Myrtie Bisbee Chart 2.2.2 -- Henry Merritt
[------ Henry Merritt [GMD] , d. 30 Nov 1653, Scituate **
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[------- John Merritt, b. Abt 1625, England, 9th Great-grandfather
[ d. 6 Nov 1676, Scituate, MA
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Henry Merritt, b. 10 Jan 1663, 8th Great-grandfather
Scituate, MA
[ [-------- Elizabeth
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[------- Elizabeth Wyborn
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[------- Thomas Wybourne [GMD],
baptized 5 Jun 1580, Wrotham, Kent; d., 2 Aug 1656, Boston
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[------- Richard Wybourne, b. Abt 1542, Wrotham, Kent
Notes
** From Deane’s History of Scituate:
“Henry Merritt was one of the earliest settlers of Scituate, though not a freeman until 1638. There is a deed in the Colony records, dated 1628, from Henry Meritt to Nathaniel Tilden, conveying planting lands on the third cliff. He was doubtless amongst the first settlers as early as 1626. His house lot in 1633, was at the corner where Greenfield lane and ‘the drift way’ united: we believe it is now [1831] known as Merritt’s corner. He had large shares in the New Harbour marshes. He was also one of the Conihassett partners.”
The assertion that Merritt was in Scituate by 1626 is apparently one of Deane's misstatements. The Scituate Historical Society places Merritt in Scituage "before 1639." The record about being made a Freeman should be accurate, so more likely the correct time is the mid to late 1630s.
John Merritt and Elizabeth Wyborn were married in Cambridge, MA 3 Apr 1655.
Thomas Wyborn, bap. 1580, of Plymouth, and later of Boston. “Thomas Weyborn, senior, died in Boston 1656. His will gives ‘To sons Thomas and James, &c. to wife Elizabeth one half the windmaill in Boston, and 40s. per annum. To son John 40£ at 21, to daughter Elizabeth Merritt 5£, to daughter Mary 20£ at 16, and to board at expence of Thomas and James Executors.’” Thomas’s will was dated 1 Sep 1656, probated 28 Oct 1656.
