• General Notes

  About 1776, David Peak enlisted in the army under Captain Conaway. He fought in the Battle of Brandywine, the Battle of Mud Island Fort. and in the Battle of Schuylkill.
  
  Revolutionary War Muster rolls indicate his service from May 1777 through March 1778 (including Valley Forge). His pension application by his wife says he was stilll in service when Cornwallis surrendered. Later he moved to Georgia but failed to get a land grant[?], so they moved on to Tennessee. He sold his Revolutionary War discharge to buy land.
  
  David Peak was discharged the first time in 1778. He went back home and in August, 1779, married Jean Martin. David rejoined the army after his marriage, and was in service when Cornwallis surrendered in 1781.
  
  In April, 1784, David and Jean settled on 98 acres in Henry County. They remained in Henry County until on January 15, 1800, they sold their 98 acres, witnessed by George Peak and Richard Standley. David Peak and family were in Jackson County, Georgia by 1802 (serving on the jury).
  
  That same year, he was appointed guardian of Candace, an illegitimate daughter of Judith Peak. Jacob Lindsey was the father and ordered to pay $20 a year for four years, considered a reasonable sum for her lying in with a bastard child, according to court records.
  
  In 1805, David drew in the Georgia land lottery. Solomon and John Peak also drew in that lottery. In 1807, David, Judea, and Margaret also drew in the lottery, but drew blanks. In the same year, David Peak received 550 acres by grant in Jackson County, Georgia.
  
  On November 8,1828, Jane "Peeke" sold for one dollar land on Bear Creek in Overton County, Tennessee to her son, James, 40 acres. This was one half of a grant from the State of Tennessee to Jane Peek, grant No. 20432, dated September, 1823.
  
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  Children:
     1.  Judea Peek b: ABT 1780 in Henry Co, VA
     2.  Margaret Peek b: ABT 1786 in Virginia
     3.  Bertha Peek b: ABT 1787
     4.  James PEEK b: ABT 1790 in Virginia
     5.  Lucy Peek b: ABT 1796 in Virginia
     6.  Elisha Peek b: ABT 1800
     7.  Jane Peek b: ABT 1799 in Virginia
     8.  Robert Peek b: ABT 1803
     9.  Sarah Peek
    10.  Elizabeth Peek b: 1806 in Jackson Co, GA
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  James Peek, son of David, had at least three "women." A first wife, mother of Elizabeth and five other daughters. She died in the 1830's evidently. (There could have been multiple wives, the census doesn't distinguish.) He had his first child with Cerena Lane in 1839. She was 16 (same range as some of his daughters), and the child does not show up in the 1840 census, so it is unclear if/when they were married. At some point, he also hooked up with Susannah Greenwood and is said to be the father of some or all of her children. (I suspect that he only fathered the last few, as one of her older sons married one of James' daughters, and that's a little close for comfort.) At any rate, Susannah is living next door to James in 1860 and 1870. She was born around 1820 based on her age in the census, and was thus far too young to be Elizabeth's mother.
  
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  State of Tennessee, Country of Overton
  On this 29th day of March A.D. 1850/59 personally appeared before the undersigned an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county, Levi L Murphy and Lewis Barnes, who are disinterested Witnesses, state on their oath that Jane Peek, Widow of David, and in the 20th day of November A.D. 1851 that Judea Peek, Margaret Travis, formerly Margaret Peek, Bertha Oliver, formerly Bertha Peek, James Peek, Lucy Savage, formerly Lucy Peek, Jane Rich, formerly Jane Peek, Robert Peek, Sarah Mitchell, formerly Sarah Peek, Elizabeth Fowler, formerly Elizabeth Peek and the only surviving heirs of said David and Jane Peek, and that they are all over the ages of 21 years, sworn and subscribed this day and date above,
  
  W. Halford
  Levi L. Murphee
  Lewis Barnes
  
  

Details of David's family with Jane Martin