His surname was often written by him, and by his oldest son, Rev. Jeremiah Peck, with a final "e", but it was dropped in the latter part of their lives.
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. [1, 2]
He arrived in Boston on board the Hector in the company of Governor Eaton and the Rev. Davenport. This company was principally from the city of London, where Mr. Davenport had been a celebrated minister, and consisted of many wealthy merchants, and others of great respectability from London, and of farmers from Yorkshire, Hertfordshire and Kent, and some from Surrey and Sussex. They had suffered much from the intolerance and persecution of Archbishop Laud during the reign of Charles I., and the object of their emigration was the unmolested enjoyment of civil and religious liberty.
His grave is in that part of the old burial ground, now under Centre Church in New Haven. His gravestone was moved to the new cemetery in the northern part of the town in 1821.
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Elizabethd. 5 Dec 1683, New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut
1. Rev. Jeremiah Peck, b. 1623, London, England d. 7 Jan 1699, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. (Age 76 years) [Father: Birth] [Mother: Birth]
2. Lt. John Peck, b. 1638, New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut d. 1724, Wallingford, New Haven County, Connecticut (Age 86 years) [Father: Birth] [Mother: Birth]
3. Joseph Peck, b. Jan 1641, New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut d. 25 Nov 1718, Lyme, New London County, Connecticut (Age 77 years) [Father: Birth] [Mother: Birth]
4. Elizabeth Peck, b. Apr 1643, New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut [Father: Birth] [Mother: Birth]
[S769] Peck, Darius. A Genealogical Account of the Descendants in the Male Line of William Peck, one of the Founders in 1638 of the Colony of New Haven, Conn, (Hudson, New York: Bryan, Bryan & Goeltz Steam Book Printers, 1877).
[S768] Selleck, William Edwin. Selleck and Peck Genealogy, (Chicago: privately printed, 1912).