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Israel Merrick (abt. 1766 - abt. 1844)

Israel Merrick
Born about in Queen Anne's County, Marylandmap [uncertain]
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants descendants
Father of , , , and
Died about at about age 77 in Tioga County, Pennsylvania, USAmap [uncertain]
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Biography

Israel Merrick was a road Supervisor in 1821, also taught school near Lymansville.[1]

Research Notes

Born 1766 Queen Anne's County, Maryland, British America. [2]

Died 30 APR 1844. Delmar, Tioga, Pennsylvania, United States. [2]

Note: Fred Merrick writes: "Third in his family line with the name, Israel Merrick purchased land on the Maryland-Delaware border from the Rev. John Merrick, a Methodist minister who moved to New Jersey, in 1791. In 1804, he sold this land and moved his family from Delaware to Tioga Co, PA. In 1806, he was part of a team appointed to survey and lay out a road '... running to a boundary lot on the Delmar purchase in the tenure of Israel Merrick.' ... After his first wife died, he married again, having four daughters between 1820 and 1830, of which nothing more is known.".

Land 1795 Caroline County, Maryland, United States. Note: Israel Merrick of Kent County, Delaware, and Mary his wife, sold to Absalom Clarke Jun'r of Delaware a 150-acre tract of land partly in Caroline County and partly in Kent, Delaware. [3]

Marriage 1787 Kent County, Delaware, United States. [2]

Burial Ansonia Cemetery, Ansonia, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. [4]

Sources

  1. ↑ Israel Merrick, Sr., Find-a-Grave memorial #40374215; entered by Paul Marx on 7 Aug 2009 : accessed by J. Ricketts on 5 Oct 2016. NOTE: Sources not cited
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Source: #S201 citing Tioga History
  3. ↑ Source: #S203 Book E, page 502
  4. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 15 January 2022), memorial page for Israel Merrick Sr. (2 May 1766–30 Apr 1844), Find a Grave Memorial ID 40374215, citing Ansonia Cemetery, Ansonia, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, USA ; Maintained by Paul Marx (contributor 46914571).
  • Source: Database, FindaGrave.com
  • Source: S201 Notes, Fred Harold Merrick
  • Source: S203 Land Records of Caroline County, MD




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Merrick-1551 and Merrick-1502 appear to represent the same person because: same data
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