Person:John Peckham (1)

The origins of John Peckham of Newport, Rhode Island are unknown (Robert Charles Anderson, FASG [Fellow of the American Society of Genealogists], The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620–1640; A Concise Compendium [Boston: New England Historical and Genealogical Society, 2015], 258).

probably came to Boston in 1634 with Sir Henry Vane

According to C. E. Banks, John Peckham came from the parish of Woodnesborough, co. Kent, England. John Peckham was admitted an inhabitant of Newport after 1 May 1639. John Peckham of Nuport had his land in Newport recorded sometime between March 1641 and 16 March 1642. At that time he held 40 acres of land, 32 acres in a parcel near Hambrook Mill on Stony River, bordering land of Thomas Clarke, and the rest in meadow and his home lot. He appeared at a General Court of Election as a freeman on 16 March 1641. On 27 January 1642/3, John Peckum of Newport purchased land on the southeast corner of the town, next to his own land, from James Barker of Newport. In 1648, he was a full member of the First Baptist Church, and Eleanor Peckham (his second wife) was baptized that same year. He appears as a freeman of Newport in a list of freemen of the Colony made in 1655. John Peckham was taxed at Newport in 1680. He left a will, dated 6 January 1681, witnessed by John Clarke and Henry Tew, according to a list of seventeen wills presented to the Court in 1700 which lacked a third witness as required by law. However, the contents of the will are unknown.

1.   The American Genealogist (TAG). (Donald Lines Jacobus, et.al.)
   24:72, 71:151-54.

   link to TAG 24:72 Corrections to Austins Rhode Island Dictionary (He married Mary Clarke, etc), link to TAG 71:151-54 His children include: Phebe Peckham m/1 Nathaniel Warren m/2 Thomas Gray, Deborah (Peckham) Taylor and James Peckham.

2.   The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
   57:31-32, 63:198.
3.   Austin, John Osborne. The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island. (Orig. 1887; Reprinted 1969 Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing)
   147-48.
4.   Bartlett, John Russell. Records of the colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations in New England. (Providence [Rhode Island]: A.C. Green, 1856-1865)
   1:92.
5.   -May 8, 1671 John Peckham Senr and Nicholas Cotterill Senr both of Newport doe in this pressent Court severally and Joyntly Recognize unto his Majtie in the full sum[m] of one hundred pownds sterll. to be Levied on their or either of their Lands goods or Chattills. [RI General Court of Trials 1671-1704, by Jane Fletcher Fiske, 1998, p. 5]