George Peck obtained 400 acres of land on the North River (of Cacapon) in
Hampshire County from the state of Virginia in 1775 (Sims Index, 218). George Peck was not named, however, in the 1782 tax list. Perhaps he was deceased by that year [Note: he had moved to Randolph County, VA]. The George Peck [Jr.], named in the tax list 1784 was located on the South Branch near Petersburg, for he is in the list of enumerator Job Welton who resided in that area. Welton's lists also include the names of Henry Lancisco, Valentine Powers and many other Dunkers as we shall see.
By 1786 George Peck, Jr., had married Mary Lancisco, the daughter of Henry Lancisco, Jr., and this marriage related him as a brother-in-law to the sisters of Mary and their husbands, Martin Shobe, Daniel Stuckey, Daniel Shobe, Peter Lauderman, Philip Lauderman. His circle of relatives thereupon included Valentinc Powers, Rudolph Shobe, and members of the Hyer, Carr, Buffenbergcr and Armentrout families. Three children of Conrad and Madeline Shobe Carr married Peck men, namely, Hagar who married Henrv Peck; Christina who married Jesse, and Amelia who married Jacob (Shobe, 5, 7).
The will of Henry Lancisco, dated Oct. 9, 1799, included the name of his wife Flora and children, and Georgc Pcck, Daniel Shobe, Solomon Bonner. Witnesses were Peter Buffenberger and Sithman Homan (Judy, 306).
Members of the Peck family lived at Leading Creck in Randolph County and at Pecks Run in Upshur County, places which soon had meeting houses in which Elder John Kline preached a half century later.
