Person:Jedediah Herrick (1)

GEN JEDEDIAH HERRICK; d. Oct. 10, 1847; Hampden, Penobscot co., Me. He was educated in Boston, Mass., and was by profession a civil engineer. He was Capt. And Maj. in the war of 1812, and distinguished himself in action at the time of the burning of the Corvette " John Adams." Penobscot co., in the District of Me., was formed in 18o6, and Mr. Herrick was appointed the same year its first High Sheriff by Gov. Strong, of Mass. He was commissioned Major General of the 10th Division Mass. Militia (Me. being then a part of Mass.), Dec. 17, 1816, and resigned his commission in 1828.

In politics he was a Federalist. He spent the later years of his life as a man of leisure, devoting a good deal of time to the study of Geology and Meteorology, and took an active interest in Prof. Espie's meteorological investigations, assisting him and corresponding with him up to the time of his death. He was a man of unusual culture, and was widely known among the scientific and literary men of his generation.

We find the following notice of him in the "N. E. Historic Genealogical Review" for Jan., 1850.

• • • He was the author and publisher of an extended genealogical history of the Herrick family, evincing much patient research and laborious investigation, and was latterly engaged in collecting materials in reference to the early history of the Preston, Hayward, Leach, Scales, and Kilham families, from which he also descended. His father was Joseph Herrick, Esq., of Lewiston, Me., who was the son of Major Israel Herrick, who was in the army as early as 1745, and in the battle of Bunker Hill. Israel resided, at differerent times, at Topsfield, Methuen, and Box-, ford in this State, [Mass.] Be was the son of Benjamin, who lived in Beverly and Wenham, and at Gage's Ferry, in Methuen; said Benjamin being son of Joseph, who settled on a farm given him by his father, in the N. W. corner of Beverly, near Wenham line; and removed thence to Marblehead and kept a tavern; and thence to a farm on Mina Hill, in Topsfield. He gave a lot for a burial ground, Mar. 13, 1739, about half a mile south of Agawam River, which is still occupied as such. He died Sep, 11, 1794. His father was Joseph Herrick, Esq., of Cherry Hill, then in Salem, now Beverly; who married 1st, Sarah, daughter of Richard Leach, Feb. 7, 1667; she died about 1674. He then married Mary Endicott, about 1678, who died Sep. 14, 1706. He was the fifth son of Henry Herrick, the ancestor of most of the name in this country. He was himself the father of ten children, and acquired a considerable estate, mostly, as is believed by trade with the West India Islands. Late in life he is styled "Gouvernor" on the church records, and also in the diary of Rev. Mr. Greene, of Salem; and, after his decease, he bears the same title on the Probate records. Whence he derived this title is uncertain. Mr. Felt thinks he was at one time Governor of one of the West India Islands."

1. ↑ Jedediah and Lucius C. Herrick. Herrick Genealogy: A Genealogical Register of the Name and Family of Herrick from the Settlement of Henerie Hericke in Salem, Massachusett (2). ((1885))
   Page 212.
2. ↑ Jedediah and Lucius C. Herrick. Herrick Genealogy: A Genealogical Register of the Name and Family of Herrick from the Settlement of Henerie Hericke in Salem, Massachusett (2). ((1885))
   Page 213-214.
3. ↑ Jedediah and Lucius C. Herrick. Herrick Genealogy: A Genealogical Register of the Name and Family of Herrick from the Settlement of Henerie Hericke in Salem, Massachusett (2). ((1885))
   Page 212.
4. ↑ Jedediah and Lucius C. Herrick. Herrick Genealogy: A Genealogical Register of the Name and Family of Herrick from the Settlement of Henerie Hericke in Salem, Massachusett (2). ((1885))
   Page 213-214.
5.   Jedediah and Lucius C. Herrick. Herrick Genealogy: A Genealogical Register of the Name and Family of Herrick from the Settlement of Henerie Hericke in Salem, Massachusett (2). ((1885))
   Page 213-214.
6. ↑ Lewiston, Cumberland, Maine is now Lewiston, Androscoggin, Maine.