Cooper and block-maker, Wales to Charlestown MA,1636 on the 'James'.The compilation of the record of John Mirick1, third of the four brothers who came from Bristol, England in the ship ''James" in 1636, and who was born in Wales in 1614, has involved more research to determine his identity, and that of his children, and has developed more perplexing questions calling for settlement, than that of all the others combined. Some of the questions raised have not been settled. The early records of Charlestown contain entries made under the head of John Mirick, which can only be accounted for by the assumption that there were two John Miricks, immigrants at about the same time from the old country. This is possible, and in the light of the records seems very probable; in that case it might be assumed that they were father and son, or cousins. But after assuming that such was the case, there arise in the records questions which are still unsolvable in the light of any evidence now extant. 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. 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. She certainly could not have been the mother of any John of marriageable age in 1650 or 1655. We have the birth of her son John in 1655, her fifth child; he married Elizabeth Trowbridge Feb. 9, 1682, and died July 11, 1706.
