108 Peck — Peirce.  

Main and Water Sts.   Daniel Cushing's rec. for 1638 says:   "Mr. Joseph Peck and his wife with 3 sones and daughter, and 2 men servants and 3 maid servants, came from Old Hingham and settled in New Hingham" (10).   The number ten given in the margin prob. signifies that there were two sons and one dau.   Freeman 13 March, 1639, and representative 1639 to 1642 inc.   In 1645, Joseph and most of his fam. removed to Rehoboth, where he d. 22 Dec. 1663.
   Ch., —*

3. i.   SIMON, b. in Eng.
   ii.   SAMUEL, bt. in Hing. Feb. 3, 1638-39, d. soon.
   iii.   NATHANIEL, bt. in Hing. Oct. 31, 1641.   Resided at Rehoboth.   The chris. name of his w. was Deliverance.   She d. 1675.   He d. 1676.
   iv.   ISRAEL, bt. in Hing. March 31, 1643-44, d. soon.
   v.   SAMUEL, bt. in Hing. July 19, 1646.
   vi.   ISRAEL, bt. in Hing. July 19, 1646.
   vii.   HANNAH, bt. in Hing. July 19, 1646.

   3.   SIMON (Joseph = Deliverance ——), b. in Eng.   m. first, Hannah, dau. of Joseph and Elizabeth Farnworth of Dor., Mass.   She was b. at Dor. Dec. 14, 1638, and d. in Hing. 16 Apr. 1659, æt. 20 yrs.   He m. secondly, Feb. 13, 1659-60, Prudence, dau. of Edward and Prudence Clapp of Dor.   She was b. at Dor. Dec. 28, 1637.   "Glazier."   Selectman 1667.   This fam. removed to Dor.
   Child, b. in Hing. by w. Hannah, —

   i.   JOSEPH, ——, d. 12 Jan. 1661-62.

   Ch., b. in Hing., by w. Prudence, were —

   ii.   A DAU., Dec. 25, 1660.
   iii.   JOSEPH, bt. Feb. 25, 1662-63, d. 22 Dec. foll.
   iv.   EDWARD, July 19, 1665, d. 6 Aug. foll.
   v.   JOHN, Apr. 20, 1667.
   vi.   JOSEPH, bt. Nov. 11, 1668, d. soon.
   vii.   MARY, June 3, 1669.
   viii.   JOSEPH, July 1, 1671, d. in ten dys.
   ix.   WILLIAM, ——, d. 16 Sept. 1674.

   * In a published genealogy of the Peck fam., it is stated that the sons of Joseph were Joseph, John, Nicholas, Samuel, Nathaniel, and Israel.


PEIRCE (PIERCE; PEARCE; PERSE).

   MICHAEL, appears to have been a resident of Hing. between 1645 and 1666.   In 1647 he purchased lands in the Conihasset.   His first w., whose name I have not ascertained, d. in Hing. 31 Dec. 1662.   A few yrs. after he removed to Scit., and took a sec. w., whose chris. name was Ann.   "He was a captain of great bravery, and in Philip's War commanded a company of fifty Englishmen, and twenty friendly Indians from Cape Cod at the Pawtucket fight in Rehoboth, where, on the 27th of March, 1676 he and most of his command were killed."   (Deane's "History of Scituate.")
   Ch., mentioned in his will, and prob. b. in Hing., were —

   i.   PERSIS, bt. in Hing. Jan. 7, 1645-46; prob. m. 1695, Richard Garrett of Scit.
   ii.   BENJAMIN, ——.   Not on Hing. rec's.   "Captain;" d. at Scit., 1730, æt. ab. 73 yrs.
   iii.   JOHN, ——.   Inherited land in Hing. by will.

 

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