This statement includes some details about the family which do not appear in the section on Deacon Paul Peck in Ira B. Peck's "Genealogical History..." (1868), pages 367-389 #5, 24, 55, 131-139, 319-130, 605-612. Pages 18-365 of the statement is reminiscences of Peck's early days in Bristol, under the following headings: Schools, Churches, Amusements, Military, Temperance, Clocks, Whipping Post, Whigs and Tories, Witchcraft, Wagons, Physicians, Attorneys, Mineral, and Manufacturing.