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- From FindaGrave:
The son of DEACON WILLIAM & ELIZABETH PECK, Rev. Jeremiah was educated at Hopkins Collegiate in Lyme, Conn.
On Nov.a 12, 1656, Jeremiah Peck & JOHANNA (HANNAH) KITCHELL were married in Guilford, Conn. from 1656 to 1660. He was school-master at Guilford, Conn. where he taught Latin, Greek, & Hebrew, and for a comfortable home and £40 a year he prepared the scholars there for college.
Then he kept the Hopkins Collegate Grammer School where he "taught the languages of sciences." in 1660, the year that they brought the school from Lyme, Conn. to New Haven. His salary was "30 bushels of wheat, one barrel of pork, and two barrels of beef, 40 bushels of Indian corn, 30 bushels of peas, one firkin of butter, 100 lbs. of flax, and 30 bushels of oats".
He was in New Haven for about a year and then removed to Saybrook, Conn in 1661, where he remained until 1677. Because the Colony of New Haven was absorbed by the Colony of Conneticut, the later of which seemed to him as "lax and broader principaled", he departed to Newark, New Jersey and then to Elizabethtown, New Jersey.
He was next the first minister of Greenwich, ordained on August 26, 1669 according to Mather. In 1672 he signed a list of names from the Eastern land division in Greenwich.
Lastly, he removed to Waterbury, where he was the first minister. He died there June 7, 1699 at 76 years of age. The first burying ground was Burying Ground Hill (1795-1809) which was the home-lot of the minister of St. John's Church (Rev. Peck) and abutted Grand Street.
My ancestor, RUTH (PECK) ATWATER, was the daughter of Rev. Jeremiah & Joannah Kitchell.
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Abt 1623 - 1699 (~ 76 years)
