Rev. Jeremiah Peck1

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Family

Joanna Kitchell b. s 1637
Marriage*He married Joanna Kitchell, daughter of Robert Kitchell and Margaret Sheaffe.1 
1666/67He of Milford was a signer of The Newark Covenant in 1666/67; The Newark Covenant.2,3 
2 December 1679In Margaret Sheaffe's will dated 2 December 1679, Rev. Jeremiah Peck was named as executor; reference also to six unnamed children.4 

Citations

  1. [S1145] Walter K. Watkins, "Some Guilford, Conn., Settlers and Their Relationship, or the Sheafe Family In England and New England", New England Historical and Genealogical Register 53 (April 1901): 213–214. Hereinafter cited as Sheafe Family of Guilford.
  2. [S928] William H Shaw, compiler, History of Essex and Hudson Counties, New Jersey (Philadelphia: Everts & Peck, 1884), I:372–381.
    The covenant came after years of planning and negotiating by New Haven Colony dissidents opposed to the union with the Connecticut Colony. The covenant was first signed, on 30 Oct 1666, by the Branford members, twenty-three in number:
    1. Jasper Crane 13. Ebenezer Camfield
    2. Abra. Peirson.      14. John Ward, Senior
    3. Sam'l Swaine      15. Ed. Ball
    4. Laurance Ward      16. John Harrison
    6. Thomas Blacthly* 17. John Crane
    6. Samuel Plum      18. Thos. Huntington
    7. .losiah Ward      19. Delivered Crane
    8. Samuel Rose      20. Aaron Blacthly
    9. Thomas Peirson      21. Richard Laurence
    10. John Warde      22. John Johnson
    11. John Catling      23. Thomas L. Lyon [his mark]
    12. Richard Harrison

    This was followed on 24 Jun 1667 by the subscription to the document by forty-one members from Milford:
    1. Robert Treat.          22. Thom. Johnson          
    2. Obadiah Bruen.          23. John Curtis.          
    3. Matthew Camfield     24. Ephraim Burwell.               
    4. Samuell Kitchell          25. Robert R. Dennison. [his mark]          
    5. Jeremiah Pecke          26. Nathaniel Wheeler.          
    6. Michael Tompkins     27. Zachariah Burwell.
    7. Stephen Freeman 28. William Campe.
    8. Henry Lyon,          29. Joseph Walters.          
    9. John Browne          30. Robert Dalglish.               
    10. John Rutgers [Rogers].     31. Hauns Albers.          
    11. Stephen Davis.          32. Thomas Morris.          
    12. Edward Rigs.          33. Hugh Roberts.          
    13. Robert Kitchell           34. Eph'm Pennington          
    14. J. n. Brooks [his mark].     35. Martin Tichenor          
    15. Robert v. Lymens. [his mark] 36. John Browne, Jr               
    16. Francis f. Linle. [his mark]     37 Jona. Seargeant.          
    17. Daniel Tichenor.     38. Azariah Crane               
    18. John Bauldwin, Sen.     39. Samuel Lyon.
    19. John Bauldwin, Jr. 40. Joseph Riggs.
    20. Jona. Timipkins. 41. Stephen Bond
    21. Geo. Day     

    The document read thus:
    "1st. - That none shall lie admitted freemen or free Burgesses within our Town upon Passaick River, in the Province of Jersey, but such Planters as are members of some or other of the Congregational Churches, nor shall any but such be chosen to Magistracy or to Carry on any part of said Civil Judicature, or as deputies or assistants, to have power to Vote in establishing Laws, and making or repealing them, or to any Chief Military Trust or Office. Nor shall any But such Church Members have any Vote in such election. Tho all others admitted to be planters have right to their proper Inheritance, and do and shall enjoy all other Civil Liberties, Privileges, according to all Laws, Orders, Grants which are, or hereafter shall be made for this Town."

                   
  3. [S1084] Francis Bazley Lee, editor, Genealogical and Memorial History of the State of New Jersey (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1910), I:243. General description of the removal to New Jersey by those in Branford and Milford.
  4. [S1148] Abstract of Probate Records at Fairfield, County of Fairfield, and State of Connecticut [transcription], transcribed by Geri Ryerson K., online www.ctgenweb.org,
    KITCHELL, Margaret, late of Greenwich, widow of Robert Kitchell, will dated Dec. 2, 1679, probated Nov. 6, 1682, mentioned her son Kitchell and daughter Peck, and six more children not named, and legacy to one of the four children of her son Samuel. Overseers Joshua Knapp, Sr., and John Reynolds, both of Greenwich.
    Witnesses John Bowers and Jeremiah Ferris, both of Greenwich, page 84.
    Nov. 6, 1782, Jeremiah Peck appointed executor, and Jeremiah Peck, Joshua Knapp, Sr., and John Reynolds, Sr., of Greenwich, administrators, page 85.
    Inventory taken May 16, 1682, by John Bowers and Joshua Knapp, and filed Nov. 6, 1682, page 85.
    Mch. 14, 1682/3, differences having arisen as to the distribution of the estate, Samuel Kitchell of Norwalk and Jeremiah Peck of Greenwich, referred the settlement of said estate to John Banks, Lieut. Cornelius Hull, Ensign Robert Turney, Josiah Harvy, and Samuel Eells, who decided that the grandchildren of Robert Kitchell, who are legatees under his will were those in being at the time of his death, and estate distributed accordingly, page 89.