. Commemorative biographical record of northeastern Pennsylvania: including the counties of Susquehanna, Wayne, Pike and Monroe, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and many of the early settled families. es. The Peck family is well known in this country,our subjects ancestors having come from Englandat an early period to settle in Connecticut. AmosPeek, our subjects grandfather, was born andreared in Wallingford, Conn., and married SybilParker, also a native of that State. They madetheir permanent home at Jewett, Greene Co., N. and improving
. Commemorative biographical record of northeastern Pennsylvania: including the counties of Susquehanna, Wayne, Pike and Monroe, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and many of the early settled families. es. The Peck family is well known in this country,our subjects ancestors having come from Englandat an early period to settle in Connecticut. AmosPeek, our subjects grandfather, was born andreared in Wallingford, Conn., and married SybilParker, also a native of that State. They madetheir permanent home at Jewett, Greene Co., N. and improving wild land. This worthycouple had a large family of children who lived tomaturity. (1) Levi married and settled in Jewett,where he died. (2) Orin, deceased, married andsettled on a farm in Delaware county, N. Y. (3)Munson, born in Jewett, married and located on afarm in Massachusetts, where he died, leaving adaughter, Emily, now the wife of Lieut. Dicker-man, residing near Rockford, Bl. (4) Charles,our subjects father, is mentioned more fully be-low. (5) Mary married Nathaniel Hull, of Con-necticut, later of Jewett, ,where she died, leav-ing no family. (6) Lydia married Alfred Peck,of Jewett, where they resided for a time, but later. COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. -.» they removed to Great Barrington, Mass., wherehe followed mercantile pursuits for many died in 1896, leaving two daughters, Mary,wife of J. H. Tuller, and Bell, wife of John Boyd,of Waterbury, Connecticut. Charles Peck, our subjects father, was born in1811, in Wallingfford, Conn., but his youth wasspent mainly in New York State, his education be-ing secured in the schools of Jcwett. For manyyears Ik- was engaged in farming in that locality,his death occurring in 1881. Politically he wasfirst a Whig and later a Republican, and his popu-larity among his fellow townsmen was shown byhis frequent election to local offices. He marriedMiss Stata Coe, who was born in 1810 at Jcwett,N. Y., and died in 187
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