Rev. Peter “Bull” Maverick, Vicar of Awliscombe

Reverend Peter Maverick died a violent death.

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Rev Peter Maverick BIRTH 1550 England DEATH unknown England BURIAL Unknown MEMORIAL ID 33944894

Peter Maverick was the oldest son of Robert Maverick.

About 1550 when twenty-two years of age, he took holy orders. He was ordained as a Deacon in the private chapel of the Bishop's Chapel (Palace) at Exeter, England, on January 15, 1573/74, and a Priest on March 16 following.

The parish register at Awliscombe shows that on November 7, 1577, Peter Maverick and Dorothy Tucke were married.

His death is thought to be before February 3, 1616/17.

We know that The Reverend Peter died a "violent death". It is noted thus in the Intitution Books of Exeter, Devonshire, England 1573-1630, in which the replacement of Peter Maverick by John Hassard is noted via the former's death per necem - indicating that the former had suffered a violent death.

Family Members Parentshttp://samuelmaverick.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-family.html

The English Origins of the "Mary and John" Passengers related that Robert of this genealogy was of yeoman stock. Upon his death in 1573 he was described in parish records as a "clerk" which normally meant he was a cleric. Since he was married, he either was of a minor order which did not require celibacy, or he was ordained after the break with the Catholic church. His predecessor in the Awliscombe church was installed on May 11, 1554.

Although Robert's son Radford studied at Exeter College, Oxford as early as 1581, supposedly he did not receive his B.A. until 1599. He was instituted as vicar of Islington, Devon, on July 1, 1597, received his M.A. in 1603, and became the minister for the city of Exeter. However, parish records at Exeter disclosed his ordination as priest on June 15, 1583. In 1586 he was admitted to the rectory of the church of Trisham. Radford resigned his position at Islington in 1621 and was succeeded by Christopher Warren.

Ordination records of 1597 Exeter, Devonshire, revealed "Deacon and Priest: John Maverick literatus 29 July." In 1615, having received his M.A., John was admitted to the rectory of Beaworthy. He appeared to have died by the time of his brother Radford's 1622 will.

Brother Alexander's wife, Alice Crabbe, may have been the "Alice Mavericke als. Tucke widow" who was buried in Awliscombe on December 16, 1607.

In his will Radford referred to Peter as his eldest brother, so Peter was probably born circa 1550. According to ordination books, Peter was ordained as deacon in a private chapel at the Bishops Palace in Exeter on January 15, 1573/4 and became a priest on March 16 of that year. He was admitted to the "Perpetual Vicarage of Aulscombe" on the resignation of Richard Bacon, clerk, the last incumbent, and was there in 1580. He was succeeded after his death by John Hassard.

One of the entries in the ordination books referred to him as "Peter Bull alias Maverick" and another referred to him as "Peter Maverick alia (sic) Bull." Institution Books at Exeter for 1580 read "Peter Maverick alias Bull, clerk." While no explanation for the two names has been found, there are several possibilities. The most reasonable explanation was that as the eldest brother, in reality Peter was a step-brother. Peter may have been the child of his mother's first marriage. But in that case, Robert would have been the father of Peter.

In 1577 Peter Maverick married Dorothy Tucke, daughter of tenants of the Mayor of Exeter. Perhaps Dorothy was a relation of the "Alice Mavericke als. Tucke widow" referred to above. Peter and Dorothy produced two sets of twins. Both sets died shortly after birth.

According the English Origins of the "Mary & John" Passengers, Peter met a violent death circa 1616. However, no details were given.

His son John was baptized on December 28, 1578 in Awliscombe. John attended Exeter College at Oxford where he received his B.A. on July 8, 1599 and his M.A. on July 7, 1603. John had been already ordained as priest at Exeter, Devon County, on July 29, 1597. Based on her genealogical research reported in the April, 1915 NEHGR, Elizabeth French believed John may have been curate to his uncle Radford who was vicar at Ilsington. John married Mary Gye there on October 28, 1600.

The Maverick family, in particular Radford Maverick, may have been related to the Gye family. In "The Ancestry of Mary Gye, Wife of Rev. John Maverick", John G. Hunt reported that Mary's great-uncle was Nicholas Radford, a noted judge who was murdered circa 1455 and suggested that Radford Maverick might have been named after Nicholas or some other member of the Radford family.

The Gye family owned land in Ilsington where Radford Maverick became rector, and Robert Gye gave a large sum of money to him to raise Gye's daughter Mary. Hunt reported that Radford Maverick gave Mary in marriage to "his german-cousin" John Maverick.

Hunt claimed that in the 16th and 17th centuries that "cousin-german" meant "first cousin". However, in a codicil to his 1622 will, Radford Maverick referred to "Radford my brother John Mauericke's son" as his cousin. So Radford referred to his nephew as "cousin". In addition, the nephew Radford mentioned in the will was a true "cousin-german" to the John Maverick who married Mary Gye.

On August 30, 1615 John Maverick was inducted to the rectory of St. Albans, Beaworthy in North Devon County. He resigned that post on December 4, 1629 and, according to The English Origins of the "Mary & John" Passengers, the family resided near Honiton until their immigration. On March 24, 1629/30 John was chosen a teacher of the puritan church at Plymouth, England.

John, Mary, and their children (Elias, Mary, Moses, Aaron, Abigail, Antipas, and Margaret) emigrated to New England on board the "Mary & John" on March 20, 1629/30 from Plymouth, England. Their son Samuel had already emigrated to New England.

In his "Some Passengers of the 'Mary and John' in 1630," John Hunt related that the early settlers from Dorchester "included two unlike clerics, John Warham, a nonconformist, and John Maverick, a conformist." While many of the group came from Exeter, Maverick "lived forty miles off" at the time. But along with Warham, he became the religious leader of the group.

According to The Founding of Harvard College, the Mavericks were with the group containing John Warham and other West Countrymen who settled Dorchester, Massachusetts. While at Dorchester; along with Warham, Gaylord, and Rockwell; John signed early orders for distribution of land.

There was evidence that John had been intending to remove to Connecticut when he died suddenly at Dorchester on February 3, 1635/6. Winthrop wrote that John was a "man of very humbel spirit, and faith full in furthering the work of the Lord her, both in the church and civil state."

His wife Mary was found to be living with her son Samuel in 1665. Furthermore, Samuel sent his mother's regards in a 1666 letter to Sir William Morrice.

John's son Elias Maverick and his wife resided first in Chelsea and then in Charlestown, Massachusetts, where he joined the church. John's daughter Mary married Rev. James Parker of Weymouth and moved to Portsmouth, New Hampshire and, before James' death, to Barbadoes. Abigail married John Manning of Boston and removed to Charlestown, Massachusetts. Antipas was a merchant on the Isles of Shoals and then removed to Kittery, Maine and finally, to Exeter, New Hampshire.

John's son Moses Maverick first married Remember Allerton who emigrated to New England aboard the "Mayflower" in 1620. His second wife was Eunice Roberts, a widow. After leaving Dorchester, Moses removed to Salem where he became a freeman on September 3, 1634. The next year he was at Marblehead, Massachusetts and was there for most of the rest of his life. He served on the Grand Jury in 1645 and 1649. In 1645 Moses Maverick and David Carwethan acted as attorneys for William Walton, John Peck, and other Marblehead residents in a trespassing court case against Phillip Alke, Thomas Dyer, and Christopher Rogers. In 1647, Moses sued John Legg and his wife Elizabeth for defamation of character. And then in 1636, he rented Noodles Island from the General Court and was in charge of it while his brother Samuel was in Virginia. But by 1650 he was back purchasing land in Marblehead.

His informal will, with no signature or witness, was presented by his second wife Eunice at Ipswich on March 30, 1686. He remembered his wife and four daughters - Elizabeth Skinner, Remember Woodman, Mary Ferguson, and Sara Rosman. He also referred to Moses Hawks, the child of his deceased daughter Rebecca; and to Samuel Ward, Abigail Hinds, Mary Dollabar, and Martha Ward, the children of his deceased daughter Abigail. His children objected and it was held over until the next court term. The will was administered on July 15, 1684, docket number 1472. The will may not have been accepted, but Eunice was made administratrix of the estate. Edward Woodman, husband of Remember, petitioned the court three times demanding an accounting of Moses' estate. The final settlement of the estate wasn't made until November 29, 1698.

According to The English Origins of the "Mary & John" Passengers, the motivation of John's probable son Samuel for emigrating to the New World was not religious. He was an Anglican who emigrated long before his parents and in his "Briefe Description of New England" he wrote about his observations upon his arrival in 1624. In 1625 he fortified a house at Winnissimet (Chelsea) "with a Pillizado and fflankers and gunnes." Hart, in Commonwealth History of Massachusetts, reported that in 1627, only blacksmith Thomas Waldorf / Wolford at Charlestown, "prelatist" Samuel Maverick at Noodles Island, recluse clergyman William Blackstone at Boston, and the small group at Cape Ann lived between Plymouth Colony and New Hampshire.

Robert Maverick unknown–1573

Children John Maverick 1578–1636