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Jan 25, 2024 · Captain William Gerrish (c 1621–1687) of Newbury was an early settler of Massachusetts who served in the Frontier wars.
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- August 9, 1687
- Joanna (Lowell) Gerrish, Ann (Parker) Gerrish
CAPTAIN WILLIAM1 GERRISH (1617–1687), the first immigrant, arrived in Boston in 1639 when the New England colony was in its infancy. A Puritan, he was probably the progenitor of most that bear the name in America.
APTAIN WILLIAM1 GERRISH, a man of small stature and of marked ability, was born in Bristol, England on 20 August 1617 during the reign of James I, the first of the Stuart monarchs. He received a fine mercantile education in the mercantile house of Percival Lowle & Co., at London, England.
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William Gerrish was the first commander of the Newbury militia and Newbury’s first constable. William came to Newbury from Ipswich (Agawam)in 1639. William Gerrish and his offspring married into many of the other first settler families.
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When William Gerrish was born on 20 August 1617, in Bristol, England, his father, John Gerrish, was 21 and his mother, Anne Marten, was 17. He married Joanna Lowell on 17 April 1645, in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.
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- Joanna Lowell, Ann Parker
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The Life Summary of William. When William Gerrish was born on 6 June 1648, in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, his father, William Gerrish, was 30 and his mother, Joanna Lowell, was 28. He married Anne Gerrish in 1673, in Newbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.
