Stephen Peckham (1652 - 1724)

Born 1652 in Middletown, Newport, Rhode Island Colony

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Died 23 Apr 1724 at about age 72 in Dartmouth, Bristol, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

"Stephen Peckham, son of John Peckham, was one of the earliest settlers of Dartmouth. He had a grant of land in Narragansett in 1679, but probably never went there to live. He also purchased land in Dartmouth in 1679, and was a substantial farmer in that part of Dartmouth now included in New Bedford. He died April 23, 1724. His estate in round numbers amounted to 1,800 pounds. His wife's name was Mary..."^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Ellery Bicknell Crane, Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, vol. 1 (1907), p. 313.

• Perry, William and Bentley, John Earle. Genealogy of one branch of the Peckham family of Newport and Westerly, R.I. (1957) Page 3

• Pane-Joyce Genealogy
• Peckham genealogy : the English ancestors and American descendants of John Peckham of Newport, Rhode Island, 1630, page 223- Image# 249 of 622 in the book at Ancestry.com

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