As I mentioned before, only John and Mary Ann survived and married, the rest of the children died young. Such a tragedy it must have been for Elisha and Chloe to lose three of their children in a six year timespan.
Shubael was already written about, so that leaves Harriet who died in 1833 an Edward in 1839. There isn't much information on them since they died young.
Harriet was born on January 22, 1817 in Berlin, CT and died on May 21, 1833, age 16.
Harriet arrived permanently in the US with her family on the ship Samson in 1831, she was 14. She was also part of the family trip back to England in 1826, returning to the States on August 16, 1826 on the ship Manchester. I don't believe she was on the 1829 trip, it appears her father took that trip alone.
I do not know what she died of, I can't find a death certificate and supposedly there was a death notice in the New York Evening Post on 22 May 1833 but I couldn't find that either. Here is a transcript that would be the same information as in the newspaper. It's not much of an obituary, you don't create a lot of paperwork when you're die at 16 years of age. She is also buried anonymously in her father's crypt #33.
Same could be said about dying in obscurity with Edward. He was born on January 3, 1822 in Liverpool, England. He was 17 when he died in on December 7, 1939. That must have been a sad Christmas in the Peck household. At least I found his obituary, slim as it was. It does say he died instantly so it wasn't a lingering death. He was also on the family trip in 1826 and 1931. As with his sister, he is buried in Vault #33.
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