The history of Waterbury, Connecticut - citizen hylbom blog

170 mSTOKY OF WATEEBUET.
library. They are sixteen in number, all of them of a relig-
ious character. His house and house lot he gave to his
son Jeremiah. His other lands, divided and undivided, in
Waterbury, and his husbandry implements, he gave to Jeremiah
and Joshua, they to provide for him and his wife, " in
sickness and health, both cloaths, food and fisick," during
life.
The widow of Mr. Peck lived several years after his decease.
I find her will recorded in the first volume of Land Records,
bearing date Oct. 7th, 1706. It reads thus :
I Joanna Peck y« relict of Mr. Jeremiah Peck give [&c.] to my daughter anna
y* bigest puter platter a winscort cubard and here choys of too more platters [&]
y« great table ; and to annas daughter y« draw box and a too yer old hefer—
giue to Jeremiahs daughter y^ brass pan only they are not now to com to y« pos-
esion of it till after my death [&c.]
The remainder of her estate she gave to Jeremiali and
Joshua. She was still living in AVaterbury, Jan. 23, 1711
Children
:
1. Samuel; b. Jan. 18, 1658-9, at Guilford and settled in Greenwich. He was
a justice of the peace and a prominent man of that town, and d. April 28, 1746.
He is said to have had twelve children.
2. Ruth ; b. in New Haven, April 3, 1661 ; m. Jonathan Atwater, of New Ha-
ven, " merchant tailor," June 1, 1681, and had ten children.
3. Caleb. He proposed to settle in Waterbury with his father, and had a grant
of a house lot and other lands, provided he did so ; but he finally concluded to
remain in Greenwich.
4. Anna ; m. 1690, Thomas Stanley, son of Capt. John of Farmington.
5. Jeremiah. He was a freeholder in Greenwich in May, 1689, and came to
"Waterbury with his father. He had a house lot on Willow street, next to Benjamin
Jones' home lot, and other lands, granted him on the usual conditions. Half
of the school lot or propriety, it appears, was also given to him. In Aug. 1709, he
purchased for £20 Israel Richason's house and home lot, on the corner of East
Main and Cherry streets, but whether he ever lived in the house, I know not. He
removed into the north palrt of the town a little before the Northbury society was
organized.
Jeremiah Peck was collector of town rates in 1703 ; constable in 1713, 1717
and 1723, and a deputy to the General Court in May, 1720 and 1721. He was
one of the two first deacons of the Northbury church, appointed 1739. His wife
was Rachel, the d. of Obadiah Richards, to whom he was m. June 14, 1704. He
d. 1752, having had nine children,—Johanna, Jeremiah, Rachel, Anna, Mary,
Phebe, Ruth, Esther, Martha. All except Esther survived their father. The
mother had previously died. Dea. Peck's inventory amounted to £3,702, 12s. 6d.
6. Joshua. He was the youngest son. Nothing was said about him at the
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