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       Elizabeth/3 Maverick, 2d so-named, was baptised 30 Sep 1649 at the First Church, Salem, MA.¹ She married (1), 6 Apr 1665, Nathaniel/2 Grafton, son of Joseph/1 Grafton, with whom she had 3 daughters.¹ He died in Barbados, 1671.¹ She married (2), as his 2d wife, before 1686, Thomas/2 Skinner Jr. of Boston, son of Thomas/1 Skinner.² He died in 1690, leaving 2 daughters.¹

       Remember/2 Allerton was born circa 1614 at Leyden, Holland.¹ She sailed with her parents on the Mayflower to New England, 1620, where she married, as his 1st wife, before 6 May 1635, Moses/2 Maverick, son of Rev. John/1 Maverick and Mary Gye.^2,1 She died after 1652.³ He remarried, 1656, and died 28 Jan 1685/86 at Marblehead, MA.⁴ Moses and Remember were admitted to the Salem First Church 12 Jun 1637.³

       Moses/2 Maverick was baptised 3 Nov 1611 at Huish, Devonshire, England. In 1662 he gave his age in a deposition as "about 50."¹ He married (1), before 6 May 1635, Remember/2 Allerton, daughter of Isaac/1 Allerton and Mary Norris.^2,3 She died circa 1655.¹ He married (2), 22 Oct 1656 at Boston, Eunice (–?–), widow of Thomas Roberts.¹ He gave a receipt, 24 Apr 1682, for his share of his deceased brother Antipas's estate.⁴ Moses/2 Maverick died 28 Jan 1685/86 at Marblehead, MA, at age 74.⁵ His widow Eunice was living 5 Dec 1698.¹
     Moses Maverick was a proprietor of Dorchester, MA, 1633, and admitted a freeman 3 Sep 1634.¹ He soon sold his property there and removed to Salem, where he lived on the Marblehead side of the town, and where he was engaged in the fishing business in 1634. 6 May 1635, his father-in-law Isaac Allerton conveyed to him all his "houses and stages (fishing) at Marblehead."¹ Moses and Remember were admitted to the Salem First Church 12 Jun 1637.¹
     In 1636, he paid to the General Court the rent for Noddles Island, having charge of it during his brother Samuel's absence in Virginia. He had a Salem grant before 1636 and several grants in Marblehead, one of 10 acres in 1638.⁶
     Moses Maverick was a merchant and "business man of much enterprise," and was prominent in Marblehead. In 1638 he was taxed on 140 acres there. "Moses Maverick's island" was referred to in 1660.⁷ At Marblehead he was a juror, 1637, and in 1640 he signed a petition of Marblehead men regarding trespass of 'foreign fishermen.' He was on the town's first board of selectmen, was constable in 1643, was a justice of the peace, and held the office of town clerk and solemnized marriages.⁷ He transferred from the Salem church, joining the Marblehead church in 1684, a year before his death.⁷
     "His will, dated January 1685/6, was presented by his widow for probate at Ipswich, Mass., Court on March 30, 1686, but some of the children objecting to its allowance, because it was unsigned, the case was postponed until the next court to be held at Salem. In Boston, July 15, 1686, widow Eunice Maverick was appointed administratrix, but evidently neglecting her duties, Edward Woodman, her son-in-law, asked the court, at Ipswich, April 22, 1691, to order an accounting, claiming that nothing had been as yet done to settle the estate. Mrs. Maverick was ordered to bring in her account the next court to be held at Salem on June 30, 1691. She came as ordered, but Woodman failed to appear. On September 29, he again asked an accounting and Mrs. Maverick was ordered to appear at Salem court on Nov. 30, 1691, and this time he was obliged to give bonds for his appearance. Sept. 22, 1693, Remember and John Woodman chose their father Edward Woodman as their guardian, they to receive their share of their grandfather Moses Maverick's estate. On Nov. 29, 1698, final agreement of the heirs was signed—by daughters of Moses and Remember Maverick; Abigail Ward's children; Eliza Skinner; Remember Woodman, decd., her child; Mary Ferguson, and Sarah Norman.
     "The will left the estate to wife Eunice; after her death, Moses Hawks, only surviving child of daughter Rebecca, was to have £5; the 4 children of daughter Abigail, deceased, vizt.: Samuel Ward, Abigail Hinds, Mary Dollabar, and Martha Ward, to have £5 each; the rest of the estate to the four daughters Eliza Skinner, Remember Woodman, Mary, wife of Archibald Ferguson, and Sarah, wife of John Norman. Wife Eunice was to be executrix. The inventory, taken in 1686, amounted to £342.19."⁸