MARY SPOONER
DAUGHTER OF EXPERIENCE WING AND SAMUEL SPOONER

Mary Spooner (Experience Wing, Daniel Wing, Rev. John Wing, Matthew), born January 4, 1690/91. Married Caleb Peckham February 6, 1731. Reportedly had 12 children with Caleb. New Information: According to the Third Series, Volume IV, New England Families Genealogical and Memorial, John Peckham was the immigrant ancestor who is first found in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1638. Since he was associated with several people who had supported Anne Hutchinson, it is thought that he might have come with the Hutchinson party on the ship "Griffin," but his name has never been found on any passenger list or on the Boston records. His religious affiliation was Baptist. His lands were allotted along with those of William Freeborn, John Coggeshall and other first settlers of the Island of Aquidneck in 1638. On May 20, 1638, he was admitted an inhabitant of Newport and in 1640 the bounds of his lands were established. On March 16, 1641, he was made freeman and in 1648 he was one of the ten male members in full communion in the first Baptist church of Newport. His second wife, Eleanor, was baptized in 1648. He lived in the part of Newport which later became Middletown. In the list of wills which had but two witnesses instead of three as the law required, between 1676 and 1695, his name is found with sixteen others. Before 1700 he and his sons owned much land; in 1660 they were among the proprietors of the Pettaquamscot purchase; in 1661 they were proprietors in the Westerly purchase; and in 1677 they were proprietors in the East Greenwich purchase. They also had a tract one mile square in Little Compton, where they built a house in 1640 which stood for two hundred years; six generations of the family were born in this house. They also owned land in Dartmouth, Massachusetts. "Mary Clarke, now deceased, sometime the wife of John Peckham," is mentioned in the deed of May 30, 1651, which mentioned land given her before 1644; she had five brothers, Carew, Thomas, Jeremiah, John and Joseph; she was born in 1607. The date of the second marriage and of his death are unknown, as well as the last name of his second wife, Eleanor. It is thought that John, Thomas and William were by the first wife, and the others by second wife. Children: John, born about 1645; Thomas, mentioned below; William, born 1647; Rebecca; Stephen; James; Clement; Deborah; Phebe, 1666; Elizabeth; Susannah; and Sarah. Thomas Peckham, son of John Peckham, lived in Newport, Rhode Island, and was a weaver. In 1677 he was an original proprietor of East Greenwich, and in 1708 was a deputy to the general assembly. He married (first) (???), (second) Hannah, daughter of William Weeden, and widow of William Clarke. Thomas Peckham died in 1709, and she married (third) Joseph Clarke, of Westerly, Rhode Island. Child by first wife: Philip, mentioned below. Children by second wife: Daniel, born 1692; Thomas, August 19, 1693; Uriah, November 20, 1697, died young; son, June 8, 1700; Hannah, 1701; Sarah, September 29, 1703; James, January 24, 1707. Philip Peckham, son of Thomas Peckham, was born October 27, 1680, and died December 30, 1722. He lived in Newport. He married Jane Blackwell, born March 3, 1683, died April 24, 1759, daughter of John and Sarah Blackwell. Children: Lydia, born March 19, 1706; Sarah, April 30, 1709, died February 9, 1712; Caleb, mentioned below; John, February 11, 1714; Robert, September 6, 1716; Joshua, July 20, 1718; David, July 28, 1722; two children, died in infancy. Caleb Peckham, son of Philip Peckham, was born January 10, 1711, and died January 8, 1766. He was administrator of his brother Robert's estate in Connecticut. He was a mason by trade, and lived in Newport. He married, December 16, 1732, Mary Spooner, of New Bedford, Massachusetts. Children: Elizabeth; Philip, mentioned below; Nathaniel, born 1736; Caleb; Thomas; Joshua; John, March 2, 1742, died August 16, 1742; Mary; Joshua, born 1744; David, March 26, 1748, died December 9, 1748; Peter; Benjamin, January 26, 1757, died August 26, 1765. Philip (2) Peckham, son of Caleb Peckham, was born in Newport, Rhode Island, February 9, 1734, and died in Providence, Rhode Island, February 12, 1829. He married Mary Taggert, born in Newport, May 2, 1740, died in Providence, March 27, 1781. Children: Henry, born September 17, 1757, died at sea; Mary, January 27, 1760; Caleb. September 14, 1762; Elizabeth, April 30, 1764, died July 21, 1803, married Jonathan Woodbury Coy (see Coy II); Abigail, December 23, 1766; Jane, September 9, 1768; Philip, July 13, 1771, died December 16, 1771; Philip, October 8, 1772; Sarah, October 11, 1774, died in infancy; Hannah, May 13, 1777, died March 9, 1778; Henry, June 18, 1778, died in childhood.