John PECKHAM

• Name	John PECKHAM  [1, 2]
  	Nothing is known of this John Peckham, except that he lived on the Peckham estate at Little Compton, R.I., and was one of the original Proprietors of East Greenwich, R.I., although there is no evidence that he ever resided there. he married in 1667 to Sarah Newport. The Newports were a distinguished English family and connected with the family of George Herbert, the well known writer of religious poems. Isaac Walton, in his Life of George Herbert, page 20, mentions this connection, which we quote: "The place of George Herbert's birth was near the town of Montgomery, England. The castle was then a place of state and prestige and had been successively happy in the family of Herbert, who long possessed it with plentiful estate and hearts as liberal to their poor neighbors. The family had been blessed with men of remarkable wisdom and willingness to serve their country and did good to all mankind for which they were eminent. "The father of George Herbert was Richard Herbert, a son of Edward Herbert, Knight, the son of Richard Herbert, Knight, the son of the famous Sir Richard Herbert of Colebrook in the County of Monmouth, Banneret, who was the youngest brother of that memorable William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, who lived in the reign of Edward 4th. His mother was Magdalen Newport, the youngest daughter of Sir Richard and sister to Sir Fancis Newport of High Arcall in the County of Salop, Knight, grandfather of Francis, Lord Newport, High Comptroller in his Majesty's household, a family that for their loyalty have suffered much. This mother of George Herbert was the mother of seven sons and three daughters, which she would often say was Job's number and Job's distribution, and blessed God that they were neither deficient in their shapes or in their reasons, and blessed God for so great a blessing. Edward the oldest was made Knight of the Bath at that glorious tie of our late Prince Henry, son of James I, being installed Knight of the Garter, after many years of travel attaining many languages, was sent as Ambassador resident to the French King, Louis XIII, and returned in the reign of King Charles the 1st who made him First Baron of Castle Island and of Cherbury in the County of Salop, Lord Herbert of Cherbury distinguished himself in the Wars of the Netherlands and died 1648, the two bothers were Richard and William. They ventured their lives in the Wars of the Low Countries and died Officers. Charles was the fourth son and died Fellow of New College in Oxford. Henry was the fifth, who became a menial servant to the crown in the reign of King jJmes and continued the same for fifty years. The sixth was Thomas, Captain of a ship in the fleet with which Sir Robert Maunsell was sent against Algiers and had there shown fortunate and true English valour. "Of the three sisters, I need not say more than that they were all married to persons of worth and plentiful fortune and lived to be examples of virtue and did good in their generation." [1]
  Gender	Male
  Person ID	I71697	Main Tree
  Last Modified	7 Dec 2020

  
  

  Father	John PECKHAM,   b. England
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Mary CLARKE
  Relationship	Birth
  Family ID	F29020	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sarah NEWPORT
  Marriage	1667  [1, 2]
  Children	+ 1. John PECKHAM,   b. 19 Jun 1671, Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, USA d. 1722, Little Compton, Newport County, Rhode Island (Age 50 years)  [Birth]
  Family ID	F29024	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	23 Sep 2020

  
  

• Sources

  [S12061] Stephen Farnum Peckham, 1922, Peckham Genealogy: The English Ancestors & American Descendants of John Peckham of Newport, Rhode Island, 1630. [S5383] "Little Compton Families" Vol. II, Little Compton, Rhode Island.