GENERATION 11

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JOHN MERRITT
born:about-1625England
marr:04-03-1655Boston, MA      
died:11-06-1676Scituate, MA
father:HENRY MERRITT
mother: 
 
ELIZABETH WYBORN
born:                                          
marr:04-03-1655Boston, MA      
died:    
father:THOMAS WYBORN
mother:ELIZABETH



Biography

JOHN MERRITT was born in England in 1625. He settled in Scituate, Plymouth, MA. He administered his father's estate in 1653.

On Apr. 3, 1655, he married ELIZABETH WYBORN, of Boston. The marriage ceremony was performed by Capt. HUMPHREY ATHERTON of Cambridge, MA. In those days only civil marriages were legal. They lived on the paternal homestead, but JOHN died in middle life, leaving three sons.
 


Children

  born marr died
Ichabod                                                      
Deborah          -1656         
John
  wife Elizabeth Hyland
02-17-1661/62
 
 
         -1686
07-05-1740
04-15-1746
Henry
  wife Deborah Buck
01-10-1663     
07-17-1665     
 
 
 
 
Jonathan 07-    -1665         
MARY MERRITT
  husband BENJAMIN STUDLEY
12-    -1668     
05-23-1661     
 
10-07-1683
 
10-13-1743
Elizabeth 07-    -1671        03-    -1733


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