treatise on Subscription with Historical Extracts, and in 1778 a pamphlet Am I not a Man and a Brother? Peckard's father-in-law, Edward Ferrar, left him by will many books and papers, including a Life by John Ferrar of Nicholas Ferrar of the Little Gidding community. It was published by him in 1790 as Memoirs of the Life of Mr. Nicholas Ferrar, but with some heavy edits. It was reprinted, with a few omissions, in Christopher Wordsworth's Ecclesiastical Biography (v. 69–266), and published separately in an abridged form in 1852. Some of Peckard's manuscripts, which were helpful to students of the genealogy of the early New England settlers, are referred to in John Wingate Thornton's First Records of Anglo-American Colonisation, Boston, 1859. A poetical essay on Peckard is in The Gentleman's Magazine, 1799 (pt. i. p. 325), and one epitaph by him and his wife Martha Ferrar Peckard, are in that periodical for 1789 (pt. ii. p. 748). Notes Attribution References 1710s births 1797 deaths English abolitionists Deans of Peterborough English Anglicans Masters of Magdalene College, Cambridge Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Oxford Vice-Chancellors of the University of Cambridge Christian abolitionists