Hannah (Farnsworth) Peck (1638 - 1659)

Born 14 Dec 1638 in Massachusetts

Died 16 Apr 1659 at age 20 in Hingham, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America

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Biography

Hannah Farnsworth, daughter of Joseph, was born on 14 Dec 1638 in Massachusetts.^[1]

She married Simon Peck circa 1655. Torrey states that the marriage occurred by 1659 in Hingham, Massachusetts.^[2]

The Hobart Journal recorded the death of "Simon Pecks wife" in Hingham on 16 April 1659.^[3] According to Farnsworth, Hannah died before 1659.^[4] After her death, on 13 February 1659/60 Simon Peck was married to Prudence Clap as his second wife in Dorchester, Massachusetts.^[5][6]

The will of Joseph Farnsworth, Hannah's father, which was written 2 January 1659, provided a bequest to "Joseph Peck, ye sonne of Simon Peck (who marryed with Hannah, my Daughter, now deceased)."^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ "Old Dorchester," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 5 (1851), page 399: FARNWORTH, Hannah, b. 14 : 10: 1638, m. Simon Peck.
2. ↑ Torrey, Clarence Almon. New England Marriages Prior to 1700, vol. 2, page 1159
3. ↑ "The Hobart Journal", New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1967, vol. 121, page 109
4. ↑ Farnsworth, Claudius Buchanan, 1815-1897. Matthias Farnsworth and his descendants in America. A. Archive.org E-Book: Farnsworth p. 14
5. ↑ Anderson, vol. 2, page 78
6. ↑ Torrey, Clarence Almon. New England Marriages Prior to 1700, vol. 2, page 1159
7. ↑ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 9, page 140

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