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Levi J. Marshall
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only child of David Wilton. She died Au- gust 25, 1683. Children: Samuel, Lydia, Thomas (died young), David, Thomas (of whom further), Mary, Eliakim, John and Eliza. All born between the years 1653 and 1674.
(III) Deacon Thomas (2), son of Captain Samuel and Mary (Wilton) Marshall, was born in Windsor, Connecticut, February 18, 1664. He was an original proprietor of Tor- rington, but did not settle there. He died No- vember 8, 1735. He married, in Windsor, March 3, 1686, Mary Drake; children : Thomas (died young), Mary, Samuel, Thom- as (of whom further), Rachel, Catherine, John, Noah, Daniel, Benjamin and Eunice.
(IV) Thomas (3), son of Deacon Thomas (2) and Mary (Drake) Marshall, was born at Windsor, February 6, 1694, died February 4, 1772. He removed to Torrington, where he settled on a farm prior to 1755. He mar- ried Elizabeth Tudor, October 9, 1725. She was of French descent, had considerable prop- erty in her own right, and was a woman of high temper, a quality in which it was said Mr. Marshall was not lacking. They agreed to a separation for a time, but after two years revoked the decree. She survived him eight- teen years, dying February 8, 1790, aged ninety years. Children: Thomas, died young ; Gad, born February 18, 1732; Job, April 22, 1736; Thomas, of whom further.
(V) Thomas (4), son of Thomas (3) and Elizabeth (Tudor) Marshall, was born in Torrington, Connecticut, August 24, 1738, died suddenly May 5, 1810. His father gave him a farm in Newfield, adjoining the Win- chester line, in 1761. He settled there and established the first large dairy in Newfield. He was a man of peculiarities, but more than ordinarily enterprising and energetic. He wrote in his account book: "In 1799 I made seventy-eight barrels of cider, in 1803 eighty barrels, in 1807 one hundred twenty. In 1805 I sold my new milk cheese for ten cents a pound." He was among the first settlers of Newfield, Connecticut, and was a man of con- siderable influence. He married Dezialı Tuttle, January 30, 1764. She died August 14, 1808. He married (second) Widow Sarah Butler, of Harwinton. Children: I. Raphael, born May II, 1765. 2. Reuben, born November 29, 1766 ; a merchant of Winchester, Connec- ticut, and Granville, Massachusetts ; died Feb- ruary 13, 1814. 3. Harvey, born June 29, 1768; married Anna Frisbie, of Burlington, Connecticut ; left issue. 4. Sarah, born June 10, 1770; married Oliver Coe, December I, 1791 ; had issue. 5. Levi, of whom further. 6. Roswell, born December 30, 1773; married
Sophia Bass; lived in Colebrook, where she died November 23, 1845. 7. Seth, born De- cember 2, 1775; married Susan Frisbie, of Burlington, Connecticut ; removed to Paines- ville, Ohio. 8. Rachel, born June 19, 1781 ; married, December 19, 1799, Captain Levi Munsill, and resided on the dairy homestead, where she died January 16, 1842; left issue. 9. Susannah, born August 14, 1783.
(VI) Levi, son of Thomas and Dezialı (Tuttle) Marshall, was born in Newfield, Connecticut, April 19, 1772. He resided in Winchester, Connecticut, until 1800, when he removed to Vernon, Oneida county, New York, where he died December 25, 1818. He married, April 19, 1795, Mary (Polly) Grid- ley, born August 9, 1776, died June 25, 1855. They had five children.
(VII) Levi T., son of Levi and Mary (Gridley) Marshall was born in Vernon, Oneida county, New York, February 6, 1808, died August 11, 1884. He was a farmer of the town of Vernon until 1869, when he re- moved to Gloversville, New York, where he died. He was a man of education and strong convictions. Under different early conditions he would have been devoted to one of the professions, but circumstances forced him to become a farmer and he was a most successful one. He was actively connected with the Oneida County and the State agricultural as- sociations, and for many years held official positions on the managing boards of both (president or secretary). He gave much at- tention to fruit growing, and so beautiful were his grounds that they were objects of more than passing favorable comment. After his removal to Gloversville, where he purchased forty acres of land and added to the village, he organized the Rural Art Association, was its first president, and made a most potent fac- tor in the beautifying of the village and se- curing needed public improvement. "Mar- shall Avenue" commemorates his memory in Gloversville, which he did much to beautify and adorn. Later the name was changed to Third Avenue. His influence in the village was all for good. His private life was one to be commended and emulated, while his public spirit was always manifested in his furtherance of all movements for the public good. His public life was a distinguished one. He early displayed a liking for affairs military. He enlisted in the militia as then constituted and served so faithfully that pro- motion was rapid. In 1839 he was commis- sioned brigadier-general by Governor William H. Seward. He was an active Whig, and while president of Oneida made several suc- cessful campaigns, although his party was
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in the minority. In 1835 he was elected jus- tice of the peace, an office he held without interruption (except for one term) until his removal to Fulton county in 1869. In 1841 he represented Vernon on the county board of supervisors, and in 1861 was nominated and elected to the state legislature, a representative from the Second Assembly District of Oneida county. He fairly earned all of his three titles "General," "Squire," and "Honorable," and filled with honor every office he ever held. He shaped his life by the Golden Rule, and was held in the highest esteem where best known. While resident of Gloversville he served as village trustee, and finding the board without regulations or by-laws, he drafted a code upon which the present fire and water systems are based. He never engaged active- ly in business in the village, although he was a director of the Gloversville National Bank and was financially interested in the hardware business.
He married, April II, 1832, Mary Ann, born September 15, 1815, died August 14, 1890, daughter of John Smith, left an or- phan at eighteen years, the eldest of five children. Levi T. and Mary Ann Marshall were the parents of three children: I. Char- lamagne, born January 13, 1843, died March 21, 1844. 2. Joseph Addison, born February 21, 1846; married; January 26, 1876, Irene Wing Lasher. 3. Anna May, born February 3, 1856; married, April 11, 1883, Edwin P. Bellows, born March 24, 1851; she is a mem- ber of the board of directors of the Glovers- ville branch of the Mohawk and Hudson River Humane Society, and is deeply inter- ested in all humane work, both among chil- dren and animals. She is a member of Gen. Richard Montgomery, Chapter of the Daugh- ters of the American Revolution, and since 1906 has been regent.
PECK The American ancestor of the Pecks of Cohoes, New York, is Deacon Paul Peck, of Hartford, Connecticut, who is believed to have been born in Essex county, England. The family name is of very ancient origin and great antiquity. There are various theories as to its original meaning or significaton, and to those who first bore it Pek, Peek, Pecke. Peke, Peak and Peake are found in the different works on heraldry, but Peck and Peak are doubtless dis- tinct names. The family was seated in Bel- ton, Yorkshire, England, at a very early date. (I) "Deacon" Paul Peck came to America in the ship "Defence" in 1635, remained in or near Boston, Massachusetts, until 1636, and then removed to Hartford, Connecticut,
with the Rev. Thomas Hooker and his colony. His name is on the list of the proprietors of Hartford in 1639. From the records of the town it appears that he was one of the lead- ing citizens. He was deacon of the Congre- gational church from 1681 until his death, December 23, 1695. His residence appears to have been upon what is now Washington street, and was long known among the older persons as the "Peck lot." His will dated June 25, 1695, proved January 15, 1696, is quite lengthy and full of interest in its details and description of his property. His estate inventoried £536. 5s. He makes bequests to wife Mary, sons Paul and Joseph, daughters Martha Cornwall, Mary Andrew, Sarah Clark, and Elizabeth How, grandsons, Paul and Samuel, and to his son-in-law, John Shepherd. He also names his granddaughter, Ruth Beach, and son-in-law, Joseph Bonton. He had nine children. As only two are men- tioned, his children John, Samuel and Han- nah were probably dead.
(II) Paul (2), second eldest child of Dea- con Paul (I) and Mary Peck, was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1639. He resided in West Hartford, Connecticut, where he died in 1725, aged eighty-six years. He married Elizabeth, daughter of John Baisey. Chil- dren: I. Paul, born 1666, who had a son Paul Peck, who was killed in the revolution. 2. John, born 1672. 3. Martha, born 1676; mar- ried Samuel Hubbard, of Middletown, Con- necticut, now Berlin. 4. Samuel, born 1686; settled in Middletown. 5. Hannah, born 1681 ; married (first) Joseph Hopkins; (second), John Porter ; she resided in Waterbury, Con- necticut. 6. William, born 1686. 7. Ruth, born 1688; married (first) Samuel Sedgwick; (second) Samuel Culver, of Wallingford.
(III) John, second child of Paul (2) and Elizabeth (Baisey) Peck, was born in West Hartford, Connecticut, 1672. He married Me- hitable Reeve, of Hartford, November 9, 1707, and removed to Litchfield, Connecticut, in 1720. Children: I. John, born November 3, 1708; settled in Vermont at an early date. 2. Abraham, born November 15, 1710. 3.
Isaac, married Ruth Tomlinson and moved to Canaan, Connecticut. 4. Jacob, died in early life. 5. A daughter, died in infancy. 6. Reeve, born March 3, 1723. 7. Lydia, married Elisha Peck, a kinsman ; she died at the residence of her son Asa, in Litchfield, aged ninety-six years.
(IV) Abraham, son of John and Mehitable (Reeve) Peck, was born in Hartford, Con- necticut, November 15. 1710. He lived in Litchfield, where he died August, 1801, in his ninety-first year. He married Hannah
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-. Children : Abraham ; Sybel, born Au- gust 9, 1765. There were most likely other children, perhaps another wife, but the rec- ords do not mention them.
(V) Abraham (2), second son of Abraham (1) and Hannah Peck, was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, November 15, 1763. He re- moved to Cornwall, Vermont, 1802. He mar- ried Honor De Wolf. Children: I. Hannah, born April 22, 1788. 2. Alanson, February 4, 1790. 3. Epaphroditus, July 6, 1791. 4. Da- vid, December 8, 1794, died 1796. 5. Mary, March 6, 1796. 6. Lucretia, April 22, 1708. 7. Isaac, July 27, 1800. 8. Frederick, March 12, 1803. 9. Sibyl, December 14, 1805. 10. Electra, August 22, 1807.
(VI) Alanson, second child of Abraham (2) and Honor (De Wolf) Peck, was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, February 4, 1790. He removed with his parents to Cornwall, Vermont, in 1902. He was a school teacher and farmer. He married Nancy De Lano. Children : Benjamin R., Mary V., Henry G., Lydia.
(VII) Benjamin R., eldest child of Alanson and Nancy (De Lano) Peck, was born July 31, 1819, in Cornwall, Vermont, died April 24, 1896. He followed the occupation of teaching and later engaged in the manufacture of sash and blinds in Cohoes, New York, continuing during the remainder of his active life. He was a Presbyterian in religion. He married Elizabeth Griffin, who died February 20, 1908. Children: Frank Bayard and Mary Adelaide.
(VIII) Frank Bayard, son of Benjamin R. and Elizabeth (Griffin) Peck, was born in Co- hoes, New York, August 1, 1853. He ob- tained his education in the common schools of Cohoes, Egbert high school, public school at Fort Edward, and Cornell Business Col- lege, Troy, New York. He entered business life with A. J. Griffin, continuing with him as bookkeeper for about eight years. In 1880 he began business on his own account. He established a coal yard in Waterford, and has had a long successful career as a retail dealer in coal and wood. He was very suc- cessful, and in 1901 extended his field by opening a similar business in Cohoes. He conducted both yards, retaining sole owner- ship and control until January 13, 1907, and in that year The Frank B. Peck Coal Com- pany was incorporated with Mr. Peck as pres- ident and treasurer. The company took over his entire private coal and wood business and continues both yards, with Thomas J. Mul- hern as manager. Mr. Peck is also interested in the ice business at Coveville, New York. The company has modern, well-equipped yards
with hoisting machinery for elevating the coal some sixty feet into pockets, from which wagons are loaded. They have a large pat- ronage, which is well served by their perfect equipment in both yard and office. Mr. Peck was formerly very active in politics. He is a Republican, and has given much of his time and ability to the public service. He was postmaster of Waterford for five and one-half years, appointed by President Harrison; su- perintendent of northern division of the Cham- plain canal, appointed by State Superintend- ent of Public Works Aldridge; he held this position for ten years, resigning on account of ill health; highway commissioner; chairman of Saratoga county Republican committee for eighteen years, and filling other local offices. Mr. Peck was instrumental in inaugurating the present water system, and upon the erec- tion of the fire and hose building it was named the F. B. Peck Hose Company in his honor. He attends the Presbyterian church of Co- hoes. Mr. Peck is a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity, holding membership in Lodge, Chapter, Commandery and Shrine, and is also an Elk, and member of the Water- ford Country Club.
PECK The American ancestor of the Peck family of Troy herein considered was William Peck, who was among the first of the early settlers of New England. Others of the name arrived at about the same time, but apparently were not re- lated. They were the progenitors of a nu- merous posterity, and the name is a distin- guished one in the United States.
(I) William Peck was born in or near the city of London, England, in 1601, and married there about the year 1622. His son Jeremiah was the only English-born child. William Peck, with wife Elizabeth and son Jeremiah, emigrated from England to Amer- ica, coming in the company with Governor Eaton, Rev. John Davenport and others in the ship "Hector," arriving at Boston from Lon- don, June 26, 1637. This company, consist- ing largely of merchants and farmers, had suffered much from the intolerance and per- secutions of the reign of King Charles I, and their object in coming to America was to se- cure unmolested enjoyment of civil and re- ligious liberty. William Peck was one of the original proprietors of New Haven, Connec- ticut, his autograph signature being affixed to the agreement or constitution, dated June 4, 1639, for the government of the infant col- ony (this is said to be "one of the first examples in history of a written constitution organizing a government and defining its pow-
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ers"). He was admitted a freeman of the colony, October 20, 1640; was a merchant, and a trustee, treasurer and general business agent of the Colony Collegiate School, es- tablished on the basis of the Hopkins' fund. He is usually named in the records with the title of "Mr.," then a prefix of respect and distinction. From 1659 until his death he was a deacon of the church in New Haven. His home lot of about an acre, his house and store were on Church street, the front of which is now covered by the Connecticut Savings Bank building. His grave is now covered by the Center Church in New Haven. He died Oc- tober 4, 1694, aged ninety-three years. His will, dated March 9, 1688-89, probated Oc- tober 13, 1694, is recorded in the probate rec- ords of New Haven (Book II, p. 176). His wife Elizabeth died December 5, 1683. He married (second) Sarah, widow of William Holt. His children, all by first wife, survived him, as did his second wife, and are all named in his will. I. Jeremiah, see forward. 2. John, removed to Wallingford, Connecticut ; called "lieutenant" in the records. 3. Joseph, set- tled in East Saybrook (later Lynn), Connec- ticut, where he was surveyor, recorder, jus- tice of the peace and deacon of the church. 4. Elizabeth, married Samuel Andrews.
(II) Jeremiah, eldest son of William and Elizabeth Peck, was born in or near London, England, in 1623, and was brought to Amer- ica by his parents in 1637. He is said by Cotton Mather to have been a student at Har- vard, and undoubtedly was, as he was pos- sessed of a good education. His name does not, however, appear in the catalogue of grad- uates of any year. He was for a time of Guilford, Connecticut, preaching or teaching until 1660, when he removed to New Haven in response to an invitation to take charge of the Collegiate school, which had been institu- ted in New Haven by the general court in 1659. He was in charge of the school until the summer of 1661, when it was temporarily suspended for lack of support. After a few years it was revived and flourishes now un- der the name of the Johns Hopkins Grammar School. In the fall of 1661 he was invited to preach at Saybrook, Connecticut, where he is supposed to have been ordained, as he settled there as a minister, dating from Sep- tember 25, 1661. He remained in Saybrook until 1666, when lie removed to Guilford. Dif- ficulties arose in the Synod, which decided him to leave Connecticut. He removed later in 1666 to Newark, New Jersey, where he resided on the corner of Market and Mul- berry streets. He preached in the neighbor- ing towns, but not in Newark. In 1669, or
1670, he settled as the minister of Elizabeth- town, New Jersey, declining calls to other churches until 1678, when he became the first settled minister of the church in Greenwich, Connecticut. He remained here until 1689 and in 1691 became the first settled minister of the church at Waterbury, Connecticut, con- tinuing here, discharging most of his official duties until his death, June 7, 1699. He was a man of much usefulness, both as a teacher and a minister on the frontier settle- ments among the early colonists. He mar- ried Johannah Kitchell, November 12, 1656, daughter of Robert Kitchell, one of the first planters of Guilford, Connecticut. She sur- vived him until 1711, dying in Waterbury His will and that of his wife are recorded in the Waterbury land records (Deeds of Gift, p. 6 & 103 of vol I). Children: I. Samuel, see forward. 2. Ruth, married Jonathan At- water. 3. Caleb, no record of marriage. 4. Anne, married Thomas, son of Captain Stan- ley, of Farmington, Connecticut 5. Jeremiah (2), deputy to the general court of Connec- ticut ; constable, and one of the first deacons of the Northbury Church in Waterbury. 6. Joshua, died unmarried.
(III) Samuel, eldest son of Rev. Jeremiah and Johannah (Kitchell) Peck, was born in Guilford, Connecticut, January 18, 1659, died April 28, 1746; was well educated, came to Greenwich, Connecticut, with his father in 1678, where he was a man of wealth, and jus- tice of the peace for fifty years, holding other important offices until his death. He married, November 27, 1686, Ruth, daughter of Peter, granddaughter of Jeffrey Ferris, of Stamford, Connecticut. She died September 17, 1745, aged eighty-three years. Their gravestones are in the old Greenwich cemetery. Chil- dren, all born in Greenwich, Connecticut: I. Samuel (2), see forward. 2. Jeremiah (3), farmer of Greenwich. 3. Joseph, died un- married. 4. David, a farmer of Greenwich,
Connecticut, later of North Castle, Westchester county, New York. 5. Na- thaniel, justice of the peace in Green- wich for many years, and a prominent man. 6. Eliphalet, a farmer of Old Greenwich. 7. Theophilius, a large land owner of Greenwich. 8. Peter, of Greenwich. 9. Robert, of Green- wich.
(IV) Samuel (2), eldest son of Samuel (I), and Ruth (Ferris) Peck, was born in March, 1688, and died in Old Greenwich, De- cember, 1733. He was a carpenter by trade and owned a farm in that part of the town called "Old Greenwich," where he lived. He married Elizabeth in 1715. She sur- vived him, and married (second) Jolin Clogs-
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ton. Children, all born in Greenwich, Con- necticut : I. Mary, died unmarried. 2. John, see forward. 3. Samuel (3), of great energy and decision of character ; deacon of the First Congregational Church in Greenwich. 4. Ruth, married Nehemiah Haight.
(V) John, eldest son of Samuel (2) and Elizabeth Peck, was born in 1718, and died in Greenwich, September, 1771. He lived in Old Greenwich on a small farm near the shore of Long Island sound. He married, in 1741, Sarah, daughter of John Adams, who died in Clifton Park, New York, January II, 1814, aged ninety-five years. Children, all born in Greenwich, Connecticut : I. John, see forward. 2. Heath, married Rachel Roselle. He was a soldier of the revolution, but retired from the service in 1780. He led numerous scouting parties against the Tories after his return, and while out with one of them in October, 1780, was shot from the outside through a window and killed. 3. Nathan, unmarried ; drowned while attempting a rescue of several others, two of whom he saved before giving up his own life. 4. Sarah, married Wilson Northrup. 5. Ruth, married William Kinch; removed to Hampden, New York; died at Lodi, same state. 6. Abijah, born April 3, 1758; was a soldier of the revolutionary war, entering the continental army in January, 1776; was under arms when the Declaration of Independence was read to the American army, and one of the sentinels on duty when it evacuated the city of New York. He served in several compaigns, and was in the battle at White Plains. After the war he resided in North Salem, New York, and there married, November 18, 1784, Mindwell, daughter of Solomon Close, Jr., and shortly afterwards went to Galway, New York, where he re- sided until 1794, and then removed to and re- sided in Clifton Park, New York, until his decease there, November 12, 1848. His wife was born March 27, 1763, and died April 4, 1816. He married (second) in November, 1821, Widow Lydia Montgomery, who died January 22, 1846. After his removal to Clif- ton Park, he became a Baptist minister, and was ordained as such March 12, 1801. He statedly preached to the church at Clifton Park, with few intervals, and as his age per- mitted, until his death. He had a fluent dic- tion, a strong, well-balanced mind, and was a man of great influence and extensive useful- ness both as a citizen and a Christian minister. His children: Abigail, Ruth, Nathan, Solo- mon C., Sarah, Abijah, Elizabeth, John. 7. Abigail, married Alexander Baird. 8. Eliza- beth, married Joseph Youngs; removed to Ballston, New York, from thence to Amster-
dam, thence to Otego, New York. She had sixteen children, seven sons and nine daugh- ters, all of whom married and settled in Broome, Chenango and Otsego counties, New York.
(VI) John (2), son of John (1) and Sa- rah (Adams) Peck, was born November 12, 1742, died September 19, 1819. In 1775, when but thirty-two years of age, he was a veteran of a long war and accustomed to a military life. He had served in the army for four years during the then recent French war, and subsequently became an active mem- ber of the militia. He enlisted in the Eighth Company, Captain Thomas Lee, Fifth Regi- ment of the New York Line, Colonel Lewis Dubois, December 26, 1776, for three years or during the war and was mustered out, January, 1782. He appears to have served part of his enlistment, from February 10, 1777, to May, 1779, in the First Company, Captain Rosekrans, of the same regiment. Subsequent to the expiration of his first three years of service he was in the winter of 1780 a member of the Light Company of the same Fifth Regiment. He served in the battle at White Plains. Colonel Dubois was in com- mand of his regiment at the capture of Fort Montgomery, October 6, 1777, and his lieuten- ant-colonel and major were taken prisoners, and in this battle John Peck was serving. He was reported missing October 6, 1777, with a large number of others of that company. There is complete evidence, both direct and circumstantial, that John Peck was not only a revolutionary soldier for upwards of six years, but was during all that time a conti- nental soldier of the war. In 1772 John Peck removed to Great Nine Partners, in that part now Stanford, Dutchess county, New York. In 1780 he moved to Little Nine Partners, in that part now Milan, same county, where he remained until 1788, then returned to Stanford, and in 1792 removed west of the Hudson river to what is now Hunter, Greene county, New York. In February, 1795, he settled in Sherburne, Chenango county, New York, where he resided until his death. He was a man of superior natural talents, great firmness and energy, one of the enterprising valuable pioneers in the settlement of New York state.
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