Plymouth Vital Records show that "Mersey Rickard, the Daughter of the Widow hannah Rickard Deceased on the 21 of June 1706 being 26 years of aged."[1]
In 1714 John Rickard signed a document as administrator for the estate of his unmarried sister, Mercy Rickard.[2][3]
In 1715, the settlement was divided among her siblings.[4]
Sources
↑ Mayflower Descendant: A Magazine of Pilgrim Genealogy and History. Boston, MA: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1899- . (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010) https://www.americanancestors.org/DB407/i/12570/64/24350406
↑ "Which John Rickard Married Mary Cooke?" by Eugene A. Stratton, in Mayflower Quarterly 49 (1983). Page 126. The Mayflower Quarterly. Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1935-1985. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2019). https://www.americanancestors.org/DB2760/i/58407/124/73957993
↑ "Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-997D-ZXYG : 20 May 2014), Probate records 1708-1717 and 1817-1861 vol 3-3P > image 171 of 710; State Archives, Boston.
↑ "Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-997D-ZFMH : 20 May 2014), Probate records 1708-1717 and 1817-1861 vol 3-3P > image 179 of 710; State Archives, Boston.
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