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John PECK |
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(1) |
| Born |
Abt 1279 |
Bolton, Lancashire, England  |
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Male |
| Person ID |
I12418 |
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| Last Modified |
15 Nov 2015 |
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- [S223] Rhode Island Reading Room, Various, http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rigenweb/article.
- [S223] Rhode Island Reading Room, Various, http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rigenweb/article.
The surname Peck is local in dirivation and signifies literally 'at the peck', i. e., at the hilltop. The form of the word in medieval English is pek, 'the hul of the pek' meaning in the Derbyshire dialect 'the hill of the peak'. Another variant of the name which preserves completely the original form is Peak. The first mention of the name on authentic records occurs as early as the thirteenth century, when we find the name of John del Pek, London, in the Hundred Rolls, 1273. The Pecks boast an ancient and honorable lineage, and from the pedigree of the English family, to be found in the British Museum in London, it has been established definitely that Joseph Peck, the immigrant ancestor of the American family herein under consideration, was of the twenty-first generation in direct descent from John Peck, Esquire, of Belton, Yorkshire, was baptized in England on April 30, 1587, and emigrated to America at the age of fifty years.
The following certificate of the Heralds accompanies the pedigree and arms of the Peck family in the British Museum in London:
'20 Nov. 1620.
Visum agnitum et in munimenta Collegii Heraldoru relatum die et anno suprascriptis. Tesamur hoc.
Henry St. George, Richmond.
Henry Chitting, Chester.
John Philpott, Rouge Dragon.
This letter testifies in Latin, in which all offical documents of the time were written, that the undersigned men have seen, examined and acknowledged to be true the given pedigree and arms.
The American branches of this ancient English family form one of the largest, most influential and noteworthy of New England families of early Colonial date. Descendants of the original Peck immigrants have figured notably in the history of practically every New England city of importance since the middle of the seventeenth century. The late John Davis Peck, founder and head of the John D. Peck Hay & Grain Company, and one of the best known and ablest business men of Providence, R. I., for many decades prior to his death in 1919 was a member of the old Rehoboth branch of the Massachusetts Pecks, and a descendant in the eighth generation of Joseph Peck, the founder.
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