Jane PECKHAM

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• Fact: Daughter of Stephen and Mary Peckham

Jane married Thomas DELANO on 04 Nov 1727 in Dartmouth, Bristol County, Massachusetts. Thomas (son of Lieut Jonathan DELANO and Mercy WARREN) was born on 10 May 1704 in Dartmouth, Bristol Co., Massachusetts; died after 28 Oct 1778. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Thomas DELANO was born on 12 Aug 1729 in Dartmouth, Bristol County, Massachusetts; died on 23 Oct 1799 in Nantucket Island, Massachusetts.
2. Abisha DELANO was born on 09 Jul 1731 in Dartmouth, Bristol County, Massachusetts; died on 19 Jun 1818 in Dartmouth, Bristol County, Massachusetts.
3. Ephraim DELANO was born on 14 Aug 1733 in Dartmouth, Bristol County, Massachusetts; died on 04 Jul 1815 in Fairhaven, Massachusetts.
4. Jabez DELANO was born on 04 Feb 1734/5 in Dartmouth, Bristol County, Massachusetts.
5. Gideon DELANO was born on 25 Sep 1736 in Dartmouth, Bristol County, Massachusetts; died on 17 May 1813 in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
6. Deborah DELANO was born on 14 Jun 1739 in Dartmouth, Bristol County, Massachusetts; died on 21 Mar 1804 in Pawling, Dutchess County, New York.
7. Jane DELANO was born on 03 Dec 1743 in Dartmouth, Bristol County, Massachusetts; died on 05 Jun 1837 in New York, New York, USA; was buried in Forks Cemetery.

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Stephen Peckham lived in Dartmouth, Mass., to which place he removed from Rode Island, his birthplace. He died 1724, April 23. he married, probably before leaving Newport, Mary ? While there is not proof concerning the identity of this Mary, some of the descendants of Stephen have concluded, from a number of suppositions based upon family tradition, that she was a daughter of Captain Seth Pope of Plymouth colony. However this may be, the families of Peckham who were descended from this Stephen and Mary, the Hathaways and Popes, intermarried through several generations, as will be seen from the records, and they occupied a portion of what is now the town of Westport until they were no numerous that the locality was known as the Peckham and Hathaway neighborhood.

Stephen Peckham was one of the original Proprietors of East Greenwich, R.I., in 1677. In January, 1679, he also had a grant of land in the Narragansett, though he probably never went there. 1679, Dec. 9, he bought from Captain Seth Pope a one quarter share right in Dartmouth, mass. The original Proprietors of this territory lived in Plymouth, Mass. It comprised New Bedford, Fairhaven, Westport, and the present town of Dartmouth. Previous to the Revolution the district on the west side of the Acushnet River, between Clarke's Point and the "Head of the River," was occupied by a few substantial farmers in the following order: from the Point, north, Benjamin Allen; Joseph Russell, Senior; Joseph Russell, Junior; Manassah Kempton; Samuel Willis; Stephen Peckham. The farm of Stephen Peckham extended from the south side of what is now Linden Street, northward to within the limits of what is now New Bedford. His name is among those of a list of Proprietors to whom a confirmatory deed was given by Governor William Bradford, 1694, Nov. 12. The inventory of the property of Stephen Peckham, taken in 1724, amount to L1,807.5s.

Stephen married Mary ?. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]