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PEAKES. 



Joseph, a native of Wey. ra. in Hing. Aug. 1820, Priscilla M. Hum- 

 phrey, dau. of Noah and Priscilla (Marsh) Humphrey. She was b. 

 in Hing. Nov. 14, 1796, and d. 4 Oct. 1864, set. 68th yr. He d. at Key 



West, Fla., May, 1825, set. 30 yrs. 

 Ch., b. in Hing., — 



i. Joseph, Feb. 28, 1823. m. May 23, 1847, Lydia Ann, dau. of John 



Waters. Resides at Wey. 

 ii. Eliza Priscilla, Apr. 7, 1825. m. Jan. 8, 1852, William W. Wilder. 



PEARE. 



Horace, from Wales, Me., where he was b. Nov. 5, 1840, m. in 

 Hing. Oct. 24, 1865, Sarah J. C. French, dau. of Edmund and Sarah 

 M. (Dunbar) French. She was b. in Hing. May 26, 1846. " Shoe- 

 maker." Resides on North St., near Goold's Bridge. 



Child, b. in Hing., — 



i. Walter Chilton, March 18, 1875, d. 30 July foil. 



Note. — Nathaniel B., m. Dec. 14, 1851, Susan, dau. of Kinsman Chamberlain. (See 

 "Hingham in the Civil War.") 



PECK. 



1. Robert, from Hing., Norfolk Co., Eng., and s. of Robert of 

 Beccles, County of Suffolk, Eng., was granted seven acres of land in 

 our Hing. 1638, on Bachelor (Main) St., in the vicinity of the present 

 meeting-house of the First Parish, and the same year was ordained 

 in Nov. teacher of the church. The foil, extracts furnish reliable in- 

 formation relating to him and his fam. : — 



" Robert Peck, Hingham, probably brother of Joseph, was bred at 

 Magdalen College, Cambridge ; was minister over 30 years at Hing- 

 ham, County of Norfolk. . . . He came with wife and 2 children 

 and 2 servants in the [ship] 'Diligent,' 1638, and on the 28th of 

 November of that year was ordained [teacher] ; freeman 13 March 

 following ; but embarked 27 October, 1641, with wife and son Joseph 

 for home, and went back to his old parsonage ; there died 1656." 

 (Savage's Gen. Die.) From a brief sketch of Old Hing. by Walter Rye, 

 editor of the Norfolk Co., Eng., "Antiquarian Miscellany," I take the 

 foil. : " Another native was the Rev. Robert Peck, a great schis- 

 matic, who being prosecuted for various illegal alterations he had 

 made in the church fled to America. . . . He returned to England 

 when his party got into power." Mather wrote : " Mr. Peck, at the 

 solicitation of his friends in England, returned to them in 1641, and 

 there remained a minister of the gospel." (See also conveyance in 

 sketch of Capt. John Mason, p. 65.) 



Ch., b. in Eng., — 



i. Joseph. Returned to Eng. with his parents, 

 ii. A dau. m. July, 1639, Capt. John Mason. 



2. Joseph, prob. bro. of the preceding, came to Hing. 1638, and had 

 a grant of land containing seven acres on Bachelor (Main) St. The 

 location of this lot was in the vicinity of what is now the junction of 



