PECK, Reverend Jeremiah

1623 - 1699  (76 years)  Submit Photo / Document

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• Name	PECK, Jeremiah
  Prefix	Reverend
  Birth	1623	London, Middlesex, England
  Gender	Male
  Death	7 Jun 1699	Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
  Burial	7 Jun 1699	Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
  WAC	25 Feb 1886	LOGAN   [1]
  _TAG	Reviewed on FS
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  Person ID	I14667	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2021

  
  

  Father	PECK, Deacon William ,   b. Bef 29 Dec 1601, London, England London, Englandd. 5 Dec 1694, Lyme, New London, Connecticut, United States (Age > 92 years)
  Mother	HOLT, Elizabeth Sarah ,   b. 1608, London, Middlesex, England London, Middlesex, Englandd. 5 Dec 1683, Lyme, New London, Connecticut, United States (Age 75 years)
  Marriage	1622	London, Middlesex, England
  Family ID	F7914	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	KITCHELL, Joanna ,   c. 27 May 1638, Rolvenden, Kent, EnglandRolvenden, Kent, England d. 1711, Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut, United States (Age ~ 72 years)
  Marriage	12 Nov 1656	Colony of Connecticut, British Colonial America
  Family ID	F7913	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

• Notes

  According to a treatise on the genealogiy of William Peck written around 1877 (Jeremiah Peck's father and founder of New Haven, Connecticut), ".....JEEEMIAH (6) was born in the city of London, England, or its vicinity, in 1623, from whence, in 1637, he came with his father to this country. Little is known of his early history, except that he had a good education, acquired in part before he left England. He is said by Cotton Mather to have been bred at Harvard College, but, though probably a student, his name does not appear in the catalogue of the graduates of that institution. He married Johannah Kitchell, a daughter of Robert Kitchell,^ of Guilford, Conn., Nov. 12, 1656. He was then, and for some time previously had been, preaching or teaching school at Guilford, and he continued to be thus engaged until 1660, when he was invited to take charge of the Collegiate school at New Haven, Conn. This was a colony school, and had been instituted by the General Court, in 1659. It was open to students from other colonies, and in it were to be taught Latin, Greek and Hebrew, and young men fitted for college. He accepted the invitation, and removing from Guilford to New Haven, entered upon his duties as its instructor and continued to discharge the same until the summer of 1661, when the school was temporarily suspended for want of adequate support. It was revived, however, after a few years, and has continued and flourished until the present day under the name of the Hopkins Grammar School. In the autumn of 1661 he was invited to preach at Saybrook, Conn., where tliere is much reason to suppose that he was ordained, and where he settled as a minister, succeeding Rev. James Fitch ....."

  
  

• Sources

  [S419] Larson: Genealogical Research of Bryan Scott Larson, 12 Mar 2010, Information from telephone communication with Michael Marcrum 12 Mar 2010. (Reliability: 3).