MANLEY WILLIAMI MANLEY was an inhabitant of Weymouth, 1676 to 1687. His first wife was Rebecca -. He was not identical with William Manley of Boston, 1686 to 1689, as Savage conjectured. He married (2), before 1687, Sarah -, the mother of his last child on record. He was a soldier in Capt. Daniel Henchman's Company in 1675, in King Philip's War, and again in Capt. William Turner's Company in 1676. His heir was a claimant of Narraganset, No. 5 (Bedford, N. ff.), in 1733, (Bodge's Soldiers in King Philip's War, 51: 240, 432~) He died at Easton, 2 Dec. 1717. 414 MANSON-MARTIN William Manley of Boston, slater, "being very weak," made his will 15 May, 1732, and it was proved 26 June, 1732. To his wife Sarah ~C50 and use of his estate. To the poor of the New South Brick Church, of which he was a member, X20. To John Cranston, son of Lydia Cranston of Boston, widow, L10. To his brother Lazarus Manley of Coventry, Conn.; millwright, and his son William Manley of Wethersfield, Conn., joiner, his estate, or, in case the latter die, to the other children of his brother, To* his cousin Eliza Healey, wife of William Healey of Sudbury, cooper, a bequest. (Suffolk Probate, 31: 30.) He married (1) Phebe Brooks, daughter of Gilbert Brooks of Rehoboth, and (2), in Boston, 16 Jan. 1722, Sarah Daniel. Children, born at Weymouth: Sarah,' b. 5 Oct. 1676. Thomas, b. 11 July, 1680; lived in Easton. Nathfaniell, b. 27 May, 1684. - ~kn- Rebecca, b. 6 Mar. 1687; m. 25 Feb. 1712-13, John Whitman of Weymouth ~Y, , C., , !~, NATHANIEL2 MANLEY (William') was born atWeymouth, 27 May, 1684; died at Easton, 21 Apr. 1753. He married H?anffnal, L.t~, daughter of Isaac Leonard, born at Bridgewater, I ar. 1679-80; she died at Easton on same day as her husband. Children, born at Taunton North Purchase (Easton): Ichabod,1 b. 26 Dec. 1709 - 11'1~ Hannah, b. 10 June, 171 1:~ Rebecca, b. 29 May, 1714. Elizabeth, b. I I Mar. 1716; m. (1) 13 Feb. 1735-36, James Richards of Weymouth, and in. (2) 22 Oct. 1748, Jacob Gurney of Wey- mouth. Mary, b. 7 July, 1720; d. 25 Dec. 1739. MANSON MAGNUS MANSON and his wife Naomi - resided in Wey- mouth, 1799 to 1807. His widow entered her intention (2) at Wey- mouth, 2 Nov. 1816, with John Hawes of Weymouth. She died at Weymouth, 4 or 7 Apr. 1824, aged 56 or 57 years. Children, born at Weymouth: Margetra Wila, b. 23 Feb. 1799; m. 24 Jan. 1819, Henry Cleverly of Weymouth. Magmis Even, b. 26 May, 1807; d, 26 Oct. 1898. His wife, Am- mariah A. -, b. 26 Jan. 1826; d. I I Apr. 1904. MARTIN ROBERT MARTYN of Batoombe, county of Somerset, husband- man, aged 44 years, and Joane Martyn, aged 44, his wife, sailed in Hull's Company from Weymouth in Dorset on or near 20 Mar. 1634- 35. He had ten acres in the East field and twelve in the "wester MAVERICK 415 neck" granted to him With three Other lots. ~My7eymoutri Jand Grants,7279.) He was one of the first purchasers of Rehaboth-ill- 1643, his allotments being valued at E229 10s. (Rehoboth Vital Records, 910.) He drew lot 51 there, 30 June, 1644, and was a mem- ber of the first board of selectmen of Rehoboth chosen 9 Dec. 1644. With Abraham Martin and Isaac Martin he became one of the earliest settlers of Rehoboth. He was made a freeman of the Massachusetts Bay Col4ny, 13 May, 1640, He was appointed to view the land beyond Monotoquid Ryver and bring a plot to the General Court, 6 Sept. 1636. (Massachusetts Bay Colony Records, 1: 177.) He with others was appointed to measure three miles " southward from the southermost part of the Bay and run the east line to sea," 20 Nov. 1637, and again to establish the bounds between "Mount Wool. laston 4 Waymoth," 22 May, 1639. (Ibid. 211, 257.) . He made his will 6 May, 1660, referring to his wife Joan and his children, to his brother Richard Martin and his children in Old Eng. land to his elder brother Abraham Martin, to his cousin Roger Clapp of Borchester. His widow Joannah Martin made her will, which was probated 6 Apr. 1668, in which she names her sister Smith, her cousin Clapp and her kinswoman Jane Clapp, her kinsman John Ormsby and her cousins Grace, Thomas and Jacob Ormsby, and her brother Upham's children at Malden. (Register, 6: 93; 7: 178.) Joarre was the daughter of Richard and Maria Upham of Bicton in Devonshire. (See Upham.) ROBERT MARTIN, son of Christopher Martin, was baptized at Batoombe, 25 Apr. 1597. (Wells Transcripts of Dwelly's Parish Records, 1: 58.) CHRISTOPHER MARTIN, buried at Batcombe, 10 May, 1605. WILLIAM MARTIN, son of Christopher Martin, buried there 5 Aug. 1607. MAVERICK SAMUEL MAVERICK, son of Rev. John Maverick, rector of Beaworthy, county of Devon, and minister of the First Church of Dorchester, was born in England near 1602. He called himself 63 years of age or thereabouts, 7 Dec. 1665. (Suffolk County Deeds, 4: ~s Company, arriving at Wessagusset 328,) He was one of the Gorge about the middle of September, 1623. He married, near 1628, Am- yas (Cole) Thompson, widow of David Thompson, a Scotchman, who came in 1623 and settled on a plantation at Little Harbor near Portsmouth, N. H., but removed, near 1626, to an island in Boston Harbor, where he soon died, since known as Thompson's Island, David Thompson married in the parish of St. Andrew's in Plymouth, Eng., 18 July, 1613, Arnyas Cole, daughter of William Cole of Plym- outh. Perhaps her mother was Agnes Bryant. Amias Maverick wrote from "Nottells Band in Massachusetts Bay," 20 Nov. 1635, to Robert Trelawny of Plymouth, Eng., requesting him to see her ---------------------- MEIGS-MERRITT father, and reminding Trelawny that he "loved my first husband" and desired him to assist her and "my fatherless children." (Tre- lawny Papers, 76-78.) Samuel Maverick was, according to Josselyn, 10 July, 1638, "the only hospitable man in all the Countrey, giving entertainment to all Corners gratis." (josselyn's Two Voyages, 13.) Maverick wrote, 30 May, 1669, a letter in which he said: "Itis 45 yeares since I Came into New England. . . . I have been heare from the very first settling of N: England, by the English." (Massachusetts Historical Society Collections, Fourth Series, 7: 318, and New England His- torical and Genealogical Register, 39: 33-48; 69: 157.) Mrs. Amias Maverick was living 3 Sept. 1672. MEIGS VINCENT' MEIGS, who died at Hammonassett (East Guilford), Conn., had adminstration on his estate granted to his son John Meigs at a probate court held at Guilford, Wednesday, 2 Dec. 1658. (Meigs Genealogy 169.) No positive evidence has been found showing whether the father ever resided in Weymouth, but his son below named first appears in New England at Weymouth. JOHN' MEIGS (Vincent) was born in England on Wednesday, 29 Feb. 1612, according to the Meigs Genealogy, 166. The same authority further states that he was born in the parish of Bradford- Peverell, in Dorset, which is about eleven miles north of Weymouth in Dorset. The parish registers of Bradford-Peverell do not exist before 1653, and the various contributors to the Meigs Genealogy fail to give any documentary evidence as to the origin of John Meigs or how the fact of his birth is established, However, the will of William Frye of Weymouth, made 9 Nov. 1643, states that the testator's sister was the wife of John Meigs whose name was Thomasine (Frye) Meigs, and that Walter Harris's wife Mary (Frye) Harris of Weymouth was another sister, and that Thomas Rawlin's wife Hannah (Frye) Rawlins, also of Weymouth, vas a third sister. Child, born at Weymouth: John,' b. 29 Feb. 1640-41. MERRITT AMOS MERRITT, son of Amos and Lydia (Bailey) Merritt, was orn at Scituate, 6 Mar. 1783, and baptized at the First Church there Sept. 1788. He married at Weymouth, 11 Aug. 1807, Susannah 'orrey, daughter of Dr. James and Deborah (Fitch) Torrey, born at eymouth, 10 Nov. 1785; she died there 19 Jan. 1823, aged 38 cars. He married (2) at Weymouth, 23 Oct. 1824, Nancy Torrey, sister to his irst wife, born at Weymouth, 10 Sept. 1790. MILLER 417 Children, by first wife, born at Weymouth: Emeline, b. 4 July, 1808; m. 11 Dec. 1844, Capt. Norton Pratt of Weymouth. Washington, b. 2 Aug. 1810. Maria, b. 25 Feb. 1815; m. 20 May, 1841, Stephen Baldwin of Abington. Lemuel Smith, b. 16 Mar. 1817. Amos, b~ 10 June, 1819. Charles, b. 19 Sept. 1821. Children by second wife, born at Weymouth: William, b. 25 Dec. 1824; d. 8 June, 1825. Susan T., b. 24 June, 1826. Alzira B., b. 20 Nov. 1827; d. 27 or 29 Apr. 1834, ae. 6 yrs. WASHINGTON MERRITT (Amos) was born at Weymouth, 2 Aug. 1810; married at Weymouth, 28 May, IM, Clarissa Bartlett Beckley of Braintree who was born 5 July, 1819; she died at Wey- mouth, 21 Mar. 1848, aged 28 years 9 months 17 days. He resided near Washington Square. Children, born at Weymouth: William Beckley, b. 27 Mar. 1841; served in United States P6y. Clarissa Bartlett Beckley, b. 3 June or July, 1843. Edward Washington, b. 26 July, 1846; d. 23 Oct. 1849, ae. 2 yrs, 4 mos. 3 ds. LEMUEL SMITH MERRITT (Amos) was born at Weymouth, 16 Mar, 1817; married, about 1845, Maria Children, born at Weymouth: Ellen Maria, b. 14 Feb. 1846; d. 24 Sept. 1847, ae. I yr. 7 mos. 10 ds. Ella Maria, b. 26 Sept. 1847. ALLEN MERRITT, son of Amos and Lydia (Bailey) Merritt, was born at Scituate, 7 Apr. 1796; married (1) at Weymouth, 7 Sept. 1820, Belinda Torrey, daughter of James Gorham and Susan (White) Torrey, born at Weymouth, 16 Jan. 1801; she died there 7 or 20 Dec. 1920, aged 19 years 11 months. He married (2) at Weymouth, 9 Jan. 1822, Maria White, probably daughter of Maj. John and Nancy (Badcock) White, born at Weymouth, 27 June, 1800; she was bap- tized at the North Church 29 July, 1804. Children, born at Weymouth: James Allen, b. 30 Mar. 1826; d. 9 Mar, 1828, ae. 2 yrs, Ellen Maria, b. 10 Feb. 1829. MILLER HENRY MILLER, son of John and Elizabeth (-) Miller, was born at Milton, 25 Jan. 1746; entered his intention at Weymouth, 11 July, 1767, with Ruth Ward. --------------------- 419 MORRELL Child, born at WeM~uth: usarffia', '. 14 J a U june, 1106. LEONARD MILLER, brother to above, born at Milton, 10 Dec. 1743; married at Weymouth, 13 Oct. 1763, Sarah Richards, daugh- ter of Dr. Benjamin and Abigail (Thayer) Richards, born at Wey- mouth, 15 Oct. 1744; she died 1802. His marriage record describes him as "of Boston." MORRELL REV. WILLIAM MORRELL, an Episcopal clergyman, came with the Gorges Company to Wessagusset Sept. 1623. A William Morell, probably the above named, matriculated as a sizar at Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, in 1611, and graduated A.B. in 1614-15. (Catalogue of University of Cambridge.) In his History of Plymouth Plantation, Governor William Bradford said; "About ya midle of September [16231 arrived Captaine Robart Gorges in y- Bay of ye Massachusets, with sundrie passengers and families, intending their to begine a plantation; and pitched upon the place Mr. Weston's people had forsaken. He had a commission from the Counsell of New-England, to be generall Gove[mo]r of the cuntrie, and they appoynted for his counsell and assistance, Captaine Francis West, the aforesaid admirall, Christopher Levite, Esquire, and the Gov[ernoJr of Plimouth for the time beeing, etc. "The Gov[emolr brought over a minister with him, one Mr. Morell, who, about a year after the Govfemo]r returned, tooke shipping from hence. He had I know not what power and Authority of superintendacie over other churches granted him, and sundrie instructions for that end; but he never shewed it, or made any use of it; (it should seeme he saw it was in vaine;) he only speake of it to some hear [at Plymouth] at his going away, This was in effect the end of a 2 [second] plantation in that place." (Bradford's History of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-47, published by The Massachusetts Historical Society, 1912, V. 1, 327, 337.) While living at Wessagusset (Wessaguscusset), Mr. Morrell wrote Nova Anglia, a poem in Latin hexameters, and translated it into English heroic verse.. His literary productions were printed in London in 1625, tinder the title: "NEW ENGLAND. I OR I A BRIEFF I ENARRATION ~ OF THE AYRE, I EARTH, WATER, FISH AND I FOWLES OF THAT COUNTRY. I WITH I A DESCRIPTION I OF THE NATURES, ORDERS, HABITS, I AND RELIGION OF THE NATIVES; I IN I LATINE AND ENGLISH VERSE. I SAT BREVA, SI SAT BENk. I LONDON, I IMPRINTED BY I. D. 11625." This inan who stood by the cradle of New England Puritanism is not mentioned in Perry's History of the American Episcopal Church 1587-1883. All that appears to be known is that while residing at Wessagusset he produced the earliest American poem which was published.