MERRIAM, Joseph II^[1]

1629 - 1677  (48 years)  Submit Photo / Document

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• Name	MERRIAM, Joseph
  Suffix	II
  Birth	1629	Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
  Gender	Male
  Burial	Apr 1677	Massachusetts, United States
  Death	20 Apr 1677	Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
  WAC	16 Sep 1930
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  Person ID	I30893	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2021

  
  

  Father	MERIAM, Joseph Sr. ,   b. 1600, Hadlow, Kent, England Hadlow, Kent, Englandd. 1 Jul 1641, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States (Age 41 years)
  Mother	GOLDSTONE, Sarah Jane ,   b. 1602, Tudeley, Kent, England Tudeley, Kent, Englandd. 12 Mar 1670, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States (Age 68 years)
  Marriage	1623	Cranfield, Bedfordshire, England   [2]
  Notes	~SEALING_SPOUSE: Also shown as SealSp 6 Jul 1961, ARIZO.
  Family ID	F14845	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	STONE, Sarah ,   b. 8 Feb 1633, Nayland, Suffolk, England Nayland, Suffolk, Englandd. 5 Apr 1704, Concord, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States (Age 71 years)
  Marriage	12 Jul 1653	Concord, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States
  Notes	MARRIAGE: Also shown as Married Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA. ~SEALING_SPOUSE: Also shown as SealSp 25 May 1985, PROVO.
  Family ID	F14950	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

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  Joseph Merriam , son of Joseph Merriam, was born in Hadlow, Kent, England, born about 1628, and came with his parents to America in 1638. He was admitted a freeman May 22, 1650. He married 12 July 1653, Sarah Stone, daughter of Gregory Stone, of Cambridge. He died 20 April 1677, aged 47 years, and his gravestone is the oldest in the Concord cemetery. His widow removed to Cambridge farms where she died April 5th, 1704 aged 71 years. " Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County Massachusetts. Prepared under the Editorial Supervision of Ellery Bicknell Crane". Pg. 19. Taken from Ancestry of Franklin Merriam Peabody, by Sidney A. Merriam, 1929; and History of Lexington, Massachusetts, by Hudson, pages 138-9. Joseph Merriam, eldest son of William Merriam, was probably born at Tudeley, Kent, England.about 1623 [this doesn't jive with the other dates; 1600 birth date is given elsewhere and makes more sense. Needs to be researched]. He married Sarah Goldstone, daughter of John and Frances Jefferie Goldstone. (Robert Goldstone of Tonbridge, Kent, will dated 10 April 1637, proved 16 May 1637 was brother of Sarah Goldstone.) Joseph with brothers, Robert and George and others mostly connected by marriage, charted a vessel called the "Castle" and sailed from the River of Thames for New England in April 1638. They arrived at Charlestown and Boston in July 1638 where the vessel lay at anchor several weeks with her passengers living on board. Besides the religious situation, there were economic causes for emigration to America. Upon arrival in America, Joseph went almost immediately to Concord, where he settled at what ha s since been known as "Merriam's Corner" at the junction of the Concord-Bedford Roads. This point is now marked by an old tablet reading, "Merriam's Corner. The British troops retreated from the old North Bridge, were attacked in the flanks by the men of Concord and neighboring towns, and were driven under a hot fire to Charlestown." The family lived there for many generations. Joseph died in Merriam's Corner January 1640-1, having lived in the New World only long enough to establish a home. Joseph Merriam, born probably Tudeley, England, married at Concord, 12 July 1653, Sarah Stone, baptized 8 February 1622\ 3 at Nayland, Suffolk, England. Thomas Merriam, born 1672, married Mary Harwood of Concord, 23 December 1696. The record of his marriage speaks of him as of Cambridge, but Lexington at that time was a part of Cambridge and he was probably living there at the time of his marriage. He was a constable in 1716 and a selectman 1718, 22, 25. He died 16 August 1738, aged 66 and she died 29 September 1756, aged 81. Thomas Merriam, baptized 21 April 1700, married Tabitha Stone. He died 4 June 1752; she 22 June 1760. Mary Merriam, born 15 June 1727, married David Whitney of Walthan Massachusetts.

  
  

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  [S1] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (TM), (July 1996 (c), data as of 2 January 1996). [S989] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index(R), citing microfilm 1553720 for batch 5018152, sheet 18, downloaded 5 Nov 2009 (Reliability: 3).