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MAVERICK / MADERICKE / MATHERICKE / MAUERRICKE
John Maverick, my 11th great grandfather, graduated
with a Bachelor’s degree from Exeter College at Oxford University on 8 July
1599, and with a Master’s degree on 7 July 1603. At the time of his second degree he was
already an ordained minister at the town of Exeter. He was also called to be the
rector at Beaworthy, in Devon, until he resigned just before coming to New England
with the Winthrop fleet. He arrived on
the ship Mary and John on 30 May
1630. John Maverick became a freeman in
Dorchester on 18 May 1631, and he was the minister there until he died in 1636.
John Maverick married Mary Gye at Islington in 1600. She had a long royal ancestry stretching back
to the Plantagenets sketched out in the New England Historic Genealogical Register Volume 115, pages 248 – 253. They had a son, Samuel, who married the widow
Amias (Cole) Thompson, who was the wife of David Thompson (1592 – 1628), my 9th
great grandfather, who lived on Thompson’s Island in Boston Harbor. Another son, Moses, was my 10th great
grandfather.
Moses Maverick’s first wife was my 10th great
grandmother. Her name was Remember
Allerton, and she was a five year old passenger on the Mayflower, along with
her parents and siblings. Moses owned land in Dorchester, which he sold and
removed to Salem in 1634. He lived in
Marblehead, contiguous to Salem, in 1635.
He rented Noddle’s Island in Boston Harbor, now known as East Boston
near the airport. There is still a Maverick subway station in East Boston, and
a Maverick Square. It’s interesting that two of my ancestors owned islands in
Boston Harbor.
Samuel and Moses Maverick were notorious slave owners, both
Indians and Africans. The first colonial
slave ship was built in Marblehead in 1636, and Moses Maverick was probably an
investor. Moses was part of the effort
to split the peninsula of Marblehead off from Salem, and he was one of the
first Marblehead selectmen. There are many stories and books about Samuel
and Moses Maverick so I won’t repeat them here.
They are some of my most notorious “black sheep” ancestors. You can read
more about Samuel and Moses Maverick and their slaves at Bill West’s blog post
here: http://westinnewengland.blogspot.com/2012/01/thomas-slave.html
Moses and Remember had seven children. Their daughter,
Abigail Maverick (1645 – 1686) is my 9th great grandmother. She was the first wife of Samuel Ward of
Salem, and they had seven children.
Major Samuel Ward died on the Expedition to Quebec, Canada led by Sir
William Phips. This was a fleet of 30
ships from Boston, and about two thousand men, which suffered a great
loss. Four ships sank and many men
died. Some of the surviving men brought
back smallpox, which spread throughout Boston and Dorchester, killing another
57 people.
Some MAVERICK resources:
The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620 - 1633,
by Robert Charles Anderson, 1995, Volume II, pages 1241 – 1243 for a sketch of
John Maverick and his children.
Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Volume Seventeen: Isaac Allerton
[one of the Silver books series], 1998, pages 4 – 6 for Moses Maverick and
Remember Allerton, and pages 9 – 10 for Abigail Maverick and Samuel Ward. Martha Ward and John Tuttle are outlined on
pages 26 – 27, and Martha Tuttle and Mark Haskell are on pages 65 – 66.
Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies of the United
States, by Gary Boyd Roberts, 2008, page 377.
Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families,
by Douglas Richardson and Kimball G. Everingham, 1990, page 370.
There is an entire blog about Samuel Maverick at this link
[unknown author]: http://samuelmaverick.blogspot.com/
My MAVERICK genealogy:
Generation 1: John
Maverick, son of Peter Maverick and Dorothy Tucke, baptized 28 October 1578 in
Awliscombe, Devonshire, England, died 3 February 1636 at Dorchester,
Massachusetts; married on 28 October
1600 to Mary Gye, daughter of Robert Gye and Drace Dowrish. She died after 9 October 1666 in
Massachusetts. Nine children.
Generation 2: Moses
Maverick, baptized 3 November 1611 in Huish, Devonshire, England and died 28
January 1686 in Marblehead, Massachusetts; married before 6 May 1635 in
Marblehead to Remember Allerton, daughter of Isaac Allerton and Mary Norris
(Mayflower passengers). She was born
about 1614 in Leyden, Holland and died before 22 October 1656. Six children.
Generation 3: Abigail Maverick, baptized 12 January 1645 in
Salem, Massachusetts, died before January 1686; married about 1662 in Ipswich
to Samuel Ward, son of Samuel Ward and Mary Hilliard. He was baptized 18 November 1638 in Hingham,
Massachusetts and died between 30 July 1689 and 12 March 1691 during the
Expedition to Quebec, Canada.
Generation 4: Martha
Ward m. John Tuthill
Generation 5: Martha Tuthill
m. Mark Haskell
Generation 6: Lucy Haskell m. Jabez Treadwell
Generation 7: Nathaniel Treadwell m. Mary Hovey
Generation 8: Jabez Treadwell m. Betsey Jillings Homan
Generation 9: Eliza Ann Treadwell m. Abijah Hitchings
Generation 10: Abijah Franklin Hitchings m. Hannah Eliza
Lewis
Generation 11: Arthur Treadwell Hitchings m. Florence Etta
Hoogerzeil
Generation 12:
Gertrude Matilda Hitchings m. Stanley Elmer Allen (my grandparents)
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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “ Surname Saturday ~ MAVERICK of Dorchester, Massachusetts“, Nutfield Genealogy, posted July 22, 2017, (
