Henry Clay Peckham

• Name	Henry Clay Peckham
  Gender	Male
  Person ID	I53893	A00 Hoar and Horr Families North America
  Last Modified	13 Jul 2010

  
  

  Children	1. John Peckham
  Last Modified	13 Jul 2010
  Family ID	F20627	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  http://books.google.com/books?id=GHIWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1689&dq=newport+%22rhode+island%22+%22Paul+family%22&hl=en&ei=-4c8TO3DH4WBlAfJ26n4Ag&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=tew&f=false HENRY CLAY PECKHAM. This Brockton Peckham family, the head of which is Henry Clay Peckham, who for some forty years has been one among the leading mechanics and a respected citizen of his community, while not an old or numerous family of the region named is ancient and numerous in the adjacent State of Rhode Island, the home of the earlier generations being in and around Newport, from which locality came the forefathers of the Brockton citizen just alluded to. The name Beckham in England is applied to a large suburban hamlet of London, in the County of Surrey, four miles distant from the metropolis. John de Peckham attended Richard I. into Palestine in 1191, and from that period on for hundreds of years the name was a conspicuous one in the annals of England.