'The date of Hopestill's death is not on record, but she was alive in 1669, and was then admitted to the church in Charlestown as the wife of John Mirick, and her age was given as fifty years.'
'The compiler assumes, in agreement with Miss Henrietta Amelia Mirick, of Boston, a descendant from John Mirick, that our John Mirick married Hopestill -----, in Charlestown in 1641, about five years after his arrival in this country.'