Jonathan Merrick

1700 - 1772  (71 years)

• Name	Jonathan Merrick
  Birth	13 Aug 1700	Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts
  Gender	Male
  _DEG	1725
  	Yale College
  Occupation	1729
  	Ministry in North Branford, Conn
  Reference Number	3233
  Death	27 Jun 1772	North Branford, Connecticut
  Person ID	I3233	Brownlow
  Last Modified	16 Mar 2022

  
  

  Father	John Merrick,   b. 9 Nov 1658, Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts d. 10 Apr 1748, Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts (Age 89 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Mary Day,   b. 15 Dec 1666, Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts d. 29 Apr 1723, Springfield, Hampden County, MA (Age 56 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	11 Feb 1686	Springfield, Hampden County, MA
  Family ID	F1242	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Jerusha Miner
  Marriage	1722
  Children	1. Miner Merrick,   b. 1729   d. 27 Oct 1765 (Age 36 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Chloe Merrick,   b. 1737, Sep 1795  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. Mary Merrick,   b. 1740, Dec 1761  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   4. Lucretia Merrick,   b. 1743   d. 1770 (Age 27 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   5. Jerusha Merrick  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   6. Sarah Merrick  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F1260	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Mar 2022

  
  

• Notes

  Early American Newspapers Connecticut Journal Connecticut July 3, 1772 North Branford, June 29, 1772 Saturday left departed this Life, after a long Illness and Confinement, the Reverend Jonathan Merick, Senior Pastor of the Second Church of Christ in Branford. He has left a disconsolate Widow and Sorrowful Children, & a Sermon preach’d on the Occasion by the Rev. Napthali Dagget, President of Yale-College, to a numerous Assembly, from Job 30, 23. The Exercise was open’d with Prayer, by the Rev. Phileman Robbins, and clos’d with Prayer by the Rev. Warham Williams. The whole was conducted with Decency and Solemnity. He was a faithful and laborious Minster of the Gospel, a wife Counsellor, and good Divine; lare Fellow of the Corporation of Yale-College; happy in the People of his Charge, and died lamented by all.-The Memory of the Tuft is blessed. (Note: This is transcribed exactly like it was written.)