1314–1315. Jeremiah Peck was born in 1623, and died in Waterbury, Connecticut, on June 7, 1699. Joanna Ketchell of Greenwich, Connecticut was born about 1637, and died in Waterbury in 1711. They were married on Wednesday, November 12, 1656. She took the name Joanna Peck. He is the son of William, (Deacon) and Elizabeth (_____) Peck. She is the daughter of Robert and Margaret (Sheafe) Ketchell. They had six children:
| i. | Samuel Peck was born in Greenwich, Connecticut, on January 18, 1659, and died on April 28, 1746. He married Ruth __orris in Nov 1686. Her name is obliterated on the family record sheet. | |
| ii. | Ruth Peck [#657]: She died in New Haven, Connecticut Colony, on June 3, 1726. | |
| iii. | Caleb Peck was born in New Haven Colony in 1663. He died young. | |
| iv. | Anna Peck was born in New Haven in 1665, and died on May 23, 1718. She married Thomas Stanley on 1 May 1690. | |
| v. | Jeremiah Peck was born in New Haven about 1667, and died in 1752. He married Rachel Richards on June 14, 1704. | |
| vi. |
Joshua Peck was born
in Newark, Middlesex County, Connecticut,
in 1673, and died
on February 14, 1736.
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Under the entry for Johathan Atwater in Atwater History and Genealogy by Francis Atwater, 1901, page 97, is the following.
The Rev. Jeremiah Peck, father of Ruth, was a son of William Peck, Deacon, one of the original settlers of New Haven, also a signer of the "Fundamental Agreement of Quinnipiack". He [Jeremiah] was born in England about 1623. In 1656 he kept a school in Guilford, Conn., where he remained until 1660. That year he was established, according to an act of the court, in the Hopkins Collegiate Grammer School of New Haven, and there "taught the languages of sciences". In 1661 he was a minister at Saybrook. In 1677 [probably 1667], unwilling to abide by the union of the New Haven Colony with the "lax and broader principaled" Colony of Connecticut, he, with a few others, departed for Newark, N.J., to form a colony more congenial to their views. He they resided in 1674. He then removed to Elizabethtown, N.J., thence to Greenwich, Conn., where he was minister to 1689; thence to Waterbury, Conn., where he was the first minister, and there d. June 7, 1699, aged 76. He married, Nov 12, 1656, Joanna Ketchel, dau. of "Mr." Robert Ketchel and Margaret Sheaffe.