Bethuel Peck (June 16, 1788 – July 11, 1862) was an American physician and politician from

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Life

He was the son of Daniel Peck (1754–1840) and Mehitable (Harvey) Peck (d. 1826), and was born in an area which in 1812 became part of the Town of Sand Lake, in

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. He married Jerusha Wiston, and their only daughter died in infancy. He practiced medicine in

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, and ran a drugstore there with

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. He was a member of the

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(4th D.) from 1839 to 1842, sitting in the 62nd, 63rd, 64th and

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s. He was President of the Dividend Mutual Insurance Company, of Glens Falls.

Sources

''The New York Civil List''
compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 132f and 144; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
''A Genealogical History of the Descendants of Joseph Peck''
by Ira B. Peck (Boston, 1868; pg. 46, 56 and 82)

by H. P. Smith, transcription at

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