Martha (Woodward) Peck (1597 - 1670)

Born 12 Jun 1597 in Upton cum Chalvey, Buckinghamshire, England

Ancestors

Wife of Robert Peck — married after 1649 in England

Descendants

Died 25 Aug 1670 at age 73 in Burgart Rectory, Suffolk, England

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Biography

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Martha Woodward was born 12 June 1597, she was the fifth daughter of George Woodward and Elizabeth Honeywood (Honiwood). ^[1] Martha died 25 August 1670.^[2]

Daughters "Mrs. [Elizabeth] Burroughs," Mrs. [Anne] Wilkinson, and "Mistress Peckes ... my Mother in lawe" are named in the will of Anthony Smith, husband of her daughter Martha, dated 29 August 1662 and proved at Perogative Court of Canterbury, 70 Caer, on 13 May 1667. "Mr. George Smyth of Dedham my brother and Mr. Thomas Burroughs of Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolke to be supervisors of this my will."^[3]

1st Marriage

Martha Woodward married first Rev. James Bacon, Rector of Burgate. (1595, London, Middlesex - 9 November 1649, Burgate, Suffolk)

2nd Marriage

She was married after 9 November 1649, to the widower Robert Peck, (whose 1st wife had died in 1648.) ^[4]

Robert Peck, his wife Ann and 2 children, and Robert's brother (Joseph Peck) and two servants migrated in 1638. Robert Peck was a zealous Puritan who influenced a number of his parishioners to become Nonconformists and emigrate to New England, where they took part in the founding of Hingham, Mass. about 1635. ^[5][6][7] Leaving daughter Ann in New England (she had married Capt. John Mason), the family returned to Hingham, England about 1641.^{[8][9][10][11]} Roberts wife, Anne, was buried at Hingham, Norfolk on 30 April 1648.^[4]

Children with Rev. James Bacon

1. William Bacon (ca 1618, Friston Hall, Suffolk - ?);
2. Thomas Bacon (christened 29 Aug 1620, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk - 1657, Westmoreland Co VA);
3. Elizabeth Bacon (ca 1622, Burgate, Suffolk - ?): m. Thomas Burrows, 16 Sep 1647;
4. Anne Bacon (christened 18 Nov 1631, Burgate, Suffolk - ?): m. -- Wilkinson
5. Nathaniel Bacon (Sr.) (christened 29 Aug 1620, Burgate, Suffolk - 16 Mar 1692, Williamsburg, VA; interment 18 Mar 1692, Yorktown, Virginia): m1. Ann Bassett (1620 - 1692/93): m2. Elizabeth Kingsmill (1625, James City Co VA - 2 Nov 1691, King's Creek, York Co VA).^[12]
6. Martha Bacon (ca 1634, Suffolk) married Anthony Smith (ca 1630, Colchester, Essex - 1667, Virginia). Their daughter was Abigail Smith, the wife of Maj. Lewis Burwell II.

Sources

1. ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N5JM-97M : 11 February 2018, Martha Woodward, 12 Jun 1597); citing , index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 919,251.
2. ↑ The Visitation of Buckinghshire, p. 132 https://archive.org/details/visitationofcoun5859byuphil/page/131/mode/1up?view=theater
3. ↑ Torrence, Clayton. Winston of Virginia, and allied families. Richmond, Whittet & Shepperson, 1927. Pages 384-385
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Wood, Micheal Johnson. The Earliest Shermans of Dedham, Essex, and Their Wives: Part 3: Henry Sherman the Younger and His Wife (continued from 167:54) in: The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 167, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts, 2013, p. 149-50 (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2018.)
5. ↑ Peck, Ira Ballou. A genealogical history of the descendants of Joseph Peck, who emigrated with his family to this country in 1638, and records of his father's and grandfather's families in England, with the pedigree extending back from son to father for twenty generations, with their coat of arms, and copies of wills, also, an appendix, giving an account of the Boston and Hingham Pecks (Alfred Mudge & Son, Boston, 1868) pages 25-26 Rev Robert Peck
6. ↑ Tanner MSS(Bodleian Library) LXVIII. f.7v.
7. ↑ "Lands of Henry Chamberlin, Shoemaker.No. 3. Given by the town of Hingham (Town's Great Book of Records, p.75; Book of Bargains and Sales, p. 30).
8. ↑ Ct. Venn's Alumni Cantabrigienses, part 1, vol. 3., p. 333
9. ↑ Savage's Genealogical dictionary, vol. 3, pp. 167-168
10. ↑ Pope's Pioneers of Massachusetts, pp. 304, 351
11. ↑ History of Hingham (Mass.).
12. ↑ Woodward pedigree in Familiae Minorum Gentium IV., p. 1300

• Peck, Ira B. "A Genealogical History of the Descendants of Joseph Peck" Printed by Alfred Mudge & Son, Boston. 1868. p. 26.see at archive.org
• Harleian Society:Visitation Series. The Visitation of The County of Buckingham Made in 1634, The Publications of The Harleian Society (The Society, London, 1909) Vol. 58, Page 132