Peck family papers 1691-1911

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Peck family papers 1691-1911

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.1031

Papers of several branches of the Peck family in Connecticut. Half of the collection is made up of the papers of the Ambrose Peck family (1691-1911) including correspondence, diaries, account books, legal papers, photographs, and memorabilia. Noteworthy are letters on the Battle of Bunker Hill and the War of 1812, as well as diaries by Abby Ann Hyde Peck from her school days, 1824-1832, and her old age, 1874-1883. Another member of the family represented is Tracy Peck (1785-1862) an important public figure in Bristol, Connecticut, and active in the Congregational Church. The papers of Epaphroditus Peck contain lecture notes taken while he was attending Yale Law School (1903-1908) and family correspondence. Miscellaneous papers (1812-1907) of other members of the family make up the remainder of the collection.

3.5 linear feet (10 boxes, 1 folio)

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Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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Yale University. Faculty.

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Yale Law School

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In the first decade of the nineteenth century, Seth P. Staples (Yale 1797) opened a school for law students in New Haven. In 1824 the school became affiliated with Yale College. The college conferred its first law degrees in 1843. The course of study originally extended for two years, and in 1896 it was lengthened to three years. Subsequently a college degree became a prerequisite for the Bachelor of Laws degree. Graduate courses leading to advanced degrees began in 1876. In 1926 honors courses ...

Peck, Tracy, 1785-1862

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Peck, John Hyde, 1838-1911.

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Peck, Ambrose, 1782-1855.

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Peck, John Hazen, 1811-1885.

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Peck, Abby Ann Hyde.

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Peck, Epaphroditus, 1860-1938

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Peck Family.

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John Hazen Peck (1811-1885): tailor in Yantic, Ct., until 1844, when he became manager of the Yantic Company Store; retired in 1874. AMBROSE PECK, son of Phineas, was born July 10, 1782, married Sept. 9, 1810, Eunice, daughter of Jacob Hazen. He lived in various places, Feeding Hills, Mass., Stafford Springs, Amenia, and Northeast in New York, finally returned to Franklin where his wife died in 1843, after which he lived with his son in Yantic, and there died in 1855. ...