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Joseph Merrick (1690 - 1721)

Joseph Merrick
Born in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusettsmap
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Husband of — married 25 Oct 1716 (to 25 Jun 1721) in Eastham, Barnstable, Province of Massachusetts Baymap
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Died at age 31 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusettsmap
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Biography

Joseph Merrick was born 8 March 1689/90 at Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, the son of Joseph Merrick and Elizabeth Howes.[1][2] He married Elizabeth Twining on Oct. 15, 1716 in Eastham, Massachusetts.[3]

Sources

  1. ↑ Births, marriages, deaths, 1649-ca.1840; intentions of marriage, 1700-ca.1905, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G979-9XBR : 28 September 2022), FHL microfilm 007009735, image 128, Eastham, Massachusetts, Volume 2, Births, & Deaths, 1654-1797, Page 51.
  2. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQDD-8Y5 : 10 February 2018), Joseph Merick in entry for Joseph Merick, 08 Mar 1689; citing EASTHAM,BARNSTABLE,MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilm 0907350 IT 2-6, 905406.
  3. ↑ The Mayflower Descendant, Vol. XV, 1913: Eastham and Orleans, Mass., Vital Records, p. 67; Joseph Merrick Junr and Elisabeth Twining were married by Mr Samuel Treat on the twentyfifth day of October 1716.

See also:

New England Historic Genealogical Society. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston: The New England Historic Genealogical Society; Vol. 126, pg. 84.





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Smith-32867 Jillaine Smith
Did he first marry Mary Young in 1712/13?

Births, Marriages, Deaths 1649-1755; Land Grants 1659-1710 by Town of Eastham, p 19?

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