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(II) Gerret
Gerretse Durland, son of Jan Gerretse
Dorlandt, was born in 1655 in Brooklyn, died
in Flatbush after 1741. He resided in
Brooklyn. In the year off his demise he was
a witness in a case involving the location
and value of lands, with which he was
familiar through a lifelong residence in the
district, which was at Wale Bocht, now
Wallabout. He was a member of the Reformed
Dutch Church from 1677 to 1687, and probably
later, as was also his wife. He subscribed
to the oath of allegiance to England in
September, 1687. On March 22, 1689, he
bought two lots of thirty acres each in the
"New Lotts" of Flatbush, on the third kill.
This property he mortgaged June 5, 1689, fro
one hundred and sixty pounds. In the census
of 1698 he is noted as a resident of "flackbush."
In 1738 he resided at Gravesend, but
eventually returned to Flatbush, as he was
living in the latter place in 1741. He
married (first), May 25, 1682, Cornelia de
Beauvoise, baptized March 3, 1650, in New
Amsterdam, died in 1682-3. He married
(second) Gertrude Aukes Van Nuys.
Children: 1. Charles. 2. Gerret. 3.
John, of whom further. 4. Hermina. 5.
Anna.
(III) John,
son of Gerret Gerretse Durland, probably
child of second wife, was born about 1688,
died after 1744. He resided in Norwich,
near Oyster Bay, and married Mary Birdsell.
His wife was undoubtedly of English descent,
which accounts for the introduction of
English names among their children.
Children: 1. Gerret. 2. John. 3.
Cornelia. 4. Henry. 5. Anna. 6. Mary.
7. Charles, of whom further. 8. Joseph.
9. Daniel. 10. Mercy.
(IV)
Charles, son of John and Mary (Birdsell)
Durland, was born March 19, 1731, near
Oyster Bay, died December 17, 1798, in
Chester, Orange County, New York. He moved
to Orange County, New York, from Long
Island in 1754. He engaged on the frontier
in the French and Indian War, at its
conclusion was married and began farming.
He is included in the list of "exempts" from
military service, following a list of
signers of the Association in Goshen
precinct, Orange county, New York, June 21,
1775, as set forth in the "Calendar of
Historical Manuscripts" (N. Y.) vol. I, p.
12. On August 29, 1788, he purchased the
farm of one hundred acres at Westchester,
New York, which is still held in the
family. He made his will June 4, 1794, and
this was proved late in the year 1798. He
married in 1755, Jane Swartout, born 1730,
died in 1812, Children: 1. Mary. 2.
Catherine. 3. Gerret. 4. Joseph, of whom
further. 5. Elizabeth. 6. Charles. 7.
Roxannah. 8. John. 9. Samuel, of whom
further.
(V) Joseph,
second son of Charles and Jane (Swartout)
Durland, was born March 31, 1762, at
Chester, New York, died 1828. He married
(first), April 1, 1787, Martha Board, born
1765, died December 13, 1797; married
(second June 4, 1799, Sarah Satterly, born
1778, died 1838, daughter of Samuel Satterly.
He resided in Chester, Goshen township,
Orange County, New York. Children, by
second marriage: 1. James. 2. Charles B.
3. Thomas. 4. Elizabeth. 5. Martha.
6. Christina. 7. Jonas. 8. Samuel S.,
of whom further. 9. Jane. 10. Susan.
11. James. 12. Thomas E.
(VI)Samuel Satterly, fifth son of Joseph
and Sarah (Satterly) Durland, was born
in Chester, new York, December 17, 1804,
died with typhoid, November 30, 1833.
He married, September 22, 1829, Amelia
Vernon, of East Norwich, Long Island,
who was born in 1806, died 1876.
He was farmer on the Durland homestead.
Children: 1. Joseph, of whom
further. 2. Susan. 3.
Letitia, married Henry Wisner Wood.
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(VII) Joseph
(2), son of Samuel Satterly and Amelia
(Vernon) Durland, was born in the old family
homestead in Chester, New York, March
16,1832, died in the village of Chester,
November 18, 1910. He attended the public
schools of his native town and completed his
education at the Chester Academy, and at the
academy at Bloomfield, New Jersey. At an
early age he began his business career as a
clerk in Masterson's store in Westchester.
He was later, for a few years, a partner of
his stepfather, James Durland, at Chester
Mills. On February 1, 1859, he purchased
the interest of his father-in-law, James J.
Board, in the store conducted under the firm
name of Board, Pierson & Company. A Mr.
Bell was admitted in the firm, which then
became Pierson, Bell & Durland. In
February, 1862, Mr. Durland and his brother,
Samuel S, Durland, formed a partnership and
purchased the interests of Mr. Pierson and
Mr. Bell. The two brothers conducted the
business until 1872, when Mr. S. S. Durland
retired from the firm. Mr. Joseph Durland
then conducted the business alone until
1885, when his son Frank was admitted as a
partner, the firm being known as J. Durland
& Son. This partnership continued until
February 1, 1908, when Mr. Durland sold his
interest to his son and retired from active
business. Mr. Durland was one of the most
prosperous and ablest business man in the
county. Through his thrift and good
management he acquired a valuable property,
He was a wise counsellor, and his advice was
often sought by the people of this community
on matters pertaining to business and
politics. He was a public spirited citizen
and generously assisted in all movements for
the upbuilding of his community. He
traveled extensively through this country,
visiting nearly every state in the union.
He was connected with many business
enterprises. He was for many years a
director of the Warwick and the Goshen
Savings banks; the Durland Trust Company of
Norfolk, Nebraska. He was also a director
of the Chester National Bank and was its
president two years, and vice-president at
the time of his death. He was a Republican
in politics and prominent in the council of
his party. He was the first Republican
supervisor of Chester, serving in 1867 and
1868 he took an active part in the
establishing of the Union free school, and
during the years 1869-76, served as clerk of
the first board of education of Chester. He
was untiring in his service in securing In
November, 1898, the incorporation of the
village of Chester and was elected a member
of the first board of trustees. He was one
of the first to urge the construction of an
adequate water supply and was a member of
the board of water commissioners, which
installed the present system. He united
with the Presbyterian church in 1855, and
served as deacon for some time, and as elder
from 1860 until his death.
He married,
February 25, 1857, Nancy Kingsland, daughter
of Major James J. Board. She was born
November 1, 1835, and now resides in
Chester. Five children were born of the
marriage: 1. James Board, born April 28,
1858, died May 25, 1911; married, November
12, 1884, Sarah Andrews; children: i.
Violet, born August 25, 1885, married Elbert
N. Oakes, of Middletown, New York. ii.
Rose, born December 14, 1888, married Bert
Matthews, of Middletown, New York. iii.
Joseph, born December 28, 1891. iv.
Whitman R., born November 18, 1897. 2.
Frank, mentioned below. 3. Amelia Vernon,
born July 15, 1862. 4. Marion, born
October 26, 1895, died May 23, 1903. 5.
Nettie Eugenia, born February 14, 1878;
married William T. Moffatt, of New York
City; one child, Allan Kingsland.
(VIII) Frank, son of Joseph (2)
and Nancy Kingsland (Board) Durland, was
born in the Yelverton Inn, village of
Chester, New York, March 25, 1860.
He attended the public schools and the
Chester Academy until 1877, when he began
his business career by entering his father's
general store as a clerk. In 1885
his father admitted him as a partner in
the business under the firm name of J.
Durland & Son, and on February 1,
1908, he purchased his father's interest
in the business , and since that date
has conducted the store alone. Mr. Durland
is one of the prominent business men of
his town and county; is a director of
the Chester (New York) Telephone Company,
Walton Hose Company, Durland Trust Company
of Norfolk, Nebraska, and treasurer of
the Orange & Rockland Electric Company,
of Monroe, New York. In politics
he is a Republic, but has never aspired
to office. He is president of the
board of trade of Chester, and a member
of the
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Board of education. he
is a member of the Presbyterian church and
president of its board of trustees; he is
also a member of Standard Lodge, No. 711,
Free and Accepted Masons, of Monroe, New
York. He married, April 22, 1891, Mary
Hunt, daughter of William Moore and Sarah
(Burt) Sanford, of Warwick, Orange County,
New York, who was a daughter of James Burt,
for many years president of the Chester
National Bank. Two children: 1. William
Sanford, born July 13, 1892; graduate of
Nazareth Hall Military Academy, Nazareth,
Pennsylvania, and Eastman's Business College
of Poughkeepsie, New York. 2. Nancy Board,
born March 29, 1898; now a student in
Chester High School.
(V) Samuel,
son of Charles and Jane (Swartout) Durland,
was born February 11, 1775, in Chester;
there he died January 14, 1840. He owned a
farm in Chester and was a thrifty and
successful man. He married, May 3, 1795,
Elizabeth Cheshire, of Long Island, born
March, 1772, died 1849. Children: 1.
Mercy, 2. Mary. 3. Matilda. 4.
Daniel. 5. Albert. 6. Sophia, 7. John
C., of whom further. 8. Elsie, married
--------Arkill. 9. Coe. 10. Elizabeth,
married ------- Bailey.
(IV) John
C., son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Cheshire)
Durland, was born June 30, 1807, in Goshen,
New York, died near Monticello, in 1894;
buried in Monticello. He grew to manhood in
Chester, attending the district schools,
soon after attaining his majority he settled
on a farm two miles west of Monticello, in
Sullivan County, New York. he married,
September 21, 1830, Adeline, daughter of
Townsend Dusenberry, born about 1808, died
in 1858. Children: 1. Stephen D., of whom
further. 2. Phebe Ann, May 31, 1836;
married, in 2855; James E. Miller, Of Orange
County, new York; lived on a farm in the
village of Bullville, in that county;
children: i. John, born 1856, married
Hattie Dann, resides in Orange County,
ii. George Edwin, 1858, married Alice Nibbs,
of Middletown, where they live, iii.
Clarence Townsend, 1862, married Belle
Harbor, of Kansas, iv. Ada Elizabeth,
married Henry Smith, died march 2, 1912,
resided near Howells Station, Orange
County. James E. Miller died in July, 1910,
at Bullville; his widow now resides with a
nephew at Hurleyville, Sullivan County Mew
York. 3. James Townsend, of whom
further. 4. Samuel, of whom further. 5.
Emily, March, 1843, died at age of two
years. 6. Peter Dusenberry, June, 1845,
resided at Hewins, Kansas. 7. Harriet,
married Joseph Holmes and lives in Sullivan
County, New York. 8. Albert, born March
11, 1855; married Olivia Olmstead, and lives
in Burnside, Orange County; children: i.
Ralph, ii. Albert, living at
Washingtonville, New York, iii Theron, a
farmer at Burnside, new York, iv. Ralph,
served an enlistment in the United States
Navy.
(VII) Steven
Dusenberry, eldest child of John C. and
Adeline (Dusenberry) Durland, was born in
1834, in Monticello. He attend the local
schools of that town and Monticello
Academy. He taught school for some years
and later was a farmer near the village of
Monticello. He was among the patriots who
responded early to the call of his country
in the One Hundred and Forty-third New York
Volunteer Infantry, serving in Company B,
under Captain Baldwin. He died in 1864
from exposure and never returned to his
native home. The family never received any
definite knowledge of how or when he lost
his life. His trunk was shipped home with
notice of his having died. He acted as
secretary or yeoman to Captain Baldwin
during the war. He married Delia Hoyt,
daughter of Leander and Mary (Weed) Hoyt.
Mrs. Durland survived her husband many
years. She married (second) James Arkills,
of Sullivan County and has a daughter, Lena
M. Arkills, born 1877, now the wife of
Edward Dodd, residing in Otisville, Orange
County, New York, and has two children,
Grace and Agnes. Children of Stephen D.
Durland: 1. Marshall, who lived but two
years. 2. Leander Hoyt, mentioned below.
(VIII) Leander Hoyt, only surviving son
of Stephen Dusenberry and Delia (Hoyt)
Durland, was born February 3, 1863, in
Bridgeville, Sullivan County, New York.
he was educated in the district schools
and Monticello Academy. In1889 he
engaged in the livery business at Monticello
and has the largest and most complete
establishment of its kind in that village.
In the great fire of 1909 his house and
barns were completely destroyed and have
been rebuilt in the most substantial manner.
Mr. Durland has long been active in the
conduct of local affairs; was elected
supervisor in 1905, and re-elected in
1907. He
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also served two terms
as tax collector, beginning in 1908; in
political affairs he acts with the
Republican party; is a member of the
Knights of the Maccabees, and the Masonic
fraternity, and with his family is
affiliated with the Presbyterian Church. He
married, December 24, 1891, Mary Emma,
daughter of Edgar and Matilda (Smith) Evans,
of Otisville. Mr. and Mrs. Evans had
children: 1. John K., born 1863, in orange
County, is now serving his fourth term as
member of assembly from Sullivan County; he
married Jennie Sherman, of Bloomingburg, and
has two Children: Sadie and Florence. 2.
Mary E., born September 7, 1866; wife of
Leander H. Durland, as above noted. 3.
Elizabeth, born 1871; wife of George Palmer,
resides in Otisville. 4. Emeline, born
1874; married George smith and reside in
Otisville. 5. Theodore, born 1879; lives,
unmarried, in Bloomingburg. Mrs. Evans died
in 1890, and her husband now resides in
Bloomingburg. He married (second) a widow,
Mariette (Harding) Smith. Children of
Leander H. Durland: 1. Mabel Holmes, born
July 8, 1892. 2. Edgar Evans, April 20,
1895. 3. Lena Arkills, August 21, 1898.
4. Elizabeth Palmer, August 21, 1899. 5.
Leander Hoyt, June 27, 1901. 6. Theodore
Evans, July 26, 1906.
(VII) James
Townsend, second son of John C. and Adeline
(Dusenberry) Durland, was born in August,
1838. He resided in Hurleyville, Sullivan
County, New York, where he died March 3,
1883. He married Sarah, daughter of Albert
and Nancy (Hill) Wheeler, who died in 1894,
having survived her husband eleven years.
Children: 1. Minnie, born December 7,
18857; married Isaac Gardner. 2. John
Albert, born in 1850, resides on a farm six
miles north of Monticello; he married Mary
Elmore and had four children: Willard,
Inez, May and Ellen. 3. William Townsend,
born in 1865; lives in La Grange, Illinois;
he married Jessie Hoyt of Bridgeville,
Sullivan County, and has four daughters:
Ruth, Nellie, Edna and Helen. 4. Howard
Fowler, mentioned below. 5. Stephen, born
in 1871; lives in Ellenville, Ulster County
New York; he married Jessie ---------. 6.
Walter N., reside in Hurleyville; married
Lydia Neal and has three sons: Mayer, John
and Frederick. 7. Grace A., born in 1878;
wife of Arthur Hatch; resides in Fallsburg,
and has four children: Madeline, Fay,
Ellisar and Frederick.
(VIII)
Howard Fowler, third son of James Townsend
and Sarah (Wheeler) Durland, was born
December 7, 1807, in Hurleyville. He has
always been a farmer, and in 1911 purchased
a farm of fifty acres, four miles north of
Middletown, Orange County, New York, upon
which he settled in the spring of 1912. He
married, March 6, 1880, Nellie L., daughter
of Andrew J. and Elsie (smith) Reynolds, of
Lock Sheldrake, Sullivan County, New York,
where her grandfather settled in 1812. Mr.
and Mrs. Reynolds had four children: 1.
Walter, born December 2, 1861. 2. Lorian,
December 16, 1865. 3. Nellie, born March
4, 1869. 4. Jennie, November 29, 1877.
Mr. Reynolds died February 9, 1899, and his
widow now resides on the home farm at Lock
Sheldrake. Children of Howard F Durland:
1. Raymond Henry, born September 19, 1894.
2. Harry William, August 22, 1896. 3.
Leah, February 22, 1911.
(VII) Samuel (2), third son of John
C. and Adeline (Dusenberry) Durland, was
born October 4, 1840, near Monticello,
where he grew to manhood. Before
attaining his majority, the civil war
broke out and he enlisted February 4,
1862, in the Tenth New York Independent
Battery, with which he served three year,
and participated in twenty-five battles.
In spite of this severe exposure he received
no injury. Some of the principal
engagements in which he took part were
Second Bull Run, Gettysburg, Antietam,
Cedar Mountain, Cold Harbor and Manassas
Station. After the close of the
war he returned to the town of Thompson.
He engaged in farming there until 1909,
then sold his farm and purchased a home
in Monticello, where he now resides.
He is a member of the Methodist church,
and an earnest supporter of Republican
principles and policies. He married,
October 28, 1866, at Thompson, Sarah,
daughter of David and Mary Jane (Palmer)
Rumsey, early settlers of Sullivan County.
they had three sons and three daughters:
Nathan; David; Louis; Polly; Sarah, mentioned
above; Janette. Children of Samuel
(2) Durland: 1.. Ids May, born November
22, 1867; married (first) Harry Johnson,
of Jersey City, died in 1905; (second)
in 1908, Alpheus Witherell., of Bayonne,
New Jersey. 2. Ella L., August
4, 1869; married (first) Louis Millspaugh,
of Monticello, died in 1901; (second)
Melvin Leroy, of Liberty, New York.
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They resided in
Monticello. Children of the Millspaugh
marriage: i May, born August 1890; married
George Sniffer, of Glenville, resided in
Glenwild. ii. Harold, 1898. iii.
Vincent, 1900. 3. Frank Chapman, July,
1871, resides in Fallsburg; married Bessie
Sharp, of Jersey City, a native of Scotland;
children: i. Ada, born 1894, ii. Harry
1898. 4. Mary, November 26, 1876; married
Philip Kreuder, a native of Germany, and
resides in Brooklyn. 5. Leon Samuel,
October 19, 1881, a traveling salesman,
residing in Buffalo, New York. 6.
Frederick, 1883, employed by the New York
Taxicab Company, of New York City; married
Mary Connolly, of Bedford Park, New York.
7. George Wesley, March 5, 1886.
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 related.
They were the progenitors of a numerous
posterity, and the name is a distinguished
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
his wife Elizabeth and son Jeremiah,
emigrated from England to America, coming in
the company with Governor Eaton, Rev. John
Davenport and others in the ship "Hector,"
arriving at Boston from London, June 26,
1637. This company, consisting largely of
Mercahnts and farmers, had suffered much
from the intolerance and persecutions of the
reign of King Charles I, and their object in
coming to America was to secure unmolested
enjoyment of civil and religious liberty.
William Peck was one of the original
proprietors of New Haven. Connecticut, his
autograph signature being affixed to the
agreement or constitution, dated June 4,
1639, for the government of the infant
colony (this is said to be "one of the first
examples in history of a written
constitution organizing a government and
defining its powers"). 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, established 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 home and store were on Church
Street, the front of which is not covered by
the Connecticut Savings Bank building. His
grave is now covered by the Center Church in
New Haven. He died October 4, 1694, aged
ninety-three years. His will, dated March
9, 1688-89, probated October 13, 1694, is
recorded in the probate records 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, are named in his will.
1. Jeremiah, see forward. 2. John,
removed to Wallingford, Connecticut; called
"lieutenant" in the records. 3. Joseph,
settled in East Saybrook (later Lynn),
Connecticut, where he was surveyor,
recorder, justice of the peace and deacon of
the church. 4. Elizabeth, married Samuel
Andrews.
(II) Jeremiah, eldest son of William
and Elisabeth Peck, was born in or near
London, England, in 1623, and was brought
to America by his parents in 1637.
He is said by Cotton Mather to have been
a student at Harvard, and undoubtedly
was, as he was possessed of a good education.
His name does not, however, appear in
the catalogue of graduate 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 instituted 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 flourished
now under 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 September 25,
1661. He remained in Saybrook until
1666, when he removed to Guilford.
Difficulties arose in the Synod, which
decided him to leave Connecticut.
He removed later in 1666 to Newark, New
Jersey, where is resided on the corner
of Market and Mulberry
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Streets. He preached
in the neighboring towns, but not in
Newark. In 1669 or 1670, he settled as the
minister of Elizabethtown, 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, continuing there, 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 settlements among the early
colonists. He married Johannah Kitchell,
November 12, 1656, daughter of Robert
Kitchell, one of the first planters of
Guilford, Connecticut. She survived 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: 1. Samuel,
see forward. 2. Ruth, married Jonathan
Atwater. 3. Caleb, no record of marriage.
4. Anne, married Thomas, son of Captain
Stanley, of Farmington, Connecticut. 5.
Jeremiah (2), deputy to the general court of
Connecticut; 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
justice 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
eight-three years. Their gravestones are in
the old Greenwich cemetery. Children, all
born in Greenwich, Connecticut: 1. Samuel
(2), see forward. 2. Jeremiah (3), farmer
of Greenwich. 3. Joseph, died unmarried.
4. David, a farmer of Greenwich,
Connecticut, later of North Castle,
Westchester County, New York. 5.
Nathaniel, justice of the peace in Greenwich
for many years, and a prominent man. 6.
Eliphalet, a farmer of Old Greenwich. 7.
Theophilus, a large land owner of
Greenwich. 8. Peter, of Greenwich. 9.
Robert, of Greenwich.
(IV) Samuel
(2), eldest son of Samuel (1), and Ruth
(Ferris) peck, was born in March, 1688, and
died in Old Greenwich, December, 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 survived
him, and married (second) John Clogston.
Children, all born in Greenwich,
Connecticut: 1. 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 11, 1814, aged ninety-five
years. Children, all born in Greenwich,
Connecticut: 1. 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 campaigns,
and was in the battle of 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 resided
until 1794, and then removed to and resided
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 Clifton Park, he became
a Baptist minister, and was ordained
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as such march 12,
1801, he statedly preached to the church at
Clifton Park, with few intervals, and as his
age permitted, until his death. He had a
fluent diction, a strong, well-balanced mind
and was a man of great influence and
extensive usefulness both as a citizen and a
Christian minister. His children: i.
Abigail, ii. Ruth, iii. Nathan, iv.
Solomon C., v. Sarah, vi. Abijah, vii.
Elizabeth, viii. John. 7. Abigail,
married Alexander Baird. 8. Elizabeth,
married Joseph Youngs; removed to Amsterdam,
thence to Otego, New York. She had sixteen
children, seven sons and nine daughters, all
of whom married and settled in Broome,
Chenango and Otsego counties, New York.
(VI) John
(2), son of John (1) and Sarah (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 member of the militia. He
enlisted in the Eighth Company, Captain
Thomas Lee, Fifth Regiment 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. He served in the battle at
White Plains. Colonel Dubois was in command
of his regiment at the capture of Fort
Montgomery, October 6, 1777, and his
lieutenant-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 continental 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, 1793, 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.
He married,.
In October, 1764, Sarah, daughter of Ethan
Northrup, of North Salem, New York, she was
born there, October 28, 1746, and died in
Smyrna, New York, November 11, 1830. She
was a granddaughter of Daniel and Sarah
Northrup, of Milford, Connecticut, and a
great-granddaughter of Joseph Northrup, of
Yorkshire, England, and his wife, mary,
daughter of Francis Norton, of Milford,
Connecticut, who came there with Rev. Peter
Pruden, and died September 11, 1669.
Children: 1. Samuel, died in infancy. 2.
Joel, an early settler of Norwich, Chenango
County, New York. 3. Sarah, married
(first) Daniel Fisher; (second) William
Yerrington; (third) Peter Cole. 4. Mary,
Married David Wilbur. 5. Phebe, married
Job Loper. 6. Stephen, died in infancy.
7. Stephen Northrup, one of the first
settlers of Solon, New York, where he died
in his ninety-seventh year. 8. John (3),
see forward. 9. Nathan, ordained a
minister of the Baptist Church in July,
1814. 10. Betsey, married John Nash.
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