John PECKHAM

1671 - 1722  (50 years)

• Name	John PECKHAM  [1, 2]
  	In 1714 he sold the land that had been willed to his minor son Joseph, by Joseph Bennett. In 1712 he signed in the administration of the estate of his uncle, James. He lived on the acres inherited from his father. For many years he was elected deputy to the legislature from Little Compton. After 1703 he was not returned. Family tradition says that he and his wife are buried in the Peckham burial ground on the old farm in Little Compton, but he was a Quaker, and according to the Friends record: "John Peckom of Seconnet aged, he departed this lif at his own house in Seconnet, the 4 day of ye 10 month 1722 and was bureyed in Friends bureying place neare the meeting house in Seconnet." His will, recorded in Little Compton wills, book 4, page 159, made 1 Dec 1722 and proved 7 Jan. 1722/3: "To wife Mary Peckham four cows and the use of the west chamber in the west end of my dwelling house. To son John 40 shillings. to son Joseph west end of dwelling house and all land west of the highway where I now live, bounded west by the highway east by the highway, north by Ezek Carr and Mr. Richard Billings, and south by David Hilliard and highway. Part of land east of highway where I now live from the east end of stone wall by great swamp, north land of Richard Billings, south on Indian Bridge so called and south by highway. To son Reuben Peckham remainder of lands east of highway by my house and meadow land, the eighteenth and nineteenth lots at Barker's Neck. To three children, Lydia, Margaret and Ruth, 20 pounds each." [1]
  Birth	19 Jun 1671	Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, USA   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	1722	Little Compton, Newport County, Rhode Island   [1, 2]
  Person ID	I71695	Main Tree
  Last Modified	7 Dec 2020

  
  

  Father	John PECKHAM
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Sarah NEWPORT
  Relationship	Birth
  Marriage	1667  [1, 2]
  Family ID	F29024	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary BENNETT,   b. 1671, Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, USA d. 1756 (Age 85 years)
  Marriage	6 Jun 1696  [1, 2]
  Children	1. Joseph PECKHAM,   b. 18 Feb 1702, Little Compton, Newport County, Rhode Island d. 8 Oct 1780, Little Compton, Newport County, Rhode Island (Age 78 years)  [Birth]
  Family ID	F29023	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	23 Sep 2020

  
  

• Event Map

  Death - 1722 - Little Compton, Newport County, Rhode Island  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S5383] "Little Compton Families" Vol. II, Little Compton, Rhode Island. [S12061] Stephen Farnum Peckham, 1922, Peckham Genealogy: The English Ancestors & American Descendants of John Peckham of Newport, Rhode Island, 1630.