Captain Deacon Ichabod Paddock

DESCENDANT OF CHIEF CANONICUS OF THE NARRAGANSETT INDIAN TRIBE AND CHIEF IYANNOUGH OF THE WAMPANOAG TRIBE

GREAT GRANDSON OF NATIVE AMERICAN PRINCESS MARY HYANNO

DISTANT COUSIN OF PRESIDENTS GEORGE H.W. BUSH AND GEORGE W. BUSH, VICE PRESIDENTS HANNIBAL HAMLIN AND DAN QUAYLE, SUSAN B. ANTHONY, ARTIST WINSLOW HOMER, WRITER AMBROSE BIERCE, AND SINGER BING CROSBY

DEACON, 1725

Birth: Jun. 1, 1687 Yarmouth Barnstable County Massachusetts, USA Death: Aug. 26, 1750 Middleboro Plymouth County Massachusetts, USA

DESCENDANT OF CHIEF CANONICUS OF THE NARRAGANSETT INDIAN TRIBE AND CHIEF IYANNOUGH OF THE WAMPANOAG TRIBE

GREAT GRANDSON OF NATIVE AMERICAN PRINCESS MARY HYANNO

DISTANT COUSIN OF PRESIDENTS GEORGE H.W. BUSH AND GEORGE W. BUSH, VICE PRESIDENTS HANNIBAL HAMLIN AND DAN QUAYLE, SUSAN B. ANTHONY, ARTIST WINSLOW HOMER, WRITER AMBROSE BIERCE, AND SINGER BING CROSBY

DEACON, 1725

A BIOGRAPHY OF DEACON ICHABOD PADDOCK, by Larry Overmire (7th great grandson), Aug. 2008:

Ichabod Paddock was born in Yarmouth, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, June 1, 1687, the eldest of ten children of Zachariah Paddock and Bethiah Hall. He has been shown to be a descendant of the immigrant Augustine Bearse whose Native American wife Mary Hyanno was reportedly the great granddaughter of Chief Canonicus of the Narragansett nation.

On Oct. 15, 1712, at Plymouth, Massachusetts, 25-year-old Ichabod married 23-year-old Joanna Faunce, the daughter of Elder Thomas Faunce, Jr., and his wife Jane Nelson. In the ensuing years, Joanna gave birth to nine children: Bethia, Priscilla, Jane, Joanna, Ephraim, Thomas, Zachariah, Patience, and James.

Ichabod and his family moved from Yarmouth to Middleboro in 1722. He was a distinguished elder and deacon of the Church of Plymouth.

He died in Middleboro on Aug. 6, 1750, at the age of 63 and was laid to rest in the Thatcher Cemetery, now a part of Cemetery At the Green.

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He was invited by the settlers on Nantucket to teach them about whaling from boats.