Parents of John Peckham currently unknown.

From Wikitree - John Peckham (abt. 1610 - 1681):

"Stephen Farnum Peckham's 1922 elaborated the plausible theory that John Peckham was the same as Rev. John Peckham, son of Henry Peckham (d. 1616) of East Hampnett manor in Boxgrove, Sussex, England. This has been disproven; it is clear that Rev. John Peckham stayed in England through the 1640s and did not immigrate to Rhode Island in 1638."

See https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/57874/the-origin-of-john-peckham-and-h... for more information and sources.

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The Peckham family dates to a remote period in English history and to the earlier New England days in America. A Peckham was archbishop of Canterbury and one of the family was a war crusader who fell in battle before the Holy City. His deeds of bravery are extolled in the history of the crusades, which state that his body rests in Rome while his heart was returned to England for burial. In America the name is an honored one, but not found in military or political records. The family were Quakers for many generations, and while their names enrich the annals of jurisprudence and the learned professions, they held to the peaceful tenets of their religious faith. The father of the present generation married outside the faith and thus lost his birthright. His children followed the Methodist faith of their mother. The maternal lines, Sanford and Gifford, are prominent in Massachusetts, and a Sanford was governor of Rhode Island. They descended from the Howlands, Cookes and Wrights of the "Mayflower."

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MARY4 CLARKE (Thomas3, John2, John1).

• She was baptized 26 July 1607 in Westhorpe, Suffolk, England.
• She died about 1647 in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island.
• Residence: Newport, Rhode Island.
• Mary Clarke probably came to the Colonies at the same time as her brothers, Thomas, John and Joseph, and
• probably married John Peckham after arriving in Rhode Island as she was apparently granted land by the town of Newport, possibly before her marriage.
  • Mary Clark of Nuport had her land in Newport recorded immediately after that of John Peckham, sometime between March 1641 and 16 March 1642. Her lands consisted of 40 acres "lying upon the millbrook alias hambrook." Peckham's land also lay near the Hambrook mill. It seems unlikely that the town would grant both individuals land if they were already married. Two deeds, one from Joshua Coggeshall to Walter Cunigrave dated 30 May 1651, and one from Walter Cunigrave to John Green dated 6 June 1651, describe lands in Newport adjoining "land granted by the Town of Newport unto Mary Clarke now deceased some time the wife of John Peckham," the first of which deeds was witnessed by John and Elizabeth Clarke, probably the brother of Mary Clarke and his wife.

Sources:

• J. O. Austin, "The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island." New York, 1887 [1982], pp. 147-148.
• G. A. Moriarty, "Clarke-Cooke (alias Carewe)-Kerrich," NEHGR, Vol. 75 (1921), pp. 273-301.
• G. A. Morrison, "The 'Clarke' Families of Rhode Island." Evening Post Printing House, New York, 1902, p. 14.
• S. F. Peckham, "John Peckham of Newport, R.I., and some of his descendants," NEHGR, Vol. 57 (1903), pp. 31-39.
• "Records of the Island of Rhode Island, 1638-1644." Rhode Island Archives, Providence (FHL Film #0954960), p. 52.
• "Rhode Island Land Evidences, 1648-1696." Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence, pp. 185-186.
• B. F. Wilbour, "Little Compton Families." Little Compton Hist. Soc., 1967.
• She married JOHN PECKHAM, probably in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island.
  • He died after 1681 in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island.
  • Residence: Newport, Rhode Island.
  • He married second Eleanor -- (possibly Eleanor Weaver, sister of Clement Weaver of Newport), before 1648.

According to C. E. Banks,

• John Peckham came from the parish of Woodnesborough, co. Kent, England.
• John Peckham was admitted an inhabitant of Newport after 1 May 1639.
• John Peckham of Nuport had his land in Newport recorded sometime between March 1641 and 16 March 1642. At that time he held 40 acres of land, 32 acres in a parcel near Hambrook Mill on Stony River, bordering land of Thomas Clarke, and the rest in meadow and his home lot.
• He appeared at a General Court of Election as a freeman on 16 March 1641.
• On 27 January 1642/3, John Peckum of Newport purchased land on the southeast corner of the town, next to his own land, from James Barker of Newport.
• In 1648, he was a full member of the First Baptist Church, and Eleanor Peckham (his second wife) was baptized that same year.
• He appears as a freeman of Newport in a list of freemen of the Colony made in 1655.
• John Peckham was taxed at Newport in 1680.
• He left a will, dated 6 January 1681, witnessed by John Clarke and Henry Tew, according to a list of seventeen wills presented to the Court in 1700 which lacked a third witness as required by law. However, the contents of the will are unknown.

Sources:

• J. O. Austin, "The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island." New York, 1887 [1982], pp. 147-148.
• C. E. Banks, "Topographical Dictionary of 2885 English Emigrants to New England, 1620-1650." Southern Book Company, Baltimore, 1957, p. 85.
• S. F. Peckham, "John Peckham of Newport, R.I., and some of his descendants," NEHGR, Vol. 57 (1903), pp. 31-39.
• "Records of the Island of Rhode Island, 1638-1644." Rhode Island Archives, Providence (FHL Film #0954960), p. 52.
• "Rhode Island Colonial Records, Proceedings of the General Assembly." FHL Film #0947963, vol. 1, part 1, p. 11.
• "Rhode Island Land Evidences, 1648-1696." Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence, pp. 185-186.
• B. F. Wilbour, "Little Compton Families." Little Compton Hist. Soc., 1967.

They had the following children:

• + 27 i. MARY5 PECKHAM. Born about 1640 in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island. Married Tobias Saunders.
• + 28 ii. JOHN5 PECKHAM. Born about 1642 in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island. Married Sarah Newport.
• + 29 iii. WILLIAM5 PECKHAM. Born about 1644 in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island. Married(1) Mary Clarke.
• + 30 iv. THOMAS5 PECKHAM. Born about 1646 in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island. Married(1)

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Little Compton Families by Little Compton Historical Society from Records compiled by Benjamin Franklin Wilbour, 1967

• John Peckham no doubt came to Boston w/Sir Henry Van in 1634 & prob met there Mary Clarke who accompanied her bro John Clarke to Boston abt same time. Acquaintance resulted in marriage of which no record can be found.
• He prob was 1 of party called Ann Hutchinson party, who founded settlement on north end of RI, which became town of Portsmouth.
• In 1640 bounds of his land were established.
• 20 May1638 his name appeared on list of those admitted as inhabitant of Portsmouth.
• He became freeman in 1641.
• In 1648 2nd wife Eleanor was baptised.
• His residence was in part of Newport now Middletown & stone marker JP is supposed to mark his grave.

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John Peckham Find A Grave Memorial ID 9719290 Created by: christina yunck Added: 27 Oct 2004

John Peckham

• Birth: 8 Apr 1595 England
• Death: 5 Jan 1681 (aged 85) Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA
• Burial: Unknown
• Family Members:
  • Spouses:
    • Mary Clarke Peckham* 1607–1648 (m. 1638)
    • Eleanor Weaver Peckham* 1623–1670 (m. 1648)
  • Children:
    • Mary Peckham Saunders* 1642–1696
    • John Peckham* 1645–1712
    • Rebecca Peckham Spooner* 1658–1699
• My 7th ggf, John Peckham husband of Mary Clarke m 1628 [1607-1647] and Eleanor Weaver -
• he is the American ancestor for the Peckham family.
• Son of Henry Peckham and Elizabeth Badger, born at Peckham Manor, East Hampnett, Kent England.
• He was chaplin to the Earl of Hertford, a minister of the Church of England.
• He came with Sir Henry Vane in 1634 on the GRIFFIN.
  • They settled in Massachusetts Bay Colony - where they left in 1638 to found POCASSETT, now Portsmouth RI, due to their belief in religious liberalism.
• A direct descendant of John de Peckham who was on the Palestine Crusade in 1191 with Richard I; John Peckham, Archbishop of Canterbury 1279-1292;
• father of many children including Thomas [1646-1709] my 6th great grandfather; another descendant is Braddock Peckham, who served with Washington at Valley Forge, my 3rd great grandfather.

• Became prominent in the Newport RI area including the First Baptist Church of Newport where he became one of the first members in full communion @1638.
• line runs Henry to John, Thomas, Daniel, Abel, Braddock, James, DanielJ, Ethel, Helen, me.
• 
Burial location may be LC204, but due to the years passed associated with this death, it can not be verified.

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William Weeden (1) was born in 1647 in Newport, Rhode Island. He died after 1722 in Newport, Rhode Island.

He was married to Sarah Peckham in 1684 in Newport, Rhode Island. Sarah Peckham (1) was born in 1660 in Westerly, Rhode Island. Daughter of John Peckham & Elanor Weaver.

Descendents of John Weeden © 1997, 1999, 2000 and 2001 by Mark Weedin and Sharon Weedin.

John Peckham, emigrant ancestor of William Mackey Peckham, of Troy, New York, came to America from England and settled at Newport, Rhode Island, in 1638. It is supposed that he came with the Hutchinson party on the ship "Griffin," but his name is not found in any passenger list. He was a zealous Baptist, but his name does not appear on the list of those disarmed at Boston, nor among the followers of Wheelwright, nor was he one of the signers of the Portsmouth Covenant. He was associated with the Clarkes and others who were among the active supporters of Anne Hutchinson. He was a brother-in-law of John Clarke, and had lands allotted him as one of the first settlers of the island of Aquidneck in 1638. His name is on the Newport lists, May 20, 1638. In 1640 the bounds of the lands were established, and March 16, 1641, he was admitted a freeman. In 1646 he was one of the ten male members of the First Baptist Church of Newport, in full communion. In the same year his second wife, Eleanor Peckham, was baptized. He lived in that part of Newport that later became Middletown, and a stone marked J. P. is supposed to mark his grave. John Peckham and his sons prior to 1700 became large land owners. They were among the proprietors of the Petaquamscot purchase in 1660; the westerly purchase in 1661 and the East Greenwich purchase in 1677. Their purchases also included Connanicut Island and Dutch Island in the bay, beside large tracts on the island of Rhode Island, where the original settlement was made. Soon after the first settlement of Rhode Island, the Peckhams bought a tract of land one mile square in Little Compton on which they built a house in 1640, which stood two hundred years and in which six generations of Peckhams were born. His great-grandchildren were among the early settlers of Stonington and eastern Connecticut; all of the principal towns of Rhode Island and several in Massachusetts. The next generation migrated to Dutchess county, New York, and central New York. His first wife was Mary Clarke, born 1607. The date of his second marriage is unknown, as is the surname of his second wife, Eleanor. Children of first wife:

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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 died in 1648; the given name of his second wife was Eleanor. He was the father of twelve children, namely: John, William, Stephen, Thomas, James, Clement, Sarah, Rebecca, Deborah, Phebe, Elizabeth and Susannah. From this John Peckham of Newport and Middletown, R.I., the lineage of the late Dr. Fenner Harris Peckham, of Putnam and Providence, is through Stephen, Stephen (2), Stephen (3), Seth and Dr. Hazael Peckham.

PECKHAM. For upward of two hundred and fifty years this name has been identified with the annals of New England, and in the Old World it reaches back to the twelfth century. There were still in 1902 maintained in the beautiful and picturesque region on Putnam Heights the residences – the homes of their ancestors in that historic section – of three of the daughters of the late Dr. Fenner Harris Peckham, of Putnam, Conn., and Providence, R.I. These daughters are: Miss Katherine Fenner Peckham; Mrs. Rosa Frances Peckham Danielson, widow of the late George Whitman Danielson, a prominent journalist and citizen of Providence, R.I.; and Mrs. Dr. Grace Peckham Murray, wife of Hon. Charles H. Murray, a well known lawyer and public official of New York.

The name Peckham 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 English annals.

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John Peckham (abt. 1610 - 1681)

John Peckham

Born about 1610 in England

Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]

[sibling%28s%29 unknown]

Husband of Mary (Clarke) Peckham — married 20 May 1638 in Newport, Rhode Island

Husband of Eleanor (Weaver) Peckham — married after 1648 in Newport, Rhode Island

Father of Thomas Peckham, Mary (Peckham) Saunders, John Peckham II, William Peckham, Stephen Peckham, Deborah Peckham, James Peckham, Clement Peckham, Elizabeth (Peckham) Taylor, Sarah (Peckham) Weeden, Deborah (Peckham) Taylor, Phoebe (Peckham) Gray, Elizabeth Peckham and Rebecca (Peckham) Spooner

Died 5 Jan 1681 at about age 71 in Newport, Rhode Island

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John Peckham migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1620-1640).

The Birth Date is a rough estimate. See the text for details.

Disputed Parents

John Peckham was born in England.
Stephen Farnum Peckham's 1922[1] elaborated the plausible theory that John Peckham was the same as Rev. John Peckham, son of Henry Peckham (d. 1616) of East Hampnett manor in Boxgrove, Sussex, England. This has been disproven; it is clear that Rev. John Peckham stayed in England through the 1640s and did not immigrate to Rhode Island in 1638.[2]
Wrong surname "Crafts" for John Peckham's second wife

John Peckham's second wife, Eleanor, was incorrectly identified with the surname "Crafts" in a note from 1905 in The Boston Evening Transcript, naming as source SFP's 1903 article in NEHGR, even though SFP's article specifically stated that Eleanor's surname was unknown.
Conjectural Daughter Eleanor

On 8 May 1671, Eleanor Boomer, "was bound over to next court, a bond for her appearance being given in sum of £100, by John Peckham, Sr. and Nicholas Cottrell."[3] This is the sole foundation for a later supposition in the Boomer family that Eleanor was the daughter of John Peckham.
Stephen Farnum Peckham, in his 1922 Peckham Genealogy (p. 213), described this supposition that John Peckham had a daughter Eleanor who married Matthew Boomer as "conjectures" and "mere straws." There is no known evidence, beyond this old supposition in the Boomer family, that Eleanor's maiden name was Peckham; and there is no evidence that John Peckham had a daughter named Eleanor.
Biography

John Peckham was born about 1610 in England. His parents are unknown.
It has been proven that John Peckham of Rhode Island was NOT Rev. John Peckham, son of Henry and Elizabeth. Rev. John Peckham has been proven to have stayed in England -- he never came to Rhode Island. http://www.wikitree.com/g2g/57874/the-origin-of-john-peckham-and-hi...
John Peckham immigrated aboard The Griffin in 1634. John was admitted as an inhabitant of the Island of Aquidneck, Rhode Island, on 20 March 1638, which is the first known record of him in the New World.
John Peckham married firstly Mary Clarke on 20 May 1638 in Newport, Newport county, Rhode Island. Together they had the following children:
Thomas Peckham, born 1639;
Mary (Peckham) Saunders, b. 1640 or 1643;
John Peckham, b. 1645;
William Peckham, b. 1647.
John became a freeman at Newport on 16 March 1641.
John married secondly Eleanor Weaver after 1648 in Newport, Newport county, Rhode Island. [4] Together they had the following children:
Stephen Peckham;
James Peckham;
Rebecca (Peckham) Spooner;
Clement Peckham;
Elizabeth (Peckham) Taylor;
Sarah (Peckham) Weeden;
Deborah (Peckham) Taylor;
Phoebe (Peckham) Gray.
A stone marked "I P" on the land of William F. Peckham in Middletown is supposed to mark the grave of John Peckham.
Noyes

Charles Phelps Noyes, Noyes-Gilman ancestry, being a series of sketches, with a chart of the ancestors of Charles Phelps Noyes and Emily H. (Gilman) Noyes, his wife .., 1907.
Children of John and Mary (Clarke) Peckham
John, born about 1645; married Sarah ; had eleven children, and lived at Newport; died about 1712.
William, born about 1647; married (1) his cousin, daughter of Joseph Clarke; married (2)
Phoebe Weeden, daughter of William Weeden; was ordained the pastor of the Firs Baptist Church of Newport, Nov. 11, 171 1, probably after the death of his uncle, and died June 2, 1734. His wife, Phoebe, survived him.
CHILDREN OF John and Eleanor ( -) Peckham
Stephen, married, about 1682, Mary ; moved to Dartmouth, Mass., about 1686, and died there April 23, 1724.
Thomas, married (1) ; married (2) after 1683, Hannah (Weeden) Clarke, widow of William Clarke, son of Joseph Clarke, and sister of his half-brother William's wife; was deputy for Newport in 1708, and one of the proprietors of common lands. He died in 1709.
Clement, married Lydia ; was a weaver; lived at Newport, and owned lands at Tiverton; died in 1712.
James, probably unmarried; died at Newport, Feb. 26, 1712; left a large property, the inventory of his real estate in Little Compton alone amounting to ^644 9s. 6d. His sister Susanna, and her husband, I'eter Barker (31), signed among others as his legal representatives
On the next page of Noyes, follows:
Susanna, married (1) Peter Barker, son of James and Barbara (Duncan) Barker, who died probably in 1725; married (2) about 1730, Peter Wells (23), son of Peter and Wells of Kingston, R. I. (22); died after 1733.
Sarah, married probably John Greene, son of John and Mary (Jefferay) Greene.
Rebecca, married John Spooner, son of William and Elizabeth (Partridge) Spooner.
Deborah, married Robert Taylor, son of Robert and Mary (Hodges) Taylor.
Phoebe, born in 1666; married Thomas Gray, son of Edward and Dorothy (Lettice) Gray; died in 1746.
Elizabeth, married Peter Taylor, son of Robert and Mary (Hodges) Taylor, a brother of her sister Deborah's husband; died May 24, 1714.
Banks

From Charles Edward Banks:
John Peckham came from the parish of Woodnesborough, co. Kent, England. John Peckham was admitted an inhabitant of Newport after 1 May 1639. John Peckham of Nuport had his land in Newport recorded sometime between March 1641 and 16 March 1642. At that time he held 40 acres of land, 32 acres in a parcel near Hambrook Mill on Stony River, bordering land of Thomas Clarke, and the rest in meadow and his home lot. He appeared at a General Court of Election as a freeman on 16 March 1641. On 27 January 1642/3, John Peckum of Newport purchased land on the southeast corner of the town, next to his own land, from James Barker of Newport. In 1648, he was a full member of the First Baptist Church, and Eleanor Peckham (his second wife) was baptized that same year. He appears as a freeman of Newport in a list of freemen of the Colony made in 1655. John Peckham was taxed at Newport in 1680. He left a will, dated 6 January 1681, witnessed by John Clarke and Henry Tew, according to a list of seventeen wills presented to the Court in 1700 which lacked a third witness as required by law. However, the contents of the will are unknown.
From NEHGS Register

"John1 Peckham appears in Newport, R.I., in 1638. He was associated with the Clarkes and others, who were among the active supporters of Anne Hutchinson. His name is not found in any passenger list, nor in Boston records. It is probably that he came with the Hutchinson part on the "Griffin." He was a zealous Baptist, but his name does not appear on the list of those disarmed in Boston, nor among the followers of wheelwright, nor was he one of the signers of the Portsmouth covenant. He was a brother-in-law of John Clarke, and his lands were allotted along with those of William Freeborn, John Coggeshall and others who were the first settlers of the Island of Aquidneck in 1638, where, on May 20th, his name is in a list of those who were admitted inhabitants of Newport... A reference to his will is found in a list of seventeen wills (between 1676 and 1695) that were presented to the court in 1700... Soon after the first settlement of Rhode Island the Peckhams bought a tract of land one mile square in Little Compton, on which they build a house in 1640, which stood two hundred years and in which six generations of Peckhams were born... In a deed dated May 30, 1651, from Joshua Coggeshall and his mother Mary Coggeshall, to Walter Connigrave, the land is described as bounded "on land granted to Mary Clarke now deceased, sometime the wife of John Peckham." The grant referred to was made previous to 1644. Mary Clarke was the sister of the five brothers, Carew, Thomas, Jeremiah, John and Joseph and was born in 1607. It is not known where or when she was married or when she died. The date of his second marriage, the surname of his second wife, and the date of his death, are also unknown. There are reasons for believing that Mary Clarke was the mother of his sons John, Thomas and William.[5]
From Newport Court Files

Wills were required to have three witnesses, so there is a court file that provides a list of early Newport wills with only two witnesses. One such will was that of John Peckham was recorded on 6 January 1681 and was witnessed by John Clark and Henry Tew.[6]
It has been proven that John Peckham of Rhode Island was NOT Rev. John Peckham, son of Henry and Elizabeth. Rev. John Peckham has been proven to have stayed in England -- he never came to Rhode Island. http://www.wikitree.com/g2g/57874/the-origin-of-john-peckham-and-hi...
Immigrated aboard THE GRIFFIN in 1634
First wife name is Mary
Data provided by FamilySearch website citations needed
Sources

↑ http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=13731 Peckham Genealogy
↑ Thanks to Helen Ford, who posted relevant sources on this G2G discussion thread.
↑ John O. Austin, Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island (Baltimore, 1982), p. 23.
↑ "Genealogies of Rhode Island Families" states that Eleanor was the second wife of John Peckham.
↑ Stephen Farnum Peckham, "John Peckham of Newport, R.I., and Some of his Descendants," in NEHGS Register, Boston, MA: NEHGS; 57 (1903):31-
↑ Fiske: Item 13
Fiske, Jane Fletcher Gleanings from Newport Court Files, 1659-1783 (Boxford, Mass., 1998).
S. F. Peckham, "Peckham Genealogy: the English ancestors and American descendants of John Peckham of Newport, Rhode Island, 1630, New York: National Historical Co., 1922.
John Peckham in entry for John Peckham, "Rhode Island Births and Christenings, 1600-1914
Website: The Tallman Family (https://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ricktall...)
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