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[1334] [S9] Tombstone Forest Cemetery, Middletown DE
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| _Joseph ASPRIL attorney --Deed NC Co DE W2 P110_+
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|_Mary SKEER (SKEAR) ____________________________+
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[6891] [S24] Journal of Susannah Elizabeth Vandegrift
+Elizabeth PECK
Rhoda PECK
Sarah PECK
Aaron PECK
John PECK
Stephen M PECK
John PECK
Nancy PECK
Lydia PECK
Phebe PECK
_Joseph PECK ________+
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_Joseph PECK JR Elder and Deacon of 1st Preb Ch Newark NJ_|
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_Joseph PECK Blacksmith, Deacon of Orange 1st Presb Church_|
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[8238]
Founders and builders of the Oranges p 99
John Peck (known as Judge Peck). Third child of Joseph and Jemima Lindsley Peck, was born in that part of Newark now known as East Orange, in 1732. The old homestead where he lived was built of stone, and stood on the southeast corner of what is now Main Street and Maple Avenue. This was torn down in 1813 and a part of the stone used in the construction of the First Presbyterian Church. Hr Peck was an active and uncompromising partisan in the cause of American independence. On December 7 1774 he was one of the twenty three representatives citizens chosen as a Committee of Observation for the Township of Newark to watch and report and inhabitant of the colony found to be disloyal to the Congress, so that he "be held up to public notice as unfriendly to the liberties of his country, and in all dealings with his or her be thenceforward forever broken off." Mr. Peck was conspicuous in all the local events that preceded the Revolution, and when afterwards the British army was encamped in this locality he made himself especially obnoxious to them, and was frequently obliged to flee to the mountains to escape their vengeance. After the close of the war he became Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and although unlettered he was a man of good judgement and sound common sense but rather eccentric. On of his decisions was "A man who has a deed for his land owns from the center of the earth to the top of the heaven." He was extremely lenient towards his old neighbors who, because of their adherence to the Crown during the War of the Revolution, were obliged to flee to Nova Scotia, and who, after the war, desired to return and take advantage of the Act of the New Jersey Legislature, passed June 5, 1777, and it is said that he sometimes "stretched a point" to assist them in saving their property from confiscation. He was elected and elder in the First Presbyterian Church of Orange in 1784. He died December 28, 1811 He was twice married first to Elizabeth Dodd, January 26, 1761; and second to Mary Harrison.
[8239] [S166] Ed Ball Gedcom site rootsweb
[15967] [S243] "The Founders and Builders of the Oranges"
David Ringold REES 
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In the Voshell Family bible there is a clipping of the death of a horse:
"42 YEAR OLD HORSE DEAD. 'Perry' the faithful old horse of David R. Rees, died last Friday, aged 42 years. This was possibly the oldest horse on the Peninsula, and for nearly a half century rendered faithful service to the late J. Allison Cleaver and Mr. Rees, who owned the animal for the past 20 years. Mr. Rees in speaking of 'Perry' tells many interesting incidents of his animal intelligence, and deeply regrets his loss."
Joseph R Voshell remembers him as a fellow who loved the ponies-Harness racing. He was in a auto accident and lost his leg. He declined in health after the accident.
His wife's obituary states that her husband operated the mills at Willow Grove Mills Silver Lake Middletown DE.
1879-80 directory lists a
David Reese Smyrna (p 187)
This is the stepfather to J. W. Voshell SR. [There are no indexed marriage records at DE Archives on this marriage]
[93] [S6] Middletown Transcript
[90] [S101] Family Bible Voshell, Ezekiel D
[91] [S28] Tombstone Odd Fellows Cemetery, Smyrna DE
[15298] [S6] Middletown Transcript
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