# Reitz Family Geneology (Kenneth Robert Reitz) - Rev. John "Sion" MEYRICK x Elizabeth UNKNOWN

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# Family Record: Rev. John "Sion" MEYRICK x Elizabeth UNKNOWN

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Rev. John "Sion" MEYRICK1 1579-1650 St Davids, Pembrokeshire, Wales |  | (unknown image type)

Elizabeth UNKNOWN2

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1. == Biography ==John Meyrick, also a minister, was born in 1579. He married Dorothy, daughter of Mathew and Elizabeth (Young) Bishop. They had four sons: William, John, James, and Thomas, whose destiny was to be in the settlement of Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay Colonies and whose descendants contributed remarkably in the development of two nations. === Name === : Rev. John Meyrick === Birth === :: 1 JAN 1578/9 Pembroke, Wales === Marriage === :: ABT 1602 St. David's, Pembrokeshire, Wales ::: Wife: [[Bishop-985|Dorothy Bishop]] ::: Child: [[Meyrick-5|Thomas Meyrick]] ::: Child: [[Meyrick-6|Janet Meyrick]] ::: Child: [[Merrick-89|William Merrick]] ::: Child: [[Meyrick-7|William Meyrick]] ::: Child: [[Merrick-90|John Merrick]] ::: Child: [[Merrick-91|James Merrick]] ::: Child: [[Merrick-92|Thomas Merrick]] ::: Child: [[Meyrick-8|William Meyrick]] ::: Child: [[Meyrick-9|James Meyrick]] ::: Child: [[Merrick-79|John Merrick]] ::: Child: [[Myrick-42|John Myrick]] ::: Child: [[Meyrick-10|Thomas Meyrick]] ::: Child: [[Mirick or Merrick-1|Sarah Mirick or Merrick]] === Arrival === :: 1641 Charlestown, Massachusetts == Sources == <references />* <span id='BRCR'></span>''[[Space:Boston Records Commissioners Reports|Boston Records Commissioners Reports]]'' (Rockwell and Churchill, Boston, 1875) Vol. 6.::* [https://archive.org/details/recordsrelatingt06bost/page/174 Page174]: Roxbury Church Records. "1650 Month 6 day 25 Widdow Morrick dyed." * Ancestral File (TM) The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints* Hills, Leon Clark,. History and genealogy of the Mayflower plantersand first comers to ye olde colonie. Washington, D.C.: Hills Pub. Co., c1936-c1941.* Curfman, Robert Joseph,. The Paddock genealogy : descendants of Robert Paddock of Plymouth Colony, blacksmith and constable, 1646. Fort Collins, Colo.: Curfman, 1986.* Merrick, George Byron,. Genealogy of the Merrick-Mirick-Myrick family of Massachusetts, 1636-1902. Madison, Wis.: Tracy, Gibbs, & Co., 1902.* <span id='Filby'></span>Filby, P. William, ed. ''[[Space:Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s|Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s]]'' (Gale Research, Farmington Hills, MI, USA, 2012)
2. == Biography == '''Last Will and Testament'''<br/>The Last Will & Testamt of Elizabeth Moricke I Elizabeth moricke widdow of Jno morricke deseased at Hingham, But now Dwellinge in Roxbury beinge in food & perfect memory & through Gods mercy Not deprived of mywill & sesces, Doe in this my Last Will & testamt take Robert Hull ofBoston to be my executor and Leonard fellowes of Great Bowd in in oldengland with ____ of my goods & chattlesw: & allso that I Doe give unto William ffellowes of Ipswidge ten pounds: & to Richard fellowes of Connecticut tenn pounds: & allso to Samuell ffellowes of Salisbury tenn pounds [9th line]& to William healy of Roxberry I give eight pounds : & to Mr Eliot of Roxbury twenty Shill<sup>s</sup>, & to Mr Danforth of Roxbery tenn shillings : & to Mr. Hubbert the minister of Hingham tenn shillings : & to Ann Hillard of Hingham: on shillinge & to John Scath on shilling & to Ann Scath on shillinge : & allso I desire my Loving freinds James Johnson & Jn<sup>o</sup> Hull of Boston to oversee this my Last will, & I give unto each one of them five shilings & to this I set my Hand this 14th of march 1649: that eight pound ____ ___ inthe 9th Line is foure pound to himselfe & the other foure between thetwo eldest children of the sd William Healy : Item I give to my sister grace Allan in Lincktonshire five pound:" Signed by mark. Witnessed by Robt wak?? and John Hull. Proved 5 of the 7th m. 1650. Inventory Aug 5th<ref>Suffolk County, MA: Probate File Papers. #99 Elizabeth Moricke Roxbury 5 Sep 1650 Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2017. (From records supplied by theMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives. Digitized mages provided by FamilySearch.org) https://www.americanancestors.org/DB2735/i/48697/99-co1/69443946 </ref> Extract of Will of John Merricke of Hingham. 24 June 1647 Unto my seu.t [servant] John Scathe, sonne of Elisebeth Hilleard .. housing, homelot, acreage, cow,.. Captain Ward, and he the said John Scathe to have them after the death of wife Elisebeth, to sister Hiller £5, which is in her husband's hands; to Anne Scathe, dau. of Elisebeth Hiller £5; to William Heley the debt he owes; to Mr Hubbart 10 s; the rest to wife Elizabeth; she is to give John Scathe and Anne Scathe £5 each; "but if my nesse, Elzebeth Merricke, an John Fisher, an Anne Fisher, shall hapen to Com over before the sesese of my wife Elisebeth, that£10shee should pay to John and Anne Scathe, shee shall pay to Elisebeth Merrick, an Anne Fisher by Equall shares; and the above name John Scathe, shall pat to John Fisher, five pound.." William Herss, John Winchester, Thomas Samson overseers. Also that John Scathe shall stay with wife til a month after milliestid 1647 [*footnote 30 March 1647 after St. Mills ie Mille's tide] and that William Hersee and John Winchester have the disposing of nephew john Scathe, to bind to a trade. Deposed 9:7:1647<ref>Suffolk County Wills; Author: McGhan, Judith; Probate Place: Plymouth, Massachusetts [https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/9069/007705454_00057?pid=630414&treeid=&personid=&rc=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=TbA1263&_phstart=successSource Extract at Ancestry] Suffolk County Wills: Gen. Publ. Co. 1984</ref><ref>Suffolk County, MA: Probate File Papers.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2017. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives. Digitized mages provided by FamilySearch.org) https://www.americanancestors.org/DB2735/i/48697/59-co1/1416759119</ref><ref>The New England Historical & Genealogical Register and Antiquarian Journal, [https://books.google.com/books?id=YQcQAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA173&lpg=PA173 Volume 7 p. 173 (free)] S.G. Drake, 1853 </ref> == Sources == <references />