Image: Headstone Capt Samuel Peck Rehoboth Massachusetts

Description: Tombstone of Capt. Samuel Peck, Palmer's River churchyard, Rehoboth, Massachusetts. Capt. Peck was born at Hingham, Massachusetts, the son of Joseph Peck, brother of the Rev. Robert Peck, first teacher at the congregation of Old Ship Church. Capt. Peck was baptized February 3, 1638, at Hingham by the Rev. Peter Hobart and by Rev. Robert Peck, his uncle. Samuel Peck removed with his father Joseph to Seekonk. Capt. Samuel Peck later served as a representative to the Massachusetts General Court, deacon of the church, Deputy of the General Court at Plymouth in 1689 and 1692, as well as the first representative to the General Court from Rehoboth after Plymouth Colony and Massachusetts were united. Capt. Peck's sister Elizabeth was the second wife of her cousin Capt. Samuel Mason, son of Capt. John Mason, soldier in the Pequot War and Deputy Governor of Connecticut
Title: Headstone Capt Samuel Peck Rehoboth Massachusetts
Credit: A Genealogical History of the Descendants of Joseph Peck: Who Emigrated with HIs Family to This Country in 1638; and Records of His Father's and Grandfather's Families in England, and Records of His Father's and Grandfather's Families in England with the Pedigree Extending Back from Son to Father for Twenty Generations, with their Coat of Arms and Copies of Wills," Ira Ballou Peck, Alfred Mudge & Son, Boston, 1868" [1]
Author: Ira Ballou Peck, author of volume; creator of image is unknown
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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