Notes for: Mary Peckham

In an article by Louise Prosser Bates in NEHGR, Vol 63, p. 198, regarding the wife of Tobias Saunders, Mrs. Bates shows by a series of probate records that Mary, wife of Tobias Saunders, was a niece of Rev. John Clarke, and that James Peckham of Little Compton, RI, was uncle to her children. She, therefore, must have been a sister of James Peckham, and he mother must have been a sister of the Rev. John Clarke, thus establishing Mary's parentage.