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Sarah MERRICK b. 05/09/1643 d. 1712

Sarah MERRICK b. 05/09/1643 d. 1712 - Overview

Name Full Name Sarah MERRICK
Forename Sarah
Surname MERRICK
Sex Female
Birth 05/09/1643, Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts
Death 1712, East Haven, New Haven, Connecticut
Parents Thomas MERRICK x Sarah STEBBINS [Family]
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Sarah MERRICK, eldest daughter of Thomas MERRICK and Sarah STEBBINS [Family], was born on 05/09/1643 in Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts. Sarah died in 1712 in East Haven, New Haven, Connecticut aged about 69.

==Biography==Sarah '''merick'''e the daughter of Thomas mericke was borne 3 mon. 9day 1643, about 2 a clocke in the afternoone, in Springfield, Massachusetts.<ref>Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1621-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016). aka ''The Vital Records of Springfield, Massachusetts to 1850.'' New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2003. [https://www.americanancestors.org/DB190/i/39814/9/1320086904 p. 9 Link at American Ancestors.]</ref><ref>''The Settlers of the Beekman Patent'', V.1-8 (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2013), (Orig. Pub. by Frank J. Doherty, Pleasant Valley, NY. Frank J. Doherty, The Settlers of the Beekman Patent, Dutchess County, New York: An Historical and Genealogical Study of All the 18th CenturySettlers in the Patent, ten volumes. 1990–2003), page 741. Citing ''A Genealogical Circular Very Respectfully Addressed to All the Merricks in America'', by Rev. James L. Merrick, South Amherst, Mass. (undated).</ref>. Sarah Merricke was married to Eliakim (also known as Eleazer) Hitchcock in Springfield on November 4, 1667, by Capt. John Pinchon. The marriage was recorded in New Haven where the couple's children were born.<ref>''New Haven Vital Records'', [https://www.americanancestors.org/databases/new-haven-ct-vital-records-1649-1850/image/?volumeId=7397&pageName=26&rId=5769578 Vol. 1, page 26]: Eliakim Hitchcock & Sarah Merricke were married by Capt John Pinchon at Springfield Novembr 4th 1667.</ref><ref name=DLJ749>Donald Lines Jacobus, "Families of Ancient New Haven", Vol III, [https://www.americanancestors.org/databases/families-of-ancient-new-haven/image/?pageName=749&volumeId=7489 page 749] (Hitchcock Family).</ref><ref>Anderson, Robert Charles. ''The Great Migration'', vol. III, [https://www.americanancestors.org/databases/great-migration-immigrants-to-new-england-1634-1635-volume-iii-g-h/image/?volumeId=7118&pageName=338&rId=235153726 page 338], citing New Haven Vital Records 26.</ref><ref>Torrey's New England Marriages, Vol. 2, [https://www.americanancestors.org/databases/torreys-new-england-marriages-to-1700/image/?volumeId=21175&pageName=763&rId=426890495 page 763].</ref>The births of nine children were recorded in New Haven.<ref name=DLJ749/>. Sarah Hitchcock, wife of Eliakim, d. [____] 1712, in East Haven, Connecticut.<ref name="Barbour">East haven. Connecticut Vital Records to 1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) From original typescripts, Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, 1928. p. 42</ref> References to Newbury, Massachusetts, are confusing her with [[Merrick-348|Sarah (Merrick) Atkinson]]. ==Sources==. <references/>*Mrs. Edward Hitchcock, Sr., The Genealogy of the Hitchcock Family (Amherst, Massachusetts: Press of Carpenter and Morehouse, 1894.) found in Cheshire Public Library, Cheshire, Connecticut.* Source <span id='S12'>S12</span> [https://familysearch.org/search/tree/results?count=20&query=%2Bafn%3A2CMG-V6 Ancestral File, no. 2CMG-V6 (FamilySearch.org)]. '''Note:''' Searching this Ancestral File number yields 148 user-submitted trees in both "Ancestral File" and "Pedigree Resource File." At some point in time, FamilySearch.org combined all these genealogies under a single reference number. I do not know which tree the contributor intended with this citation.

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