John Mirick, of Charlestown

John Mirick was born in Wales in 1614. He and his wife, Hopestill, arrived in Boston in 1635.

Disambiguation

John Merick and Elizabeth Wyborne, the daughter of Thomas Weyborne of Boston were married by Capt. Humphery Atharton at Cambridge on 3 : 2: 1655. (03 April 1655). (All original spelling from record.)

This John Merrick, of Windsor who married Elizabeth Merrick could not have been the same person. His wife Hopestill Mirick was living in 1669.

Family

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Unknown-259450

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]

Children

From Genealogy of the Merrick-Mirick-Myrick Family of Massachusetts, 1636-1902. By George Byron Merrick. Page 101 < GoogleBooks >

He [John Mirick] was probably possessed of considerable property. He died Feb. 15, 1678-9. His will was proved 1678-9, and his estate was administered by his brother James, of Newbury, who appears to have also retained a dwelling in Charlestown. The will cannot be found, and an official and definite mention of his children is therefore lost to his historians. The best judgment of the compiler of this history assumes that the names of the children mentioned in the Charlestown records and Wyman's "Genealogies of Charlestown," as given below, are correct. He is open to correction if other and better evidence is ever developed. The children so named were

1. HOPESTILL, b. Feb. 20, 1642-3; m. Richard Rosmorgan, Oct. 7, 1664; d. Feb. 14, 1691.
2. 2. BENJAMIN, b. June 22, 1644; m. Sarah Orton, of Charlestown.
3. HANNAH, b. - 164-; m. John Walker, Aug. 1, 1673; d. March 21, 1716.
4. JAMES, b. died young.
5. 3. JOHN, b. 1655; m. Elizabeth Trowbridge, Feb. 9, 1682; d. July 11, 1706.
6. SARAH, b. May 1, 1657; m. Thomas Chapman, 1675.
7. MERCY, b. Dec. 30, 1658; m. John Mousall, April 24, 1695.
8. ABIGAIL, b. Feb. 1660; m. Joseph Allen, of Sudbury.
9. JOSEPH, b. ; m. Sarah.
10. AMATHIA, b ; m. Abel Benjamin
11. MARY, b. ; m. __ Devoy.

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• Emigration: emigrated from Wales with his 3 brothers, William (b. 1603), James (b. 1612) and Thomas (1620), sailing from Bristol, England, on the ship "James"

References

1. Updated from MyHeritage Family Trees via son Benjamin Mirick: Oct 30 2014, 8:42:25 UTC
2. https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Hopestill_Unknown_%288%29
   1. Merrick, George Byron. Genealogy of the Merrick-Mirick-Myrick Family of Massachusetts, 1636-1902. (Madison, Wis.: Tracy, Gibbs, & Co., 1902) page 99. < GoogleBooks > 'The date of Hopestill's death is not on record, but she was alive in 1669, and was then admitted to the church in Charlestown as the wife of John Mirick, and her age was given as fifty years.'
   2. Merrick, George Byron. Genealogy of the Merrick-Mirick-Myrick Family of Massachusetts, 1636-1902. (Madison, Wis.: Tracy, Gibbs, & Co., 1902) page 99. < GoogleBooks > 'The compiler assumes, in agreement with Miss Henrietta Amelia Mirick, of Boston, a descendant from John Mirick, that our John Mirick married Hopestill --, in Charlestown in 1641, about five years after his arrival in this country.'
3. Updated from MyHeritage Family Trees via son Benjamin Mirick: Oct 30 2014, 8:42:25 UTC
4. First Church (Charlestown, Massachusetts), and James Frothingham, ed. Hunnewell. Records of the First Church in Charlestown, 1632-1789. (Boston, Mass, 1880) 52. 1660. 12. 17. [Abigail] ye daughter of o'r sist'r Hopestil Mirick [baptized] [In 1660, the 12th month was February of what we would consider 1661, but was then part of 1660.]