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Last NameWHIPPLE
First NameDANIEL PECK (DR)
Maiden 
RelationH/O HANNAH (WEATHERHEAD); S/O JOHN & SARAH (PECK)
Cemetery NumberCU019
Cemetery NamePECK CEMETERY
Birth Day0
Birth Month 
Birth Year1751
Death Day19
Death MonthMAY
Death Year1814
WarREVOLUTION
Gravestone Details
Section 
Lot 
Map00115
Stone Materialslate
Conditiongood
Shapefancy top
Carvingurn/willow
Legibilitygood
Number of Graves on Stone1
Stone Height (inches)34
Stone Width (inches)21
Exists?
Last Seen Date2015
Carver 
Notes/Misc Details
Notes[S/O John & Sarah (Peck), was born at Cumberland in 1751 and died at Cumberland 19 May 1814. He marrie Nov 1783 Hannah Weatherhead, d/o Capt. Enoch and Ann (Dexter). Some of their children were Evelena and Obed. Daniel served as Surgeon on the sloop "Katy" (later renamed th "Providence"), a vessel of war fitted out and employed in the service of the colony of Rhode Island, under the command of Commodore Abraham Whipple from June 1775 to 3 Jan 1776 and as Assistant Director, under D Jonathan Arnold, in the General Hospital of the RI Second Continental Battalion in Oct 1777. In 1778, he was appointed Surgeon at one of the hospitals in which capacity he served to the end of the war.]--JJR Died: CUMBERLAND, RI [SAR: 1775 Ensign in 2nd Co. Train Band of Cumberland]
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