LUNENBURG FOUNDING FAMILIES

BECK
other spellings:
PECK, PEKE

SOME DOCUMENTS WHERE THIS FAMILY NAME HAS BEEN CITED
"Nova Scotia Immigrants" p 195 [NS2]
"Planters & Pioneers" p 51 [PP2]
"The Foreign Protestants" p 288 [FP2]
"History of the County of Lunenburg" p 71, 526 [HL2]
Birth Records [DS2]
Marriage Records [DS2]
Death Records [DS2]
SSGS Cemetery Inscriptions [CI2]
Probated Will(s) [PW1]
in Halifax Obits 1962-92 [HO2]
on 1864 AF Church & Co Map [CM1]
in Census 1871 [CC2]
in "Bell's Notes" [BN2]

Michael
aged 22 , occupation a Farmer , left Durlach Germany [PL2]
and sailed from Rotterdam, Holland on the Ship Pearl the summer of 1751 [PL2]
He appeared on the Lunenburg Victualling List of 1756 [VL2]
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LAND GRANTS WERE GIVEN OUT AS FOLLOWS
a Town Lot assigned in 1753
Rudolf's Div B-11 (with Philip HEISEL) [BN2]
Town Lot Registry of 1762
Steinfort's Div C-8 [TR1]
a Garden Lot assigned about 1753
and Registered in 1762
not found
a 30 Acre Farm Lot Assigned in 1753
LaHave C-6 [30A1]
30 Acre Farm Lot Registered in 1760
Center A-1 [30A1]
a 300 Acre Forest Lot Assigned
in one of five draws 1763-6
3rd Div A-13 [300A1]
In 1784, these various grants were consolidated
into a formal Township Grant of
135 Acres [TG1]

Details on Individuals in the first generation of the family
will appear here later.

For more information on this family, see
Don Shankle's and Marjorie Veinotte's Web Page.

This page was last modified 7 February 2000.

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