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Thomas Merriam

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts
Death: August 16, 1738 (65-66)
Cambridge Farms, Lexington, Middlesex, Massachusetts
Place of Burial: Lexington, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Joseph Meriam, Jr.; Josiah Miriam and Sarah Meriam
Husband of Mary Merriam
Father of Mary Locke; Thomas Merriam; Lydia Eaton; Nathaniel Merriam; Simon Merriam and 2 others
Brother of Sarah Ball Fletcher; lydia Miriam; Deacon John Meriam; Robert Merriam; Ruth Stowe and 7 others

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About Thomas Merriam

(III) Thomas Merriam, son of Joseph Merriam (2) , was born at Concord, Massachusetts, 1672. He married, December 23, 1696, Mary Haywood, of Concord. She was dismissed from the Concord church to Lexington in 1698. He was constable of Lexington in 1716, selectman in 1718-22-25. He died August 16, 1738; she died September 29, 1756, aged eighty-one years.

Their children were:

  1. Thomas, baptized April 21, 1700;
  2. Lydia, baptized August 1, 1703, married Nathaniel Estabrook and resided at Reading;
  3. Nathaniel, baptized December 9, 1705, married Esther Muzzy, daughter of Benjamin Muzzy;
  4. Simon, baptized November 28, 1708, died February 8, 1747;
  5. David, baptized September 2, 1711, died December 15, 1743, in Townsend;
  6. Isaac, baptized July 11, 1714, married and had a child; died September, 1741.

Sources

  1. Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts: With a History of Worcester Society of Antiquity, Volume 2 (Google eBook) by Ellery Bicknell Crane. page 125
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Thomas Merriam's Timeline

1672
1672
Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts
1697
October 3, 1697
Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
1700
April 15, 1700
Lexington, Middlesex, Massachusetts
1703
July 23, 1703
Lexington, Middlesex County, MA, United States
1705
December 6, 1705
Lexington, Middlesex, MA (chr. Dec.9)
1708
November 23, 1708
Lexington, Middlesex, MA (chr. 28)
1711
August 22, 1711
Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
1714
July 5, 1714
Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
1738
August 16, 1738
Age 66
Cambridge Farms, Lexington, Middlesex, Massachusetts