testament and last will and I do ordaine my son Nicholas and my son Samuell the executors of this my last will desiring the Lord to guide theire hartes to do all according unto my intent heer sett down

The last will & Testament of mee Joseph Pecke written with my own hand.

A further Amplyfication of our fathers will upon his death bed, which was not expressed in his written will. Item--hee gave to his son Joseph half his meddow that hee purchased of Mr Bradford lying on the further side of the new Meddow River: to his son John thirty-five pounds of comon: to his son Samuel two hundred and fifty pounds of comon to his son Nathaniel two hundred pounds of comon. These gifts were given to them and their heirs forever moreover our father added to his daughter hubbert ten pounds more than was sett downe in his written will Item--that Nathaniel and Israell shall have equal shares of the corne that shall be raised upon that ground which hee hath given to his son Samuel for this year ensuing they bestowing an equal share of labor with them upon the land. It was further expressed by him that seeing those oxen expressed in his will that was given to his three younger sons was disposed of before his death that those younge oxen and steeres that are coming on in theire romes should bee made choice of by them in manor as followeth his son Samuel first choosing his son Israell next and Nathaniel last It was his will also that those two mares which were given to his sonnes Joseph and Israel being not extant that Joseph should have his old mare and Israell his young mare instead of the other--further whereas our father gave to his sonnes Joseph five sheep and Israell ten they also being sold before our fathers death wee have agreed that they shall have in valuation as they were sould which was nine shillings a pieece.

This we own to be our fathers will expressed by him unto us when he was in his perfect memory which we owne as his proper will and desire.

In witness whereof wee have sett to our hands

Witness hiereof JOSEPH PECKE,
STEPHEN PAINE, John PECKE,
Thomas COOPER NICHOLAS PECKE
John REED SAMUELL PEC
NATHANIELL PEC
ISRAELL PECKE

This will is recorded upon the old Plymouth Colony Records, Book of Wills, 2d part, Vol. 2d, Folio 12.
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New England Families Genealogical and Memorial: Third Series, Volume IV

Hon. Joseph Peck, son of Robert and Helen (Babbs) Peck, was of Hingham, Norfolk county, England, and was baptized April 30, 1587. In 1638 Joseph Peck, together with his brother Robert and other Puritans, fled from persecution in England and came to New England in the ship "Diligent," of Ipswich. The entry on Hingham records, showing him to be a man of quality, is "Mr. Joseph Peck and his wife, with three sons and daughters and two men-servants, came from Old Hingham, and settled in New Hingham." He remained at Hingham seven years and was deputy to the general court of Massachusetts for Hingham, 1639-40-41-42; selectman, justice of the peace, assessor, etc. He moved to Seekonk Plain near the junction of the present Pawtucket with the old Boston and Providence railroad in the old town of Rehoboth. He died November 23, 1663. In 1641 Mr. Peck and others from Hingham bought Secunke (Seekonk); 1643, drew lots for woodland; 1645, register of lands; 1645, Plain lots drawn; 1646, lots in the New Meadow; 1647 and 1648, Mr. Peck chosen townsman; 1648, chosen assistant to Mr. Brown in suit at court; 1650, Mr. Peck chosen townsman or selectman; 1651, townsman or selectman; 1652, chosen rator or assessor; 1653, grand juryman; 1654, constable; 1655, tax assessor; 1655, townsman or selectman; 1656, to administer marriages; 1656, judge of cases not, above ?3; 1660, examine town records; 1661, to settle damages to Indians' corn on Kickemuit and Consumpsit Necks. Mr. Peck married (first) in England, May 21, 1617, Rebecca Clarke, who was buried October 24, 1637. The name of his second wife is not on record. Children by first marriage: Annie, baptized March 12, 1618, buried July 27, 1636; Rebecca, baptized May 25, 1620, married (???) Hubbort; Joseph baptized August 23, 1623; John, baptized in August, 1626; Nicholas, see forward. Children by second marriage, all baptized in Hingham, Massachusetts: Samuel; bapt

... 1626 - 1654 John Peck 28 28 [Don Dickenson.ged]

March 6, 1654/1655:
It, wee present John Pecke, of Rehoboth, for laciviouse carriages and vnchast in attempting the chastitie of his fathers maide seruant, to satisfy his fleshly, beastly lust, and that many times for some yeares space, without any intent to marry her, but was alwaies resisted by the mayde, as hee confesseth.  (Plymouth Colony Records 3:75)

... 1623 Joseph Peck [Don Dickenson.ged]

March 6, 1654/1655:
wee present John Pecke, of Rehobeth, for laciviouse carriages and vnchast in attempting the chastitie of his fathers maide seruant, to satisby his fleshly, beastly lust, and that many times for some yeares space, without any intent to marry her, but was alwaies resisted by the mayde, as he confesseth. [Fined fifty shillings.]  (GC Presentments by the Grand Inquest, Plymouth Colony Records 3:75)

... 1630 Nicolas Peck 1639 Samuel Peck [Larson Fischer Family Genealogy.ged]

Information downloaded from Don Dickenson's GedCom last updated 9/1/2006.

... 1643 Israel Peck [Larson Fischer Family Genealogy.ged]

Information downloaded from Don Dickenson's GedCom last updated 9/1/2006.

... 1641 - 1676 Nathaniel Peck 35 35 [Larson Fischer Family Genealogy.ged]

Information downloaded from Don Dickenson's GedCom last updated 9/1/2006.
[Don Dickenson.ged]

Nathaniel Pecke was one of seven children of Joseph Pecke Sr. He had five brothers and one sister who were mentioned in his father's will of 1663. Joseph, John, Samuel, Israel, and Nicholas Pecke all signed and witnessed their father's will. Nathaniel Pecke married before 1670 to Deliverance Bosworth who was born in Hingham on August 4, 1650 and died in April 1675, shortly after the birth of their son, Elisha, on April 19th.

No profession is listed in the Plymouth records, but one can determine by the listing of farming implements and variety of animals that Nathaniel Pecke was a man who lived off his land. He appears to have been a moderately wealthy man with most of his estate's value tied up in land that he inherited from his father in 1663. The further Court records of the life describe Pecke as a citizen of Swansey when his father lived in Rehoboth.  Before 1670, he must have migrated from Rehoboth to the town of Swansey, a close neighbor as he is listed as a freeman of Swansey in May of that year.  He was a constable of Swansey in 1668 and a surveyor of the highways for the town in 1671.
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March 3, 1663:
The Last will and Testament of Joseph Pecke Sr. was exhibited at Court.  Nathaniel Pecke was bequeathed all the lands purchased of John Adams and Mr. Bradford including the meadow called the long beach, which was between Mr. Newman and Pecke Sr.  These lands were to be divided between Nathaniel and Israel.  Nathaniel was given all the meadow at Squamquammett between John Allin and Pecke Sr. He was bequeathed a few personal items including his father's biggest silver cup, a gold ring, and his best feather bed.
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December 24, 1663:
A further amplification of Joseph Pecke Sr.'s will was made upon his deathbed.  Nathaniel was given two hundred pounds plus he and Israel were to be given equal shares of the corn raised for the following year from the land bequeathed to Samuel.
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June 3, 1668:
Nathaniel Pecke was appointed Constable of Swansey.  (Plymouth Colony Records (PCR) 4: 18)
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May 29, 1670:
Nathaniel Peck was listed as a freeman of Swansey.  (PCR 5: 279)
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June 5, 1671:
Surveyors of the Highways for Swansey were listed as Nathaniel Pecke, Joseph Carpenter, and Zacariah Eedey.  (PCR 5: 58)
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June 5, 1671:
Nathaniel Peck and Nicholas Tanner were appointed by the Court to inspect the ordinaries, or any other place suspected, for abuses of the drinking of liquors on the premises and to make a report to the Court.  (PCR 5: 60)
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September 15, 1673:
Nathanial Peck served at Court as a Deputy.  (PCR 5: 135)
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19 April 19, 1675:
Elisha, the son of Nathaniel Pecke was born.  (PCR 8: 61)
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April 30, 1675:
Deliverance, wife of Nathaniel Pecke died.  (PCR 8: 61)
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May 1, 1675:
Deliverance Pecke was buried.  (PCR 8: 63)
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August 25, 1676:
Nathaniel Pecke was buried.  (PCR 8: 63)
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September 14, 1676:
Inventory of Nathaniel Peck of Swansey listed.  Phillip Walker appraised his personal estate to the total of 111 pounds and fourteen shillings.  His lands were appraised at ninety pounds by Nathaniel Paine and Daniel Smith.  (Plymouth Colony Wills 3(2): 29-31)
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November 1, 1676:
In reference to the estate of Nathaniel Pecke, Jonathan Bosworth Sr. and Samuel Pecke were appointed to administer the estate. One son and one daughter were listed with the son receiving a double portion and the daughter receiving a single portion of the lands and estate that appears the most suitable for him and her. The land was not to be divided until they come of age or chose their own guardians.  (PCR 5: 212)
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June 5, 1678:
Daniel Smith and Sergeant Thomas Reed were appointed by the Court, along with the guardians of Pecke's children to make a decision on the lands in partnership between Nathaniel Pecke and Israel Pecke and between Israel Pecke and the deceased's children.  (PCR 5: 259)
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March 1, 1680/1681:
The Court allowed Jonathan Bosworth Sr. and Samuel Peck, administrators of Nathaniel Pecke's estate, to sell a piece of land, eight-and-a-half acres lying next to Anthony Lowes' land, upon the neck of land called Phebeys Necke and the commonage on New Meadow Necke with the addition of ?the forty rodd?.  (PCR 6: 56)
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October 8, 1681:
Bosworth Sr. and Smith were allowed to sell a small parcel of land, being a fourth of a ten-acre lot at Papasquash or Mount Hope Necke for the use and benefit of the children of Nathaniel Pecke.  (PCR 6: 73)
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A GENEALOGICAL DICTIONARY OF THE FIRST SETTLERS OF NEW England, BEFORE 1692 - Vol. 3 - Savage, James - 1860-62:

PECK, NATHANIEL, Hingham, perhaps s. of Joseph, may have been sent by his f. from England. bef. he brot. resid. of his fam. in 1635, rem. to Rehoboth, there had sh. in div. of ld. 1668; by w. deliverance had Elisha, b. 19 Apr. 1675, and she d. 30 apr. foll. He d. 25 Aug. 1676.

... 1618 - 1636 Anne Peck 18 18 1635 Simon Peck 1548 - AFT 22 MAR 1592/93 Robert (Robard) [Joan Olsson]

ROBERT PECK, the father of Joseph the ancestor, was also the son of Robert, as will be seen by the chart.  He was of Beccles, Suffolk County; born in 1546 and died in 1593, aged forty-seven.  The position which he occupied in society was that known in England as gentleman or gentry entitled to coat-armor, etc., and at that time, before the title of Baronet(*) was given, next to the nobility, or the title honored.
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[Loren Family.ged]

A Genealogical History of the Descendants of Joseph Peck, pg 21:
[Robert Peck] a man of wealth, consisting of lands, houses, etc.  His will was found at Ipswich after a tedious search.  It was written with his own hand.

The following is a copy:

In the name of God Amen The XXII day of March in the year of or Lord God according to the computation of the church of England 1592 and in the XXXVth yere of the Reigne of or moste gratious soveraigne Lady Elizabeth by the grace of god of England ffrance and Irelande Quene Defend or of the faith etc.  I Robert Peck of Beccles in the countye of Suff hole of mynd and perfect of Remembrance thanks be to the maiestye of god therefore Although sick and weake of body at chemisfforde in the cowntye of Essex at this pr sente of a pluresye not knowinge whither it will please god to take me awaye here or not, do for the better orderinge and dispocision of such goods cattels chattells plate lands tenements and other heriditaments with the appertences do make and dispose them as followeth.
First I bequeath my sowle to the Infinite mereye of Almightye Gode trustinge assurealye to be saved by the meritts death and passion of Jesus christ his dere sonne, and my bodye to be buried where it shall please god to call me.
Item I give and bequeath to Hellen my welle loved wife (in consideration of the paiment of my debts the bringinge up of my children and the finishinge of the houses wth I am now in buildingb) All my houses Lands Tenements medowes pastures fedings as well free hold as coppeholde and all other my leases plate goods and cattles whatsoevr or wheresoevr ling wth in the townes of Beccles, Barshm Ingate or else where to haue and to hold all and singular the pr mises wth the apprtens to the said Hellen or her assignes for and duringe her natural life in concinderacion of the things above mentioned and also paienge such legacies unto my children as I shall appointe or otherwise leave it for want of tyme to her godly consideration where in I desire her in gods behalf to provide for them accordinge to her abillitye.

And for the better accomplishinge here of I do give unto her full power and authoritye to sell my woods in Barshm" or my medows in Barshm" or both if neede shall so require And I doe hartelye desire my very good ffriends Mr Bartholomew Stiles and Mr John Talbot to be aidinge and assistinge my said wife wth there good counsell advice and labor about the execution of this my last will and Testament.

Item I give unto Richard Peck my sonne all that my houses where in I dwell in Blibergate street my close at Ingate church, my pightill in the same field to have and to hold to him and to his heres forever And olso all the lease lands adioyinge to the said close for and duringe the numbers of yeres yt to come yf his mother will vouchsafe him such favor uppon condicon that he paye such legacies as his mother shall think good to appoint him to doe

Item whereas Thomas Peck my brother deceased by his last will and Tistament did give unto the said Richard my sonne two tennements ine Balligate street lately burnt and now againe one of them builded upon the same grownde and the other upon pcell of the said grownde and upon pcell of other free grownde wth I purchased of mine uncle Wm Waters I will therefore that the said Richard my sonne wthin one month after that he shall be of his age of XXjth years shall make over astate in fee simple to such of my sonnes and there heirs as I shall hereafter bequeath the said tennements unto and also surrendor my coppeholde if it come to his handes for want of surrendor.  And yf my saide sonne Richard shall not pform theise things before assigned him I will that he shall loose the benefit of such houses landes and leases as I have before assigned unto him and the same to be to thoese of my twoe sonnes to whoeme I shall gove the foresaide newe tenements and to there heires and assignes forever.
Item I give to Nicholas Peck my sonne my newe tenement ptely builded uppon the Tenement late Wm Waters and my medowes lienge in Barshm (if his mother shall spare the saide medowes) To have and To holde to him the said Nicholas and his heires for evr paiege out of the same such somes of money as his mother shall assigne him to doe.
Item I geve unto Samuell Peck my sonne the other newe tenement and little coppiholde yard to have and to holde to him & his heires forevr paienge out thereof to such of his brothers and sisters such money as his mother shall assigne him to doe

Item I will yf for the benefit of paienge my debtes bringinge up my children findinge my sone Robert (Afterwards Rev. Robert, Minister at Hingham) at Cambridge and providinge legacies for my twoe daughters and my sone Joseph That if my saide wife shall make a lease of all or any pcell of my sayde landes and Tenements That the same shall continue for so many years as she shall lease the same her saide death or any other legacies what soevr before given or appointed to the contrary in any wise notwthstandinge.  The Residewe of all my goodes and chattells whatsoever, I give them whoelye to the saide Hellen my wife whoeme I make my sole executrix desiringe her in godes behalf to have care of thoese my children whoese legacies I have lefte to her consideracon.

And also of Joane Babb & Elisabeth Babb and Robert Meriman & my sister Note as she may
Item I ordain Mr Bartholomewe Stiles clerk, Mr Roger Peirson and Mr John Talbot supervisoer bartelie desiringe them to Aide my wief wth there beste helpe counsell and advice aboute the Execution hereof Written wth myne owne hande The day and yere above saide By me

Proved at Beccles Nov 10--1598

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A Genealogical History of the Descendants of Joseph Peck

p. 10

PEDIGREE
The pedigree, as it is here given [pp. 9a & 9b, summarized below], may be found in the British Museum, London, England, excepting the two last families, those of Robert [this individual] and Joseph [the immigrant son who remained in New England], which are added to it.
The family of Robert, and the eldest children of Joseph, are from the parish records of Hingham, England.  The three youngest children of Joseph are from the records at Hingham, Massachusetts, being born here.
It will be seen that the pedigree extends back from Joseph, twenty generations, to John Peck, Esq., of Belton, Yorkshire, and must be of interest to all who feel an interest in the subject.
The following is the certificate of the heralds accompanying the pedigree and arms in the British Museum.
20th Nov. 1620.
Visum agnitum et in munimenta Collegii Heraldoru relatum die et Anno suprascriptis.
Testamur hoc.
Henry St George, Richmond.
Henry Chitting, Chester.
John Philpott, Rogue Dragon.
It may be translated to mean that they had seen or examined it, acknowledged it true, and entered it upon record, or placed it in the archives of the Herald's College on the day and year above written.

[Summary of Pedigree from pp. 9a & 9b]

1st Generation
John Peck, of Belton, In Yorkshire, Esq. = ... daughter of ... Melgrave.
2nd Generation
Thomas Peck, of Belton, Esq. = ... daughter of Middleton, o' Middleton.
3rd Generation
Robert Peck, of Belton, Esq. = ... daughter of ... Tunstall.
4th Generation
Robert Peck, of Belton, Esq. = ... daughter of ... Musgrave.
5th Generation
John Peck, of Belton, Esq. = ... daughter of ... Watford.
6th Generation
Thomas Peck, of Belton, Esq. = ... daughter of ... Blaxton, of Blaxton.
7th Generation
Thomas Peck, of Belton, Esq. = ... daughter of ... Littleton  (had a younger brother John who settled in Northamptonshire and married a heiress of Broughton)
8th Generation
John Peck, of Belton, Esq. = ... daughter of ... Carre.
9th Generation
John Peck, of Belton, Esq. = ... daughter of ... Flemming.
10th Generation
John Peck, of Belton, Esq. = ... daughter of ... Wemborn.
11th Generation
Richard Peck, 2d son. = ... daughter and heir of ... Bruning (Elder brother John Peck of Belton married a Fenniele and his daughter and sole heir married John Ratcliffe of Todmorton who obtained Belton jure uxoris)
12th Generation
Richard Peck, of Hesden, Esq. = ... daughter of ... Savill.
13th Generation
Thomas Peck, of Hesden, Esq. = ... daughter of ... Bradley.
14th Generation
Richard Peck, of Hesden, Esq. and of Wakefield, Yorkshire = ... daughter and heir of ... [illegible]
15th Generation
John Peck, 1st son, a lawyer = Isabel, daughter of John Lacie, of Brombleton.
16th Generation
Richard Peck, of Wakefield, Esq. = Joan, daughter of John Harrington, Esq.
17th Generation
Richard Peck, Esq. = Alice, daughter of Sir Peter Middleton, Knt.
18th Generation
John Peck, of Wakefield, Esq. = Joan, daughter of John Ame, of Trickley.
19th Generation
Robert Peck, of Beccles, Suffolk = ... daughter of ... Norton.
mar. 2dly, ... Waters.
20th Generation
Robert Peck, of Beccles, d. 1593, aged 47. = Helen, daughter of Nicholas Babbs, of Guilford.

[Bill Zoucha.ged]

Note: Lineage.
Perhaps born 1546 and died in 1593; was a gentleman of the gentry and entitled to coat-armor; man of wealth consisting of both land and houses; was the register and collector for the Arch deacon of Suffolk in 1582, Will written 22 Mar 1593 and proved 10 Nov 1598 in Beccles parish.
Text: vol.91, pp.13-15

Type: Periodical
Author: New England Historical and Genealogical Society, Boston, MA
Periodical: The New England Historical and Genealogical Register
Date: vols. 1-148 on compact discs in DMVD library

...x

. 1559 - 1640 Thomas Williams Cromwell 81 81 Richard Warren 1560 - 1614 Ellin (Ellen) 54 54 1585 - 1648 Robert (Rev.) 63 63 [Loren Family.ged]

Peck, Ira B. A Genealogical History of the Descendants of Joseph Peck. Alfred Mudge & Son. Boston. 1868, pg 25:
REV. ROBERT PECK, the brother of Joseph the ancestor, was born at Beccles, Suffolk Co., England, in 1580. He was graduated at Magdalen College, Cambridge; the degree of A. B. was conferred upon him in 1599, and that of A. M., in 1603. He was set apart to the ministry, and inducted over the church at Hingham, Norfolk Co., England, January 8, 1605, where he remained until 1638, when he fied from the persecutions of the church to this country.
He was a talented and influential clergyman, a zealous preacher, and a nonconformist to the superstitious ceremonies and corruptions of the church, for which he was persecuted and driven from the country. Brooks, in his lives of the puritans, gives many facts of interest in relation to him. In particularizing some of the offences for which he and his followers were persecuted, he says, "for having catechised his family, and sung a psalm in his own house on a Lord's day evening, when some of his neighbors attended, his lordship (Bishop Harsnet) enjoined all who were present to do penance, requiring them. to say, I confess my errors," etc.
Those who refused were immediately excommunicated, and required to pay heavy costs. This, Mr. Brooks says, appears from the bishop's manuscripts under his own hands. He says, "he was driven from his flock, deprived of his benefice, and forced to seek his bread in a foreign land."
Cotton Mather in speaking of him says, he was by the good providence of heaven fetched away into New England about the year 1638, when the good people of Hingham did rejoice in the light for a season; but within two or three years, the invitation of his friends of Hingham, England, pursuaded him to return to them, where being though great in person for stature, yet greater for spirit, he was greatly serviceable for the good of the church.
He arrived here in 1638. In relation to his arrival, the town clerk at Hingham here says: "Mr. Robert Peck, preacher of the gospel in the Town of Hingham, in the County of Norfolk, old England, with his wife and two children, and two servants, came over the sea and settled in this town of Hingham, and he was a Teacher of the Church." Mr. Hobart, of Hingham, says in his diary, that he was ordained here teacher of the church, November 28, 1638. His name frequently appears upon the records of the town. He had lands granted him.
His family as seen upon the chart consisted of nine children. His son Joseph and daughter Anne came over with him. He was twice married. His first wife Anne, died at Hingham, England, and was buried there August 30, 1648 [will 1651 - should this be 1658?]. His second wife was Mrs. Martha Bacon, widow of James Bacon, Rector of Burgate.
He remained here until the long Parliament, or until the persecutions in England ceased, when he returned and resumed his Rectorship at Hingham.
Mr. Hobart says he returned October 27, 1641; and Mr. Cushing, the town clerk, says his wife and son Joseph returned with him; his daughter Anne remaining here. She married Captain John Mason, "the conqueror of the Pequots."
He died at Hingham, England, and was buried in his churchyard there. His funeral sermon was preached by Nathaniel Joslin and published.
The following is a copy of his will:

July the xxiiijth 1651
I Robert Pecke Minister of the word of God at Hingham in the countye of Norff beinge in bodilye health and perfect memory knowinge the unceartainety of mans life, doe dispose of that worldly estate God hath given me in manner and form followinge
Imprimus I give and bequeath unto Thomas my Sonne and Samuel my Sonne and their heirs forever All that my messuage wherein I now dwell situate and lyenge in Hingham a forsaid with all the edifices yards and orchards thereunto belonginge As alsoe the Inclose
and Barnes adioyninge As olso one Inclose now devided called The Lady close conteyninge about eight acres be it more or less As olso one pightell at the end thereof conteyninge twoe acres and d,d uppon condicons followinge, and for the paiement of such legacies as are herein expressed.
First I will and bequeath unto Robert Pecke sonne of my sonne Robert deceased the sume of 20? at his age of 23 years
Item I give unto John Pecke sonne of the said Robert deceased 10ls To be paid to him at his age of 22 years
Item I give unto Beniamin Pecke the youngest sonne of the said Robert deceased at his age of 22 years 20ls
Item I give to the children of Anne Mason my daughter wife of captain John Mason of Seabrooke on the river connecticut in new England the sume of Forty pounds to be devided equally unto them and to be sept to my sonne John Mason to dispose of it for their use within 2 years after my death
Item I give to my sonne Joseph Dureinge his natural life the sume of 14ls yearlie to be in the hands of my Sonnes Thomas and Samuel as it shall arise out of my houses lands and chattles for his maintenance with necessarie foode and apparrell duringe the terme of his naturall life And I doe wholie comitt my said Sonne Joseph to the care of my twoe sonnes Thomas and Samuell to provide for him in such a way as he may not want things necessary for his livelyhood
Item I give to the children of Thomas and Samuell my sonnes which shall be liveinge at my decease the sume of Five pounds apiece at their severall ages of 21 years
Item I give to my now wife Martha Pecke 40ls To be paid wthin twoe months after my decease Item I give to the poore of Hingham 5ls To be destrubted at the discrecon of my Executors Thomas Pecke and Samuel Pecke whome I do ordeyne and make Executors of this my last will and Testament confiding that they will faithfully fulfill and performe this my last will according to my trust reposed in them
All my other goods cattells debts moneys household stuffe or whatsoever ells belongeth unto me I give and bequeath to my said Executors toards payinge of my legacies alrerdy bequeathed and towards the bringinge of my body to buriall which I desire if I depart this life in Hingham may be entered in the church yard near unto Anne my wife deceased
In witness whereof I have written this my last will and testament with my own hand the day and yeare above written

This will was proved at London before the judges for probate of Wills and granting of Administrations the tenth day of April in the year of our Lord God One thousand six hundred fiftye and eight.

Memorial of the Morses by Abner Morse, William Veazie. Boston. 1850, pg 252:

Richard Sanger of Hingham, was...doubtless a follower of Rev. Robert Peck, of whom Bloomfield says in his History of Norfolk, "he was a man of a very violent schismatical spirit, he pulled down the rails and levelled the altar and the whole chancel a foot below the church, but being prosecuted for it by Bp. Wren, he fled the km. and went over into New England with many of his parishoners, who sold their estates for half their value, and conveyed them to that new Plantation; erected a Towne and Colonie by the name of Hingham where many of their posterity are still remaining. He promised never to desert them, but hearing that the Bishops were deposed, he left them all to shift for themselves and came back to Hingham in 1646;(*) and after ten years of voluntary banishment, he resumed his rectory."

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From 'Mathew's American Amoury and Blue Book'

Arms - Or, on a chevron gules three crosses formée of the field.
Crest - Two lances in saltire or, headed argent, with pennons of the first, each charged with a cross formée gules, enfiled with a chaplet vert.
Mottoes - (1) Crux Christi salus mea; (2) Probitatem quam divitias.

From 'General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales'

Peck (co. Derby, and Wakefield, co. York). Ar. on a chev. gu. three crosses formée of the field.

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. 1640 Hannah Peck Hannah Cooper 1525 Robert Aske Jane McCrysten 1550 - 1593 William McCrysten 43 43 [Nick Vetrovec.ged]

First to start using the name Christian, doing away with the Scotishprefixes

MARC: Abt. 1578 Kirk Lezayre, Isle of Man

He was the first deemster to signhis name as "Christian". His name was entered in manorial records in 1568. Hewas also entered in the assessment book taken at Peel in 1569, 1575, and 1577.Hemarried a woman by name of Curwen, Culwen, or Clifton, from Cumberland County,England. (Sounds like a bad tongue-twister) 1558 - 1593 Jane Curwen 35 35 Mary McCrysten 1538 - 1597 Henry Curwen 59 59 1537 Mary Curwen 1454 - 1516 Richard Peck 62 62 [Loren Family.ged]

A copy of the Pedigree of the Peck of Wakefield family is included in a bound volume of pedigrees of Yorkshire families, which is part of the Spencer Stanhope Manuscripts Collection at the West Yorkshire Archive Service, Bradford
ref. SpSt/6/3/15

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. 1478 - 1525 Margery Leeke 47 47 BET 1520 AND 1524 - 1556 Johan (Johun) [Bill Zoucha.ged]

Johan Waters
Sex: F
Birth: ABT 1520 in Beccles parish, Suffolk, England
Death: BEF 31 OCT 1556 in Beccles parish, Suffolk, England
Burial: Beccles Churchyard
forename also spelled "Joan".
Change Date: 8 SEP 2000

Father: John Waters The Elder b: ABT 1490 in Beccles parish, Suffolk, England
Mother: Margaret (Waters)

Marriage 1 Robert Peck b: ABT 1500 in Carlton Colville parish, Suffolk, England
Married: 1540 in Beccles parish, co. Suffolk, England
Children
John Peck b: ABT 1541 in Beccles parish, Suffolk, England
Robert Peck II b: ABT 1543 in Beccles parish, Suffolk, England
Margaret Peck b: ABT 1545 in Beccles parish, Suffolk, England
Thomas Peck b: ABT 1548 in Beccles parish, Suffolk, England
Olive Peck b: ABT 1550 in Beccles parish, Suffolk, England
Anne Peck b: ABT 1552 in Beccles parish, Suffolk, England

Sources:
Text: Gedcom re Peck by [hmtdents@ivic.net] found at[http://www.ancestry.com/main.htm], file no. 32525 (withsources), electronic copy.
Text: Gedcom re Peck by Susan B. Canney [canney@mediaone.net], foundat [http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/] (withsources), electronic copy.

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. 1576 - 1592 Nicholas Peck 16 16 1575 - 1592 Richard Peck 17 17 1579 - 1592 Samuel (Samuell) 13 13 1541 - 1556 John of Beccles Peck 15 15 He was alive when his father wrote his will.  Oct 31, 1556

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. 1510 Katheryn Peck 1548 - 1573 Thomas of Beccles Peck 25 25 1550 - 1592 Olive Peck 42 42 1545 Margaret Peck 1556 - 1556 Anne Peck Do not merge to Joan Peck!!!  There really is a Joan and an Anne.

Joan was described as Joan Meriman in her father's will.  Anne was also mentioned.

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. 1553 William FLETCHER 1533 Elizabeth Wentworth 1506 John V Wentworth 1510 Ann Hastings 1466 Brian Hastings [Six, Wierschke Families & More.ged]

Campsall is Fenwick Court

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. 1465 Agnes Portington 1437 - 1488 Hugh Hastinges 51 51 [Dave Utzinger]

BARONY OF HASTINGS

X.10. SIR HUGH HASTINGES, of Gressenhall, Fenwick, &c., de jure LORD HASTINGS, son and heir, aged 30 and more at his father's death.  Sheriff of co. York, 1479-80.  On 25 May 1484, in reward for his services against the rebels in Buckingham's insurrection, the King granted him the manors of Wells, Warham, Sheringham, and Wiveton, Norfolk, worth £101 6s. 7d. a year, to hold, in taii male, by military service, at a rent of £8 6s 7d. a year.  He married, before 17 April 1455, Anne, daughter of Sir William GASCOIGNE, of Gawthorpe, co. York, by Margaret, daughter of Thomas CLARELLE, of Aldwark in that county.  He died 7 June 1488.  His wife survived him.
[CP 6:361]

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. 1615 - 1660 Mary Blott 45 45 1639 Daniel Blott 1620 - 1694 Joanna Blott 74 74 1631 - 1652 Sarah Blott 21 21 1622 - 1693 Judith Blott 71 71 1625 - 1659 Lydia Blott 34 34 1617 Robert Blott 1480 - BET 25 FEB 1518 AND 1519 Thomas Piggott 1553 - 1594 Jane Hussey 41 41 [Royal Ancestors.ged]

Analysis of Parentage of Jane Hussey.
Jane Hussey is widely accepted and documented as having lived between 1534 and 1584, with William Eaton as her husband. From that point things get murky. Who was her father? Some say Thomas Shepherd. Why Thomas Shepherd? No one has documented how they arrived at this name and why she would have a different name than her father. Other people have listed Rev Christopher Hussey as her father. The problem with this is that he was born after she died, according to her will she died in 1584, and he was born in 1598. Others list other Hussey?s. I am using Thomas Hussey and Bridget Bowes as her parents. The time frame is right and Thomas mother's name was Jane. People frequently named their children after their parents. Jane is a recurring Hussey name. Again it is too early to predict exactly who her parents were without documentation. Someone needs to do the leg work of checking official records in the Hussey areas of England to settle this. For now Thomas and Bridget are the best bet. Thomas Shepherd can not be ruled out. However, the probability that he was her father is much lower that some one with the name of Hussey. Of course there is the chance that she married a Hussey and was windowed. If so who and why do we have her fathers name and not her dead husbands name. It does not make sense. Thomas Hussey and Bridget Bowes makes more sense.
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The following sources list Jane Hussey as the wife of William Eaton and mother of Peter Eaton. The confusion with Thomas Shepherd arises out the mismatch of Elizabeth Shepherd as William Eaton's wife. The probability of Jane, William and Peter being as I have them here is higher then the alleged Shepherd linkage which has no source origin other than the internet.

Title: History Genealogical and Biographical of the Eaton Families by Nellie Zada Rice Molyneux. Pub. 1911
Page: page 101-104, 273

Title: Dow, Ball, Eaton and Allied Families, Grace Ann (Ball) Dow. Pub 1943 (NEHGR lending library)
Page: p. 67 1500 - 1596 Jane Pigott 96 96 1500 Giles De Hussey [John Knowlton]

Name Prefix: Sir
Ancestral File Number: 15F4-TK3
Sir Giles HUSSEY of Caythorp,Knto, Knighted by Earl of Surrey at the
Sacking of Morlaix in France 1522.
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Giles, who was born about 1505, was knighted by the Earl of Surrey at the sacking of Moraix in 1522.  He was the steward to the Earl of Northumberland, and was implicated in the Rising of the Norther Earls, for which he was put on trial at Durham Assizes in 1570.
He married Jane, fourth daughter of Thomas Pigot.  She was co heiress of him and her uncle, Sir Randolph Pigot of Clotheram in county York, She married second, Thomas Falkingham of Northall, near Leeds.  She was buried in St Peter's, Leeds, 29 Oct 1597.

Giles Hussey, son of John Hussey and Margaret Blount Barr Hussey, was born about 1500 at Sleaford, Lincolnshire.  He was knighted by the Earl of Surrey at the Battle of Morlaix in France in July, 1522, according to "Lincolnshire Pedigrees."  The battle occurred at the French town, about five miles from the English channel, during the Hundred Years War, and he returned home in October 1522.  He was appointed peace commissioner at Kesteven, Lincolnshire in 1523, according to "Calendar of State Papers."
He and his father were appointed on the commission of sewers for Lincolnshire in March, 1524.  Giles Hussey was married about 1525 to Jane Pigott, daughter of Thomas Pigott of Clotherham, Yorkshire.  He was mentioned in the will of Thomas Cappe of Normanton, Lincolnshire written April 2, 1530, according to "Lincoln Wills."  He was appointed co-executor of the will of Anne Grey Hussey, his step-mother.

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. 1465 - 1513 Thomas Pigot 48 48 BET 1516 AND 1526 Thomas Hussey BET 1522 AND 1526 - 1575 Bridget Bowes 1597 Joseop Hussey 1552 Elizabeth Stuydolf 1551 George Hussey 1524 - 1577 Anne Folkingham 53 53 1500 - 1593 Thomas Folkingham 93 93 1490 - 1531 Margaret Pigott 41 41 1575 - 1650 Mary WOOD OR (WOODIN) 75 75 1620 Mary Bernard 1595 - 1637 Rebecca Clark 42 42 [Sharen Neal.ged]

From http://members.tripod.com/~rturnblo/ , rturnb@aol.com

******** 1582 - 1665 John Black 83 83 1439 - 1464 William XI Gascoigne 25 25 1398 - 1466 William Gascoigne 68 68 1397 Margaret Clarelle 1426 Robert Gascoigne [Kirk Larson.ged]

REFN: HWS19038
Ancestral File Number:<AFN> 96TP-MG 1428 John Gascoigne [Kirk Larson.ged]

REFN: HWS19039
Ancestral File Number:<AFN> 96TP-NM 1428 - 1462 Jane Gascon 34 34 1430 - 1486 Ralph Gascoigne 56 56 [Kirk Larson.ged]

REFN: HWS19041
Ancestral File Number:<AFN> 96TP-PS 1434 Amy Gascoigne [Kirk Larson.ged]

REFN: HWS19042
Ancestral File Number:<AFN> 96TP-R5 1436 Anne Gascoigne 1438 Margaret Gascoigne [Kirk Larson.ged]

REFN: HWS19044
Ancestral File Number:<AFN> 96TP-TH 1460 - 1515 Henry Vavasour 55 55 [Kirk Larson.ged]

Name Prefix: Sir.
Name Suffix: Knight 1421 - 1500 Henry Vavasour 79 79 1580 John Blott 1508 - 1556 Robert of Beccles Peke 48 48 [Loren Family.ged]

In the Cholmondeley of Cholmondeley Family Collection at the Cheshire and Chester Archives and Local Studies Service there are deeds for properties in both Suffolk and Yorkshire mentioning members of the Pek family.
Ref.  DCH/O/50
1547, 1552 and 12 February 1568

31 October 1556 - the will of Robert Peck of Beccles, co. Suffolk, England...
My body to be buried in the churchyard of Beccles, near unto the grave of Joan, my wife.
To every one of my household servants 12d.
To John Peck my son, my messuage wherein I dwell and my tenement "late Mayster Rede" and the two meadows lying next the meadow in the tenor of Mathew Prynte and my little garden "late Philippe Doddes," my close "sometyme Helyn Churches," my "fryttlell as the further Wynde Myll late Richard Tyde, " and three acres of land "late William Marshes" upon condition that he shall pay to Thomas Pecke, my sons, and to my three daughters Margaret, Olyve, and Anne.
To Robard Pecke, my son, my other two meadows in Barstun (?Barsham) "late Churchmans" and the meadows late "Doctor Rede sometyme Baldewyns," my close at Ingate church, one acre of land "late Tyde at Ingatefelds" and the "three roode acres called Bells acre."
To Thomas Pecke, my son, my two tenements I purchased of John Walter and my tenter yard.
To my daughters Margaret, Olyve, and Anne, to each £6.13s.4d.
To every one of John Water's and William Water's children 4d.
To every one of my godchildren 4d.
Executors: Richard Crampton and Thomas Hagas.
Supervisors: John Waters and Robert Bradley.
My little "pyctell called Caves pyctell" lying in Ingate shall be sold.
To Joan Meriman, my daughter, a gown and a petticoat that were her mother's and the worser paire of Corall beads."
Witnesses: Sir John Bymbyn, Robert Tower, Robert Grene, Thomas Goodwyn, and John Waters.
Proved 20 November 1556."

[Bill Zoucha.ged]

Note: Lineage.
Perhaps born abt 1508; Robert Peck was from the branch of the family that lived in Halesworth and South Elmham, both in Suffolk county.  He was born in the vicinity of Beccles, moving into the town in 1525.  In 1529 he was made executor of his grandfather, John Leeke's will, making him at least twenty one at that time, so he was probably born as early as 1500; was a church warden of Beccles at one time; his will, written 30 Oct 1556 and proved 20 Nov 1556 in the Archdeaconry Court of Suffolk, left considerable bequests to sons John, Thomas and Robert, and to daughters Margaret, Olyve and Anne, and daughter Johan Meriman, and requested he be buried in the Beccles Churchyard next to his wife Johan's grave.

Beccles is an important parish in the northeastern part of Suffolk, 41 miles northeast from Ipswich.  It is situated onthe River Waveney, which winds in a north easterly direction towards the North Sea and separates the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk.  The parish church, dedicated to St. Michael, stands on a point of land overlooking the meadows through which the Waveney flows.  The church was built about 1369 and it's tower completed about 1515.

Text: vol.94, pp.71-73

Sources:
Type: Periodical
Author: New England Historical and Genealogical Society, Boston, MA
Periodical: The New England Historical and Genealogical Register
Date: vols. 1-148 on compact discs in DMVD library

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. 1493 - 1575 Joan AUNE (ANNE) 82 82 1458 - 1498 Alice Middleton 40 40 1482 Margaret Peck 1486 Elizabeth Peck 1497 Isabella Peck [Kirk Larson.ged]

REFN: HWS100154
Ancestral File Number:<AFN> 8MHM-G5
[Kirk Larson.ged]

REFN: HWS100162
Ancestral File Number:<AFN> 963J-2K 1476 - 1525 Henry of Carletown Peke 49 49 [Loren Family]

Henry styled himself as Henry Peke of "Carletown", and requested to be buried in the churchyard at St Peter in "Charletown".  He left his house and lands to his wife Margery during her lifetime, and after her death, to his son Robert, with bequests to his daughter Kateryn.

The parish of Carlton Coville in Suffolk is located on the North Sea on the most easterly point of land in England.  It is about three and a half miles southwest of Lowestoft, and in an easterly direction from Beccles.

Did Henry receive Carlton Colville through his own family or by marriage to Margery Leeke?  He died before his wife and father-in-law.

[Bill Zoucha.ged]

Note: Lineage.
In his will, written 16 Apr 1525 and proved Nov 1525 at Carlton Colville, he styled himself as Henry Peke of "Carletown"(Carlton Colville), and requested he be buried in the churchyard at St. Peter in "Charletown".  He left his house and lands to his wife Margery during her lifetime, and after her death, to his son Robert, with bequests to his daugher Kateryn.
The parish of Carlton Coville in Suffolk County is located on the North Sea on the most easterly point of land in England.  It is about three and one half miles southwest of Lowestoft, and in an easterly direction from Beccles.

Note: A continuation of this Peck line goes back to 1126, but in the connection to this Henry Peck, the source has his birth as1496, and without references, is therefore somewhat suspect (DMVD).

Sources:
Type: Periodical
Author: New England Historical and Genealogical Society, Boston, MA
Periodical: The New England Historical and Genealogical Register
Date: vols. 1-148 on compact discs in DMVD library
Text: vol.91, pp.8-9

Note: Much of the material in source 499 comes from a long series in the NEHGR starting in vol.89, p.327.

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. 1490 - 1527 John Peck 37 37 1516 Francis Peck [Kirk Larson.ged]

REFN: HWS100164
Ancestral File Number:<AFN> 963J-K5 1510 - 1540 Joan Anne 30 30 1543 - 1556 Joan (Johan) 13 13 Do not merge to Anne Peck!!!  There really is a Joan and an Anne.

Joan was described as Joan Meriman in her father's will.  Anne was also mentioned.

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. 1506 Richard Peck 1508 - 1558 John Peck 50 50 1510 Thomas Peck 1512 Ralph Peck 1514 - 1578 Nicholas Peck 64 64 1520 Katherine Peck 1536 Margaret Peck [Kirk Larson.ged]

REFN: HWS100174
Ancestral File Number:<AFN> 9N24-2R 1524 Ann Peck 1526 Dorothy Peck 1499 Anne Peck [Kirk Larson.ged]

REFN: HWS100163
Ancestral File Number:<AFN> 963J-4W 1525 William Peck 1530 Elizabeth Peck 1426 - 1499 Peter Middleton 73 73 1454 Margaret Vavasour 1465 William Middleton [Kirk Larson.ged]

REFN: HWS100274
Ancestral File Number:<AFN> 9GFX-P3 1474 Anne Middelton [Kirk Larson.ged]

REFN: HWS100628
Ancestral File Number:<AFN> 9FGR-ZS 1464 John Preston [Kirk Larson.ged]

REFN: HWS121941
Ancestral File Number:<AFN> LJ6X-52 1578 William Blott 1586 Elizabeth Blott 1588 Mary Blott 1590 Alice Blott Edith Blott 1594 Joane Blott 1582 - 1660 Susanna Freeman 78 78 1506 - 1540 Elizabeth Blount 34 34 1525 Giles Parker 1500 - 1546 Edmund Parker 46 46 1505 - 1584 Elizabeth Jennett Redmayne 79 79 1473 - 1530 John Redmayne 57 57 1530 Margaret 1527 Robert Parker 1530 Jennett Parker 1532 Elizabeth Parker 1482 - 1546 Elizabeth Parker 64 64 1465 Agnes Gascoigne 1465 Elizabeth Gascoigne 1465 Humphrey Gascoigne 1465 Joan Gascoigne 1465 John Gascoigne 1460 Margaret Gascoigne D. 1521 Anne Warde D. 1521 Christopher Warde 1586 - 1644 Jane Woods 58 58 1617 - 1652 Margaret Christian 35 35 1622 - 1694 Jane Christian 72 72 1554 Agnes Curwen 1556 - 1624 Mabel Christian 68 68 1550 Nicholas Curwen 1525 Margaret Fairfax 1504 - 1571 Nicholas Fairfax 67 67 1475 - 1520 Thomas Fairfax 45 45 1501 Jane Palmes 1474 - 1504 Agnes Fairfax 30 30 William Fairfax 1562 - 1589 Robert Jordan 27 27 1551 Elizabeth Hussey 1555 John Hussey 1507 - 1579 Katherine PECK 72 72 1507 - 1559 Launcelot LAKE 52 52 1508 - 1538 John LAKE 30 30 1451 - 1524 Catherine Vavasour 73 73 1454 Agnes Langton 1430 Elianora (Anne) Gascoigne 1457 Mary Langton 1556 - 1624 Sarah Winter 68 68 1558 Mary Winter 1468 John Langton 1470 Isabella Coigners 1528 Eleanor Taillebois 1524 - 1540 George Taillebois 16 16 1526 - 1541 Robert Taillebois 15 15 1495 - 1530 Gilbert Taillebois 35 35 1560 - 1640 Thomas Baron of Fairfax 80 80 1540 - 1556 Margaret Peck 16 16 She was alive when her fathers will was written.

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. 1552 Richard Nott 1539 Richard Merriman 1548 Richard Nott 1493 Anne Gascoigne 1479 Anne Gascoigne 1514 Dorothy Gascoigne 1478 Elinor Gascoigne 1496 Elizabeth Gascoigne 1516 - 1559 Elizabeth Gascoigne 43 43 1500 George Gascoigne 1502 Henry Gascoigne 1460 Isabel GASCOIGNE 1481 Joan Gascoigne 1468 John Gascoigne 1495 Margaret Gascoigne 1498 Marmaduke Gascoigne 1483 Maude Gascoigne 1467 Mrs- Bridget Gascoigne 1450 - 1509 Thomas Gascoigne 59 59 1469 Maude Lynley 1476 - 1523 Margaret Neville 47 47 1468 Ralph Ogle 1474 Ninian Markenfield 1477 Ralph Neville 1493 Thomas Middelton 1494 Robert Ryther 1505 Jane Redmayne 1504 Elizabeth Boynton 1502 Eleanor Markenfield D. 1622 Elizabeth Hayward Thomas Morgan 1445 Ellen Gascoigne 1470 Margaret Redmayne 1445 Richard Redmayne 1558 - 1630 Francis Bernard 72 72 BET 1528 AND 1530 - 1602 Francis I Bernard 1473 Anne Hastings 1478 Catherine Hastings 1458 Charles Hastings 1462 Edward Hastings 1475 Elizabeth Hastings 1474 - 1511 George Hastings 37 37 1456 - 1482 Isabel Hastings 26 26 1468 Jane Hastings 1466 John Hastings 1471 Margaret Hastings 1457 Muriel Hastings 1460 Robert Hastings 1502 - 1556 John Hazelwood 54 54 [Jim Weber.ged]

RD500 has John's wife as Alice Gascoigne, while MCA (Richardson) & PA2 (Faris) has his wife as Alice Marmion.  On SGM, I see references to both, with neither side being particularly favored.  Although, perhaps because a better known ancestry is available through Alice Gascoigne, more posters on SGM seem to use the Gascoigne line.

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. 1432 John Langton 1443 Joan Neville 1445 - BET 1486 AND 1487 William XI Gascoigne BET 1425 AND 1464 - BET 1475 AND 1546 Margaret (Margery) Percy 1483 - 1559 Elizabeth Tailboys 76 76 1467 - 1551 William XII Gascoigne 84 84 1469 Thomas Gascoigne 1473 - 1515 Margaret Gascoigne 42 42 1477 - 1585 Dorothy Gascoigne 108 108 1471 Alicia Frognall 1583 - 1586 Mary Woodhouse 3 3 1535 - 1612 Alice Hazelwood 77 77 1508 - 1573 Alice Gascoigne 65 65 1627 - 1697 Bartholomew Barnard 70 70 1601 John Barnard 1590 Dorothy Frances 1558 - 1606 Alice Chibnall 48 48 1575 - 1602 John Bernard 27 27 1547 Catherine Bernard 1566 Prudence Bernard 1605 - 1666 Robert Bart Bernard 61 61 1562 Dorothy Bernard 1568 - 1613 Richard Barnard 45 45 1552 Margaret Barnard 1551 Anne Bernard 1549 Jane Bernard 1615 - 1651 Thomas BERNARD 36 36 [Robert Gannon.ged]

Ancestral File Number: 127Q-SWM

[Mosher Family Lines.ged]

Note: Immigrant to VA 1638 Charles City Co. Thomas Bernard, Gent.,was granted 1650 acres of land in Warwick River Co. between Aug. 1637andSept. 24, 1645.
(Cavaliers and Pioneers, Patent BK. No. 1, pp ___,127and BK. 2, p. 159

Note Source: world tree project: smith-taylor and allied families STAFA
Note: He served in the House of Burgess of Virgina; Stanly Hundred for 1632 and Warwick River for 1641/42 and 1644/45.

Note Source: world tree project: Pruitt-Johnson-Hooe-Wanstall
Note: He owned land in the area which later became Warwick Co., Virginia, by 1631.  He was apparently living in Virginia by February 16,1623, at Flowerdieu Hundred.  On January 30, 1641, he was granted 189acres of land in James City County.  He patented 1050 acres on December16, 1641.  He was burgess for Stanley Hundred, 1682; and burgess for Warwick River, 1641-1642; 1644-1645.

... 1555 - 1648 Thomas Bernard 93 93 1560 Magdalen Bernard 1570 Elizabeth Bernard [David V. Hughey.ged]

Was there an earlier Elizabeth Bernard (b. 1558 in Abington, Northamptonshire, England)?  If so, she died prior to 1570 when the second Elizabeth Bernard was born.

... 1554 - 1610 Baldwin Bernard 56 56 1635 - 1711 John Hussey 76 76 1646 Huldah Hussey 1640 - 1649 Theodate Hussey 9 9 1493 - 1575 Joan AUNE (ANNE) 82 82 1504 William XIII Gascoigne 1550 Edward Parker 1548 Elizabeth Parker Generated by GenoPro®. Click here for details.