"Jeremiah (Peck), b. at Guilford, Conn., or Newark, N. J., in 1667; came to Waterbury, Conn., with his father in 1690; m. June 14, 1704, Rachel Richards, dau. of Obadiah Richards, of Waterbury, and settled and resided there until his death in 1752. He was highly respectable, a man of large wealth, a collector of the town rates in 1703; constable in 1713, 1717 and 1723; a Deputy to the General Court of Conn, in May, 1720 and 1721, and appointed one of the first Deacons of the Northbury Church in Waterbury in 1739, and officiated as such until 1746."
