Lt. William Merrick

1603 - Bef 1689  (~ 89 years)

• Name	William Merrick  [1, 2]
  Prefix	Lt.
  Birth	Between 1600 and 1603  [3]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	Abt 1600  [4]
  Alternate death	Between 3 Dec 1686 and 6 Mar 1689  [5]
  Death	Bef 6 Mar 1689	Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts   [3, 4, 6]
  Person ID	I3296	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of LD, Ancestor of TNH
  Last Modified	5 Jan 2024

  
  

  Family	Rebecca Tracy,   b. Abt 1625, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts d. Aft 6 Mar 1689, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts (Age ~ 64 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1642  [3, 7]
  Children	+ 1. William Merrick,   b. 15 Sep 1643, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts d. 30 Oct 1732, Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts (Age 89 years) + 2. Stephen Merrick,   b. 12 May 1646, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts d. 1705, Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts (Age 58 years) + 3. Mary Merrick,   b. 4 Nov 1650, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts d. Bef Apr 1701 (Age < 50 years)
  Family ID	F4356	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Dec 2020

  
  

• Notes

  Also known as William Mirick, William Myrick. Emigrated by October 1636. One of the original 29 proprietors of Little Compton, Rhode Island, but it is unclear whether he ever lived there. He was a private under Captain Standish in and probably before 1643, sergeant in 1649, and ensign for some period of time before 1663, when he was made lieutenant of the Eastham company. He retired the following year due to old age.

  
  

• Sources

  [S635] Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Volume 6, Third Edition, Family — Stephen Hopkins by John D. Austin. Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2001. [S1647] The Pilgrim Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth Colony 1620-1633, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New York Historic Genealogical Society, 2004. [S906] The Ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley and His Wife Emma Arabella Bosworth by N. Grier Parke II, edited by Donald Lines Jacobus. Woodstock, Vermont: The Elm Tree Press, 1960. [S647] Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines by Mary Walton Ferris. Volume 1, 1943; volume 2, 1931. [S7124] Genealogy of the Merrick-Mirick-Myrick Family of Massachusetts 1636-1902 by George Byron Merrick. Madison, Wisconsin: Tracy, Gibbs & Company, 1902. [S119] Ancestors and Descendants of Andrew Lee and Clarinda Knapp Allen by Gerald R. Fuller. Esther Fuller Dial, ed. The Andrew Lee Allen Family Organization, 1952., year only. [S647] Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines by Mary Walton Ferris. Volume 1, 1943; volume 2, 1931., says 1642.