John Pedrick

Surname

He signed his will "Pederick." So that would be the preferred last name at birth. His descendants mostly went by "Pedrick."[1]

He is possibly the son of John Bourchier, MP and Regicide and Anne Rolfe per family tradition. But this has never been researched and proven. English records should be examined.

Biography

Family tradition states that he was the son of a regicide. Samuel Roads wrote in the History and Traditions of Marblehead, page 334: "One of the earliest of those who erected houses and resided upon the [Marblehead] Neck was John Pedrick, whose name appears among the householders of Marblehead in 1665. He possessed a large amount of property in real estate, and being a man of considerable means, devoted much of his time to the cultivation of the soil. From records and traditions of his family it appears that he was of high lineage, and that Pedrick was not his real name. Coming to America at a time when the English government strongly opposed the emigration of families of upper class, a disguise was rendered necessary, and he had recourse, as did many other of his rank and station in society, to an assumed name. He brought with him money, servants, laborers, farming implements, and household furniture. Some of the persons who came with him, it is said — but in no way related to him or his family — were permitted to take his name. That it was his intention to throw off the disguise and resume his legitimate name there can be little doubt, but as the years passed on and his property accumulated, it was evident that the act would be attended by great inconvenience, and the idea was abandoned."[2][3]

Over the generations his family would assemble a massive fleet of over 90 clipper ships that would trade as far as China, India and Brazil on unimaginable adventures in the 18th century. Much of this fleet was destroyed during the American Revolutionary War. Our family (the Chadbourne family) still retains many artifacts from the Pedrick family including a door knob to the Pedrick house, lighthouse glass, portraits, a grandfather clock and chairs. The family once owned all of Marblehead Neck. See Roads, Ahlquist and Chadbourne.[2][4]

He married about 1654 Miriam born in 1637 whose maiden name is unknown.[5] (Some Internet sites erroneously record Miriam as the daughter of Benjamin Hendley and Miriam Waldron but this is a conflation of her daughter who was also named Miriam who was the widow of Samuel Walderne when she married Benjamin Henley).[6] Miriam married first to John Pedrick. She married second to Richard Gross (not Goss) on 4 Dec 1688 (Miriam, and Richard Gross, Dec. 4, 1688. Marblehead Marriages p 324)[7](Torrey Vol2 p 1160 Pederick, john (-1698)& Miriam ___, m/2 Richard Goss 1688, m/3 Samuel Walderne?; by 1652; Marblehead {EIHC 40:214; GDMNH 537})[8] She died on 11 Sep 1711 at age 80 i.e. in her 81st year.[5] The inscription on her burial monument in the Old Burial Hill Cemetery of Marblehead Find A Grave Memorial# 18944285 reads: "HERE LYES Ye BODY OF Mrs MIRIAM GROSE WHO DECD IN THE 81st YEAR OF HER AGE & LEFT 180 CHILDREN GRAND CHILDREN & GREAT GRAND CHILDREN"[9]

John Pedrick left a will dated 2 August 1686 at Marblehead, Essex, Massachusetts, in which he names his wife Meriam, eldest son John and eight more children: Benjamin, Agnes, Mary, Ann, Sarah, Meriam, Elizabeth and Joanna. He also names his son-in-laws: John Stacy [John Stasey], John John Barrett. and Henry Brentnall. He died before 7 October 1686 at Marblehead, Essex, Massachusetts when this will was probated."[10][11][1]

Children

None of the births of his children are recorded in vital records. All birth dates given below are approximate with the exception of Agnes and Johanna. Nine children are known to have survived to adulthood based on his will, deeds and other records.[1][10][11]

• Agnes Pedrick 1655 – 1715 married about 1673 John Stacy in Marblehead, Essex, Massachusetts, USA.[1][10][11][12]
• Mary Pedrick c 1656 – married John Searle of Salem, Essex, Massachusetts.[1][10][11][12]
• John Pedrick Jr c 1657 – 1706 his eldest son[1][10][11][12] married Mary Brown(e) on 10 Jan 1688 in Marblehead, Essex, Massachusetts, USA. "John, and Mary Browne, Jan. 10, 1688-9" p 324. [7]
• Miriam Pedrick c 1659 – 1724 married 1st to Samuel Waldron on 2 Jan 1689 second to Benjamin Henley on 12 Apr 1694 and third to Abraham Lasher on 29 Sep 1704 all in Marblehead, Essex, Massachusetts. (Torrey: HENLEY, Benjamin & Miriam (PEDERICK) WALDRON/ WALDRONE?, w Samuel, m/3 Abraham LASHERE; 12 Apr 1694; Marblehead {Henley 31; EIHC 46:237})[1][6][10][11][12][7][8]
• Ann Pedrick Pederick c 1660 – 1727 married first before 1686 to John Barrett and second on 30 Jan 1688 to Pentecost Blackinton, both in Marblehead, Essex, Massachusetts[1][10][11][12]("Barrett, John (-1687) & Ann [?Pedrick], m/2 Pentacost Blackington 1689; b 1682, b 1685; Marblehead").[8][13]
• Benjamin Pedrick c 1662 –[1][10][11][12] no further record.
• Sarah Pedrick c 1666 – 1698 married first to Henry Brentnall [called Henry Brentnall in her father's will and Britnall in VR] on 15 Sep 1682 and second to David Oliver, Jr on 3 Mar 1691 both in Marblehead, Essex, Massachusetts (PEDRICKE (Pedrick): "Sarah, and Henery Britnall, Sept. 15, 1682.") Marblehead Marriages p 327[10][11][12][7][14][15][16]
• Elizabeth Pedrick Pederick c 1668 – married Thomas Rhodes on 26 May 1695 in Marblehead, Essex, Massachusetts (Elizabeth, and Thomas Rhodes, May 26, 1695 Marblehead Marriages p 324).[10][11][12][7] (It is possible she later remarried to Joseph Ebbons / Aborn and / or Mr. Bull but that requires more research).
• Johanna Pedrick Pederick 1680 – 1701 married Elias Cook on 27 Mar 1698 in Marblehead, Essex, Massachusetts (Johanna, and Elias Cook, Mar. 27, 1698 Marblehead Marriages p 324).[1][10][11][11]

Biography and Sources by Roland Henry Baker, III

Sources

• 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 A copy of his will is available on Ancestry.com.
• 2.0 2.1 The Pedrick-Bourchier connection is a quote directly from the book: Samuel Roads, "History and Traditions of Marblehead" (Boston: Houghton, Osgood and company, 1880) starting on page 334. It is out of copyright so you can read the book on Archive.org: Archives.org.
• 3 Private manuscripts belonging to the Pedrick family, several of them in the possession of Roland Henry Baker, III. See: Hurbert B Shoemaker, Genealogical and Biographical Record OF THE PEDRICK FAMILY OF NEW JERSEY 1675-1938 (PA): "The tradition in Marblehead regarding the assumption of name is in this wise. The first John Pedrick came of a branch of the family of the Earl of Sussex of which one had been in danger because he had sat in the . . . . . . . . Chamber and voted for the execution of Charles I, and that he assumed the name of Pedrick to conceal his identity. The only Regicide who was of a family which had borne this title was a Boudrier, who had a son, John, as to both of whom there is no record of death or burial except in "Noble Regicides" that be, the father, "Sat down and died." So it may be that the first John in Marblehead was this son. His name and mark appears in a petition to the General Court in 1678 and it is claimed that this mark is in a form which suggests a "scrivener's skill" so that he possibly may have been the John Bourdrier who was educated at Oxford and at one time entered at Lincolns Inn Fields as a student at law. Credit is hereby extended to Hannah Tutt, Secretary of the Historical Society of Marblehead, who has generously supplied me with information."; Notes from papers sent to Dr. F. B. Pedrick in 1924 made by Gertrude A. Neilson: "It is also a part of the tradition that there were three John Pedricks at the outset, one of the family of Essex and the other two retainers or servants or members of the household. If there were three, it seems most likely that they were relatives or friends, and all interested in helping to confuse their relation to the regicide by adopting the same assumed name:·, which is apparently the Cornish name Petherich. *(In another letter, he thinks the earlier (1647) Pedricks were really named Pedrick and the 1663 John (Bourchier or whatever) assumed the name. Also, that he came to Marblehead because he knew the Pedricks were here.)"; Letter to Mr William E Pedrick dated 22 Jun 1925 from my cousin William B de las Cases also stating these facts. He used to visit our family in Boston. He was cousin to Sarah Lydia (Green) Chadbourne my direct ancestor via the Pedrick line. But I have not transcribed this letter yet.
• 4 Earle Norris Ahlquist, Nancy Chadbourne Maze, The Paul Chadbourn family of Waterborough, Maine, 1748-1990: Section: Henry Robinson Chadbourne 1836 - 1915 and Sarah Lydia Green 1839 - 1923 p 107 - 112 (Maine: Chadbourne Family Association, 1990) WorldCat. Letter to Mr William E Pedrick dated 22 Jun 1925 from my cousin William B de las Cases also stating these facts. He used to visit our family in Boston. He was cousin to Sarah Lydia (Green) Chadbourne my direct ancestor via the Pedrick line. But I have not transcribed this letter yet.; Notes from papers sent to Dr. F. B. Pedrick in 1924 made by Gertrude A. Neilson: "It is also a part of the tradition that there were three John Pedricks at the outset, one of the family of Essex and the other two retainers or servants or members of the household. If there were three, it seems most likely that they were relatives or friends, and all interested in helping to confuse their relation to the regicide by adopting the same assumed name:·, which is apparently the Cornish name Petherich. *(In another letter, he thinks the earlier (1647) Pedricks were really named Pedrick and the 1663 John (Bourchier or whatever) assumed the name. Also, that he came to Marblehead because he knew the Pedricks were here.)"
• 5.0 5.1 Robert A Booth, Wicked Local: Marblehead: "Lifting the veil on Miriam" May 29 2010. "She died in September 1717, per the records of the First Congregational Church of Marblehead, as listed on page 568 of Marblehead Vital Records, Vol. II, published by the late lamented Essex Institute in 1904...In 1654 or so, Miriam, aged 17 (I don’t know her family surname), married John Pedrick (1625?-1686), a 29-year-old fisherman who had settled in Marblehead by 1648. John was probably from Devon or Cornwall in the West of England, where the name Petherick (Pedrick) was not uncommon...Miriam was 49 when her husband died in 1686 (probably he was buried on his homestead), and late in 1688 she married Richard Grose, likely a widower, aged about 45." link accessed 3 Feb 2016.
• 6.0 6.1 George W Chamberlain, The Magazine of History with Notes and Queries: The Henley Families (William Abbatt: Poughkeepsie, New York, Jan - June 1914) Volume 18 p 43 link
• 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 Vital records of Marblehead, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Salem, Mass:, The Essex institute 1904) Five Volumes See Vol 2 Marriages
• 8.0 8.1 8.2 Clarance Almon Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, April 2011) p 45 link
• 9 Meriam Pedrick Grose, Find-A-Grave [database online] Meriam Pedrick Grose 1637 - 1717, [www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=18944285 Find A Grave Memorial# 18944285] accessed 2 Feb 2016.
• 10.00 10.01 10.02 10.03 10.04 10.05 10.06 10.07 10.08 10.09 10.10 James Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692 (Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown and company, 1880), vol 3, p 385. read online
• 11.00 11.01 11.02 11.03 11.04 11.05 11.06 11.07 11.08 11.09 11.10 11.11 Essex Institute historical collections: ESSEX COUNTY ESTATES (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute Press, 1904) Volume 40, p 214 (John Pederick, senior, of Marblehead Neck. Will dated August 2, 1686. Peculiar mark to the will. Will probated October 7, 1686. Gives 1-4 acre each, to his sons in law, John Stasey, John Barrett, and Henry Brentnall, &c. Residue to his wife Miriam for life ; after her death, a double share to his eldest son John, and the rest equally to the other 8 children, Benjamin, Agues, Mary, Ann, Sarah, Miriam, Elizabeth and Johanna. Inventory includes 2 boats with their furniture and 2 mooring anchors, also one " black negro servant." — Docket, No. 1498). link
• 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 12.5 12.6 12.7 Essex Registry of Deeds, books 3, 5, 6, 7, please see entries below
• 13 Sidney Perley, The Essex Antiquarian, (Salem, Massachusetts: The Essex Antiquarian 1905) Vol 9 p 189. "Pentecost Blackinton lived in Marblehead as early as 1688, and removed to Attleborough in or before 1714 ; married first Ann (Pedrick), widow of John Barret of Marblehead, Jan 30, 1688-9 ; and second mary (Bonfield), widow of Peter Fickett (also Figgett) of Marblehead Jan 1, 1701-2." link to Google Books p 189
• 14 Mass. VR to 1850, New England Historic Genealogical Society, (New England Historic Genealogical Society), 8 Vol 2 Marblehead VR Marriages (Reliability: 3), 3 May 2012. "Aliver (See Oliver): David and Sarah Brentnall" Ref: Bapt. C.R.1 First Congregational Church Records.
• 15 Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby and Walter Goodwin Davis, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1928/2011) p 518 link
• 16 Sidney Perley, The Essex Antiquarian, (Salem, Massachusetts: The Essex Antiquarian 1908) Vol 12 p 138. "Sarah Brentnall, widow of Henry Brentnall, was appointed admin. of his estate at Salem court, June 24, 1690. His mother was "Miriam Pederick, now Gross. Sarah Oliver of Marblehead was appointed administrator of the estate of her son Henry Brentnall of Marblehead fisherman, March 31, 1712." citing probate records.
• Essex Registry of Deeds, book 3, leaf 129. (John Pedrick House. Mr. Lattimer conveyed this part of his lot to John Petherick of Marblehead, fisherman, Oct. 17, 1663.‡ Mr. Pedrick built a dwelling house and barn upon the lot and lived there. He died, possessed of the estate, in 1706. Upon division, of the estate, Feb. 19, 1723-4, the buildings and land were assigned to his son John Pedrick. The house is then called "old," and probably stood only a few years longer).link
• Essex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 97 and Essex Registry of Deeds, book 35, leaf 173 (John Searl House. This was a part of the lot of Christopher Lattimer, and was owned in 1672 by John Allen, who had probably purchased it of Mr. Lattimer. Mr. Allen sold it to Mr. William Browne, and Mr. Browne to John Pedrick in 1678. Someone built this house before Oct 5, 1683, when Mr. Petherick, for fifty pounds, conveyed it with the lot to John Searl of Marblehead. He died about 1700, and his heirs conveyed the house and land to Samuel Stacey of Marblehead, shoreman, May 4, 1719,* Mr. Stacey owned the estate in 1732). link
• Essex Registry of Deeds, book 5, leaf 38 (John Pedrick Lot. That part of this lot which lies easterly of the dashes was owned in 1672 by John Allen, who had probably purchased it of Mr. Lattimer. Mr. Allen sold it to Mr. William Brown, and Mr. Brown to John Pedrick in 1678. The remainder of the lot was conveyed by Mr. Lattimer, who was then called a vintner, to Mr. Petherick Dec. 20, 1678.† Mr. Pedrick owned the entire lot in 1700). link
• Essex Registry of Deeds, book 7, leaf 76 and Marblehead town records.(Estate of Samuel Waldron House. The northeastern part of this lot, within the dashes, was granted and laid out by the selectmen of Marblehead to James Stilson of Marblehead, cordwainer, Feb. 11, 1682-3 * and on the same day that part lying south of the dashes was laid out by the selectmen to John Palmer.* Mr. Stilson built a house and shop upon his part of the lot; and, for forty pounds, conveyed the estate to Samuel Waldron of Marblehead, anchorsmith, Feb. 26, 1685-6.† Feb. 5, 1689-90, the trustees for the commoners of Marblehead conveyed to Mr., Waldron land on the western side of his lot westerly of the dashes, one-half of a rod wide and two rods and six feet in length.* Mr. Waldron died possessed of the lot Dec. 8, 1691, at the age of thirty-four. The buildings and land were then appraised at forty-six pounds. The real estate was devised by Mr. Waldron's will to his wife Miriam and her child, which she was then carrying. If she died without children, then it was to go to his brothers and sisters, Rebecca Stevens, John Waldron, Joseph Waldron, Thomas Waldron, Sarah Waldron and Joanna Waldron. The widow, Miriam Waldron, married, second, Benjamin Henley April 12, 1694; and he probably died about 1702. She married, third, Abraham. Lashere Sept. 29, 1704. How much longer the house stood is not known. The southern portion of the lot had come into the possession of Samuel Waldron apparently some time before his death, and was afterwards identified with that estate). link
• Essex Registry of Deeds, book 7, leaf 88 (John Pedrick Lot. John Pedrick owned this lot about 1670, when his house was standing there; and he owned the lot in 1700). link link
• First settler of Marblehead Neck c 1660
• Lee Wiegand's Wiegand / Henderson Family Tree
• See also Wikitree