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Joseph Merrick (1662 - 1737)

Joseph Merrick
Born in Orleans, Massachusettsmap
Ancestors ancestors
Husband of — married 1 May 1684 in Eastham, Plymouth Colonymap
Husband of — married 7 Jul 1712 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts Baymap
Descendants descendants
Died at age 75 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusettsmap
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Biography

Joseph was born 1 June 1662 at Orleans, Massachusetts, the son of William Merrick and Rebecca Tracy.[1][2] On 1 May 1684 he married Elizabeth Howes at Eastham.[3][4] Together they had seven children:

  1. Elizabeth (Merrick) Young; b. 1 Jan 1685, d. 1712
  2. Mary Merrick; b. 7 Mar 1689
  3. Joseph Merrick; b. 8 Mar 1689, m. Elizabeth Twining
  4. William Merrick; b. 26 Jan 1692, m. Elisabeth Harding
  5. Hannah (Merrick) Freeman; b. 1695
  6. Isaac Merrick; b. 12 Aug 1699
  7. Phebe (Merrick) Paine; b. 1702

Joseph Merrick married (second) Elizabeth (Freeman) Remick on 7 July 1712 at Eastham.[5][6]

Sources

  1. Births, marriages, deaths, 1649-ca.1840; intentions of marriage, 1700-ca.1905, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-9979-9XN3 : 30 September 2022), FHL microfilm 007009735, image 133, Eastham, Massachusetts, Volume 2, Births, & Deaths, 1654-1797, Page 68a.
  2. Massachusetts Town and Vital Records 1620-1988, published by Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., Provo, UT 2011. Joseph Merich discovered in Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 - https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/17896671?h=d90a16
  3. "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FC4N-7QQ : 9 February 2018), Joseph Merick and Elisabeth Howes, 01 May 1684; citing reference ; FHL microfilm 778,357, 905,406.
  4. Births, marriages, deaths, 1649-ca.1840; intentions of marriage, 1700-ca.1905, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G979-9XBR : 28 September 2022), FHL microfilm 007009735, image 128, Eastham, Massachusetts, Volume 2, Births, & Deaths, 1654-1797, Page 51. Top of page is cut off.
  5. George Ernest Bowman, "Eastham & Orleans, Mass., Vital Records," Mayflower Descendant Vol. 8:17. Joseph Merrick and Elisabeth Remick were married by mr Samuell Treat on ye seventh day of July : anno Dom : 1712
  6. Births, marriages, deaths, 1649-ca.1840; intentions of marriage, 1700-ca.1905, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-9979-9XF5  : 2 October 2022), FHL microfilm 007009735, image 141, Eastham, Massachusetts, Volume 2, Births, & Deaths, 1654-1797, Page 76.
  • Find A Grave: Memorial #51540337 Joseph Merrick
  • Mary Walton Ferris (1872-1943). Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines: Dawes-Gates [Milwaukee] Priv. print. [Wisconsin Cuneo Press] 1931-43 [v. 1, 1943]
  • Town records, 1654-1863 [Eastham, Massachusetts], database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-9979-QJ7X : 27 September 2022), , FHL microfilm 007009743, image 331, Eastham, Massachusetts, Volume 2, Transcribed by order of the Town in 1856 by, H. Doane 2d, Town Clerk, Marriages, Births, & Deaths, 1654-1797, Page 4.

Acknowledgements

  • This person was created through the import of Beaman Family Tree.ged on 31 March 2011.
  • This person was created through the import of OKMay6.ged on 11 May 2011.
  • WikiTree profile Merrick-215 created through the import of tree1.ged on Nov 3, 2011 by Kim Baltz.
  • WikiTree profile Merrick-195 created through the import of EBENSTEIN-GRANGER.GED on Aug 19, 2011 by Merryann Palmer.

Merges

This profile developed through the merging of Merrick-195, Merrick-129 and Merrick-119.





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