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(1) John Lusk, immigrant ancestor of this branch, was of Plainfield, Connecticut, in 1740, and, September 17th, of that year, received from Jacob Gibbs, of Wethersfield, half an acre of land in Newington. March 19, 1745- 46, being then of Wethersfield, he purchased four acres of land, again in Newington. Later deeds give records of other purchases of land by him, all in Newington, near the Farming- ton line. He married (first) Janet who died at Newington, May 2, 1742, aged thirty-three. He married ( second ) Jane -
who died February 5, 1788, aged eighty-three. lle died July 24, 1788, aged eighty-six. All three were buried in the Newington church- yard. Children of second wife, recorded in Wethersfield: William, born September 12. 1744, mentioned below : John, February 20. 1748; Eunice. May 9, 1750; Samnel, January 29, 1752.
(II) William, son of John Lusk, was born in Wethersfield, September 12, 1744. He mar- ried, March 30, 1769, Elizabeth Gibbe. Chil- dren : Chester ; Simon; James, mentioned below ; William.
(III) James, son of William Lusk, was born 1770, died April 24, 1808. He married and
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had children : William, Franklin, Simon J., daughter of Samuel and Rhoda Ann ( Miller ) mentioned below.
(IV) Simon J., son of James Lusk, was born August 19, 1807, died July 21, 1894, at Lisle. Broome county, New York. He was a pioneer in the latter section, to which he came from Connecticut, and was actively engaged in farming all his life. He was a vigorous and powerful Scotchman and eminently fitted for the hardships and dangers of a frontier life. He married Rebecca Mercereau, born in Broome county, April 12, 1811, died Novem- ber II, 1893. Children: Cornelius M .; Sam- uel R., mentioned below ; Franklin ; Eliza J., married Ira Cook; Olive A., married Orlando Benedict ; William; Susan; James Lanning ; George A .; Charles.
(V) Samuel R., son of Simon J. Lusk, was born in Lisle, Broome county, New York, Au- gust 27, 1835, died September 6, 1896. In 1862 he enlisted in the One Hundred and Thirty-seventh Regiment, Company E, and served throughout the war. He was in the battles of Chancellorsville, Gettysburg and Lookout Mountain. In the latter engagement he was wounded in the head and never fully recovered, and finally died from this wound. For a number of years he was engaged in the grocery business in Centre Lisle, New York. He married, about 1866, Clara M. Root, born in Lisle, September 7, 1847, died November 13, 1886, daughter of William and Anna (Burghardt) Root. Child, Clayton R., men- tioned below.
(VI) Clayton Riley, son of Samuel R. Lusk, was born in Lisle, December 21, 1872. He received his early education in the schools of his native town, later attended the Cortland Normal School, from which he graduated in 1895, afterward entered Cornell University, from which he graduated in 1902. He was admitted to the bar the same year, and located in Cortland, in partnership with Rowland L. Davis, under the firm name of Davis & Lusk. In 1904 he was elected city judge and served for two terms. Ile is a member of the Phi Delta Phi fraternity, the Tioughnioga, and the Cortland City clubs, and of the Elks and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Cort- land. In religion he is an Episcopalian. He married, June 23, 1904, Anna, daughter of Eli and Grace (Lee) Mix. Her father, Eli Mix, was born at Chenango Forks, New York, in 1835, died in 1905. He married Grace F.,
Lee. Ile was the son of John Mix, born at Chenango Forks, and Henrietta (Parsons) Mix. John was the son of Jesse Bradley Mix, who was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and came to Chenango Forks, in 1816, and Rebecca (Gilbert) Mix, also of New Haven. Jesse Bradley Mix was the son of Nathaniel Mix, born in New Haven, 1796, and Thankful (Alling) Mix. Nathaniel Mix was the son of Nathaniel Mix, born in New Haven, 1724, and Sarah (Bradley) Mix. Nathaniel Mix was the son of Nathaniel Mix, born in New Haven, 1692, died 1756, and Rebecca (Lines) Mix, second wife. Nathaniel Mix was the son of Nathaniel Mix, born in New Haven, 1651, died 1725, and Mary ( Pantry) Mix. Nathan- iel Mix was the son of Thomas Meeks, or Mix, who was the immigrant ancestor, of London, England, a member of the New Haven colony, in 1643. He married, in 1649, Rebecca Turner. Child of Clayton R. Lusk: Elinor Mix, born October 14, 1908.
William Peck, immigrant ancestor, PECK was born in the city of London, England, or its vicinity, in 1601, and married there, about 1622, Elizabeth - He sailed from London in the ship "Hector," with his wife and son Jeremiah, and arrived at Boston, Massachusetts, June 26, 1637. It is probable that he came in the company of Gov- ernor Eaton, Rev. John Davenport and others, principally from London. He was one of the original proprietors of the New Haven colony, in 1638, and his autograph signature is affixed to the fundamental agreement or constitution, June 4, 1639, for the government of the infant colony. October 20, 1640, he was admitted a freeman. He was trustee, treasurer and gen- eral business agent of the Colony Collegiate School, established on the basis of the Hopkins fund. He was by occupation a merchant, and, from 1659 until his death, a deacon of the church in New Haven. His name usually ap- pears on the records with the title of "Mr.," then a prefix of respect and distinction. His home lot and dwelling-house and shop were on Church street. His first wife, Elizabeth, died December 5, 1683, and he married ( second) Sarah, widow of William Holt. He died Octo- ber 4, 1694, and was interred in the old bury- ing-ground now under the Center church. Chil- dren of first wife: Jeremiah, born in London,
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1623, mentioned below ; John, New Haven, 1638; Joseph, New Haven, January, 1641 ; Elizabeth, New Haven, April, 1643.
(II) Jeremiah, son of William Peck, was born in the city of London, or its vicinity, in 1623, and came to this country with his parents in 1637. He received a very good education, acquired in part before he left London. He is said by Cotton Mather "to have been bred at Harvard College," but his name does not appear in the catalogue of graduates. In the year 1656, and for some time previous, he had preached and taught school at Guilford, and continued to do so until 1660, when he took charge of the Collegiate School, at New Haven. This was a colony school, established by the general court in 1659, and was intended to fit young men for college. He remained there until the summer of 1661, when the school was temporarily suspended for lack of funds. In the autumn of that year he was invited to preach at Saybrook, Connecticut, and, it is sup- posed, ordained there, and settled as a min- ister, September 25, 1661. After a few years there was some dissatisfaction with his min- istry and a misunderstanding as to the pro- visions of his agreement of settlement. Al- though this was amicably arranged he left Say- brook and returned to Guilford, in 1666. He had been for some time, together with numer- ous ministers and churches in the New Haven and Connecticut colonies, decidedly opposed to the "Half-way Covenant," and especially hostile to the union of the two above-named colonies, under the charter of Charles II. On this account he decided to emigrate from the colony, and, in 1666, removed to Newark, New Jersey, where he became one of the first set- tlers. Soon after his arrival at Newark he was settled in Elizabethtown, as the first min- ister there, in 1669 or 1670. In 1670, and again in 1675, he was invited by the people of Woodbridge, New Jersey, and, in 1676, by the people of Greenwich, Connecticut, to become their minister, but in both cases declined. Sep- tember, 1678, he was again invited to settle as a minister at Greenwich, and removed thither in the autumn of 1678. Here he became the first settled minister and remained until 1689. when he resigned on account of dissatisfaction. caused by his refusal to baptize the children of non-communicants. In 1691 he became the first settled minister of the church in Water- bury. Here he continued until his death, June 4, 1699. He was a man of much usefulness.
both as a teacher and minister in the frontier settlements, and possessed considerable energy and ability.
He married, November 12, 1656, Johannah, daughter of Robert Kitchell, of Guilford, who came to New Haven in the company of Eaton, Davenport and others, in 1638, and the follow- ing year settled in Guilford, where he was a prominent man and one of the first planters. He migrated to Newark, in 1666, and died there, about 1672. His wife died in Green- wich, in 1682. Johannah ( Kitchell) Peck sur- vived her husband and died in Waterbury, in 17II. Children : Samuel, born January 18, 1659, mentioned below ; Ruth, born New Haven, April 3, 1661 : Caleb, Saybrook, 1663; Anne, Saybrook, 1665; Jeremiah, Newark, 1667; Joshua, Elizabethtown, 1673.
(III) Samuel, son of Jeremiah Peck, was born at Guilford, January 18, 1659. He re- moved to Greenwich, with his father, in 1678, and became a man of large wealth and influ- ence. For fifty years he was justice of the peace, and held other important positions in Greenwich. He married, November 27, 1686, Ruth, daughter of Peter Ferris, of Stamford, Connecticut. Her father was a son of Jeffrey Ferris. Children, born in Greenwich : Samuel,- March, 1688, mentioned below ; Jeremiah, De- cember 29, 1690; Joseph, May 1, 1692 ; David, December 15. 1694; Nathaniel, August 15, 1697: Eliphalet, 1699; Theophilus, March, 1702; Peter, about 1704: Robert, 1706. He died at Greenwich, April 28, 1746, and his wife. September 17, 1745, aged eighty-three. Their gravestones are still standing in the old Greenwich cemetery.
(IV) Samuel (2), son of Samuel ( 1) Peck, was born in March, 1688, in Greenwich. He was a carpenter by trade and also a farmer. He lived in that part of Greenwich known as Old Greenwich, and died there, in December, 1733. He married, in 1715, Elizabeth She survived him, and, in 1735, married (sec- ond) John Clogson, and removed to Redding, Connecticut, where she died. Children, born in Greenwich: Mary, 1716: John, 1718, men- tioned below : Samuel, April, 1720: Ruth, Janu- ary, 1724.
(V) John, son of Samuel (2) Peck, was born in 1718, in Greenwich. He lived in Old Greenwich, on a small farm, near the shore of Long Island , sound, and died in Greenwich, September, 1771. He married, 1741, Sarah, daughter of John Adams. She died in Clifton
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Park, New York, January 11, 1814, aged nine- ty-five years. Children, born in Greenwich: John, November 12, 1742, mentioned below ; Heath, 1745 ; Nathan, 1747 ; Sarah, 1749; Ruth, July II, 1751 ; Abijah, April 3, 1758; Abigail, September 30, 1760; Elizabeth, July 19, 1763. (VI) John (2), son of John ( 1) Peck, was born November 12, 1742, in Greenwich. He served as a soldier in the French war ; was in the campaign of 1759, and remained in the army until the treaty of peace in 1763. In 1772 he removed from Greenwich to that part of Great Nine Partners, which is now the town of Stanford, Dutchess county, New York. Late in 1780 he again removed to that part of Little Nine Partners, which is now the town of Milan, in the same county, where he lived until May, 1788, when he returned to Stanford. In 1792 he removed to the west of the Hudson river, now the town of Hunter, Greene county, New York. On account of the unfavorable climate and remote situation of this location. he removed again, in February, 1785, to the town of Sherburne, Chenango county, New York. He lived there and in the adjoining town of Norwich until his death, in Sherburne, September 19, 1819. After his removal from Greenwich, in 1772, he lived always on the borders of civilization and endured all the hardships and labors of frontier life. He was one of the most enterprising and valuable pioneers in the settlement of the state of New York. His occupation was that of a farmer. He had but little education, but great natural talents, firmness and energy. He married, October, 1764, Sarah, daughter of Nathan Northrop, of Salem, New York. She was born in the latter place, October 28, 1746, died in Smyrna, New York, November 11, 1830. Chil- dren, born in Greenwich : Samuel, 1765, died 1768; Joel, December 2, 1767; Sarah, Decem- ber 1, 1769; Mary, October 28, 1771. Born in Stanford: Phebe, August 16, 1774; Stephen, October, 1776, died there, December, 1777; Stephen Northrop, May 14, 1778, mentioned below; John, September 11, 1780. Born in Milan : Nathan, January 27, 1783; Betsey, April 1, 1786.
(VII) Stephen Northrop, son of John (2) Peck, was born in Stanford, New York, May 14, 1778. He was a farmer by ocupation, and one of the first settlers of the town of Solon, New York, 1800. He died there, August 17, 1874. He was a man of genial characteristics,
sound common sense and agreeable habits, and as such was esteemed by all who knew him. He married (first) Lydia Philips, December 4, 1800, and (second) Clarissa Hobart, Octo- ber 3, 1849. Children, born in Solon : Polly, September 22, 1801; Lyman, December 24. 1803, mentioned below ; Hiram, May 25, 1806 ; Nathan, January 31, 1809; Emily, October 15, 18II : Stephen N., May 13, 1814; Platt, June II, 1817; Smith W., March 25, 1820; John, June 10, 1823; Sally, October 8, 1825.
(VIII) Lyman, son of Stephen Northrop Peck, was born December 24, 1803, in Solon, and died at Cortland, New York, April 30. 1877. He was a farmer in his native town during the major part of his active business life. After he retired he lived in Cortland. He was a member of the Baptist church, at Solon. In politics he was a Republican. He married, September 25, 1828, Almira Thomp- son, born October 10, 1806, died June 25, 1896. She was a daughter of Zenas Thompson, of Scotch ancestry, from one of the families that came to New England early. Children : 1. Dr. Northrop J., a dentist of Independence, lowa ; died July 16, 1888. 2. Lyman Jr., farmer and justice of the peace at Solon ; died January 30, 1887. 3. Hon. Rufus T., mentioned below. 4. Charles Townley, mentioned below. 5. Dr. Melvin D., physician and surgeon in the pen- sion department at Washington, D. C. 6. Bur- dett, died in Canada, in 1867. 7. Euphemia, died in infancy.
(IX) Hon. Rufus T. Peck, son of Lyman Peck, was born in Solon, December 24, 1836, and died July 24, 1900, at Auburn. New York. His early education was obtained in the com- mon schools, and at the New York Central College, and, for fourteen years, he was a successful school teacher. For three years he was in business as a general merchant in his native town. In the fall of 1874 he was elect- ed, on the Republican ticket, to the office of school commissioner of the northern district of Cortland county, was reëlected, and served two terms. He was nominated again, but de- clined a third term. He read law in the office of Hon. R. Holland Duell, of Cortland, and was admitted to the bar at the January term of the supreme court, held at Albany, in 1876, but he practiced law only in connection with his own business affairs. In February, 1876, he became financially interested in the publish- ing business of Major L. H. Evarts, of Phila-
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delphia, and the firm became Evarts & Peck, publishers of many city and county histories in the United States.
In the fall of 1888 he was elected assembly- man from Cortland county, and served three terms with distinction, from 1889 to 1891. None of his predecessors had been honored with three terms since the earliest years of the county. With good reason he could regard his legislative career with pride and satisfac- tion. He was one of the most industrious and energetic, as well as one of the ablest of mem- bers, attending promptly and faithfully to any local business committed to him, whether by his political friends or his opponents. Because of his business training, his popularity and great influence with fellow-legislators, he took a position of leadership in the assembly and secured the passage of a number of important bills, among which may be mentioned the "dis- trict quota" bill, in accordance with which the school money was afterward apportioned among the school districts of the state. He was also instrumental in securing the enact- ment of the law making the first appropriation for the State Normal School, at Cortland. In 1895, while Cortland was joined with Onon- daga county in a state senatorial district, Mr. Peck was the Republican candidate for state senator, but was prevented from taking the office, after election, on account of the mixing of ballots between different districts in Onon- daga county. With the vote of the districts in which the wrong ballots were used, Mr. Peck was elected, but without them he was defeated and the court construed the ballot law in such a way that the will of the people was defeated. In his church relations Mr. Peck was a Baptist, uniting with that denomi- nation in early manhood, and for many years trustee of the First Baptist Church, of Cort- land. During the last year of his life, his health was failing, and he was in a private sanitarium, at Auburn, at the time of death.
He married (first), June 25, 1859, Susan Wells, born August 22, 1835, in Kings town- ship, Ontario, Canada, and died at Cortland, New York, August 31, 1889. He married (second). December 14, 1892, Jeanette Dut- ton, of Perry, Iowa. Children, all by first wife: I. Louise N., born July 8, 1860; mar- ried William E. Albee, of Minneapolis. 2. Arthur R., born March 28, 1862, real estate agent and broker at Syracuse, New York; married Carrie Aldrich, and has one son, Ald-
rich R., born in 1896. 3. Frank John, men- tioned below. 4. Fred Ross, born August 28, 1869, a coal dealer in Syracuse, New York.
(X) Frank John, son of Hon. Rufus T. Peck, was born in Aurora, province of Ontario, Canada, March 15, 1864. When he was about a year old, however, his parents returned to New York, and located at Solon, Cortland county. He attended the public schools there and at Cortland, whither the family removed when he was ten years old. For a time he was a student in the State Normal School. He was in the employ of Cobb & Perkins, a whole- sale concern, for a year. His business career really began. however, in the National Bank of Cortland, in which he became a clerk in 1882. His ability and faithfulness won him promotion, and he became, in the course of time, the cashier, a position he has filled with signal suc- cess and discretion since 1889. He is a di- rector in the Cortland National Bank, and treasurer of the Warren-Tanner Dry Goods Company, of Cortland. For two terms he was treasurer of the incorporated village of Cort- land. He is treasurer of the Presbyterian church, of which he is a prominent worker. In politics he is a Republican.
He married, June 10, 1894, Annie, daugh- ter of Samuel Keator ( see Keator VIII). They have one child, Susan, born September 22, 1896
(IX) Charles Townley, son of Lyman Peck, was born in Solon, September 10, 1848, died in Cortland, February 1, 1905. He was edu- cated in the schools of Solon, also the old academy at McGrawville, and the Cortland Normal School. For several years he taught school in Solon, and was in business there later. He kept a general store and was post- master. In 1882 he removed to Cortland and began the manufacture of horse powders, in which business he continued until his death. For two years he served as trustee of the village of Cortland. He was a Republican in politics and a member of the Methodist church. He was also a member of Cortlandville Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons. He married, April 17. 1878, in Washington, D. C., Kate McClel- land, daughter of John and Catherine Eliza- beth ( Hodgson) McClelland, of Washington. Her father, John McClelland, was born in Washington, and died there, in 1885, aged sixty-nine years. He was a machinist by trade, and had an iron foundry. He was the inven- tor of a fire plug that is still used. In 1861
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he was made captain of Company D, District of Columbia Volunteers, and served in the defense of Washington until relieved by the northern troops. In 1845 he married Cath- erine Elizabeth Hodgson, who died in 1872, aged fifty-two years. He was the son of John McClelland, who was born in Londonderry, Ireland, 1774, of Scotch parents. He came to America and settled in Frederick, Maryland, but, in 1800, removed to Washington, where he was one of the first settlers. He was a Presbyterian, was the first trustee of the old church, which is now known as the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church. He married Mary Miller, of Frederick, and after his mar- riage he and his wife started on horseback on their wedding journey for Washington. He died in 1845. Children of Charles Townley Peck: I. Charles Vernon, born in Cortland, December 6, 1882, educated in the Cortland Normal School, now a member of the Peck Furniture Company, of Cortland; married August 27, 1908, Josephine E. Pinney, of Ell- ington, Connecticut ; one son, Charles Vernon, born October 31, 1909. 2. Elizabeth McClel- land, born April 27, 1886; married, October II, 1910, Willis A. Schleit, of Syracuse, New York, assistant salesmanager for Pierce, But- ler & Pierce, of Syracuse.
PECK (VIII) John Peck, son of Stephen Northrop Peck (q. v.), was born at Solon, June 10, 1823, died May 21, 1888. He succeeded to the homestead of his father and followed farming all his active years. In addition he owned several other valuable farms in Solon and other real estate in Cortland, and was a prosperous and sub- stantial citizen. He was an active and promi- nent member of the Baptist church. He mar- ried, July 23, 1862, Caroline Kinney, born at Cortland, New York, April 9, 1842, daughter of Buel and Charlotte Ann ( Leonard) Kinney. Children : 1. Lottie Maria, born July 21, 1863; married (first), February 22, 1883, John C. Peet ; (second) Emmett Jennings, a druggist of Cortland. 2. Linus W., mentioned below. 3. Miles John, mentioned below. 4. Ida Louise, born October 4, 1871; married, October 4, 1899, Earl B. Lovell, head of the engineering department of Columbia University, New York City. 5. Cora Etta, born March 14, 1874; married, August 13, 1896, Carlos J. Cole- man, attorney and farmer.
(IX) Linns Willard, son of John Peck, was
born May 16, 1866, in Solon, New York, and was educated in the union schools at McGraw- ville, and at the Eastman Business College, at Poughkeepsie, New York. When his father died in 1888, he succeeded to the homestead, which he still owns, and for several years he carried on the farm. In 1894 he removed to Cortland, New York, and afterward, in part- nership with his brother, Miles J. Peck, en- gaged in business there under the firm name of Peck Brothers, dealers in all kinds of farm machinery and implements, farm wagons and horse furnishing goods. In 1897 the firm established a lumber business in addition to the other lines of trade. In 1902 Mr. Peck withdrew from the firm and engaged in the wholesale lumber trade and has continued suc- cessfully to the present time, with offices at Cortland. He has also extensive farming and real estate interests in Cortland and vicinity. He is a member of the Baptist church, and is holding the office of deacon. In politics he is a Prohibitionist. He married, June 1, 1887, Jennie L. Smith, born at Cortlandville, New York, April 6, 1867, daughter of Ephraim and Louise ( Henderson) Smith. Her father was a soldier in the Union army in the civil war, a private in Company A, One Hundred and Fifty-seventh New York Regiment, and took part in fourteen hard-fought engagements and several other skirmishes. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Peck: Lena May, born March 8, 1889; John Carl, February 1, 1895.
(IX) Miles John, son of John Peck, was born in Solon, New York, March 10, 1869. He attended the district schools of his native town and the New York Central College, at McGrawville, New York. After the death of his father, he had the management of five farms belonging to the estate, comprising five hundred and ten acres, and continued until 1893, when, owing to an injury received in a railroad wreck while he was on his way to the World's Fair in Chicago, he had to give up farming. For a time he represented the Mc- Cormick farm machinery in this section and carried on an extensive business in that line for several years. He sold sixty-three ma- chines the first season and to celebrate his suc- cess, invited his customers to a banquet and had a parade with a brass band. He was also for a time employed in the Cortland Foundry and Machine Company. In 1896 he formed a partnership with his brother, Linus W., under the firm name of Peck Brothers. The firm
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began business February 1, 1896, in the store at 97 Main street, Cortland, with a spacious storehouse in the rear, dealing in agricultural machinery, farm implements, wagons, sleighs, horse furnishing goods and farm supplies. In 1897 the firm engaged also in the lumber busi- ness, and, April 1, 1899, moved to the armory, on Main street. This building had a floor space of eighty by two hundred and twenty feet, and was divided into two departments. The horse furnishing department, manufactory, warerooms and office occupied a space thirty by sixty, and the display rooms for implements, machinery and vehicles the remainder of the building. The lumber yard was in the rear of this building. After ten years the firm was dissolved and Linus W. continued in the lum- ber business, while Miles J. was employed by the Equitable Life Insurance Company, of New York, for a time. He has been interested in various other enterprises and all of them have proved successful. He bought five hun- dred acres of timber land in Solon, New York, cleared it and made a handsome profit. In 1907 he bought the Wickwire farm of one hundred and seventy-two acres, near the city of Cortland.
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