MERRIAM, George

1602 - 1675  (73 years)  Submit Photo / Document

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• Name	MERRIAM, George
  Birth	1602	Hadlow, Kent, England
  Gender	Male
  Death	29 Dec 1675	Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
  Burial	Jan 1676
  WAC	20 Apr 1930
  _TAG	Reviewed on FS
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  Person ID	I27490	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2021

  
  

  Father	MERIAM, William ,   b. 11 May 1564, Hadlow, Kent, England Hadlow, Kent, Englandd. 23 Sep 1635, Hadlow, Kent, England (Age 71 years)
  Mother	BURGESS, Sarah ,   b. Abt 1559, Goudhurst, Kent, England Goudhurst, Kent, Englandd. Aft 1635, Harlowe, Kent, England (Age > 77 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1580	Kent, England   [1]
  Notes	MARRIAGE: Also shown as Married Abt 1581 ~SEALING_SPOUSE: Also shown as SealSp 24 Jan 1958, SGEOR.
  Family ID	F14846	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	RAVEN, Susanna ,   b. 1606, Hadlow, Kent, England Hadlow, Kent, Englandd. 8 Oct 1675, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, British Colonial America (Age 69 years)
  Marriage	16 Oct 1627	Tonbridge, Kent, England   [2]
  Notes	~SEALING_SPOUSE: Also shown as SealSp 29 Oct 1991, SLAKE.
  Family ID	F14953	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

• Notes

  https://familysearch.org/photos/stories/2304258 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. The Merriam (Joseph, George and Robert) and Flint families are mentioned in one of Ralph Waldo Emerson's poems "Hamatreya:" "Bulkeley, Hunt, Willard, Hosmer, Meriam, Flint, Possessed the land which rendered to their toil Hay, corn, roots, hemp, flax, apples, wool and wood. Where are these men? Asleep beneath their grounds And strangers, fond as they, their furrows plough. They added ridge to valley, brook to pond And sighed for all that bounded their domain. Each of these landlords walked amidst his farm Saying 'T' is mine, my children's and my name's" The poem was cited in a book on Concord by Ruth Wheeler, "Concord, Climate for Freedom." Peter Bulkeley was the Reverend and one of twelve families to which Concord was granted. There is no record of the other incorporators, but it is concluded that the Merriams and Flints were likely among them.

  
  

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  [S989] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index(R), downloaded 5 Nov 2009 (Reliability: 3). [S64] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index. SUSAN OR SUSANNA RAVEN; Female; Birth: < 1606>; Spouse: GEORGE MERRIAM; Marriage: 16 OCT 1627 Tonbridge, Kent, England; No source information is available. Record submitted after 1991 by a member of the LDS Church. Search performed using PAF Insight on 31 Aug 2004