Alice Peck

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      Sex: F

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Individual Information

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          Birth: 1625 - London, England
    Christening: 
          Death: 1687 - Lyme, Connecticut
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death: 
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Parents

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         Father: Deacon William Peck (1601-1694)
         Mother: Elizabeth (1608-1683)

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Spouses and Children

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1. *Balthazar DeWolf (1620/1621 or 1623 - 1696)
       Marriage: Abt 1645 - Guilford, Connecticut
         Status: 
       Children:
                1. Edward Nathan DeWolf (1646-1712)
                2. Simon Dewolf (Abt 1648-1695)
                3. Stephen DeWolf (Abt 1650-1702)
                4. Hannah DeWolf (1652-      )
                5. Mary Marah DeWolf (1655-1724)
                6. Daughter DeWolf (1658-1661)
                7. Daughter DeWolf (1661-After 1661)
                8. Susannah DeWolf (1664-After 1735)
                9. Alice DeWolf (1666-      )
                10. Joseph DeWolf (1668-1719)

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Notes

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General:

I find no evidence she is a child of William and Elizabeth Peck.

She actually almost certainly is NOT a child of William and Elizabeth Peck. They had four well documented children, and she is not one of them. She also isn't a daughter of William's son Joseph, who wasn't even old enough to be her father when she would have been born. William did have a possibly brother Henry, and I don't know what became of him. She also was not a child of Paul Peck of Hartford.

The source of the idea that Alice teh wife of Balthazar DeWolf was the daughter of William Peck, isCarol MacGinnis' Dolphs and DeWolfs (book).

From a DeWolf mailing list post:

"Carol McGinnis book is the only source for this that anyone knows about, and her statement that Alice Peck was the wife of Balthazar is not well substantiated with evidence. She states on p.7: "He married the daughter of William Peck (1), a London merchant who was one of the original proprietors of New haven."The footnote (1) states: "She is identified by her ownership of land in Saybrook, the close relationship between Joseph Peck and the DeWolfs, and the fact that only the Pecks believed a woman should own property in her own right. Few men who could give her a dower in Saybrook were old enough to be her father, and she was not found in the lines of the Bulls, Clarks, Birchards, Marvins, Lords, or Wallers." A plausible explanation, but not definitive evidence.
"The Rev. Calbraith Perry lists Balthazar's wife as Alice but gives no maiden name. "

I also found a reference to Torrey, Clarence A. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. I don't know if he cites a primary document for such a marriage.

If this Alice was the mother of Balthazar's children, then he married her a good number of years before he appears in recorded history in Connecticut. He was at Hartford in 1666, at Wethersfeld in 1664, and at Lyme in 1668; as far as anyone knows, he neverlived in New Haven where William lived.