Part 3.3. The American Lineage began with Henry Herrick

The Salem Witch Trials - Herrick's were Marshalls

The American Lineage began with Henry Herrick

There was a Genealogy compiled by Jedidiah Herrick, which can be downloaded. a few pages are included here, however there are discrepancies, however given the time and effort which has gone into the work, it is quite remarkable. By now the Herricks number thousands.

It all began with William Herrick's son Henry. Or did he marry Editha Laskin and come to America?

Did he arrive in 1629 or was that 1632? Take your pick. Why did he go, the truth was he probably was like a lot of young men, decided to do their own "thing", even though there are countless unfounded stories about his stealing his father's wealth, and being written out of his life. More may be found from the Herrick papers. There is no evidence that he stole his father's wealth. He was born in London around 1604, along with his brothers and sisters.

He came to America and married Editha Laskin. Her parents supposedly were Hugh Laskens and Alice Stubbens. There was a record of a William Laskin also Greenaway who married a Marjorie Moorcock in Broadwinsor in 1611, but there do not seem to be any source records for Editha or Hugh.

Was her name not Editha? An Alecia was born in1604 in Cheshire

A Dorothy born in 1605 in Lancashire Zacarie Luskin. Their son was Timothy, not one searchable record for Timothy Laskin nor Luskin. Could it be Larkin, or Larking.

But once again are these records correct?

Hugh Laskin, came to New England, on the "Abigail" in 1628; was in Salem in 1637; freeman, 1637 From a lot of "untraceable" people, it may be possible that a great many escaped some wrongs by joining those who went to the new lands. What did the correct name matter? They were supposed to have their name recorded, but who could prove what was being said, or written?

From the following report, Hugh and Alice were not very nice people. This sort of behaviour would be out of the norm for Henry.

HUGH LASKIN, born 1584 in England, Dorsetshire, Broadwinsor; died 1658 in Massachusetts, Essex Co., Salem 490. He married 13715. ALICE LNU.

13715. ALICE LNU, born Abt. 1592 in England,; died 23 Jul 1658 in Massachusetts, Essex Co., Salem 490.

Notes for HUGH LASKIN: Immigrated to Massachusetts, Salem on 6 Sep 1628 aboard the "Abigail"

Hugh LASKIN was born about 1590 in Childhay, Broadwinsor, Dorset, England. He emigrated on 6 Sep 1628 to Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony. Hugh LASKIN and his wife Alice/Alis and their daughter Edith came to America on the "Abigail." They left Weymouth, Dorset, England on 20 Jun 1628 and arrived 2 months 16 days later. He Granted "about 10 pole on the water side" in 1635 in Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony.

He became a member in 1636 in Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony. He took the oath of a freeman on 22 May 1639 in Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony. He Slave or indentured servant owner Owned a boy servant for whom he was fined for mistreating in 1644 in Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony. In that year, the LASKINs were fined 40 shillings for "hard usage of his late servant." Witnesses said the boy was fed only coarse bread and whey, was growing thin, and that his bedding was inadequate.

It is not clear if he died from neglect. He appeared in court on 9 Jul 1644 in Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony. Hugh LASKIN and his wife were charged in court with hard usage of their servant. Jacob Barney testified that he had heard that the greater part of the servant's diet was course bread and whey, but LASKIN denied it. Barney and other s further charged that the boy's bed and clothes were lacking and that he was growing thin.

The LASKINs were changed 40 shillings. He May have visited England in 1647. He died in Mar 1659 in Salem, Essex, MA. He left, according to his inventory, £58 on 21 Mar 1659 in Salem, Essex, MA.

Children of HUGH LASKIN and ALICE LNU are:

6857 i. EDITH LASKIN, born Bet. 1612 - 1614 in England, Leicester; died Aft. 27 Mar 1677 in Massachusetts, Essex Co., Beverly; married HENRY HERRICK Bef. 1634 in Massachusetts, Essex Co., Salem.

ii. Timothy Larkin, born 1615 in England, Dorsetshire, Broadwinsor; died Bef. 1659.

Owned land by the side of Bass River. Elected Freeman of the Bay Corp. 1639.

"A Genealogical register of the name and family of Herrick, from the ..."

By Jedediah HERRICK

https://books.google.com.au/books?id=aOMRWKyiORsC&pg=PA6&dq=Nicholas+Herrick&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiGupnwpebaAhULGZQKHdI9D-4Q6AEILzAB#v=onepage&q=Nicholas%20Herrick&f=false

Current available research on the Family.

Henry Herrick, "yeoman,"* as he is styled in deeds of land in 1668 and at other times [Essex Deeds iii, 37, 134, etc.] came early to Salem, and was one of those persons to whom the General Court gave the honour of freemanship May 18, 1631. He is on the list of proprietors of land in Salem in 1635. His being admitted freeman shows him to have been a member of the church in 1630. He removed to Enon, afterward called Wenham, and still later to Beverly.

He married at a time of which no note remains, Edith, daughter of Hugh Laskin, another early settler in Salem, a landholder in 1635, but of whom scarcely anything else is known. The date of his death is unknown; the only clue to it is the time when an inventory of his estate was presented,— March 21, 1658-9; but he had been absent from Salem some time, it is clear, for his daughter Edith, wife of Henry Herrick, testified 28(9)1672 (being then, as she deposed, about 60 years of age) that her father sold certain land "before he went away," namely "about 25 years" before.

The name of Hugh Laskin's wife is unknown. Edith was a member of the Salem church when the earliest list now extant was made in 1636. The baptism of their son Zechariah Herrick is recorded 25(10)1636, another son (name not recorded) 11(12)1637, Henry, 16(11)1639, Joseph, 6(6)1645, Eliza, 4(5)1647, John, 26(3)1650.

Henry Herrick seems to have lived an inconspicuous life. He was a farmer and brought up his sons to the same occupation. He left no will; indeed the date of his death is only inferred from the day when an inventory of his estate, presented by his son Henry, was said to have been taken,—namely, 15 March, 1670-1. The list mentions certain tracts of land, a number of books, household furnishings, etc.

Source: Paine Ancestry. The Family of Robert Treat Paine, Signer of the Declaration of Independence, Including Maternal Lines, By Sarah Cushing Paine, Charles Henry Pope, page 233.

Henry Herrick married Edith Laskin. In fact he arrived in America on the very same ship that she did with her family.

The ship was the "Abigail" and it arrived in 1628.

From http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=lesliesc&id=I8573

HUGH LASKIN, born 1584 in England, Dorsetshire, Broadwinsor490; died 1658 in Massachusetts, Essex Co., Salem490. He married 13715. ALICE LNU.

13715. ALICE LNU, born Abt. 1592 in England,; died 23 Jul 1658 in Massachusetts, Essex Co., Salem490.

Notes for HUGH LASKIN: Immigrated to Massachusetts, Salem on 6 Sep 1628 aboard the "Abigail"
Hugh LASKIN was born about 1590 in Childhay, Broadwinsor, Dorset, England. He emigrated on 6 Sep 1628 to Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony. Hugh LASKIN and his wife Alice/Alis and their daughter Edith came to America on the "Abigail."

They left Weymouth, Dorset, England on 20 Jun 1628 and arrived 2 months 16 days later. He Granted "about 10 pole on the water side" in 1635 in Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony. He became a member in 1636 in Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony. He took the oath of a freeman on 22 May 1639 in Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony.

He Slave or indentured servant owner Owned a boy servant for whom he was fined for mistreating in 1644 in Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony. In that year, the LASKINs were fined 40 shillings for "hard usage of his late servant." Witnesses said the boy was fed only coarse bread and whey, was growing thin, and that his bedding was inadequate. It is not clear if he died from neglect. He appeared in court on 9 Jul 1644 in Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Hugh LASKIN and his wife were charged in court with hard usage of their servant. Jacob Barney testified that he had heard that the greater part of the servant's diet was course bread and whey, but LASKIN denied it. Barney and other s further charged that the boy's bed and clothes were lacking and that he was growing thin. The LASKINs were changed 40 shillings. He May have visted England in 1647. He died in Mar 1659 in Salem, Essex, MA. He left, according to his inventory, £58 on 21 Mar 1659 in Salem, Essex, MA.

More About HUGH LASKIN: Freeman Oath: 22 May 1639, Massachusetts, Essex Co., Salem

Children of HUGH LASKIN and ALICE LNU are:

6857 i. EDITH LASKIN, born Bet. 1612 - 1614 in England, Leicester; died Aft. 27 Mar 1677 in Massachusetts, Essex Co., Beverly; married HENRY HERRICK Bef. 1634 in Massachusetts, Essex Co., Salem.

ii.            Timothy Larkin, born 1615 in England, Dorsetshire, Broadwinsor; died Bef. 1659.

The brother of Editha Laskin married Damoris Mansfield, who was another in the DeGraw lineage.

The Herricks and Salem

American records provide the following information about Henry Herrick. How a blue-blood English gent could be known as an Anglo-American is poetic licence. Until this period in time, he was the product of a long line of Nobility. That is probably something that is unknown to most of his descendants.

Joseph Herrick (August 6, 1645 – ca. 1710) was the principal law enforcement officer in Salem, Massachusetts during the Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692. Joseph, it was believed, was the son of Henry Herrick, who was the fifth son of Sir William Herrick (Heyricke or Eyrick) of Beaumanor Park, in the parish of Loughborough, in the county of Leicester, England.

*Recent research indicates that Joseph is the son of a different Henrie Hericke, who also immigrated to America, possibly a cousin of the Henry Heyricke of Beaumanor. Henry Heyricke of Beaumanor owned land Poquosin Creek, York Co., Virginia. He is noted in various records from 1640 to 1659. His location after 1659 has not been discovered. He served in the House of Burgesses in 1644-45.
Henry Hericke, progenitor of most of the Herricks in America, migrated to Salem in 1629 as a member of Higginson's fleet. Joseph, Henry's 4th son, was married to Sarah, the daughter of Richard Leach, on February 7, 1667. He was referred to as governor, which means he had probably been in command of a military district at some point, or perhaps he had been the magistrate of a West Indies colony. His descendants were large in number, and have held many important positions.

Joseph Herrick was a soldier during King Philip's War. In 1692, at age forty-seven, he was a corporal in the village militia. He was the constable of Salem, and, as such, central to the proceedings in the witchcraft trials. At the beginning he was persuaded by the accusers; but by the end he had become a skeptic. In one of the cases, he became an advocate for an accused person, which was probably quite dangerous; and in the end he was a leader in the opposition movement. His parents are mentioned in a court record to have been fined "for aiding and comforting an excommunicated person, contrary to order."

* That statement is incorrect.

George Herrick (c. 1658–1695) was the "Marshal" for the Court of Oyer and Terminer during the Salem Witch Trials.

George Herrick described himself as "bred a gentleman, and not much used to work". He was described by those who knew him as a "very tall, handsome man, very regular and devout in his attendance at church, religious without bigotry, and having every man's good word." In several of the witch cases, George Herrick is listed as a plaintiff. Marshal Herrick presented the court with his own petition on December 8, 1692; begging the magistrates to pay him "overtime" wages for the hard work he had done during the trials.

The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. The trials resulted in the executions of twenty people, fourteen of them women, and all but one by hanging. Five others (including two infant children) died in prison.

Twelve other women had previously been executed in Massachusetts and Connecticut during the 17th century. Despite being generally known as the Salem Witch Trials, the preliminary hearings in 1692 were conducted in several towns: Salem Village (now Danvers), Salem Town, Ipswich, and Andover. The most infamous trials were conducted by the Court of Oyer and Terminer in 1692 in Salem Town.
The episode is one of Colonial America's most notorious cases of mass hysteria. It has been used in political rhetoric and popular literature as a vivid cautionary tale about the dangers of isolationism, religious extremism, false accusations, and lapses in due process.

It was not unique, but a Colonial American example of the much broader phenomenon of witch trials in the early modern period, which took place also in Europe. Many historians consider the lasting effects of the trials to have been highly influential in subsequent United States history. According to historian George Lincoln Burr, "the Salem witchcraft was the rock on which the theocracy shattered."

Joseph Herrick Sr. and ux. v. Sarah Good.

"The Deposition of Joseph Herrick sen~ who testifieth and saith that on the first day of March I69~ I being the constable for Salem, there was delivered to me by warrant ffrom the worshipfull Jno Hathorne and Jonathan Corwin Esqrs.

Sarah Good for me to cery to their majesties Goal at Ipswich and that night I sett a gard to watch her at my own house, namely Samul Braybrook Michaell dunell Jonathan Baker and the affore named persons, Informed me in the moming that that night Sarah Good was gon for some time from them both bare foot and bare legde, and I was also Informed that that night Elizabeth Habbard one

of the afflicted parsons Com planed that Sarah Good came and afflicted her being foot and bare legded, and Samuell Sibley that was one that was attending of Eliza Hubbard Strock Sarah Good on the Arme as Elizabeth Hubbard said, apd Mary Herrick the wife of the abovesaid Joseph testifieth that on the 2th March 169~ in the morning I took notis of Sarah Good in the morning and one of her

Armes was bloody from a little below the Elbow to the wrist, and I also took notis of her Armes on the night before, and there ",as no sign of blood on them.

"Joseph Herrick senr and Mary herrick appearid before us the Jury for Inquest, and did on the oath which the had taken owne this their evidence to be the truth this 28 of June 1692.

Sworn in Court. "-.ld., Vol. I, pp. 26-17.

From the N. E. Historic-Genealogical Review, 1873, p. 55. communicated by J. Wingate Thornton, Esq., from the original.

"An Account Received from the mouth of Mary Herrick [probably John No.2] !Lged about 17 yeares having been Afflicted the Devill or some of his instruments about 2 month. . She saith she had oft been Afflicted & that the shape of Mr. Hayle had been represented to her, One amongst others, but she knew not what hand Afflicted her then, but on the 5th of the 9th She Appeared again with the

Ghost of Gooddee Easty, & that then M'" Hayle did sorely Afflict her by pinching, pricking and Choaking her. On the 12th of the 9th she Came again & Gooddee Easty with her & then Mrs Hayle did Afflict her as formerly. Sd Easty made as if she would speake but did not. but on the same night they Came again & M" Hayle did sorely Afflict her, & asked her if she thought she was a Witch. The Girl answered no, You be the Devill. Then said Easty Sd & speake, She Came to tell her She had been put to Death wrongfully & was Innocent of Witchcraft, & she Came to Vindicate her Cause & she cryed Vengeance, Vengeance, and bid her reveal this to Mr Hayle & Gerish, & then she would rise no more, nor should Mrs Hayle Afflict her any more. Memorand

l' Just before Sd Easty was Executed, She Appeared to Sd Girl, & said I am go-Ing upon the Ladder to be hanged for a Witch. but I am innocent, & before a 12 Month be past you shall believe it. Sd Girl sd she speake not of this before because she believed she was Guilty, Till Mrs Hayle appeared to her and Afflicted her, but now she believeth it is all a Delusion of the Devil.

This before Mr Hayle & Gerish 14th of the 9th 1692.

The following extracts are from the work of Robert Calef, entitled: " More Wonders of the Invisible World, or the Wonders of the Invisible World Displayed :"

" To Iluir Majts/its' Goal-Kttper in Salem .

.. You are in their majesties' names hereby required to take into your care, and safe custody, the bodies of William Hobs and Deborah his wife, Mary Easty, the wife of Isaac Easty, and Sarah Wild. the wife of John Wild, all of Topsfield; and Edward Bishop, of Salem Village, husbandman, and Sarah his wife, and Mary Black, a negro of lieutenant Nathaniel Putnam, of Salem Village; also Mary

English, the wife of Philip English, merchant, in Salem; who stand charged with high suspicion of sundry acts of witchcraft, done or committed by them lately upon the bodies of Ann Putman. Mary Lewis and Abigail Williams, of Salem Village; whereby great hurt and damage hath been done to the bodies of the said persons, according to the complaint of Thomas Putman and John Buxton, of Salem Village, exhibited; whom you are to secure in order to their further examination.

Fail not. JOHN HATHORN, I assistants.

JONA. CORWIN, . f

Dated Salem, April 22, 1692.

To marsltal George Herrick. tqf Salem, Essex. I

You are in their majesties names hereby required to convey the above named to the goal at Salem.-Fail not.

JOHN HATHORN, t .

JONA. CURWIN, f assistants.

Dated Salem, April 22, 1692. "-Page 195.

"Some, that had been of several juries, have given forth a paper, signed with their own hands, in these words: .

'" We, whose names are under written, being in the year 1692 called to serve as jurors in court at Salem on tria) of many, who were by Some suspected guilty of doing acts of witchcraft upon the bodies of sundry persons: .

'" We confess that we ourselves were not capable to understand, nor able to withstand, the mysterious delusions of the powers of darkness, and the prince of the air; but were, for want of knowledge in ourselves, and better information from others, prevailed with us to take up with such evidence against the accused, as, on further consideration and better information, we justly fear was insufficient for touching the lives of any, (Deu/. XVII, 6) whereby we fear we have been instrumental, with others. though ignorantly and unwittingly, to bring upon ourselves and this people of the Lord the guilt of innocent blood; which sin the Lord saith,

Merging of the Herricks into the DeGraw Family

The merging of the Herrick and DeGraw lineage began with the marriage of Jonathan Herrick to Bethiah Conant,

There are so many links with the different levels of people within the Family lineage, all related to Bethiah Conant.

Bethiah and Johnathan Herrick had a son Johnathan, and he married Mehatible Tarbox.

The Tarbox family also married into the Derby family, another in the DeGraw lineage.

Now to complicate the information, but something which probably strengthened the DNA links:

Bethial Conant (1684) married John Herrick (1672)

Bethial's (1684) sister Deborah Conant (1688) married John Derby (1681).

They had a son John Derby (1705)

As a second marriage John Derby (1681) married Rebecca Tarbox, (1672)

Rebecca's sister Mehitable Tarbox (1697) married John Herrick (1699) This John Herrick (1699) was the son of John Herrick (1672) and Bethial Conant (1684).

Then to keep it all in the family, John Derby (1705) the son of Deborah Conant (1688) married Rebecca (1672) and Mehitable Tarbox's (1697) niece, Rebecca Tarbox (1709).

As complicated as you like, there is probably another mixed up marriage within this relationship as well.

And the relationship travels right down to Randy's great grandparents.

Tarbox Family

It is certainly an unusual surname. The family name was Tarboxe, and they lived in a village called St Ippolyts in Herefordshire.

There has been a church on this site for at least 900 years; the church building is dedicated to St Ippolyts, so our patronal festival day is August 13th the day dedicated to St Hippolytus (see the article about St Hippolytus). The Ecclesiastical parish of St Ippolyts includes the villages of St Ippolyts, Gosmore and Langley.

The church was built in 1087 in a beautiful setting on the hillside above the village. According to the church records, the building was funded by grants supplied by Judith de Lens, the niece of William the Conqueror. De Lens gave evidence against her husband, a Saxon Earl, which led to his execution. The funding of the church was an attempt to make amends for this act.

Researching the Tarbox Family was very difficult, and this response from the people in Hertfordshire, where these ancestors appear to come from, really highlights and spotlights the extreme difficulties encountered when doing this research.

The problems stem wholly from people who have absolutely no idea of the areas in UK, the customs or the way of life.

.......of New Hampshire, USA, claims to have traced his line back to about 1067AD and wants to find out more information about his ancestor, John Torbock who was born in 1576 at Torboc Hall, Lancashire. He died in 1621 in Ippollitts, Herts. I also know he married a Julia Clarkson in 1607 but I cannot find anything else on her sadly enough. [He also asks a question about Lancashire irrelevant to this web site.

You fail to mention any sources (despite the request on the form you filled in) and sources are absolutely essential in this type of query. The vital question to ask is why on earth a John TORBOCK of Lancashire should have died a John TARBOX Ippollitts, Hertfordshire? Unless there are good sound evidence from contemporary sources for such a move the likelihood of the two references being to the same individual are so low that you should reject the possibility.

The name Tarbox - with its many spelling variants - appears to be clustered in West Hertfordshire. The earliest marriage on the VRI is for 1684 in Great Gaddesden, with 18th century examples in Redbourn, Flamstead, Berkhamsted and Bovingdon - all relatively close to one another. Baptisms show a similar picture the first Hertfordshire baptism on the VRI being at Great Gaddesden in 1675.

A check on familysearch shows the following earlier references from the Ippollitts parish registers:

Baptism: Agnes TARBOX - 17 Apr 1625 - Father Joseph
Marriage: John TARBOX & Mary OVERALL - 1 May 1633
Baptism: Thomas TARBOXS - 9 Feb 1633 - Father John
Baptism: John TARBOXE - 28 Apr 1636 - Parents John & Mary
Baptism: John TARBOX - 31 Dec 1637 - Parents John & Mary
Baptism: Elizabeth TARBOXE - 28 Oct 1641- Parents John & Mary
Baptism: Maria TARBOXE - 20 May 1644 - Parents not given

The fact that the earliest reference is to 1625 tells you no more than that the earlier parish registers no longer survive - and for all we know there may have been many Tarbox entries in the missing registers which would originally have started in 1538.

However some records do survive from 1602 in the form of Bishop's transcripts. These have not been indexed on the IGI at familysearch - and you will need to look in the LDS library catalogue to see if they are available to you via your local LDS Family History Centre - and if not you will have to arrange for the originals to be viewed at HALS.

familysearch also turned up four rogue entries. For instance one says that John TARBOX was born in 1612, was "of Ippollitts, Herts" and married Rebekah ANDREWS and another says that John TARBOX born about 1619, of Herts, married Rebecca ANDREWS WID. No LDS sources are quoted. There is a record which records a death with the name of the parents including the mother's maiden name - which is obviously an artefact from a family tree rather than taken from a primary source. These are typical of the input of vague and inaccurate family trees in the early days of the IGI and my experience is that they are often inaccurate guesses made many years ago by amateur American genealogists, with little understanding and with very little access to English records. If such entries do not check out with the appropriate source they should be treated as misleading rubbish.

So faced with this comforting thought, it is virtually impossible to clarify just who the parents of the original Tarboxe or Tarbox, is in England.

There are family clusters, of the family born in Hertfordshire, as the gentleman alluded to.

The clusters include:

· John Tarboxe was baptised 15th September 1583, in the village of East Barnet

· William 1585 in Barnett

Joan Hunte married Thomas Tarboxe in Gravely Herefordshire on 26th May 1597

Thomas Tarboxe in 1608 married Johane Wilks at St Peter Hereford

· Thomas Tarboxe was the son of John Tarboxe baptised on 9th February 1633 in Ippollitis

· John Tarbox married Mary Overall in 1st May 1633 in Ippollitis (Mary 1594) father John

· John Tarboxe was the son of John and Mary Tarboxe and he was baptised on 28th April 1636

· John Tarbox was baptised on 31 Dec 1637 at Ippollitis John and Mary

· Elizabeth Tarbox was baptised Feb 1641

· Joseph and Judith had Judith 1636

· Joseph 1638 had a son

· Joseph had Joseph in 1638

· Daniel had Elizabeth in 1632 wife Elizabeth

· Daniel and Elizabeth 1634 had Phillip

· George in 1631 married Agnes Newton

· George 1632 had Ellen

· George had Sarah in 1625

· A Samuel Tarbox born in Kiddermister in 1612 son of William

· Edward married Elizabeth Bun in 1624

· Johannes Tarboxe was the son of Johanis and Maria he was baptised 15th January 1619

The strong family names are John; Joseph; Thomas; Samuel

Given the information, it is then probable that the Tarbox line in America began with the children of John Tarbox and Mary Overall. The assumption is that their mother's name was Rebecca. From records, John and Mary did not have a daughter Rebecca. They did have a daughter Elizabeth.

Another item that often is overlooked is the number of John's who died after 1640. These records are certainly unreliable, as people would have had no idea of who the grandparents were, nor any idea as to when the person was born. Those records were written in the Bishops records stored in England. That is one reason establishing the correct parentage and lineage is difficult.

The other thing that is often not considered is the naming patterns.

There are several

· John son of John 1661

· Johathan son of John 1654

· John son of John and Mary 1674 Can be assumed to the John born in 1637

The DeGraw lineage begins with Mehitable Tarbox who married John Herrick of Beverley, Massachusetts.

Records relating to the life of John Tarbox, the great grandfather.

John Tarbox was born about 1610 in England. He was in Lynn, Massachusetts as early as 1640. He died in 1674.

Lewis in his History of Lynn says of him

"John Tarbox, one of the first farmers of Lynn, died 26 May, 1674. He had seven acres of upland on Water Hill, an orchard, three cows and nine sheep, at the time of his decease he was a small proprietor in the Iron Works."

The name of John Tarbox's wife, who survived him, was probably Rebekah.

"JOHN TARBOX was the founder of the family in America. In middle life, with the courage and energy of a much younger man, he severed the ties that bound him to his native England and set sail for the wilderness region beyond the seas. He was a resident at Lynn, Massachusetts, sometime previous to April 25, 1639 and on that date obtained judgment for a debt owed him by one Daniel Salmon. Acquiring a homestead plot with an orchard on Water Hill, he devoted himself to agriculture. He did not participate actively in the civic matters of the day, but accepted several minor assignments from the selectmen, such as the duty of estimating the value of property left by deceased members of the community.

In 1643 Governor John Winthrop, General Robert Sedgwick and influential citizens of Lynn organized the first iron works in America. Some six years later the output ran “8 tons per Week and their bar iron is as good as Spanish.” John Tarbox was one of the proprietors of the iron works and undoubtedly reaped considerable profit.

At the time of his death he possessed “seven acres of upland on Water Hill, an orchard, three cows and nine sheep” besides his interest in the iron works. Died May 26, 1674. Married, in England, Rebekah ----- who survived him. Issue, three sons and a daughter, the youngest child being, Samuel Tarbox." Colonial families of America; v. 01 p119

John Tarbox died in 1674. Lewis in his History of Lynn says of him : " John Tarbox, one of the first farmers of Lynn, died 26 May, 1674. He had seven acres of upland on Water Hill, an orchard, three cows and nine sheep, at the time of his decease He was a small proprietor in the Iron Works." The Iron Works of, Lynn, started in the infancy of the Massachusetts colony, was a very important branch of industry, and seems to have been regarded as a patriotic and public-spirited enterprise, which might or might not be found immediately profitable. Men outside of Lynn bore a part in the development of this industry. Gen. Robert Charlestown, who afterwards went back to England to help Cromwell in his war against the king, was one of the proprietors in these Iron Works.

The will of John Tarbox, made only a short time before his death,is on record in the Probate Office at Salem, and the following sentences are copied from it. " I bequeath my house and housing with orchard and all my land and meadow, with a Greene rugg and a great Iron Kettell, and a round Joyned Table to my Sonne John Tarbox. I bequeath unto every one of my Sonn John Tarbox his children one ewe sheep apeece. I appoint my wife Executrix and my friends Capt. Marshall and Thomas Laughtou Sen. my over seers."

The name of John Tarbox's wife, who survived him, was probably Rebekah.

Children of John and Rebekah Tarbox

Rebekah, born in England, seven or eight years old when she came over. She was the occasion of the curious record which we find on the books containing the doings of the Court of Quarter Sessions in Salem. " Sept. 11, 1649. Mathew Stanley was tried for winning the affection of John Tarbox's daughter, without the consent of her parents. He was fined £5. with 2s. 6*d. fees. The parents of the young woman were allowed 6s. for their attendance three days." That she was an only daughter is made probable by the above language, and we find traces of no other. She is not mentioned in her father's will in 1674, and may not have been then living. But she is mentioned in the will of Mrs. Thomas Axey (a neighbor and friend), made in 1670." Among many small legacies, she leaves one " to Rebekah Tarbox, wife of Goodman Gowing."

Jonathan, also born in England, died in 1654. A child John Tarbox died in Lynn about the same time, probably father and son. It may be that Jonathan had been recently married, and this was his first born son. Both dying near the same time, this line was out short.

John, born 1645, m. July, 1667, Mary Haven, daughter of Richard and Susanna (Newhall) Haven, b. March 12, 1647.

Samuel, born 1647; m (1st) Nov. 14, 1665, Rebekah, daughter of Godfrey Armitage, of Boston, and (2d) October 16, 1678, Experience Look.

John Tarbox, according to Lewis and Newhall's History of Lynn, came to that town in 1640. But by the Essex Court Records it is made plain that he was there in 1639, as the following entry will show: " John Tarbox pl. agt Daniell Salmon in aco. of Debt. Jury find for pl. 27" damadgs and 11* costs. 25 th of 4th mo 1639."

As this transaction was in the 4th month of 1639, there could hardly have been time in the previous months of that year for the formation of a debt which should have passed through all such stages as should bring it into court for collection.

It is likely, therefore, that he was an inhabitant of Lynn before 1639, but as we have no absolute proof of this, we fix upon that as his first year in New England. That he was a man of good character and a substantial citizen, appears from various items in the early records, of which the following may serve as a specimen :

"Geo Fraile 4 mo. 1664. Inventory of estate of George Fraile of Lynn who deceased 9th of lO mo. 1663, taken by Thos. Houghton Thos. Putnam, John Putnam and John Tarbox : Amount £184 14' 0. returned and allowed 29. Mar. 1664." p.4

So given those records, there were two John Tarbox in America. One who arrived before 1638 and the other who arrived after 1641, as his daughter Elizabeth was baptised in Hertfordshire in 1641.

Were there two John Tarbox's? Yes. One the son of Thomas, who was the grandfather of Samuel.

Then no doubt the other was Johannes the son of Johanis and Maria, baptised 1619. Every generation of this lineage of Tarbox, would have had a son named John. In all likelihood he married a Rebecca.

Now for confusion, is this Samuel the son of John and Mary, or the son of John and Rebecca. This would make him the nephew of John and Mary, and not the son.

ENSIGN SAMUEL TARBOX, youngest child of John Tarbox and Rebekah) Tarbox, Was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, about 1646. Unlike his father and brother John, he was Very active in civic affairs and a member of the trained bands of the militia. ‘When in the autumn of 1675 that fierce lndian War called King Philip’s threatened Lynn, Samuel Tarbox was one of those engaged in defending the town. He served, too, in the fight at Bloody Brook and in the Great Swamp battle near South Kingston, Rhode Island.

During this war he won his commission as ensign by service in Captain Gardner's company. As he was a farmer, his enforced absence from home for military‘ service reduced his personal fortunes and in 1685 he with twenty-five others petitioned the General Court for some special remuneration. The plea was granted in the form of an eight mile square tract of land in ‘Worcester County on condition that thirty families with an orthodox minister settle there within four years.

Ensign Samuel Tarbox and his family removed to the new tract, where he continued to reside until his death. Died in 1715. married, first, November 14, I665, Rebekah Armitage, daughter of Godfrey Armitage of Boston. She died in March, 1676. married, second, October 16, 1678, Experience Look, who died March 2, 1738. Issue, by first Wife, six children; by second, twelve. The second son and child by the first wife was Jonathon Tarbox. Colonial families of America; v. 01 p.120 After the death of Ens. Samuel Tarbox the widow and family removed from Lynn to Wenham. 1897 Essex Antiquarian Vol. I V2.0.pdf

Samuel Tarbox married firstly Rebecca Armitage. She was the daughter of Thomas Armitage.

From the HISTORY OF STAMFORD, CONNECTICUT, we find:

Thomas Armitage received 10 acres of land in December 1641. He came from Bristol,England on the ship James with the Reverend Richard Mather and others, and removed in 1637to Sandwich, Mass, whence he came to Stamford. From Stamford he went with Underhill and Company to Oyster Bay, Long Island. In 1647 he appears on the list of Hempstead settlers.

Thomas Armitage was in Stamford by December of 1641 and in Long Island shortly afterwards.

He probably remained in Oyster Bay a few years and then went to nearby Hempstead.

Sometime in the 1650 time period, his wife Susan died and he remarried to a Martha for a short period. She, too, had died before 1659. Nothing is known about Martha.

Samuel then married Experience Looke.

Experience was the daughter of Thomas Look 1622 - 1675 and Sarah Miller

Thomas Look was the son of John Loke 1595 - 1650 and Lucy Howe 1600 - 1676. They lived in Wiltshire.

Lucy Howe was the daughter of

John Howe 1574 - 1637 and Mary Eden 1575 - 1650. John died in Oundle Northamptonshire.

Samuel had 6 children with Rebecca and twelve with Experience Look.

Sarah Miller was the daughter it is said of John Miller and Elizabeth Baugh. But John Miller, is John Millyard.

The Miller family

However, John Millyard married Elizabeth Baugh in Shropshire in 1631, and this seems the likely person. Elizabeth was born in Backford Cheshire 1605. Cheshire and Shropshire adjoin.

But was Sarah Miller their daughter?

Again there is so much confusion among the records, and no source records as to birth marriage or death, in England, on two data bases.

The Miller Lineage - Is It Miller/Millard and which one?

John Millard's origins and relationship to Thomas Millard were found and published in 2015.

On p. 25 of the Bristol Records is listed "John Millard [of] Westwood [England]." (Every emigrant was compelled by ordinance to register his name, address, and vocation. But is this THIS John Millard of Rehoboth, John Millard/Miller of Salem/Boston or another John Millard?

"A good deal that is inaccurate has been printed about these New England Millards. The descendants of John1 Millard of Salem and John1 Millard of Rehoboth have been confounded... It is not certainly known from what county of England any Millard before 1650 came to Colonial America. From 1540 to 1640 the name 'Millard' occurred more frequently in Gloucestershire than elsewhere; but it was found also in other Western counties, in the Midlands, along the Channel coast from Devonshire to Kent, and in London. In the Eastern counties it was rarely met with... The only hint that has been found relative to the English connections of.... John1 Millard of Rehoboth, is wholly inconclusive." [Describes a silver tankard in the family bearing arms identified with the Millers of Wrotham, Co. Kent, citing two Heraldic journals.] "A systematic search of the Miller names in the Wrotham parish register has failed to bring to light any Thomas that can be identified with Thomas Millard of Boston, or any John that can be identified with John Millard of Rehoboth."

Of interest is a Boston will of one Thomas Millard (NEHGR, 48:326):

No. 517 - Thomas Millard, of Boston, administration, 4 Feb 1669-70. Bond of John Miller of Rehoboth, with John Lake and Thomas Bligh of Boston. Testimonies of: William Hudson of Boston, aged 57 years or thereabouts, in regard to land lying by Centry Hill; the testator said he would give it to his kinsman at Seakonk who hath many children.

"Peter Oliver of Boston, aged 52 years or thereabouts, saith that about seven years ago he said to the testator that if he would give him his house lot he would build aive cleanup a fair house for his maintenance; but he said he had a kinsman in ye country to whom he intended to give it.

John Jackson, aged about 60 years; about twelve months ago Thomas Millard said he would give his estate to his cousin Millard, because he was brought up at his father's house. Abigail Jackson, age about 60 years, testified to this same effect.

John Waite, aged 26 or thereabouts, being at the house of Mr. John Lake where was then Thomas Miller very ill near death, stated he intended cousin Miller should have good part of his estate, and said, I have no other kindred in the country nor certainly do know that any other is alive.

John Lake, aged fifty-one years or thereabouts, spoke to Thomas Millard about an hour or two before his death about his estate; he said he intended to have his cousin have a good part of it.

Inventory apprised by John Wiswall & Richard Cooke. Vol. vii. p. 18.

He is not covered by Anderson in his Great Migration series.

John Millard, probably with a wife and two small sons (Robert and John Jr), probably came to New England about 1637 at the same time as his first cousin Thomas who settled in Boston.
By 1643 John was established in Rehoboth, but he was then probably a widower since he had no births of children recorded during his early years in the town.

His name occurs often in the records in connection with land allottments and transfers.

About 1652 he married Elizabeth ______ who died in 1680. She was mother of his children born after 1652.
The town assessments of 22 Dec. 1657 list John Miller Sr., together with his two sons, John Jr. and Robert, and the following year both Johns took the Oath of Fidelitie there. Ten years later the same three Millers were among those who drew lots for the "meadow lands in the North Purchase" (now Attleboro, Mass.)
He was a tanner of animal hides.

· 1643: proprietor of Rehoboth

· 1648: surveyor of highways

· 1672: Constable

No will or death record found. (So, then, what is the source of his death date?)
He was cousin and suggested heir of Thomas Millard, of Boston, in 1669. But an earlier will of Thomas was found that left Thomas' estate to his sister Alice in England.
By first wife, name not known:

John Jr d 1680?; m Elizabeth who was still living as late as 1684
Robert

By second wife , named Elizabeth, Maida name not known, all recorded in Rehoboth:

Hannah b. Dec. 23, 1653
Sarah, b. Oct. 15, 1655
Samuel, b Oct 5, 1658
Joseph, b. Aug 1660
Benjamin b. Sept 22, 1662

"The sources commonly relied on for Rehoboth genealogy are The Vital Record of Rehoboth,' 1642-1696, as printed by James N. Arnold, and the History of Rehoboth, by Leonard Bliss, Jr. Unfortunately, there are errors in Arnold's invaluable work, both of transcription and of interpretation of difficult lines and Bliss made mistakes, which Savage and others followed. Corrections here introduced are made from the original manuscript records, still preserved at Rehoboth, from Bristol County wills and deeds recorded at Taunton, and from the Early Court Files of the Massachusetts Supreme Court."

Among other things:

"It is by no means certain that the Elizabeth Miller, who died at Rehoboth in 1680 was the wife of the first John Millard, Senior, as Savage (Vol. III, page 210), and other writers have assumed. The Colony record reads: 'Elizabeth Miller, the wife of John Miller, Senior, was buried the 18th of April.' (Plymouth Colony Records, Vol. VIII, page 74.) But this entry is admittedly a copy from the town record at Rehoboth, and the original reads: 'Elizabeth Miller wife of John Miller Buried 18 April, 1680.' (Original Records of Rehoboth, Vol. I, page 55.) The Colony record may have been a correction, but also John Millard, called 'junior' in 1657, and for many years afterwards, may have been John 'Senior' in 1680."

Genealogists appear to have confused several Lydias. Another Lydia, Lydia Coombs, daughter of Francis Coombs and Mary Barker, married another John Miller, not this Rev. John Miller.

Furthermore, Rev. John Miller was associated with John Elliot, the Apostle to the Indians, in Roxbury, but he was NOT married to John Elliot's sister, Lydia Elliot Penniman, nor Elliot's niece, also called Lydia. Much is known about John Elliot's family and it is unlikely that Lydia NN Miller was a relative of his.

John Miller graduated from Cambridge University in 1629. John of Dorchester, propr. 1635, removed to Roxbury. Elder in the Church, afterward preached at Rowley. Frm. Mayr 22, 1639. Became minister at Yarmouth. Still later paster at Groton. Propr. at Sandwich in 1640. Was app. one of the ministers to visit Virginia in 1642, but declined. Gen. Court gave order for his accommodation at Yarmouth 14 May 1648. Prop. for frm. Plymouth Colony 4 June, 1650.

According to conflicting evidence, he married Lydia Coombs ---- before 1632.1 He married Lydia NN---- before 1638.2 John died on 14 June 1663 at Groton, Massachusetts.2

Some children of John (Reverend) Miller and Lydia NN----

* John Miller

* Mehitable Miller+ b. 12 Jul 1638, d. 23 Feb 1714/15

* Lydia Miller b. 2 Dec 1640

* Susanna Miller b. 2 May 1647

Citations

1. [S170] NE Marriages Prior, Torrey, Clarence A. , pg 508.

2. [S79] Pioneers of MA, Pope, Charles Henry , pg 314."

http://www.tracycrocker.com/p81.htm#i2813

That Mehitable Miller married a John Crowe. Then Isaac DeGraw married another Mehitable Miller in 1812 and she is the great grandmother.

John Miller.

Graduate of Caius College, Cambridge in 1627 with a BA. He was a minister in Rowley and the first town clerk.

The first inhabitant of Groton took with them, or were immediately followed by Rev. John Miller as their minister. "At a general town meeting, March 18 166e, it was generally agreed as followeth: "1. Voted, That Mr. Miller is by the consent of the town, manifested by vote, to be desired, if God move his heart thereunto, to continue still with us, for our further edificatio." "2. That Mr. Miller shall have a twenty acre lot set out to him, according to the town's grant to him." It would seem by these votes, that it was intended Mr. Miller should be the settled minister of the town, but he was suddenly removed by death. In the first return of births and eaths, by the town clerk of Groton to the clear of the courts, his death is thus stated: "Mr. Jno. Miller, minister of God's holy word, died June 12, 1663."

Mr. Miller, according to Mather, had been an ordained minister in England; his name is among the early church memebers of Roxbury; he preached some time in Rowley, as assistant to the Rev. Ezekiel Rogers, was afterwards settled at Yarmouth, and after this came to Groton.

~History of the Town of Groton, pg. 154-155 • Background Information. 702 The earliest documents relating to any inhabitant of Groton, found amount the Middlesex County Probate Office, are those belonging to the estate of the Reverend John Miller, the first minister of the town. Power of administration was granted to his son John Miller on 3 Jul 1663; and his library was appraised at £6 5s 7d. Mr. Miller graduated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, England, in the year 1627, and came to this country in 1637.

In the first return of deaths, made by the town clerk of Groton to the recorder of the County, it is stated: "Mr. Jn. Miller, minister of Gods honly word died. June 12th 1663." ~Early Church Records of Groton, Massachusetts, 1761-1830, pg. 186 • Background Information. 703 In the church records of Roxbury, kept at the time by Reverend Samuel Danforth, and containing references to events throughout New England, it is written that - Jun 14 [1663] Mr. John Miller Preacher of ye Gospell at Groyton, sometime Pastor to ye church at Yarmouth rested fro his labours. John Miller lived for a short time in Roxbury, where he was one of the elders in the ministry at Rowley, from the year 1639 to 1641, and perhaps later, as an assistant to the Reverend Ezekiel Rogers; and during this time he filled the office of town clerk.

He was made a freeman of Massachusetts, 22 May 1639. In the autumn of 1641, he was waited on by messengers from Wobrun, who desired his services for their church; by they found "Mr. Roggers loth to part with him. John, in his "Wonder-Working Providence of Sion's Saviour, in New England." refers to him both in prose and in verse. In Chapter 11, page 131 is found: "With Courage bold Miller through Seas doth venter, To toyl it out in the great Western wast, Tey stature low on object high doth center; Higher than Heaven thy faith on christ is plac't" Mr. Miller was appointed, in 1642, to go to Virginia, but declined because of "bodily infirmities."

His name appears in the list of grantees of Newbury, 7 Dec 1642. A lot of land in Rowley was granted him in Jan 1643/44. From Rowley he moved to Yarmouth, where he was the settled minister. His daughter, Susannah, was born at Yarmouth, 2 May 1647. In the Summer of 1662, he was a member of the council that convened at Barnstable to consider the case of John Smith and others who had seceded from Barnstable church. John Miller's wife, Lydia, died in Boston, 7 Aug 1658, leaving a large family of children, one of whom, John, was born in England. Mr. Miller was a man of decided literary attainments, and a devoted servant of Christ.

Son of John "Long" Miller and Mary Miller. Husband of Lydia Miller; Mercy Miller (Barden) and Lydia Miller (Coombs) Father of Hannah Frost (Miller); Faith Winslow (Miller); Elizabeth Frost; John Miller of Ashton and Yarmouth; Mehitable Crowell (Miller); Lydia Fish and Susanna Miller. Brother of Johanna Miller; Grace Miller; Anne Miller; Margaret Miller; Elizabeth Miller; Robert Miller; Leonard Miller; Thomas Miller; Alexander Miller; George Miller; Jonathan Miller; Joseph MILLER and William Miller. Graduated from Cambridge University in 1629. --------------------

"He was a minister. John of Dorchester, propr. 1635, removed to Roxbury. Elder in the Church, afterward preached at Rowley. Frm. Mayr 22, 1639. Became minister at Yarmouth. Still later paster at Groton. Propr. at Sandwich in 1640. Was app. one of the ministers to visit Virginia in 1642, but declined. Gen. Court gave order for his accommodation at Yarmouth 14 May 1648. Prop. for frm. Plymouth Colony 4 June, 1650. According to conflicting evidence, he married Lydia Coombs ---- before 1632.1 He married Lydia NN---- before 1638.2 John died on 14 June 1663 at Groton, Massachusetts.2 Some children of John (Reverend) Miller and Lydia NN---- * John Miller * Mehitable Miller+ b. 12 Jul 1638, d. 23 Feb 1714/15 * Lydia Miller b. 2 Dec 1640 * Susanna Miller b. 2 May 1647. The first inhabitant of Groton took with them, or were immediately followed by Rev. John Miller as their minister.

"At a general town meeting, March 18 166e, it was generally agreed as followeth: "1. Voted, That Mr. Miller is by the consent of the town, manifested by vote, to be desired, if God move his heart thereunto, to continue still with us, for our further edificatio." "2. That Mr. Miller shall have a twenty acre lot set out to him, according to the town's grant to him." It would seem by these votes, that it was intended Mr. Miller should be the settled minister of the town, but he was suddenly removed by death. In the first return of births and eaths, by the town clerk of Groton to the clear of the courts, his death is thus stated: "Mr. Jno. Miller, minister of God's holy word, died June 12, 1663." Mr. Miller, according to Mather, had been an ordained minister in England; his name is among the early church members of Roxbury; he preached some time in Rowley, as assistant to the Rev. Ezekiel Rogers, was afterwards settled at Yarmouth, and after this came to Groton. ~

History of the Town of Groton, pg. 154-155 • Background Information. 702 The earliest documents relating to any inhabitant of Groton, found amount the Middlesex County Probate Office, are those belonging to the estate of the Reverend John Miller, the first minister of the town. Power of administration was granted to his son John Miller on 3 Jul 1663; and his library was appraised at £6 5s 7d. Mr. Miller graduated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, England, in the year 1627, and came to this country in 1637. In the first return of deaths, made by the town cleark of Groton to the recorder of the County, it is stated: "Mr. Jn. Miller, minister of Gods honly word died. June 12th 1663." ~Early Church Records of Groton, Massachusetts, 1761-1830, pg. 186 • Background Information. 703 In the church records of Roxbury, kept at the time by Reverend Samuel Danforth, and containing references to events throughout New England, it is written that - Jun 14 [1663] Mr. John Miller Preacher of ye Gospell at Groyton, sometime Pastor to ye church at Yarmouth rested fro his labours. John Miller lived for a short time in Roxbury, where he was one of the elders in the ministry at Rowley, from the year 1639 to 1641, and perhaps later, as an assistant to the Reverend Ezekiel Rogers; and during this time he filled the office of town clerk.

From Rowley he moved to Yarmouth, where he was the settled minister. His daughter, Susannah, was born at Yarmouth, 2 May 1647. In the Summer of 1662, he was a member of the council that convened at Barnstable to consider the case of John Smith and others who had seceded from Barnstable church. John Miller's wife, Lydia, died in Boston, 7 Aug 1658, leaving a large family of children, one of whom, John, was born in England. Mr. Miller was a man of decided literary attainments, and a devoted servant of Christ.

He was a Protestant minister.
He graduated from Gonvil and Caius College, Cambridge University, England, in 1627, and came to Massachusetts in 1637.
He was residing in Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1635 and was made a freeman in Rowley, Massachusetts Bay Colony on 22 May 1639. He was the first town clerk of Rowley.

Transcribed with errors - as it wa written

There is another relationship between Elizabeth Millard and her brother Major John Sabin. The indicates that a son married Elizabeth Sabin.

John Sabin was born on month day 1666, at birth place, Massachusetts, to WILLIAM SABIN and Martha SABIN (born Allen).

WILLIAM was born Before October 11 1609, in Titchfield, Hampshire, England.

Martha was born on December 11 1641, in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts.

John had 19 siblings: ELIZABETH MILLARD (born SABIN), Samuel Sabin and 17 other siblings.

John married Sarah Sabin (born Peck) on month day 1689, at age 23 at marriage place, Massachusetts.

Sarah was born on February 2 1669, in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts.

John passed away on month day 1742, at age 76 at death place, Connecticut.

The best assumption is that Sarah Miller was the daughter of a Mr Miller.

Then great grandmother Mehitable Miller was the daughter of a Mr Miller.

This is so frustrating, that the correct records have not been applied to the correct persons, which does not allow us to confirm the DeGraw heritage before Mehitable Tarbox nor Mehitable Miller.

Sort of a half complete story, but not without trying.

Mehitable Tarbox married John Herrick.

This is another lineage not without controversy. So many people question whether John Herrick was the son of John Herrick, who had his lineage back to England, and with copious errors!

But he did, DNA proved it. Henry had a son called Johnathan who married Sarah Leach, and their son Johnathan Herrick married Bethiah Conant. The Conant family are in the DeGraw lineage.

Then their son John Herrick married Mehatible Tarbox, another in the DeGraw lineage

The Herrick family of Henry and Editha

1. James Herrick 1633 1687 m Martha Topping 1635 - 1689

2. Thomas Herrick 1634 1699 m Hannah Ordway

3. Henry Herrick 1636 1695 m

4. Zachariah Herrick 1636 1695 m Mary Dodge 1632 1710

5. Ephraim Herrick 1637 1693 m Mary Cross

6. Joseph Herrick 1645 1718 m Mary Endicott

7. Elizabeth Herrick 1647 1727

8. John Herrick 1650 1680

9. Benjamin Herrick 1658 1690

10. George Herrick 1658 1694

There is only one child named after a parent, Henry or Editha. The names are not common to our Herrick Lineage. Perhaps Henry was influenced heavily by some of the more radical religious congregations. Names common to Herrick are Henry, Elizabeth, Thomas, William, John.

Going by the naming patterns, William's grandparents John and Elizabeth get a mention, but not one name is common to the names supposedly of his wife, or her parents.

Excerpts from The Letters of Robert Heyricke.

An enormous amount of information can be learnt from the private papers, but the following excerpts reveal some amazing information.

1. The following is condensed from" The letters of Alderman Robert Heyricke of Leicester, 1590-1617. A Contribution to the Transactions of the Leicestelshire :Architectural and Archieological Society. (Vol. V,-Part II, 1880). By Thomas North, F. S. A

" It was received after the English Family, in this book, was printed, and hence contains some items which were given (though incorrectly, perhaps), there.

. "During an inspection by a visitor of the numerous memorials of the dead in S. Martin's Church, Leicester, the upright slabs arranged within the north chapel, or Herrick's chancel, will not be overlooked; one at least, by the ancient form of its characters and the quaintness of its diction, will certainly challenge observation. (See Epitaph of John Heyricke, on page 5.)*

II This John Heyricke [IS] was by no means the first of his family established in Leicestershire, for it had possessed at an early date an estate at Great Stretton,and at a later period one at Houghton on the Hill. From that place Thomas, [13] the son of Robert Eyrick, [I I] removed to Leicester late in the fifteenth or very early in the sixteenth century. He prospered, and filled some important offices in the town, but died early, leaving two sons, Nicolas [14] and John [IS], the former being then about fourteen years of age, and the latter a child of about four years old, and a daughter of a still more tender age. Nicolas, like his father, was a leading man in the Leicester of that day, attaining to even higher honours, for he was Mayor in 1552, an office which his father never filled.

" His brother John Heyricke (after being admitted to the Merchants' Guild in 1535) married (as we gather from his epitaph just quoted), when he was about twenty-four years of age, Mary the daughter of John Bond, Esq., of Ward End or Little Bromwich in Warwickshire. We are told that he brought his young wife to the family house in the Market Place, Leicester, which he had then purchased of his brother Nicholas.

This house stood at the corner of the Cheapside, and there he carried on his business of an iron monger. In that house his twelve children were born, and in that house he most probably died, after having lived a life of much domestic happiness, singularly free from the anxieties and bereavements so frequently attending a large household, and after having filled the office of chief magistrate in his native town twice during a period of many national changes, political and religious.' .

"Of his sons Thomas [37] and John [39] we need not say more than that a letter from each will be found in the collections which follow these introductory notes.

"Nicolas [34] his second son, born in the year 1542, was at an early age (when he was about fourteen years old) apprenticed to a goldsmith in London-possibly to one of the Orpwood family." He subsequently established himself in the same business at a house in West Cheap known by the sign of the I Grasshopper,' from whence, in 1584-5, he supplied the Corporation of Leicester with a new mace, towards the cost of which he himself contributed forty shillings. The transaction is thus recorded by the Chamberlains of the Borough in that year:-

" Item paid to Mr Nicholas Heyricke of London, Goldsmith, for a new mace of silver, all ,!te,

. wayinge xlij ounces and a half at viij'. vj , the ounce, the sylver makinge & gyldinge comes to

xviijli. j', iijd.fror gravinge the arllles therein xxx'.& for a case for it ,.5. Soe all the wholl comes

to xxxii. xvjS, iijd, whereof deduckted. geven bythe said Nichas Heyrick xiS.

. The some payed is ........................ xvjli. xvj', iijd

"William [40], the youngest son of John Heyricke and his wife Marie, was born in the year 1557 (?)t, that is fifteen years subsequently to the birth of his brother Nicolas to whom we have just referred. In 1575 he was in London as an apprentice with that brother to the trade of a goldsmith, and in 1582 he was still with him, for his father then wrote to him desiring him to be diligent to please his master and mistress,' though he be your brother, & she your sister-in-law."

"In, or before, 1590 Mr. William Heyricke had commenced business on his own account his address then being 'goldsmyth at the Rose in Cheapside,' and a few years subsequently, in 1602-3, we him supplying plate to the Corporation of Leicester. The business of a goldsmith in those days, before the establishment of the modern system of Banking, combined with it many of the features of that profession. In the letters which follow we shall find many allusions to the lending and transmission of money-cattle dealers and others were always ready to avail themselves of the facility and security offered, by which they could pay their money into a person's hands in London and receive: it in the country, or vit:~vrrsa, on the production of a watten order, or as we now say, a draft or a cheque.

" Mr. Wm. Heyricke's success in his career was great and rapid: in 1595 he bought that beautiful estate at Beaumanor, which has ever since been in the hands of his descendants, and which again fortunately brought him and his successors into close intercourse with Leicester. He shortly after that event married Miss Joan May, the 'daughter of Richd. May, Esq., a citizen of London, and sister of Sir Humphrey May, sometime Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Mr. Wm. Heyricke soon became a freeman of Leicester, presenting the Mayor with a 'dosson of sylver spoones' as his fee.

In 1601 he was elected one of the members of Parliament for the Borough: about that time he was ambassador from Queen Elizabeth to the Portugal. In 1605 he was knighted by James I., and in that year was again returned to Parliament: he held an office In the royal jewel house, being called by the Chamberlains of the Borough 'The King's Mats Jueller' in their accounts for 1603-4, when they presented him with a complimentary present of white and claret wine with sugar and nutmeg: he was a Teller of the Exchequer at about the same period: in fact he had then become a most important personage in London--~me of the: many influential men who met daily in the nave of S. Paul's Cathedral to transact their business one of the great capitalists and the court banker of the day, whose monetary transactions were large, and extended far and near.

Owing no doubt to the good principles instilled, and the good, honest, and straightforward example always before his eyes, in his Leicester home, his prosperity did not weaken his domestic affections or his public spirit; the former was evidenced by the never forgotten tokens of his kindly remembrance which were regularly transmitted by him from London to his country relations, and by the unhesitating way (which always met with as quick a response) in which many of them applied to him in any emergency for his advice and assistance; and the latter is no less evident from the free and ready use of his great influence to further the public interest of his native town on many important occasions: all this will be clearly deduced from the collection of letters shortly to be given, and which letters render further remarks upon these characteristics superfluous in this place.

" In or shortly before the year 1613 he removed to Wood Street, to which address his London letters were after that date directed .

. .. After his purchase of Beaumonor he came down frequently into Leicestershire to visit his new property, and to enjoy the shooting. He took much pride in improving the estate, in planting fruit and other trees, and in adding to the comely decency of his parish church there, as several existing memorials of his can still testify

In 1616 he presented to the town of Leicester the portrait of Sir T. White, one of its worthies and benefactors, which is still preserved in the Town Hall, and in 1620 he was elected for the third time its representative in Parliament. Whenever he visited Leicester the Mayor and his brethren were not slack in testifying the respect they felt for him and their high appreciation of the benefits he had conferred upon the town. In 1621-2 the Chamberlains charge in their accounts:-

Item payd for a gallon of wine & suger given to Sr William Hericke and his La,dye at the Angdl

the xxxi"t July ............................ .and similar entries occur upon other occasions .

.. When Sir Wm. Heyricke finally retired from the busy scenes and duties of his London life to the more peaceful and tranquil enjoyments of Beaumanor Park I cannot with certainty say, but it would most probably be when he gave up his seat in Parliament in the year 1623. From that time to the date of his death in 1652-3 he appears to have passed his time chiefly in the country, a not distant neighbour of his native town which he loved so well, and surrounded by all that make a revered and respected old age thankful and happy.

"The portrait of Sir Wm. Herrick when he was thirty years of age hangs in the Leicester' Town Hall: it was painted, as the date upon it testifies, ' An.1594,' but when and how it came into the possession of the Corporation remains to be told. He was buried near the other members of his family in S. Martin's

Church, Leicester, where his memorial stone is still preserved.

The beautiful estate of Beau manor has, since Sir Wm. Heyricke's death, been held by six other Wm. Herricks (his descendants) in succession, the last being the late Wm. Perry-Herrick, Esq., whose memory, fragrant with many princely deeds of public munificence, and with still more numerous untold acts of private kindness, will long live in the remembrance and gratitude of his Leicestershire neighbours .

.. We must now turn from this the youngest son of the John Heyricke whose epitaph we quoted in the opening lines of these remarks, to Robert, his eldest, who was born in the year 1540. He was brought up to his father's business of an ironmonger. He married Elizabeth Manby, a neighbour's daughter, and in due time succeeded to his father's business, occupying the. house and shop already referred to as standing in the Market Place at the corner of Cheapside. He had a large family-two sons and nine daughters. He was thrice Mayor of his native town (in 1584. '593. and 1605), and at all times took an active and disinterested part in public matters. Much of this will be gleaned from his letters in the collections which follow these remarks.

He was during the latter part of his life the constant correspondent and agent of his brother Sir Wm. Heyricke, for whom he had a strong brotherly affection, and to whom he delighted to communicate the news of passing events in the town of their early home-a habit doubtless thoroughly appreciated and enjoyed by the younger man amidst the din and turmoil of city life.

following~ quaint inscription on an upright slab is to be found near to that of his father's In S. Martin's Church, Leicester:

Here lyeth the bodie of Robert Herick

Iron monger and Alderman of Leicester

Who had been thrise Maire thereof.

He was eldest son of John Herick and Marie;

And had 2 sonnes and 9 daughters by one wife,

With whom he lived 51 yeares.

At his death he gave away 16 pounds 10 shillings

A year to good uses.

He lived 78 years

And after dyed very godly the 14th of June 1618.

All flesh is grass; both young and old must die;

And so we pass to judgment by and by.

"The last representative in a direct line of Alderman Robert Heyricke-the late Wm. Heyrick, Esq., [59] of Thurmaston, Leicestershire,-died a few years ago.

" As before remarked Alderman Robert Heyrick was a constant correspondent of his brother William He)'rick the London goldsmith. The Leicester Market Place of that day, with its antique buildings, and its elm tree:; in the centre, around which were seats where neighbors could, on a summer's evening, sit in the shade and gossip over the events of the day, was a very different aspect to that presented by its now animated appearance. Looking upon that scene from the windows of his house, the Leicester Alderman had both leisure and inclination to write freely and frequently to his younger brother in the metropolis. He wrote about business-the receiving, paying and transmission of money in the way in which modern banking was then foreshadowed-he wrote about horses, upon a knowledge of which the Alderman evidently prided himself; about local events, in all of which both brothers took an interest; and about local persons well-known to each.

After Sir William had purchased his Leicestershire estate that became an object of interest to both, and Sir William's consequent closer connection with Leicester as its representative in Parliament, and • very good friend' at Beaumanor, afforded many topics for conversation.

" Sir William Heyrick preserved much of his correspondence, and when he came to reside permanently at Beaumanor he removed it there, together with books of accounts, and other manuscripts. There the letters were seen many years afterwards by Mr. John Nichols, when he was compiling his History of Leicestershire, and many of them were incorporated by him in that valuable

work. Some of the letters addressed from Leicester by Alderman Robert Heyrick were, however, either overlooked or intentionally omitted by. our county· historian.

To that fact the attention of the Leicestershire Architectural and Archreological Society was called by his grandson, the late Mr. John Gough Nichols, F. S. A., in a paper on • The Heyricke Lettetrs,' read at Leicester on the 5th December, 1860, (see Transactions, Vol. ii. p. t I.), at the close of which the writer said that, in his opinion, it would be difficult to find either in print or still in manuscript, a more interesting series of domestic correspondence than this of Robert Heyrick, the old Alderman of Leicester, and thrice Mayor thereof.

"It will be observed that the Letters commence in the year 1590, shortly after the death of their father Mr. John Heyrick, and continue until the year ,1617 about a year previous to the death of Alderman Robert Heyrick the writer."

LETTERS WRITTEN BY ALDERMAN ROBERT HERRICKE, OF LEICESTER, TO HIS BROTHER SIR WILLIAM HERRICK:, OF LONDON, KNIGHT.

[1590.] Leicester the 26 of October 1590.

" This bringer in no wise may come without a letter now nor hereafter. I must commend him to you as one whom at his return I purpose, God so willing, to make him my son. The day of marriage if God permit is appointed the x of November, which was my own marriage day, now (come that day) 23 years. I do with all my heart wish yourself with all my especial friends here at that time, but I have no hope of any of your coming, for that it is so far off, and winter being come upon us, yet I must entreat you that you will do so much for me as to speak to my brother and my sister,· my Cousin Furnor and his wife, and to whom you think good. And that you will take upon you to be a bidder in my behalf and to afford unto me Mr. Sacheverellt your friendship wherein you may stand him stede. ............................... .

Thus I commend you to the Lord

To his loving brother William Heyricke

goldsmith at the Rose in Cheapside dd."

, Your loving brother R Heyricke

[Seal: arms of Bond.]

r 1594-5.] " Leicester the 22 of March 15')4-(5).

I hope you have received your new geldinere this. Although he be not in every respect to my liking, yet I hope he will bring you well down. I have been, Nicolas Herricke, goldsmith of London, and his wfe. Nicolas Heyrick was the father of Robert Herrick the poet.

t The Rev. Thomas Sacheverill, the bearer of this letter, was Concetrater of Wiltton's Hospital, and succeeded Mr. Pellsant as Town Preacher about the year '598, and was instituted as Vicar of S. Martin in 1614.

At a Hall holden on the 8th of August, ,;;88, it was agreed that he should receive yearly as Town Preacher .c'3 6s. 8d.: shortly afterwards, upon an application from Sir Edward Hastings. his stipend was raised to .coo and again to .cJo at the request of the Earl of Huntingdon, and it was confirmed to him by writing under the Town seal. Notwithstanding this formal grant we find the Earl of Huntingdon complaining by letter dated rd August, '59', that Mr. Sacheverill', salary was not regularly paid, and again on the 16th of October in the same year he wrote to the Mayor and his brethren complaining of the unkindness of many of the town to their Preacher, and desires the Mayor, AC., to take c a.rc to P3)" him the stipend promised. (vol. i. p. 40~ )

[1606-7, January 5.] Vide Nichols, vol. ii. 625.

Thanking for new year's gifts "2 great bags of grocery and spices, for which as well for our own as also for the parson of Houghton.~ my wife and I give you •most hearty thanks. " ................•...•...............................

.. I thank you for your news of your Parliament matters" ................... .and many other matters

[1611. The following was written from Wardend in Warwickshire,the residence of Robert Heyrick's relations the Bonds

"I received your letter of the 7th of August, but since that time I could not write unto you by reason my man hath not gone home until now, I thank you for it. I can write nothing from hence, but only that we are in a fine place, where we have many fine walks, catching of good fish, and eating of it when we have done. 1 sent your commendations to my mother the last time I sent home my man and she was after the old manner, and I have now appointed my man to remember you to her again.'--

[I6JI.] "Leicester the 22 of November 1611.

I have been once again disappointed of carriage of your former letter as you perceive by the date; the first week my son Andrew appointed to go himself, but seeing the weather fall out so foul went not, but promised to send his man on Monday last, and I having your letter ready and one other thing for him to do sent my man on Sunday night to him, and he was gone at noon. So on Monday, when I came from Mr. Mayor's feast, I found your late letter in my hall board; but no such news as Mr. Walter Hastings told me at dinner. which was that he had a letter over night from London, that gold was risen by the King's Commandment, but in what sort I understood him not, but would be glad to

understand the truth by you how it is. for of (on) Friday 'night I was told that silver would be raised 2d 'in every shilling and yet I was so desirous to hold Mr. Halford for the payment, that I sent him as you see £50 which I knew if any such matter to come very shortly he should tarry for the rest till he had

paid you, that should be your advantage. Therefore I pray you write the certainty what you know or can hear of that matter, so soon as you may; and we hear that my good lord is gone to London about privy seals.~ I fear we shall hear of them too soon.

I have set down the £140 as You do require And thus commend you with my lady to the Almighty .

Your loving brother

Robart Heyricke."

[1614, November 7.] Vide Extracts in Nichols, vol. i. p. 342,

and vol. ii. p. 628.

Acknowledges letter written by his "cousin" Richard.! "Am sorry to hear that you are under either Physician or Surgeon's hand: I pray you take heed be not too busy with them, for I am informed that it is only a cold, and will go again with keeping your head warm." The writer bad been unwell "and yet

this day I thank God all heart again and have had thirty or more at dinner and with wine and sugar, and hands held up so high as we could we remembered Wood Street, and though we can do no more, yet in our prayers, in our spoons, and in our cu(Js we do not forget you when time serves." Negotiations for his daughter's marriage with Mr. Babington.

Intimation of the Manor of Wanlip being for sale.

[1615, December.]

Respecting the proposed marriage between Mr. Babington and his daughter .•"but such a cold wooer as 1 never knew, that he hath half lost the bride's favour. When he comes as he hath many times, he salutes her but as he doth her sisters and very seldom useth any further speech with her, nor never gave her token but a little sorry ring ... " ... " You know how poor and beggarly the country is, and that those that do live best, live nothing like to citizens of London though they be not of the richest sort ....

" So he would prefer either a merchant, a goldsmith, or any good tradesman for his daughter if Sir William could "spy out a likely man."

[1616, December 17.] .

Why did Henry Herrick go to America?

Researching all the differing opinions of when and how Henry Herrick went to America, and what was historically accepted, left many me with many doubts, as to their authenticity. Did he marry in England, and then go to America? or did he just arrive at some point in time?

Perhaps the question of doubt arose, purely because my knowledge of the Herrick family from generations past to generations in the future. Had Henry Herrick travelled to America as a representative of the family, he would have held a senior position, or been party to the merchants guild.

He was neither. His father was a Member of Parliament, had been knighted for his services, and held the respect of close Royal family, including King James.

He as a member of the Merchant's Guild in London. Not one person seemingly, when researching the family over centuries, seems to have considered the social implications of the time.

My opinion was that he somehow, fell from grace. Something nearly every family at some point in time, suffers. One of their own, does not live up to the family reputation.

Or perhaps it stemmed from researching the convict ancestors of Maree DeGraw, or solving the mysteries associated with other family members. The strict code of hierarchy was adhered to for centuries, and should not be discounted.

He was likely the eldest son not the 6th son of Sir William Herrick, and precisely the sort of character that was in my opinion, the reason that a family with very strong English roots and connections, would not allow one of their own to set of, and start a new life in a new colony, without good reason. It was just so out of tradition with the family.

My belief was that somewhere in our Great Grandfather's papers there would be some clues. My copy of the papers spans over 125 pages. It was very interesting reading. As well, from researching my Durnford family, I was very aware that my step great grandmother's family, once again Galway merchants, took Irish ladies and men to the West Indies, to work in the sugar plantations, which they were permitted to do, courtesy of King James. Irish slavery to America certainly was something that happened.

Then there was Jamestown, Maree's family, members of the Merchant's Guild of London, they were very influential shareholders of the Charter Companies. By 1609, the Second Virginia Charter was formed, and the register of signatories has been digitised.

The Second Virginia Charter, dated May 23, 1609, provided "a further Enlargement and Explanation of the said [first] Grant, Privileges, and Liberties" which gave the London Company adventurers influence in determining the policies of the company, extended the Company's rights to land extending "up into the Land throughout from Sea to Sea", and allowed English merchant companies and individuals to invest in the colonization effort. The charter includes a detailed list of the names of some 650 noblemen, gentlemen, officials, companies, and individuals who subscribed as investors

To return to the question of why did Henry Herrick travel to America? He was born in London while his father was serving in office.

His father married around 1596, and bought a property in London in 1613. He had also the lease on Beau Manor. Among his roles was Ambassador to Portugal. He worked for and on behalf of the Royal Family. Just perhaps his eldest son fell from grace. What sort of dilemma would that cause.

It would not be something that could be easily "swept under the carpet". London in those days was full of rumour and innuendo. If this was the case with his son, there was a good chance that he wrote to his brother about it. They were extremely close, and constant letter writers.

And he did.

.....the carrier at the same instant, and for them all generally and severally we render all possible thanks, and will not forget you, God so willing, in the cup nor the spoon; I am sorry I have not any good thing to make Such a part of requital, but have sent into Cheshire for some cheese for you,- which if it come not this year, will come in the beginning of the next, which I pray God prove so good as I wish it.

......I can but still grieve to think of your trouble with that lewd boy whose heart God turn, and bring him to a better mind; but what course soever you take for him, or whatsoever you do with him, shall not only content me but I shall acknowledge myself much beholden to you for it. I would to God he were well placed far from you.

Here is our Mayor an honest man, and one that of late hath had his eldest son in Norwich Gaol about a robbery, and as I hear he is very lately got forth of the Gaol, and have packed him oversea. All the time my brother Manby was in office he kept him either in Bridewell, or in the Gaol. And thus hoping to hear shortly from you that you shut your hands of him I end for this time, commending you with my lady and all yours to the blessed protection of the Almighty, who I beseech to bless you, and us all, and send us a merry Christmas.

This morning about nine of the clock, as I was coming forth of my chamber, the bells at Saint Martin's very suddenly rung 'acord't and presently word was brought me that the fire was a [at theJ Friars, and presently word came that it was a kiln of Robert Ereks adjoining to the Friars, in a very dangerous place where great store of corn and hay lay near, but, the Lord be praised, it was quickly quenched.

Leicester the '7 of December

Your loving brother

Robart Heyricke.

Bit like an old song "How do you solve the problem of Maria?" or in this case "Henry".

With a little help from your friends.

Most likely with the help of those friends in the Merchant's Guild,

The details of the paragraphs in the letter, possibly do not mean much to the person unfamiliar with the family.

Manby was Robert's brother in law, his name was Thomas Manby, and he also was a Merchant in London.

Bridewell Prison and Hospital was established in a former royal palace in 1553 with two purposes: the punishment of the disorderly poor and housing of homeless children in the City of London. Located on the banks of the Fleet River in the City, it was both the first house of correction in the country and a major charitable institution (reflecting the early modern definition of a "hospital"). Its records provide valuable evidence of both petty crime and pauper apprenticeships in the eighteenth century.

From the 1570s Bridewell was governed jointly with Bethlem Hospital (which treated the insane) by a Court of Governors. Because appointment as a governor was socially prestigious, and gave elite men the right to nominate apprentices, a large number of governors were appointed (there were 270 in 1700). Needless to say, only a small proportion showed up for meetings of the Court, and over the course of the eighteenth century the Court's business was increasingly devolved to committees, and the court met less frequently. As recorded in its Minutes (MG), the Court's business included determining the fate of prisoners and apprentices, the appointment of officers, and administering the hospital's properties and finances. One of the most important committees was the Prison Committee, whose Minutes (MB), and those of its sub-committee which met weekly, are included on this website.

Now poor Henry was probably doomed to be sent to Bridewell, as his uncle, the Lord Mayor of London, Sir John Bennet, was a Governor. John married William and Robert's sister Mary.

Bennet was knighted by King James I on 26 July 1603 and, in 1604, he was elected Alderman of Lime Street Ward, serving until 1612. He was President of the Royal Bethlem and Bridewell Hospitals from 1606 to 1613 and in 1610 became Master Mercer again. In 1612 he transferred as Alderman for Bassishaw Ward which he represented until 1627. He was also President of St Bartholomew's Hospital from 1623 until his death on 20 February 1627.

So now there are more people potentially involved in the problem of Henry!

The time frame of the letters is December 1616.

Perhaps the problem took a little longer to resolve. Just like the prisoners sent to Australia, prisoners also were sent to the new settlement of America.

There was also the hope that transported convicts could be rehabilitated and reformed by starting a new life in the colonies. In 1615, in the reign of James I, a committee of the Council had already obtained the power to choose from the prisoners those that deserved pardon and, consequently, transportation to the colonies. Convicts were chosen carefully: the Acts of the Privy Council showed that prisoners "for strength of bodie or other abilities shall be thought fit to be employed in foreign discoveries or other services beyond the Seas"

The next timeline is around 1628, when the Puritans settled Massachusetts Colony.

There was another Charter Document drawn up, called the Massachusetts Charter. Once again, the merchants and aldermen of the Merchants Guild were both investors and Charter members.

The whole settlement of America, was a business venture, nothing more, nothing less. The merchants paid £12 per share. They wanted a return on their money. How they did that was to grant land, and then to have the settlers work that land, and send the profits back to London, either in goods or kind.

NOW Know ye, that we, at the humble suit and petition of the said Sir Henry Rosewell, Sir John Young, Thomas Southcott, John Humphrey, John Endecott, and Simon Whetcombe, and of others whom they have associated unto them, have, for diverse good causes and considerations, us moving, granted and confirmed, and by these presents of our especial grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion, do grant and confirm unto the said Sir Henry Rosewell, Sir John Young, Thomas Southcott, John Humphrey, John Endecott, and Simon Whetcombe, and to their Associates hereafter named; (videlicet) [viz., or namely,] Sir Richard Saltonstall, Knight, Isaac Johnson, Samuel Aldersey, John Ven, Matthew Cradock, George Harwood, Increase Nowell, Richard Perry, Richard Bellingham, Nathaniel Wright, Samuel Vassell, Theophilus Eaton, Thomas Goffe, Thomas Adams, John Browne, Samuel Browne, Thomas Hutchins, William Vassell, William Pinchion, and George Foxcroft, their heirs and assigns, all the said part of New England in America, lying and extending between the bounds and limits in the said recited indenture expressed, and all lands and grounds, place and places, soils, woods and wood grounds, havens, ports, rivers, waters, mines, minerals, jurisdictions, rights, royalties, liberties, freedoms, immunities, privileges, franchises, pre-eminences, hereditaments, and commodities whatsoever, to them the said Sir Henry Rosewell, Sir John Young, Thomas Southcott, John Humphrey, John Endecott, and Simon Whetcombe, their heirs and assigns, and to their associates, by the said recited indenture, given, granted, bargained, sold, enfeoffed, alienated, and confirmed, or mentioned, or intended thereby to be given, granted, bargained, sold, enfeoffed, alienated, and confirmed: To have, and to hold, the said part of New England in America, and other the premises hereby mentioned to be granted and confirmed, and every part and parcel thereof with the appurtenances, to the said Sir Henry Rosewell, Sir John Young, Sir Richard Saltonstall, Thomas Southcott, John Humphrey, John Endecott, Simon Whetcombe, Isaac Johnson, Richard Perry, Richard Bellingham, Nathaniel Wright, Samuel Vassell, Theophilus Eaton, Thomas Goffe, Thomas Adams, John Browne, Samuel Browne, Thomas Hutchins, Samuel Aldersey, John Ven, Matthew Cradock, George Harwood, Increase Nowell, William Vassell, William Pinchion, and George Foxcroft, their heirs and assigns forever, to their only proper and absolute use and behalf forevermore; To be holden of us, our heirs and successors, as of our Manor of Eastgreenwich aforesaid, in free and common socage, and not in capite, nor by knights service; And also yielding and paying therefore to us, our heirs and successors, the fifth part only of all ore of gold and silver, which from time to time, and at all times hereafter shall be there gotten, had, or obtained, for all services, exactions and demands whatsoever, according to the tenure and reservation in the said recited indenture expressed.

From the books, The History of the Merchant Taylor's Company Matthew P. Davies, Ann Saunders Northern Universities Press, 1 Jan. 2004

Reference is made to four alderman, who were jointly involved in a scheme.

They were Thomas Manby, Alderman Isaac Pennington, Alderman John Fowke, and Alderman Venn.

By this time in his mid-fifties (he had been born in 1586), of substantial Somerset yeoman stock, he had come to London in 1602, had served his apprenticeship, and had been made free of the Company in 1610. ... but there were those who felt he had made others of a different tenor, and in a pamphlet published two years later by the King at Oxford, Venn, along with Alderman Isaac Pennington, Alderman John Fowke and Thomas Manby, was named as one of the chief instigators

Each of these men had certain ideas and differences regarding many subjects, and strong ideas on Puritan religion.

John Fowke (c. 1596 – 22 April 1662) was an English merchant and politician. He served as a Sheriff of London for 1644 and Lord Mayor of London for 1652. He was the Member of Parliament for City of London in 1661–1662.

He was the third son of William Fowke of Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, by his wife, Alice Carr of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire. Coming to London, he rose to be one of its leading merchants. He was a member of the Haberdashers' Company, and an alderman.

In 1627 Fowke, after the vote and declaration of the House of Commons against paying tonnage and poundage, persistently refused to pay. He had goods seized to the value of £5,827. In August 1627 and January 1628, for attempting to obtain legal redress, he was imprisoned and lost more merchandise. In the following February he was prosecuted by the Star Chamber for 'pretended riot and seditious words' used by him to the officers sent to execute the replevin. About the same time Charles I expressed displeasure against Fowke, and shortly afterwards named him in a declaration printed and published in March 1628.

In October 1629, on Fowke again refusing to pay the impost, an information was laid against him at the council, and 'great endeavours used to take away his life and estate upon false pretences of clipping of money and piracies.' After witnesses had been examined he was committed to the Fleet Prison and his ship and cargo, with a prize of sugar, seized. He was forced to give £40,000.
In June 1641 he petitioned the Commons for relief for his losses. The House, by an order of 30 June 1645, nominated a committee to consider how he might have reparation out of delinquents' estates.
Fowke served the office of sheriff in 1643. King Charles, in his answer to the city petition of 4 January 1643, spoke of Fowke as one of the leaders of the parliamentary party in the city, and a person 'notoriously guilty of schism and high treason'. In the ordinance of 29 March 1643 of parliament for raising money, Fowke was one of the persons empowered to nominate collectors in each ward.

Having been appointed a commissioner of the customs, and refusing to deliver up an account on oath of what money he had received, he was fined by the committee of accompts, 18 April 1645, and in the end sent to the Fleet Prison. A deputation from the common council, headed by his friend William Gibbs, goldsmith, then sheriff, petitioned the Commons on 23 July for his release on bail. After a long debate on 4 August it was resolved that Fowke ought to 'accompt jointly with the rest of the late commissioners and collectors of the customs.'

He was treated on all sides with deference. Under two decrees made by Lord Keeper Coventry, on 21 November 1631 and 9 June 1635, the East India Company had retained money of Fowke's. He petitioned the Lords, 8 July 1646, to have these decrees reversed. On 6 May 1647 judgment was given in his favour, with costs

He probably was a valued acquaintance of my own Isaacson, and their roles in Customs Department!

Sir Richard Venn or Fenn (died 18 August 1639) was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1637.Venn was a city of London merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers. He was a member of the committee of the East India Company from 1619 to 1626 and Master of the Haberdashers Company from 1625 to 1626. On 4 May 1626 he was elected an alderman of the City of London for Castle Baynard ward and was Sheriff of London from 1626 to 1627. He was a member of the committee of the East India Company from 1627 to 1629 and from 1631 to 1637. In 1631 he became Colonel of the Trained Bands until his death, and was president of the Honourable Artillery Company from 1633 to 1634. He was elected alderman for Tower ward in 1634. In 1637, he was elected Lord Mayor of London and was again Master of the Haberdashers Company. He was knighted on 27 May 1638. He was a member of the committee of the East India Company again in 1639 until his death that year. Venn married a daughter of James Collymore alderman in 1610

Isaac Penington was the eldest son of Robert Penington, a London merchant with estates in East Anglia, and second cousin of John Penington, who became an admiral in Charles I's navy. Penington made his fortune through trading in cloth and French wine. From 1626, he acted as financial agent to Admiral Penington. Through his second wife, Mary Wilkinson, whom he married in 1629, he extended his commercial interests to include a partnership in her family's brewery business. Penington and his wife were zealous Puritans and members of the congregation of St Stephen's in Coleman Street.

Penington became involved in politics in 1638 when he was elected as a London sheriff. In 1639, he became an alderman, and in 1640 was elected as a London MP to both the Short and Long Parliaments. He led demands for the abolition of episcopacy and was active in enforcing the destruction of idolatrous images in London churches.

During the early 1640s, he worked with fellow militant Puritan John Venn to mobilise support against the King's unpopular advisers Strafford and Laud. Penington used his influence in the City of London to raise funds for Parliament, and in January 1642, may have sheltered the Five Members after the King's failed attempt to arrest them. When Parliament removed the Royalist Sir Richard Gurney from office in August 1642, Penington was appointed Lord Mayor in his place. He became a member of the City militia committee in September 1642 and exhorted the citizens to build fortifications for the defence of London. He was appointed Lieutenant of the Tower of London in July 1643. Penington was uncompromising in his hostility to the King's cause. He was replaced as Lord Mayor by the more moderate Sir John Wollaston in October 1643, but continued in his role as an intermediary between Parliament and the City.

In January 1649, Penington was appointed a commissioner of the High Court of Justice. He attended the King's trial, but did not sign the death warrant. However, he assisted Mayor Thomas Andrews in proclaiming the abolition of monarchy in the City, and was a member of the Council of State 1649-52. Penington's fortunes declined during the 1650s. He was obliged to resign from his office as alderman in 1657 because of financial difficulties.

His eldest son Isaac Penington junior (1616-79) became a Quaker, while another son became a Catholic priest. Penington surrendered at the Restoration, hoping for leniency because he had not signed the King's death warrant. His remaining lands were confiscated and he was sentenced to life imprisonment in the Tower, where he died in December 1661

Each of them were involved in the Massachusetts Charter

No doubt with all the relationships, Henry was shipped to the new Colony, and no doubt on the ship "Abigail". Yet another piece of the puzzle falls into place.

On 20th June 1628 the ship Abigail set sail from Weymouth with many Dorset emigrants bound for New England. Under Henry Gauden, the master, they arrived in Salem, Massachusetts on 6th September. This particular passage was important as it carried the new government for the London Plantation. The governor was John Endicott.

Passengers known to be on board the Abigail from Weymouth 1628

John Endicott

Mrs Anna Endicott (wife of John)

Charles Gott of Cambridge, England

Richard Brackenbury of Folke or Holnest, Dorset

William Brackenbury of Folke or Holnest, Dorset

Hugh Laskin of Childhay, Dorset

Mrs Laskin
Edith Laskin

Lawrence Leach, possibly from Ash, Martock, Somerset

Roger Morey of Drimpton, Dorset

John Elford of Chetnole, Dorset

Thomas Pucker of Upcerne, Dorset

Captain Richard Davenport

Mathias Button

Humphrey Woodberry with his father

Ralph Sprague of Upwey (son of Edward)

Richard Sprague (brother of Ralph)

William Sprague (brother of Ralph and Richard)

What a co-incidence, who should arrive on the Abigail, but Edith Laskin, who became the wife of Henry Herrick.

Delving a little further, amongst these early settlers, brings about some interesting information about Roger Conant.

Roger was the ancestor of the same Conants, who married into the Herrick family, and others.

Roger Conant

Roger Conant (c. 1592 – 1679), son of Richard and Agnes (Clarke) Conant, Sailed 1623 on ship "Ann" from to the Plymouth Colony from London early in 1623/24, (SIC: may have been "The Charity") with the profession of salter. Early in his colonial life, he became associated with those opposed to the Puritan authorities in Plymouth and led the settlement to outlying areas, particularly in the Salem area, which he is credited with founding. He was the first governor of English settlers in Salem from 1626 to 1628.

"During his very long lifetime Conant had a number of family tragedies, including the death of his wife Sarah, and of sons Caleb, Lot, Roger and Joshua. Only his son Exercise and possibly several daughters succeeded him."

From Cutter:

Roger was the immigrant ancestor of the family here in America. One of his brothers was educated at Oxford University, and he too received an excellent education. On January 20, 1619-20, Christopher Conant, grocer, and Roger Conant, salter, both of the parish of St. Lawrence, Jewry, London, signed the composition bond of their brother, John, for the "first fruits" of the rectory of Lymington. He married, November 1618, and had probably been seven years an apprentice salter in London, living there until her came to America in 1623.

Gov. Roger Conant was son of Richard and Agnes, brother it is said to be Dr. John of the great Assembly of Divines at Westminster. He was appointed in 1625, government agent, or superintend for the Dorchester project of the plantation. Roger requested to be made a freeman 19 Oct. 1630.
Roger Conant was the 1st Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, in book HISTORY OF BEVERLY, 1630 - 1842. He discharged the principal offices in Salem. For several years, and represented Salem in the General Court.

According to History of Beverly, he was "a most religious, prudent & worthy gentleman;" graces that eminently qualified him for the duties he was called to discharge, and which, in one instance at least, enabled him to adjust a difficulty between contending parties at Cape Ann that threatened bloodshed. (Quote from Hubbard's Hist. N.E., pp 106-111.)

Roger Conant
Birth: 1591, England
Christened: 09 Apr 1591 in East Budleigh, Devonshire, England
Death: Nov. 19, 1679 Beverly, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA

His suspected burial place is Burying Point Cemetery, Salem, Essex Co., Massachusetts, but it has never been determined with certainty.

Parents: Richard Conant and Agnes Clark(e)

Married

(1) unknown and
(2) Sarah Horton, married 11 Nov 1618 at St. Ann, Blackfriars, London, England

Father of Sarah (died young), Caleb, Lott, Sarah, Joanna, Roger, Joshua, Mary, Elizabeth and Exercise (a son)

Spouse: Sarah Horton Conant (1598 - ____)
Children:

Sarah Conant (1619 - 1620)
Caleb Conant (1622 - 1633)
Sarah Conant Leach (1623 - ____)
Lot Conant (1624 - 1674)
Joanna Conant (1626 - ____)
Roger Conant (1628 - ____)
Joshua Conant (1630 - ____)
Mary Conant Dodge (1631 - 1688)
Elizabeth Conant (1635 - ____)
Exercise Conant (1636 - 1722)

Roger Conant founded Salem, Massachusetts in 1626. On June 17,1913 a statue was built and dedicated to him and is still standing in Salem today. Conant built the first Salem house on what today is Essex Street.

The following Quoted from "The Encyclopedia of Colonial & Revolutionary America" by. John Mack Faraghu, 1990.

DORCHESTER COMPANY (1624-1626)

“Organized in England by the Reverend John White and the Western Merchants, the Dorchester Company's purpose was to provide and alternative for the Puritans to the Separatists in Plymouth and to end double-mannin of the merchants' fishing ships by settling fishermen on Cape Ann (Gloucester, MA). To be incorporated, the colonists had to stay three years and build schools and churches.
In 1625, Roger Conant became governor, but he rejected the location and took about 40 settlers to Naumkeag (now Salem). The rest left for England, but the colony was not a total loss, as the Massachusetts Bay Company was modeled on it. He came to American with his brother Christopher on the ship "Anne", along with his wife Sarah and son, Caleb. Roger Conant was born in East Budleigh, Devonshire, England in 1592, the youngest of eight children.

In 1623 he emigrated to Plymouth with his wife, Sarh and son, Caleb. However, he was uncomfortable with the strict Pilgrim society in Plymouth and moved his family to Nantasket in 1624. In the late autumn of 1625, Conant was invited by the Rev. John White and other members of the Dorchester Company to move to their fishing settlement on Cape Ann as their governor.
Still looking for more favourable conditions for a settlement, he let a group of people to Naumkeag, now Salem, in 1626, and continued as their governor. In 1627 a patent was solicited from England and it was obtained by a group led by John Endicott who arrived in Naumkeag in 1628. Endicott and the other settlers of the New England Company now owned the rights to Naumkeag. Fortunately for the peaceful continuity of the settlement, Conant remained in Salem and despite what must have been a disappointment for him, acceded to Endicot's authority as the new governor.

Conant built the first Salem house on what is Essex Street today, almost apposite the Town Market. In 1639, his was one of the signatures on the building contract for enlarging the meeting house in Town House Square for the First Church in Salem. This document remains part of the town records at City Hall. He was active in the affairs of the town throughout his life. In 1679, he died at the age of 87.”
There is a dramatic, cloaked statue of Roger Conant facing the Salem Common and stand atop a huge boulder brought from the woods near the floating bridge at Lynn. Artist Henry H. Kitson designed this heroic bronze statue for the Conant Family Association and the statue was dedicated on June 17, 1913. It stands outside the Salem Witch Museum. (Roger is often mistaken as a participant in the Salem witch trials, nothing could be farther from the truth.)

From Salemweb.com:

Roger Conant 1592 to 1679--Salem's Founder

According to records, Roger Conant was baptized in East Budleigh, Devonshire, England in 1592, the youngest of eight children. In 1623 he emigrated to Plymouth with his wife, Sarah and son, Caleb. (on the ship "Ann") However, he was uncomfortable with the strict Pilgrim society in Plymouth and moved his family to Nantasket in 1624. In the late autumn of 1625, Conant was invited by the Rev. John White and other members of the Dorchester Company to move to their fishing settlement on Cape Ann as their governor.

Still looking for more favourable conditions for a settlement, he led a group of people to Naumkeag, now Salem, in 1626, and continued as their governor. In 1627 a patent was solicited from England and it was obtained by a group led by John Endicott who arrived in Naumkeag in 1628. Endicott and the other settlers of the New England Company now owned the rights to Naumkeag. Fortunately for the peaceful continuity of the settlement, Conant remained in Salem and, despite what must have been a disappointment for him, acceded to Endicott's authority as the new governor.

Conant built the first Salem house on what is Essex Street today, almost opposite the Town Market. In 1639, his was one of the signatures on the building contract for enlarging the meeting house in Town House Square for the First Church in Salem. This document remains part of the town records at City Hall. He was active in the affairs of the town throughout his life. In 1679, he died at the age of 87.

This dramatic, cloaked statue of Roger Conant faces the Salem Common and stands atop a huge boulder brought from the woods near the floating bridge at Lynn. Artist Henry H. Kitson designed this heroic bronze statue for the Conant Family Association and the statue was dedicated on June 17, 1913.

Roger Conant: Salem's Founder -

Poor Roger Conant gets no respect.

Because of Salem's reputation as the "Witch City", and because Henry Kitson's bronze statue of the city's founding father stands in front of the salem witch museum, many visitors assume that the likeness of Conant as one respected magazine erroneously called it, that of a "determined sorceress"
Conant deserves better. it was his vision and faith that sowed the seeds of the new plantation at "this place called Naumkeake" in 1626, shortly after the demise of the English fishing settlement at Cape Ann. And it was Conant's tenacity and commitment- with probable encouragement from his wife, Sarah, who had just moved for the fourth time since leaving the comforts of London in 1623-that made the colony a success despite disease, depression and the powerful lure of the warmer Virginia climate.

And it was Conant's decision to stay at Naumkeag and to cooperate with the settlers sent over by the Massachusetts Bay Company in 1628, even after the company replaced him as the legal head of the plantation, that gave the settlement it's new name: Salem, "city of peace".

Roger Conant not only stayed, he devoted his life to serving the town and colony. he was admitted to the first church in 1628 and chosen a freeman, or voting stockholder, of the Massachusetts Bay Company in 1630. Conant was one of the first two Salem representatives to the colony's general court or legislature, and was repeatedly elected a selectman by the people of Salem.

When communities were granted the right to establish district courts by the legislature, Roger Conant became a fixture on the Salem quarterly juries for sixteen years. he was frequently called upon to establish boundaries for new communities as far away as Boston and Saugus. In 1636, Conant, John Woodbury, Richard Trask and John Balch, all original settlers of the town, served on the committee which created separate lots from remaining public lands in Salem. in return for their efforts, these men were each given 200 acres of valuable agricultural land in the Bass River.

In 1659, Roger Conant led the drive by Bass River residents to form their own church. By 1667 they had their church and, a year later, Bass River became the new town of Beverly. Conant was given the task of establishing the boundaries between Salem and Beverly and was the latter's most important citizen. Before giving up civic life in 1671, he served briefly as both selectman and juror and, as he had done in Salem, oversaw the laying out of Beverly land grants.

All of Roger Conant's service was rendered against a backdrop of personal tragedy. He had to endure the death of a daughter and four of his five sons. But he trudged steadily on, working for the common good right up until his own death in 1679. His perseverance in the face of adversity, even more than his status as Salem's founding father, is his true legacy.

Citations
1. Eugene Aubrey Stratton, Plymouth Colony: Its History & People, 1620-1691, (Salt Lake City: Ancestry Publishing, 1986), pp. 269, 270
5. "Roger Conant in Salem"

References
New England Historic Genealogical Society, Family Sketch of Roger Conant
Frederick Odell Conant, A history and genealogy of the Conant family in England and America, thirteen generations, 1520-1887 : containing also some genealogical notes on the Connet, Connett and Connit families (Privately printed: 1887) p. 99

Sources

A Genealogy of One Branch of the Conant Family 1581-1890: Arranged for Moses Conant Warren ...Emily Wilder Leavitt, Moses Conant Warren. private circulation, 1890 - 18 pages
Frederick Odell Conant, A history and genealogy of the Conant family in England and America, thirteen generations, 1520-1887 : containing also some genealogical notes on the Connet, Connett and Connit families (Privately printed: 1887)
Lineage Book of Hereditary Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors (Google eBook) Robert Glenn Thurtle Genealogical Publishing Com, Jun 1, 2009 - History - 406 pages. Page 173
New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial, vol I, publ 1915. Edited by William Richard Cutter. Page 98. "Conant"
Representative Men and Old Families of Southeastern Massachusetts: Containing Historical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families ... (Google eBook) J.H. Beers & Company, 1912 - Barnstable County (Mass.). Page 383. "Conant"

Salem, located at the mouth of the Naumkeag river at the site of an ancient Native American village and trading center, was first settled by Europeans in 1626, when a company of fishermen from Cape Ann led by Roger Conant arrived. Conant's leadership had provided the stability to survive the first two years, but he was immediately replaced by John Endecott, one of the new arrivals, by order of the Massachusetts Bay Company. These "New Planters" and the "Old Planters" agreed to cooperate, in large part due to the diplomacy of Conant and Endicott.. Samuel Skelton was the first pastor of the First Church of Salem, which is the original Puritan church in North America.

Salem included much of the North Shore, including Marblehead. Most of the accused in the Salem witch trials lived in nearby "Salem Village", now known as Danvers, although a few lived on the outskirts of Salem. Salem Village also included Peabody and parts of present-day Beverly. Middleton, Topsfield, Wenham and Manchester-by-the-Sea were once parts of Salem.

William Hathorne was a prosperous businessman in early Salem and became one of its leading citizens of the early colonial period. He led troops to victory in King Philip's War, served as a magistrate on the highest court, and was chosen as the first speaker of the House of Deputies. He was a zealous advocate of the personal rights of freemen against royal emissaries and agents.

1630 (Signified A Desire To Take The Oath)

Allen, William
Archer, Samuel
Balch, John
Clerke, William
Conant, Roger
Gott, Charles
Graves, Thomas
Harwood, Henry
Herrick, Henry
James, William
Leach, Lawrence
Palfrey, Peter
Phillips, George
Sharp, Samuel
Skelton, Samuel
Trask, William
Williams, Roger
Woodbury, John

Followed in the next year by

18 May 1631

Agar, William
Allen, William
Balch, John
Clarke, William (same as Clerke, William above)
Conant, Roger
Dixe, Anthony
Gott, Charles
Graves, Thomas
Herrick, Henry
Horne, John
Johnson, Francis
Leach, Lawrence
Moore, John
Moulton, Robert
Mowry, Roger
Noddle, William
Palfrey, Peter
Phillips, George
Skelton, Samuel
Williams, Roger
Woodbury, John

Among those lists are many DeGraw early settlers.

Putting this theory together, is far more credible than what is generally accepted.

Some more Herrick letters.

My cheese man is come since I finished my letter. I have sent you three of them, wishing they were better. I pray you accept of them till God send me some better thing. The carrier is paid.

To the right Wor his very good brother Sir William Heyricke Knight at his house in Wood street dd."

There are many early letters of John Heyricke to his brother William existing, but they cease when his apprenticeship was just over, and he had set up in business for himself in Leicester. The following is one addressed to Lady Heyricke acknowledging his share of the usual Christmas presents sent down by Sir Wilham this year (1615) .

.. Worthie Maddam, my humble dewtey and my wives remembered to yourself and my good brother, with desire of your health, prosperitie and happiness in this life, but espetialy eternall joy in the life to come, I crave pardon for my two much ungratifolness and necklygence so lounge not by leter to write two wordes to yow since I came from you, knowinge how much I am indebted to you for many of your kindnesses to mee; but now, beeing put in mind of my .fault by your kinde and libarall geifte sent this jorney, as many heretofore, I coulde no lounger for shame forbear but take pen in hand to acknowledge my fault past and to crave pardon as pore debters doe, not knowing how to requite yoor kIndness again but with thankefullness to yow both for this and many other of your loves to us. I hope it will not be lounge but I shall see yow myselfe, though more to truble' yow; in the meane time I will not forget to pray for yow to Him that is able to geve more aboundently than wee are able to aske or to thincke.

My lovinge .remembrance to all my good Cozens, and prayrs to the Allmightie for a blessinge to them all. I leave further to truble 'low committinge yow and yours and us all to the gratious protection of the AlImlghtie in Jesus Christ. I thanke my Brother [Sir William] for his paines in wrightinge to my brother [Roberl] for wee are made partakers of the newes, which otherwise wee could not heare of it so well. which cawseth thankes to God for his great mercies in revelinge the wickedness of oure enimes, and delivringe us from their crueltie intended, and from his judgments which wee dooe desarve, for it is of his mercies we are not consumed.

December the 19 day 1615.

Letter from Lady Joane Herricke to her husband, 16r6.-Ni(/lIJls, III, 155-6.

" Sweet hart, I could not let so fet a messenjar pas me as hee did you. I houp you remember Mr. Votier's Godli Use of Prayer ever' mornin, and ev'ning, with all your compani, as you love God, leave it not undone; It shall bring a blessing on you and yowrs. God knows how short our time shall be on earth, as wee see daly feareful exsamples to put us in mind of our last end. Mr. Wadup went to Bristol well, and brought home a ded corpse; and one of our nebars at Richmond went out to milk her kine, as well as ever she was in her life. and melke two kine, and sodenly fell downe ded and never spake more. 0 God, grant we may be preparid, as living this howre, and dying the next! Sweet hart, a littel afore you went your journi, I tould you that I must nedse take one into the hous to bring up the girls, which you wtlenly consented to that I should have one at Michelmas; but so it is hapened, that she that was with my sister Hickes to bring up, Bes Nowel is com from my sister, and will not stay, because Bes Nowel is so headstrong that she cannot rule her. My sister Hickes sent me word Qf hur by Sir George Write, how fet a woman she was for me to breed up my gerls; and I knowing it of my own knowledge to be so, I houp you will not be angri with me for it. God, that knows my hart, knows I was never loufter to offend you in all my liefe than I have bine within this halfe yeare; and so I houpe ever I hall be.

If you should bord them forth, they would cost you £14 a yeare at the least, and save nothing at home; beside, they will never be bred in Religion as at home, and weare out twise so many clothes as at home. All things considered, this is the best corse. Mr. Votier came to me, and tould me the parish and hee would make you a fare pue afore my pue; but they hard you would goo away, and they would be louft to make it for Mr. Williams. I wil'd them to goo forward with theare good interest. I houp in God you would never leave this hous while I did live; and I beseche God I may never live to gooe

out of it e'en from the bottom of harte.

"Commend me to all our frends: I must not forgite my love to Will. We are all in helth. I leave you to his protection, who is abel to kepe you at. Sweetharte, Mr. Teri is in possession of that offes at the Custom-house; but what my l.ord will have of hjm, he knoweth not yet.

Your true and fathful wife tel deth.

JOANE HERICKE.

"From London, the 22 day of Allgust, 1616."

Note: These letters have been left in the same old style writings of the English at that time, and besides, who would want to change the style and way in which our great grandparents expressed themselves?

Robert and William Herrick Coat of Arms

II. COAT m' ARMs-The engraving of the Coat of Arms which appeared in the" Geneological Register," published by Gen. Jedediah Herrick, in 1846-and from which the colored frontispiece of this book was designed by Henry W. Herrick, (Jno. No. 634)-was copied from an old Coat of Arms which had been in possession of the Long Island Family· from time immemorial, and was, probably,

brought by the ancestor of that branch from England. Gen. Herrick also found copies of the same preserved in Beverly, Mass., where several of the sons of Henry of Salem were settled on farms given them by their father. That old picture is familiar to many Herricks in America, and, as long as we have no recognized .. Herald's College," and as all such decorations a.re not in accordance with the spirit of American institutions, it matters but little what we accept as our insignia.

For the gratification of many of our family in this country we have . been to considerable trouble and expense to have a representation made of the Herrick Coat of Arms, in the proper heraldic colours, and we supposed at the time it was done, that it was a true delineation of the Arms granted to Robert

and William Herrick, in 1598.

A few months ago we found in a periodical published in London, Eng., entitled:· .. Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica," edited by Joseph Jackson Howard, LL.D., F. S. A., and published by Messrs. Mitchell & Hughes, 140 Wardour St., W., the original Confirmation of Crest to Robert and William Herrick, 1598, with an engraving of the same. The latter gentlemen have kindly furnished us the accompanying copy of the electrotype plate.

CONFIRMATION OF CREST BY WILLIAM DETHICK, GARTER, AND WILLIAM CAMDEN, CLARENCEUX, TO ROBERT AND WILLIAM HERRICK, 1598.

To all Nobles and Gentles' to whome theis presentes shall come Will'm Dethick 's Garter, Principal King of Armes and WiIl'm Camden aI's Clarenceux King of Armes of the Southe, East and West p'tes of this Realme of •England from the Ryuer of Trent southwarrle, send theire due comendacons, & greeting. Knowe yee That whereas Richard Lea, late Clarenceux in his life tyme did by I'res Pattent under his hand & Seale of Office give & grant unto Robert and WiIl'm Herick, the sounes of John Herick, the sonne of Herick ai's Erick of Haughton in the County of Lecester gent., 'A certeyn Creast, or Badge, viz.: on a wreath of their colours a Bull head argent, yssuing forth of a lawrell Garland, the mussell, eares, and homes tipped sable: to be annexed, and borne with their auncient Coat of Armes, which is Siluer, a ffesse verrey or and gules. The which Pattent, for that upon the dissolving of the saide Clarenceux Lea's Office where it did remayne to be recorded, amongst dYliers other things is nowe lost, and by no meanes, search or inquiry to be founde; So that vpon the instant sute & request to us made by the saide Robt and Will'm Herick who have produced theire Signett and stamps before us, as also upon the credible report, and testimony of WiIl'm Segar aI's Norroy Kin~ of Armes of the North, whoe being then Somersett Herauld, both wrytt the salde Pattent and passed the same for, them with the saide Clarenceux. Wee the saide Garter, & Clarenceux Kinges of Armes, doe by theis present cOllfirme and allowe unto the the saide Rob't and WiIl'm Herick, and their posteritye for ever, the aforesaide Creast, or Cognisans, in like manner, and forme, as yt was formerly gyven by the saide Clarenceux Lea and as it is here in the margent sett forth, and with their Armes depicted. And the Same to use, beare, and shewe forthe in Signett, Sheilde, Coat Armour or otherwise, at their free liberte, and pleasure, w'Out the lett or molestacon of any person or persons whatsoever. In witness whereof wee the sa ide William Detheck aI's Garter, and Will'm Camden aI's Clarenceux Kinge of Armes have hereunto put 0' handes and seales of Office, Geven in the Office of Armes the viij'h day of May. in the fortith yeare of the raigne of 0' Soveraigne Ladye Elizabeth by (he grace of God Queen of England, ffrance and Ireland Defendo' of the faith &c. 1598.

WILL'M DETHICK, Garter Principall King of Arms.

. GUILIELMUS CAMDEN, Claren.ceulx Rex Amlor'.

How amazing it is to be able to learn so much about our ancestors, and for me, a great deal of satisfaction, to be able to prove a theory.

There is always a reason or an answer, you just have to find it!!!

It also is a very logical explanation for the reasons that Henry did not use any traditional Herrick names with his children.

Now if it was just that easy to source more information about Edith!!!

Just in case it take your fancy, this is a list of the Arms which have been accorded to Henry Herrick.

The LaFayette Connection

Almon's memories told the story of the French DeGraw family coming with the Army of LaFayette, which was not correct.

Now just perhaps there has been some sort of mistake, indeed a Walloon did come to America with LaFayette, but his name was Charles de Pauw.

His grandson became rather successful, and he was alive around the same period of time as Almon's parents.

Washington Charles DePauw (January 4, 1822 – May 5, 1887) was an American businessman and philanthropist. DePauw University is named in his honour

DePauw was born in Salem, Indiana, and was the grandson of Charles DePauw, who came to the Americas with LaFayette, and the son of John and Elizabeth Battist DePauw. John DePauw had been a lawyer, judge, and a member of the Indiana Constitutional Convention. He was elected four times to the Indiana legislature before his death in 1838, when Washington was just 16. His ancestors, the De Pauw family came from the city of Ghent in Flanders, Belgium. "De Pauw" is Dutch for "The Peacock".

Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette: 6 September 1757 – 20 May 1834), in the United States often known simply as Lafayette, was a French aristocrat and military officer who fought in the American Revolutionary War. A close friend of George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and Thomas Jefferson, Lafayette was a key figure in the French Revolution of 1789 and the July Revolution of 1830.

Born in Chavaniac, in the province of Auvergne in south central France, Lafayette came from a wealthy landowning family. He followed its martial tradition, and was commissioned an officer at age 13. He became convinced that the American cause in its revolutionary war was noble, and travelled to the New World seeking glory in it.

There, he was made a major general; however, the 19-year-old was initially not given troops to command. Wounded during the Battle of Brandywine, he still managed to organize an orderly retreat. He served with distinction in the Battle of Rhode Island. In the middle of the war, he returned home to lobby for an increase in French support.

He again sailed to America in 1780, and was given senior positions in the Continental Army. In 1781, troops in Virginia under his command blocked forces led by Cornwallis until other American and French forces could position themselves for the decisive Siege of Yorktown.

On arrival, Lafayette met Major Benjamin Huger, a wealthy landowner, with whom he stayed for two weeks before going to Philadelphia. The Continental Congress had been overwhelmed by French officers recruited by Deane, many of whom could not speak English or lacked military experience. Lafayette had learned some English en route (he became fluent within a year of his arrival), and his Masonic membership opened many doors in Philadelphia. After Lafayette offered to serve without pay, Congress commissioned him a major general on 31 July 1777. Lafayette's advocates included the recently arrived American envoy to France, Benjamin Franklin, who by letter urged Congress to accommodate the young Frenchman.

The Marquis de Lafayette first meets George Washington on 5 August 1777. By Currier and Ives.

General George Washington, commander in chief of the Continental Army, came to Philadelphia to brief Congress on military affairs. Lafayette met him at a dinner on 5 August 1777; according to Leepson, "the two men bonded almost immediately." Washington was impressed by the young man's enthusiasm and was inclined to think well of a fellow Mason; Lafayette was simply in awe of the commanding general. General Washington took the Frenchman to view his military camp; when Washington expressed embarrassment at its state and that of the troops, Lafayette responded, "I am here to learn, not to teach." He became a member of Washington's staff, although confusion existed regarding his status. Congress regarded his commission as honorary, while he considered himself a full-fledged commander who would be given control of a division when Washington deemed him prepared. Washington told Lafayette that a division would not be possible as he was of foreign birth, but that he would be happy to hold him in confidence as "friend and father"

Lafayette's first battle was at Brandywine on 11 September 1777. The British commanding general, General Sir William Howe, planned to take Philadelphia by moving troops south by ship to Chesapeake Bay (rather than the heavily defended Delaware Bay) and bringing them overland to the rebel capital. After the British outflanked the Americans, Washington sent Lafayette to join General John Sullivan. Upon his arrival, Lafayette went with the Third Pennsylvania Brigade, under Brigadier Thomas Conway, and attempted to rally the unit to face the attack. The British and Hessian forces continued to advance with their superior forces, and Lafayette was shot in the leg. During the American retreat, Lafayette rallied the troops, allowing a more orderly pullback, before being treated for his wound. After the battle, Washington cited him for "bravery and military ardour" and recommended him for the command of a division in a letter to Congress, which was hastily evacuating, as the British took Philadelphia later that month.

Lafayette returned to the field in November after two months of recuperation in the Moravian settlement of Bethlehem, and received command of the division previously led by Major General Adam Stephen. He assisted General Nathanael Greene in reconnaissance of British positions in New Jersey; with 300 soldiers, he defeated a numerically superior Hessian force in Gloucester, on 24 November 1777.

John Ward Dunsmore's depiction of Lafayette (right) and Washington at Valley Forge

Lafayette stayed at Washington's encampment at Valley Forge in the winter of 1777–78, and shared the hardship of his troops. There, the Board of War, led by Horatio Gates, asked Lafayette to prepare an invasion of Quebec from Albany, New York. When Lafayette arrived in Albany, he found too few men to mount an invasion. He wrote to Washington of the situation, and made plans to return to Valley Forge. Before departing, he recruited the Oneida tribe, who referred to Lafayette as Kayewla (fearsome horseman), to the American side. In Valley Forge, he criticized the board's decision to attempt an invasion of Quebec in winter. The Continental Congress agreed, and Gates left the board.^[41] Meanwhile, treaties signed by America and France were made public in March 1778, and France formally recognized American independence.

In December 1779, Adrienne gave birth to a son they named Georges Washington Lafayette. Working with Benjamin Franklin, Lafayette secured the promise of 6,000 soldiers to be sent to America, commanded by General Jean-Baptiste de Rochambeau. Lafayette would resume his position as a major general of American forces, serving as liaison between Rochambeau and Washington, who would be in command of both nations' forces. In March 1780, Lafayette departed for America aboard the frigate Hermione, from Rochefort. He arrived in Boston on 27 April 1780.

While LaFayette returned to France, and he was involved in the Revolution there, another young Frenchman was in service with the French Army. As a naval cadet on a French frigate and during his service visited the West Indies several times. He made an octant for himself of brass and ivory, and used it during his service. He came to America, and he serve for 4 years. Then he sought work in America.

He surveyed, he drew plans, he befriended the Indians, he made quite a contribution to the area. But being a young man, and in love, he was anxious to return to find his young lady. She had met him, but for a short time, when she was in France, sent to study, but caught up in a revolution.

Her name was Sophia. Before he returned to Sophia, he entered a design competition that was seeking ideas for a new building. He drew beautiful design, but the design was rejected.

Dejected, he packed his belongings, including his surveying equipment, and his intricate design tools, and travelled back to England.

He found Sophia, and they were married. They enjoyed a very long life together, and raised a family.

A rather well known family.

He was a man who contributed so much to the world, he and his son, designed and built bridges, railways, ships, and his reputation ensured his name is known all over the world.

He was Sir Marc Isambard Brunel, his son was Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

The building he drew plans for and was unsuccessful, perhaps it might be easily recognised from his design.

Who was he? Maree's 5th Great Uncle. He married Sophia Kingdom, her aunt.

Another amazing co-incidence in this family history.

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NOTES

A head-teacher friend a few years ago, flattered me by saying that I had done a very good thesis, on one of my cousins.

Hopefully, he would perhaps agree that another cousin, has had his story told.

When this research began, Henry Irvin DeGraw was my brother-in-law's father.

Now, we are cousins. Through an intricate network of intermarriages, with so many different people, which is probably why the DNA link became strong.

It would be wonderful to be able to take each person down the lines, to see just how many other unknown person also form part of this linkage. Perhaps someone may do some more research in the future.

The aim was to find the link, and to be able to explain and satisfy both Randy and I of the relationship.

That has been achieved.

It is sometimes very hard to get up and walk away, especially if you have "just broken a brick wall".

A cousin of mine, back in 1873, Anthony Durnford, while serving in South Africa, and gaining the trust of his Native men, used the words "It gives me great satisfaction to ...." .

Not only does he look like my 3rd cousins, and we share so many common traits, it is remarkable. Among those traits is determination. We call it the Durnford determination! Certainly was required at times with this research!

In his words, "It has given me great satisfaction and personal achievement to have been able to research, understand, present and relate the story of the DeGraws from Michigan USA"

The family history stories are a compilation of established and researched facts regarding the ancestor in question. Sourced material from Wikipedia is included.

Finally, an Australian cousin, visited Leicester Cathedral a few years back, and was very rudely told by some American Herrick family, "that there would not be any Herrick relations in Australia".

Needless to say, he was quite taken back at their rudeness and ignorance of his family.

This research is particular to the DeGraw/Herrick lineage. It is proven by DNA, so that just simply puts an end to any comments of that particular nature.

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