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Note: born about 1579, probably at St. Davids, Pembrokeshire [Wales] wher e his father was Rector. Nothing further than the fact that he was the s on of Rev. William Merrick is at this time known of John. It is assumed h ere that he was the father of the four brothers [William, James, John, a nd Thomas, and their sister Sarah] who came to New England from Bristol , England, in the ship "James," in the spring of 1636.
This is pure assumption, as no record of John's children has as yet bee n found; but the fact that in several families of the American Merricks t here is a tradition that the father of the immigrants was named John, t he similarity of the family (given) names; the fact that they sailed fr om Bristol, which is the nearest prominent sea-port to St. David's; the f act that one of the brothers, James, was a fish-packer, and another, Jo hn, a block-maker, occupations common among the sea-faring population o f St. David's, lend strong presumptive evidence to the assumption.
It has been suggested, and there seems to be good ground for the sugges tion, that the John Mirick, who had a grant of land at Hingham in 1637, a nd who died at Roxbury, June 25, 1650, leaving a widow, Elizabeth, was t he father of the four brothers of Charlestown [Suffolk County, Massachu setts]."
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JOHN13 MERRICK (WILLIAM12, JOHN11, MEURIC AP10 LLEWELLYN, LLEWELLYN AP9
HEYLIN, HEYLIN AP8 EINIAWN, EINION AP7 DAVID, DAVID AP6 TORWORTH,
TORWORTH AP5 TYDYR, TYDYR AP4 MADOC, MADOC AP3 SAMUEL, SAMUEL AP2
CYDAFAEL, CYDAFAEL1 YNNYD) was born Abt. 1579 in St. David's,
Pembrokeshire, Wales
Note: John Merrick, i. e., "Sion," was the Welsh, son of Rev. William Merri ck,
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