Job B. Peckham

A Patriot of the American Revolution for RHODE ISLAND. DAR Ancestor # A087893

From Hudson-Mohawk genealogy

Job, only child of Clement and Lydia Peckham, was born in 1692, died in Providence, Rhode Island, August 13, 1779. (COMMENT) This tree has other sons, so what is the true story?

His will was made at Providence, his home at Middletown, Rhode Island, being then in possession of the British. He calls himself of "advanced age." He owned a large farm in Tiverton and another at Middletown. His wife was Mary, daughter of Lawrence Turner of Newport. Children in the order mentioned in his will:

Silas, born 1731, died February 28, 1820;

Giles, Enos, married Ann Hovey, he was a soldier of the revolution, private of Colonel Robert Elliott's regiment, 1776;

George, born in Rhode Island (Middletown most likely) about 1736, he resided in Tiverton, Rhode Island, until 1794, when he joined with a colony of Tiverton and Little Compton families that settled in Madison and Saratoga counties, New York;

Sarah, married Henry Tew;

Mary, married Joseph Bennett;

Lydia, married Elisha Gibbs;

Hannah, married George Brightman;

Nancy, married ———— Freeborn.

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