Individual Details
Abiel PECK 230
(19 May 1730 - 16 Dec 1802)
arly New Brunswick Probate Records 1785-1835, by R. Wallace Hale, 1989, page 349:
PECK, Abiel. Parish of Hopewell, Westmorland Co. Intestate. Administration granted 28 December 1802 to his sons Abiel PECK and Elisha PECK of Hopewell. Fellow bondsman Pickering SNOWDON of Sackville. Inventory, filed 28 April 1803, valued at 996 pounds by the administrators. Statement of distribution of the estate by Duncan REED, David AKERLY and Bradbery ROBINSON named, in addition to the widow of the deceased, Lois EDGETT wife of Joel EDGETT, Rebeckah STILES wife of Oliver STILES, Rachel DICKSON deceased wife of Robert DICKSON Esq., Nancy PEARSON wife of Nicholas PEARSON, Rhodia EDGETT wife of John EDGETT, Capt. Abiel PECK, Thomas PECK, Elisha PECK, and Louis [sic] EDGETT.
aniel F. Johnson : Volume 89 Number 2560,
Date March 27 1893,
County Saint John,
Place Saint John,
Newspaper The Daily Sun,
Hopewell (Albert Co.) Sketch of Old Shepody - The Peck grant was taken up by Abiel PECK, great-great grandson of Joseph PECK who emigrated from England to Attleboro, Mass. in the year 1636. Abiel Peck was born in 1730 and married Ruth SKINNER of Attleboro. He came to Cumberland at the time of the Revolution and shortly after to Shepody where he obtained a large tract of land from the government said to contain 6,000 acres. The most of this land is still owned by the Peck family. A tombstone in the old Peck burying ground bears this inscription 'Here lies interred the body of Abiel Peck, a native of Boston, and one of the first settlers of this place, who, on the 16th of Dec., 1802, unfortunately perished in a boat, in the 73rd year of his age, leaving upwards of three score descendants to lament his melancholy fate.' During his life the country was a comparative wilderness with no roads nor means of communication with the different settlements along the shore, except by water. It was upon one of these occasions, while attempting to cross the Bay from Dorchester to his own place in an open boat, that he lost his life. The boat was picked up in a cove near the Joggin, now known as Peck's Cove. The elder Peck had eleven children. One of these, Rachel PECK, married Thomas CALHOUN, grandfather of George CALHOUN, now Registrar of Deeds for Albert Co. The grant was for the most part divided among his immediate family, the last side of the grant, when he had first settled himself, being given to his son Abiel. The next lot, the only one that went outside of the family, was sold to David HOAR from Colchester, N.S. The next farms were occupied by his sons Elisha PECK and Thomas PECK and his sons-in-law, Nicholas PEARSON, John EDGETT, Oliver STILES and Joel EDGETT.
PECK, Abiel. Parish of Hopewell, Westmorland Co. Intestate. Administration granted 28 December 1802 to his sons Abiel PECK and Elisha PECK of Hopewell. Fellow bondsman Pickering SNOWDON of Sackville. Inventory, filed 28 April 1803, valued at 996 pounds by the administrators. Statement of distribution of the estate by Duncan REED, David AKERLY and Bradbery ROBINSON named, in addition to the widow of the deceased, Lois EDGETT wife of Joel EDGETT, Rebeckah STILES wife of Oliver STILES, Rachel DICKSON deceased wife of Robert DICKSON Esq., Nancy PEARSON wife of Nicholas PEARSON, Rhodia EDGETT wife of John EDGETT, Capt. Abiel PECK, Thomas PECK, Elisha PECK, and Louis [sic] EDGETT.
aniel F. Johnson : Volume 89 Number 2560,
Date March 27 1893,
County Saint John,
Place Saint John,
Newspaper The Daily Sun,
Hopewell (Albert Co.) Sketch of Old Shepody - The Peck grant was taken up by Abiel PECK, great-great grandson of Joseph PECK who emigrated from England to Attleboro, Mass. in the year 1636. Abiel Peck was born in 1730 and married Ruth SKINNER of Attleboro. He came to Cumberland at the time of the Revolution and shortly after to Shepody where he obtained a large tract of land from the government said to contain 6,000 acres. The most of this land is still owned by the Peck family. A tombstone in the old Peck burying ground bears this inscription 'Here lies interred the body of Abiel Peck, a native of Boston, and one of the first settlers of this place, who, on the 16th of Dec., 1802, unfortunately perished in a boat, in the 73rd year of his age, leaving upwards of three score descendants to lament his melancholy fate.' During his life the country was a comparative wilderness with no roads nor means of communication with the different settlements along the shore, except by water. It was upon one of these occasions, while attempting to cross the Bay from Dorchester to his own place in an open boat, that he lost his life. The boat was picked up in a cove near the Joggin, now known as Peck's Cove. The elder Peck had eleven children. One of these, Rachel PECK, married Thomas CALHOUN, grandfather of George CALHOUN, now Registrar of Deeds for Albert Co. The grant was for the most part divided among his immediate family, the last side of the grant, when he had first settled himself, being given to his son Abiel. The next lot, the only one that went outside of the family, was sold to David HOAR from Colchester, N.S. The next farms were occupied by his sons Elisha PECK and Thomas PECK and his sons-in-law, Nicholas PEARSON, John EDGETT, Oliver STILES and Joel EDGETT.
Events
| Birth | 19 May 1730 | Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA |  | ||
| Marriage | 11 Jun 1751 | Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA - Ruth SKINNER 231 | | ||
| Resided | 1765 | Sackville, New Brunswick, CAN | | ||
| Resided | 1768 | Hopewell, Albert, New Brunswick, CAN |  | ||
| Death | 16 Dec 1802 | Hopewell, Albert, New Brunswick, CAN | |
Families
| Spouse | Ruth SKINNER 231 (1727 - ) |
| Child | Ezra Peck (1752 - 1752) |
| Child | Abiel Peck (1753 - 1754) |
| Child | Rachel Peck (1754 - 1803) |
| Child | Abiel Peck (1756 - 1814) |
| Child | Rebekah PECK 115 (1758 - 1850) |
| Child | Ruth Peck (1761 - 1781) |
| Child | Lois Peck (1762 - ) |
| Child | Elisha Peck (1763 - 1846) |
| Child | Thomas Peck (1767 - 1825) |
| Child | Rhoda Peck (1769 - 1857) |
| Child | Nancy Peck (1772 - ) |
| Father | John PECK 460 (1700 - 1730) |
| Mother | Rebecca RICHARDSON 461 (1696 - 1738) |
| Sibling | John Peck (1725 - ) |
| Sibling | Hannah Peck (1726 - 1727) |
| Sibling | Rebekah Peck (1727 - 1717) |
Notes
Resided
"In 1768, probably in an attempt to shore up the settlement, Thomas Calhounrecruited Abiel Peck from Sackville as a tenant for a term of seven years and (pounds)20 for theland. Peck was to take up lots 3 and 4.(fn 48) Peck was a welcome addition to the settlement because it would appear that he was willing to do the work the other tenants would not. Peck was a blacksmith and was soon providing iron goods to the settlement. He was also responsible for the erection of the sawmill at German Creek."
fn 48: Petition of Suit Abiel Peck versus Fredrick Haldimand. Ward Chipman papers, , Records of Various Townships and Settlements in NB, 1765-1829, NAC, MG23, D1, Series 1, Vol. 10, pp. 113-5.
Source: "The Wanderers: The Early Settlement of Hopewell Albert County, NB, 1765-1786," by Bradley Shoebottom.
Endnotes
1. Ira B. Peck, A Genealogical History of the Descendants of Joseph Peck (1868), 138.
2. Massachusetts Marriages, 1633-1850, at ancestry.com.
3. Doug Ayer, List of individuals in Sackville, 1765.
4. Ira B. Peck, A Genealogical History of the Descendants of Joseph Peck (1868), 142.
5. New Brunswick Royal Gazette via Daniel F. Johnson.