"According to the college quarter-bill book one Peck was admitted with the Class of 1698. He was at first placed ninth, but later dropped to the foot of the Class, probably at the time of the official placing by the Faculty. He paid no commons and sizings in the third quarter of sophomore year, after which he disappears. It seems probable that this student was Joshua, the youngest son of the Reverend Jeremiah and Joanna (Kitchell) Peck. Jeremiah Peck entered the college with the Class of 1657 but never took a degree. Joshua was born in 1673 at Elizabethtown, New Jersey, where his father was minister. If the identification is correct, his leaving college might be accounted for by the illness which resulted in the death of his father in June, 1699, or by his own mental and physical incompetence, which became marked later in life. Joshua settled as a farmer in Waterbury, never married, and died on February 14, 1735/6."
