Adam Peck Sr. and Elizabeth Sharkey - founders of 
"The Peck Clan in America" 
​by Susan Moore Teller 

Adam Peck and his wife, Elizabeth Sharkey, left Botetourt County Virginia and floated down the Holston River on a raft, arriving at land he earned by his service in the Revolutionary War in what is now Tennessee.   Founders of Mossy Creek, Jefferson County, Tennessee (now called Jefferson City) and owners of one of the first lots ever sold in Knoxville, their lives and that of their sons and daughters is a vibrant story of the lives of those who founded the United States of America.  

This paternal Peck family line is traced back to the village of Ebingen, Wurtemberg, Germany, where this family settled in the 1500's. They were protestants, coming to the era of the reformation to an area of “like minded people.”  Their records are held in a protestant church that in America became the Lutheran Church. Old Jacob Peck, the immigrant, died in a rocking chair with his German Bible in his hands. Actual reproductions of the church records in the Evangelical Reform.
Original copies of actual church records are reproduced for many generations, right down to and including the immigrant to Virginia, born Hans Jacob Beck the 2nd, the only surviving son of Hans Jacob Beck 1st and his 3rd wife Anna Marie Hummel.  At seventeen, Jacob went to Virginia, where he was known as Jacob Peck. There he married Lydia Borden, the beautiful daughter of a prosperous Virginian, her family four generations in America, and entirely English in their heritage.  

The Peck Clan in America, published in beautiful vibrant four color glossy stock,  takes them both backward and forward in time, includes all those families of the women they married, and documents their pioneer lives in a new country. 

Write smt100@cox.net to order the book: Write for how to pay by PayPal if you wish, or send a check for $70.00 plus postage. All books ordered will be autographed by the author and dedicated to whomever you may wish. 



​Adam Peck and his wife, Elizabeth Sharkey, left Botetourt County Virginia and floated down the Holston River on a raft, and arriving at land he earned by his service in the Revolutionary War in what is now Tennessee.  Founders of Mossy Creek, Jefferson County, Tennessee (now called Jefferson City) and owners of one of the first lots ever sold in Knoxville, their lives and that of their sons and daughters is a vibrant story of the lives of those who founded the United States of America.  

This paternal Peck family line is traced back to Ebingen, Wurtemberg, Germany settlements in the 1500's. Actual reproductions of the church records in the Evangelical Reform Church are reproduced for many generations, right down to and including the immigrant to Virginia, born Hans Jacob Beck the 2nd, the only surviving son of Hans Jacob Beck 1st and his 3rd wife Anna Marie Hummel.  At seventeen, Jacob went to Virginia, where he was known as Jacob Peck. There he married the beautiful daughter of a prosperous Virginian, four generations in America, and entirely English in their heritage.  

The books takes them both backward and forward in time, includes all those families of the women they married, and documents their pioneer lives in a new country. 

Write smt100@cox.net to order the book: Write for how to pay by Paypal if you wish, or send a check for $70.00 plus postage. 

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