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Facts and Events
| Name |
William Peacock |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[1] |
Abt 1623 |
Stanstead Abbots, Hertfordshire, Englandprobably |
| Marriage |
12 Apr 1653 |
Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United Statesto Mary Willis (add) |
| Death[1] |
Bet 29 Mar 1660 and 22 Jan 1660/61 |
Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States |
| Probate[1] |
22 Jan 1660/61 |
Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States |
Personal History
William Peacock was born about 1623, probably in the parish of Stanstead Abbots, Hertfordshire, in the Kingdom of England.[1][3] He died about 1660, in Roxbury, in the colony of Massachusetts Bay.[1]
At the age of 12, Wm. Peacock was one member of a group of six people to embark on the Hopewell of London (William Bundock, master) bound for New England. On 3 April 1635, they presented a certificate from “Stanstede Abbey” (probably a misrecording of Stanstead Abbotts) in Hertfordshire.[1][3]
William Peacock and Mary Willis were married 12 April 1653, in Roxbury, in the colony of Massachusetts Bay. The births of their children appear in the town records of Roxbury.
An inventory of William's estate was taken 22 January 1660[/1],[2] amounting to £78-6-4, including real estate (“his house, barne, home lott, and three acres of woodland”) valued at £65, which was less than the £126-5 of debts owed. By the probate court of Suffolk Co. on 30 January, William Parke, Edward Denison, and Thomas Welde were appointed to examine the estate and debts, and they reported that the amount owed was £137-9-2-6, with an additional £2-12 for administration, and the amount of inventory and debts due to the estate was £82-11-4, resulting in a shortfall of £57-9-10-6. On 29 1mo. [March] 1661, a proposed settlement was made by William's partners, John Curtis and Philipp Curtis, to pay all debts incurred by William concerning their partnership.
| Hopewell (1635)
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| This Hopewell sailed from London in April; there was another Hopewell that sailed from Weymouth in May.
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| Sailed: | April 1635 from London under Mr. William Bundocke (?)
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| Arrived: | May-June 1635 at Massachusetts
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 William Peacock sketch, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011)
V:411-2.
(http://interactive.ancestry.com/2496/42521_b158316-00524 : accessed 6 Feb. 2017)
ORIGIN: Stanstead Abbots, Herfordshire [Hotten 46]
MIGRATIION: 1635 on the Hopewell
FIRST RESIDENCE: Roxbury
BIRTH: About 1623 (aged 12 on 3 April 1635 [Hotten 46])
DEATH: Between 29 March 1660 (acknowledgment of deed [SLR 3:354]) and 22 January 1660[/1] (date of inventory)
- ↑ William Peacocke, no. 259, in Massachusetts. Probate Court (Suffolk County). Probate records, 1636-1899. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1969-1971)
FHL 584127 (Probate records v. 1–4); vol. 4, pp. 8–9, 16–18 (DGS 7703070, beginning at image 678).
(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9YP-P2FT : accessed 6 Feb. 2017)
Inventory £78-6-4, dated 22 Jan. 1660, appraised by Isaac Morell, Griffen Crofte; had debts of £126-5. Debts itemized £140-1-2-6, inventory and debts due to estate £82-11-4, no date but after 30 Jan. 1660, appraised by William Parke, Edward Denison, Thomas Welde.
“Whereas the Honnoured Court were pleased to Appoint us whose names are here under written to enquire into the estate of William Peacocke by a Court order dated 30 of Jannuary 1660 wee finding some defficult there in respect of Trading with Indeans within partnership with John Curtes and Philip Curtes we not haveing power to put a finall end to it yet this we make bould to present unto this honnoured Court that if you please to acept of what wee propound to Confirme it then it is mutually agreed between the said ptyes that were in partnershipp with the said Peacocke and the Committy betrusted that is to say that his partners John Curtes and Philipp Curtes shall pay all debts for all goods bought in partnershipp And shall pay forty shillings in Currant Merchantable pay to be delivered unto whom the Court please to Appoint to receive it upon the 24 of June next and the said partners to enjoy as their owne all the said in partnership And they to pay all debts as aforesaid or demands to all men whatsoever in reference unto the partnership Witnesse our hands this 29 of 1 month 1661, William Parke, Edward Denison, Thomas Welde. The partners were willing to subscribe also, John Curtis, Philipp Curtis.” (pp. 16–17)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Transcription of the Hopewell passenger list, in Hotten, John Camden. The Original Lists of Persons of Quality (1874): Emigrants; Religious Exiles; Political Rebels; Serving Men Sold for a Term of years; Apprentices; Children Stolen; Maidens Pressed; and others who went from Great Britain to the American Plantations 1600- 1700. with their ages, the localities where they formerly lived in the mother country, the names of the ships in which they embarked, and other interesting particulars. (London, England: Chatto and Windus, 1874)
p. 46.
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