Benjamin Peck (1711 - abt. 1784)

Born 6 Mar 1711 in Lyme, New London, Connecticut [uncertain]

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Died about 12 Feb 1784 at about age 72 in Salem, New London, Connecticut [uncertain]

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Biography

Benjamin was born on 6 March 1711, the son of Samuel Peck and Elizabeth Lee ^{[1] [2]}

He married Sarah Champden [sic] on 8 February 1734. ^[2] They were the parents of:

1. Dan Peck ^[3]
2. Mehitable Peck ^[4]
3. Benjamin Peck ^[5]
4. Dan Peck ^[6]
5. Elizabeth Peck ^[7]
6. Cyrus Peck ^[8]
7. Elias Peck ^[9]
8. Sarah Peck, b. 21 Feb 1750, d. 4 Apr 1775 ^[2]
9. Lee Peck, b. 1 Jul 1752, probably married in Lyme, Elizabeth Marvin ^[2]
10. Esther Peck, b. 30 Oct 1756 ^[2]

Arriving from Lyme in the Connecticut Colony, Benjamin Peck and his family, along with his brother Silas, were among the first New England Planters who resettled in Nova Scotia, ^[2] beginning in 1760, on lands that had been seized from the Acadians by the British in a brutal ethnic cleansing and deportation known as Le Grand Dérangement (Great Upheaval) that began five years earlier.

On 10 January 1764, Benjamin Peck was given a grant of 1½ shares (750 acres) of Horton Township in Kings County, Nova Scotia, in present-day Kentville. ^[2] Upon his death, the land was divided between his sons, Benjamin and Cyrus. ^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F74D-65H : 11 February 2018), Benjamin Peck, 06 Mar 1711; citing ; FHL microfilm unknown.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7} Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton. The History of Kings County, Nova Scotia: The Heart of the Acadian Land: Giving a Sketch of the French and Their Expulsion; and a History of the New England Planters Who Came in Their Stead: With Many Genealogies, 1604 - 1910 (Salem, Massachusetts: The Salem Press Company, 1910), 774; digital copy (https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/public/gdcmassbookdig/historyofkingsco00eato/historyofkingsco00eato.pdf : accessed 30 March 2024).
3. ↑ Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F74D-6J9 : 11 February 2018), Benjamin Peck in entry for Dan Peck, 11 May 1735; citing ; FHL microfilm unknown.
4. ↑ Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7W7-DVN : 11 February 2018), Benjamin Peck in entry for Mehetable Peck, 12 Jan 1737; citing ; FHL microfilm unknown.
5. ↑ Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F74D-658 : 11 February 2018), Benjamin Peck in entry for Benjamin Peck, 26 Apr 1740; citing ; FHL microfilm unknown.
6. ↑ Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F74D-6J4 : 11 February 2018), Benjamin Peck in entry for Dan Peck, 01 Apr 1742; citing ; FHL microfilm unknown
7. ↑ Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7W7-8B2 : 11 February 2018), Benjamin Peck in entry for Elizabeth Peck, 21 Mar 1743; citing ; FHL microfilm unknown.
8. ↑ Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F74D-65J : 11 February 2018), Benjamin Peck in entry for Cyrus Peck, 02 May 1746; citing ; FHL microfilm unknown.
9. ↑ Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F74D-6F5 : 11 February 2018), Benjamin Peck in entry for Elias Peck, 20 Jun 1748; citing ; FHL microfilm unknown.

See Also

• Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772-1934," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7VC-H3X : 9 February 2018), Benjamin Peck, 12 Feb 1784; citing Salem, New London, Connecticut, reference 10; FHL microfilm 3,360.
• Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVVJ-PQTL : 13 December 2015), Benjamin Peck, 1784; Burial, Salem, New London, Connecticut, United States of America, Wesley Brown Cemetery; citing record ID 23660988, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/23660988/benjamin-peck
• NS Eaton's: Web site: http://nseaton.org