Hopestill
"Hopstil"
Mirick
formerly [surname unknown] aka Merrick, Myrick
Born about in England
[uncertain]
[uncertain]Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
John Merrick
— married
1641 in Charlestown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Descendants 
Mother of
Hopestill (Merrick) Morgan, Benjamin Merrick, Hannah (Merrick) Walker, James Merrick, Amithia Merrick, Mary Merrick, John Mirick, Sarah (Merrick) Chapman, Mercy (Merrick) Mousall, Abigail (Merrick) Allen and Joseph Merrick
Died after
after about age 50
in Charlestown, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
Profile last modified
| Created 26 Nov 2014
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Biography
Hopestill was married to John Mirick of Charlestown, Massachusetts. Her last name at birth is not known. Testimony she gave in 1669 indicates that she was born about 1619.
Hopestill Mirick was admitted to the Charlestown church on 10 September 1644.[1]
Savage identified her as the mother of children including Sarah, 1 May 1657; Mercy, 30 Dec. 1658; and Abigail, bapt. 17 Feb. 1661; and probably also Hopestill, born 20 Feb. 1643; Benjamin, 22 June 1644; and other children.[2] The Genealogy of the Merrick Family listed eleven children.[3]
Benjamin, son of John Mirick and Hopestill, was born at Charlestowne on 22 (4) 1644 (i.e., New Style date 22 June 1644).[4]
Abigail, recorded as "ye daughter of o[u]r sister Hopestill Mirick," was baptized in the Charlestown church on 12 . 17. 1660 (i.e., New Style date 17 February 1661).[5]
In 1669 Hopstil Mirick testified in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, as ae. 50 years old.[6]
Sources
- ↑ "The First Record-Book of the First Church in Charlestown, Mass." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2018.) Vol. 23 (1869), page 281.
- ↑ Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1862. Vol. 3, page 218
- ↑ Merrick, George Byron. Genealogy of the Merrick---Mirick---Myrick Family of Massachusetts 1636--1902. Madison, Wis.: Tracy, Gibbs & Co., 1902. Pages 95-101.
- ↑ The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2018.) Vol. 8 (1854), page 346.
- ↑ The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2018.) Vol. 25 (1871), page 342.
- ↑ Middlesex County, MA: Abstracts of Court Files, 1649–1675. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2003), (Unpublished abstracts by Thomas Bellows Wyman, "Abstract of Middlesex court files from 1649," n.d.) https://www.americanancestors.org/DB432/i/12381/77/138354706
- Ancestral File (TM), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Publication: June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998. Ancestral File Number: 22C2-CR8. Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84150 USA
Acknowledgments
- This person was created through the import of Savage.ged on 21 February 2011.
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