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PECK, Abiel

Male 1730 - 1802  (72 years)

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  • Name PECK, Abiel   [1] 
    Birth 19 May 1730  Attleboro, Bristol County, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death 16 Dec 1802  Hopewell, Albert County, New Brunswick, CANADA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Burial Hopewell, Albert County, New Brunswick, CANADA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I002681  Kyle and Related Families
    Last Modified 14 Jul 2016 

    Father PECK, John,   b. 13 Oct 1700, Attleboro, Bristol County, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 22 Mar 1729/30, Attleboro, Bristol County, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 29 years) 
    Mother RICHARDSON, Rebeckah,   b. 28 Feb 1696/97, Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage 26 May 1724 
    Family ID F00580  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family SKINNER, Ruth,   b. Bef 1727, Attleboro, Bristol County, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage 11 Jul 1751  Attleboro, Bristol County, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 

    Children 
     1. PECK, Ezra,   b. 12 Jan 1751/52, Attleboro, Bristol County, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 13 Jan 1751/52, Attleboro, Bristol County, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 0 years)  [Father: Natural]  [Mother: Natural]
     2. PECK, Abiel,   b. 1 Jan 1753, Attleboro, Bristol County, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 Dec 1754, Attleboro, Bristol County, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 1 year)
     3. PECK, Rachel,   b. 6 May 1754, Attleboro, Bristol County, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 5 Nov 1803 (Age 49 years)
     4. PECK, Abiel,   b. 15 May 1756, Attleboro, Bristol County, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    +5. PECK, Rebecca,   b. 7 Aug 1758, Attleboro, Bristol County, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1850, Hopewell, Albert County, New Brunswick, CANADA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 91 years)
     6. PECK, Ruth,   b. 14 Feb 1701, Attleboro, Bristol County, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 1781, Hopewell, Albert County, New Brunswick, CANADA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 79 years)
     7. PECK, Lois,   b. 1762, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, CANADA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1826 (Age 64 years)
     8. PECK, Elisha,   b. 1763, Sackville, Westmorland County, New Brunswick, CANADA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Dec 1846, Hopewell, Albert County, New Brunswick, CANADA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 83 years)  [Father: Natural]  [Mother: Natural]
     9. PECK, Thomas,   b. 1767, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, CANADA Find all individuals with events at this location
     10. PECK, Rhoda,   b. 1760, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, CANADA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1857 (Age 97 years)
     11. PECK, Nancy,   b. 1772, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, CANADA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID F00578  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 7 Mar 2018 

  • Sources 
    1. [S0083] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index (R), (Copyright (c) 1980, 2002, data as of January 3, 2003).

    2. [S0044] Daniel F. Johnson, Vital Statistics from New Brunswick Newspapers, Volume 89 Number 2560.
      Date March 27 1893
      County Saint John
      Place Saint John
      Newspaper The Daily Sun

      Hopewell (Albert Co.) Sketch of Old Shepody - The Peck grant was taken up by Abiel PECK, great-great grandson of Joseph PECK who emigrated from England to Attleboro, Mass. in the year 1636. Abiel Peck was born in 1730 and married Ruth SKINNER of Attleboro. He came to Cumberland at the time of the Revolution and shortly after to Shepody where he obtained a large tract of land from the government said to contain 6,000 acres. The most of this land is still owned by the Peck family. A tombstone in the old Peck burying ground bears this inscription 'Here lies interred the body of Abiel Peck, a native of Boston, and one of the first settlers of this place, who, on the 16th of Dec., 1802, unfortunately perished in a boat, in the 73rd year of his age, leaving upwards of three score descendants to lament his melancholy fate.' During his life the country was a comaparative wilderness with no roads nor means of communication with the different settlements along the shore, except by water. It was upon one of these occasions, while attempting to cross the Bay from Dorchester to his own place in an open boat, that he lost his life. The boat was picked up in a cove near the Joggin, now known as Peck's Cove. The elder Peck had eleven children. One of these, Rachel PECK, married Thomas CALHOUN, grandfather of George CALHOUN, now Registrar of Deeds for Albert Co. The grant was for the most part divided among his immediate family, the last side of the grant, when he had first settled himself, being given to his son Abiel. The next lot, the only one that went outside of the family, was sold to David HOAR from Colchester, N.S. The next farms were occupied by his sons Elisha PECK and Thomas PECK and his sons-in-law, Nicholas PEARSON, John EDGETT, Oliver STILES and Joel EDGETT.

    3. [S1171] Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850, (New England Historic Genealogical Society).
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