Christopher Peake (bef. 1607 - 1666)

Born before 29 Apr 1607 in Thorpe Achurch with Lilford, Northamptonshire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Dorcas (French) Crafts — married 3 Jan 1636 (to 22 May 1666) in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 22 May 1666 after age 59 in Roxbury, Norfolk, Massachusetts

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Christopher Peake migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). (See Great Migration Begins, by R. C. Anderson, Vol. 3, p. 1413) Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm

Biography

Name

Name: Christopher Peake of Thorpe Achurch, Northamptonshire, and Roxbury Massachusetts.^[1][2]

Birth

Baptism: 29 April 1607 at Thorpe Achurch, Northamptonshire, England. ^[1][3]

Freeman

4 March 1634/5^[4]

Marriage and Children

Married: Dorcas French, daughter of Thomas French, on 3 January 1636/7 at Roxbury, Massachusetts. ^[1][5]. She was the "Sister Peake" admitted to the Roxbury church 6 June 1652.^[6]. She married (2) after 1679 as his third wife GRIFFIN CRAFTS. She died Roxbury 30 December 1697

Death

Died: 22 May 1666 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts. ^[1]

Anderson claims Roxbury 23 May 1666^[7]

Estate

He owned land in Roxbury; was valued at £6 8s. personal estate; received ten acres in the 20 January 1657[/8] division of the thousand acres at Dedham; by 1652 or 1653, held nine parcels, the first five of which had been granted to him.^[8]

In his will, dated 2 April 1666 and proved 2 August 1666, "Christopher Peake of Rocksbury" appointed "my wife Dorcas, sole executrix," and "Mr Edward Denison & Mr. Thomas Weld, both of Roxsburye," overseers; "rents of my house, lands & moveables to my wife, she maintaining the reparation of that the whole time of her life, excepting a little pasture where I intend to make a tan yard, if God please to let me live"; "that little pasture, being about two acres ... [to] my three sons, Jonathan, Joseph, & Ephraim" equally; "my two daughters, at the day of marriage, if God so dispose of them, both Dorcas and Sarah," £10 each in moveable goods; "after my wife's decease, I bequeath my goods unto my children, Jonathan, Dorcas, Joseph, Ephraim, and Sarah ... my eldest son to have a double portion, the rest of my children to have a part alike"; "my son Jonathan hath already received four acres of land by the Great Pond, which shall be accounted as a part of his double portion, with a cow" ^[9]

The inventory, taken 8 June 1666, totalled £531 17s. 2d., including £340 1s. in real estate.^[10]

Among the debts owed by the estate of Christopher Peake was £97 2s. 4d. to "Sir W[illiam] Peak his brother" [SPR 4:273].

Children

1. JONATHAN, b. Roxbury 17 December 1637; m. Roxbury 15 August 1660 Sarah French.
2. DORCAS, b. Roxbury 1 March 1639; m. after 1675 and before 1682 John Curtis, son of WILLIAM CURTIS [Parker-Ruggles 426, 465-66, citing SLR 16:342; NEHGR 51:166].
3. HANNAH, bp. Roxbury 12 February 1642[/3] [RChR 114]; bur. Roxbury 5 October 1660 [RChR 177].
4. JOSEPH, bp. Roxbury 23 March 1644[/5] [RChR 116]; living 1666; no further record.
5. Child, d. Roxbury 13 April 1647 ("a newborn child of Christopher Peake" [RChR 173]).
6. Child, bur. Roxbury 10 May 1649 ("buried unbaptized [an infant of] Bro. Peake" [RChR 174]).
7. EPHRAIM, bp. Roxbury 11 April 1652 [RChR 119]; living 1666; no further record.
8. SARAH, bp. Roxbury 9 March 1655[/6] [RChR 121]; living 1666; no further record.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} The American Genealogist vol. 87 no. 3 (July/October 2014 - pub. July 2015):204-208. The English Origin of Christopher Peake¹ of Roxbury, Massachusetts, by Randy A. West.
2. ↑ Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, in 3 vols., (Boston: NEHGS, 1995), vol. 3:1413-1414, biography of Christopher Peake. AmericanAncestors.org link.
3. ↑ Thorpe Achurch : St John the Baptist : : "Parish Register" database, FreeREG (https://www.freereg.org.uk/search_records/58188d05e93790eca3560d1e : viewed 25 Aug 2020) baptism Christofer Peake 29 Apr 1607
4. ↑ Anderson, citing MBCR 1:370
5. ↑ Anderson, citing Parker-Ruggles 425-56
6. ↑ Anderson, citing RChR 87
7. ↑ Anderson, citing RChR 178]
8. ↑ Anderson, citing RBOP 4, 6, 38
9. ↑ Anderson, citing SPR 1:473-74
10. ↑ Anderson, citing SPR 4:271-73

• Vital Records of Roxbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (The Essex Institute, Salem, Mass., 1926) Vol. 2, Page 314.