Person:Eleazer Peck (1)

Eleazer Peck's Birth and Baptism

"The baptism of Eleaser, 12 March 1643 (i.e., 1642/3), poses a problem. Savage makes him son of Henry, but since Henry's will calls Joseph his elder son, kills him off young and inserts a second Eleazer (without birth or baptismal record) between Joseph and Benjamin (1647) and Elizabeth (1650). However, it is by no means certain that Henry Peck was in New Haven as early as 1643, and Dexter in his Historical Catalogue of the First Church, New Haven, supposes that Joan, wife of Henry Peck, joined the church in 1646, which would be the year before Joseph and Benjamin were baptized. Joseph Peck was not married and probably not in New Haven in 1643; William Peck had no known or surviving son Eleazer, and the baptism conflicts with that of a known daughter of William. Perhaps the most likely explanation is that the date for Eleazer is a misreading or misprint and that his baptism occurred 12 March 1648 (i.e., 1648/9); and that Henry had no older son of the name who died young."^[2]

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Peck, in Jacobus, Donald Lines. Families of Ancient New Haven. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1974)
   6:1389.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5} Jacobus, Donald Lines. The Henry Peck Family of New Haven, Conn. in the Line of Eleazer², Eleazer³, Charles⁴. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Apr 1967)
   121:83-84.
3. ↑ Eleazer Peck, in Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
   3:380.

   "Eleazer (Peck), Wallingford 1670, s. of Henry of New Haven, m. 10 May 1709, Hannah, d. of Joshua Hotchkiss; but whether he had ch. is unkn.
   
   [[Additions and Corrections] [Savage 4:695] [Vol. 3] P. 380 l. 6. from bot. aft m. strike out to Hotchkiss in next l. inclus. and ins. 31 Oct. 1671, Mary, d. of William Bunnell"