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From: Marblehead, the spirit of 76 lives here The first PEDRICK to come to Marblehead was John Pedrick about whom there is an air of mystery. It is believed that he was a nobleman, probably escaping political persecutionand that, when he arrived in Marblehead about 1660, John Pedrick, was his pseudonym. Ella I. (Ouellette, Gagnon, Glass, Giles, Pedrick) Gordon It is alleged that the first John of Marblehead came from a branch of the family of the Earl of Essex, of which one had been in danger because he had sat in the Star Chamber and voted for the execution of King Charles I and that he assumed the name Pecrick to conceal his identy. The only regicide who was of a family which had borne this title was a Bourdier, who had a son John who may have attended Oxford and had entered at Lincoln Inn Fields as a stuident of law. The Major Pedrick House, 52 Washington St. was build by my a first cousin (many times removed)with lumber imported from England utilizing ships from his fleet of twenty five vessels engaged in world trade.

Birth	Abt 1623/24
Marriage	Bef 1652	Miriam
Residence	1665	Great Neck, Marblehead, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Death	7 Oct 1686	Marblehead, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
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Spouse	Miriam (1626 - 1716)
Child	Sarah Pedrick (1666 - 1712)
Child	Joanna Pedrick ( - )
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