William Peckham

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(III) William Peckham (2), son of William, was born Aug. 30, 1675. He engaged in farming all his life in Middletown, R. I., and died there Jan. 18, 1764, in his eighty-ninth year. He was admitted a freeman of Newport in 1704, and was a member of the First Baptist Church in 1751. He was deputy to the General Court that met in May, 1707. On Jan, 10, 1703, by Gov. Samuel Cranston, he was married to Mary Tew, born Oct. 12, 1680r daughter of Henry and Dorcas Tew, and she died May 3, 1753, in her seventy-third year. She was the mother of five children: Maryr born Sept. 7, 1704; William; Dorcas, born July 3, 1709; Henry, born Feb. 26, 1711, who died June 12, 1728; and Elisha, born May 8, 1716, who married Mary Smith.

William married Mary Tew on 10 Jun 1703 in Newport, Newport Co, Rhode Island, USA. Mary (daughter of Henry Tew and Dorcas (Unknown)) was born on 12 Oct 1680 in Middletown, , Rhode Island, USA; died on 30 May 1753 in Middletown, , Rhode Island, USA. [Group Sheet]

1. Mary Peckham was born on 7 Sep 1704.
2. William Peckham was born on 3 Sep 1706 in Newport, Newport Co, Rhode Island, USA; died on 12 Apr 1784 in Middletown, , Rhode Island, USA.
3. Dorcas Peckham was born on 3 Jul 1709.
4. Henry Peckham was born on 26 Feb 1711; died on 12 Jun 1728.
5. Elisha Peckham was born on 8 May 1716.

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II) William Peckham, son of John, born in 1647, lived in Newport, R. I., from which place he was sent as deputy to the General Assembly in 1696-98. His name was among those to whom were given July 17, 1702, a share in the proprietors' land, his allotment being eighteen acres. He was ordained pastor of the First Baptist Church of Newport, and is supposed to have been the first Baptist minister ordained on this continent, and he was the fourth pastor of the First Church. He married t;first) Susannah (or Elizabeth) Clarke, daughter of Joseph Clarke. His second wife was Phebe Weeden, born in 1660, daughter of William Weeden, and she died in Middletown, R. I., in 1745. His children, all born to the first marriage, were: William, born in 1675; Samuel; Mary; Phebe (married a Tripp); and Deborah (married a Clark).

William married Susannah Or Elizabeth Clarke. [Group Sheet]

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(I) John Peckham, the American ancestor of the family, was admitted an inhabitant of the island of Aquidneck (Rhode Island) March 20, 1638. He was made a freeman of Newport March 16,-1641. He was one of the ten male members in full communion of the First Baptist Church in 1648, and one of its founders in 1644. He was a resident of that part of Newport which became Middletown, where he was made a freeman in 1655. Mr. Peckham was first married to Mary Clarke, who is credited with being a sister of Rev. John Clarke, of Bedfordshire, England, Boston, Mass., and Newport, R. I., who was intimately associated with Roger Williams. He* was pastor of the First Church in 1644, and subsequently of tl\\e First Baptist Church of Newport, and was imprisoned for his religious opinions and Baptist tenets in 1651. He was deputy, 1664-1671; and deputy governor from 1669 to 1672. Mary (Clarke) Peckham died before 1648. TJie given name of Mr. Peckham's second wife was Eleanor. He was the father of twelve children, namely: John, William, Stephen, Thomas, James, Clement, Sarah, Rebecca, Deborah, Phoebe, Elizabeth and Susannah. John Peckham died after 1681.

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HENRY CLAY PECKHAM. This Brockton Peckham family, the head of which is Henry Clay Peckham, who for some forty years has been one among the leading mechanics and a respected citizen of his community, while not an old or numerous family of the region named is ancient and numerous in the adjacent State of Rhode Island, the home of the earlier generations being in and around Newport, from which locality came the forefathers of the Brockton citizen just alluded to. The name Beckham in England is applied to a large suburban hamlet of London, in the County of Surrey, four miles distant from the metropolis. John de Peckham attended Richard I. into Palestine in 1191, and from that period on for hundreds of years the name was a conspicuous one in the annals of England.