Individual Details

Probate

This is his will, so he dies in 1820, has a second wife and scroll through both ways as there is a codicil earlier
https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/8994/images/004138754_01100?treeid=&personid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=Fgz120619&_phstart=successSource&pId=2527784

In his will written 24 March 1817 (proved 11 March 1820), John Herrick bequeathed to his beloved wife Lydia forty dollars to be paid annually while she is his widow. Lydia also has a privilege in the house and the bed and bedding she brought to the marriage. His eldest daughter Lucy Harriman receives one hundred dollars. His three youngest daughters also receive one hundred dollars each: Abigail Osgood, Hannah Herrick, and Mary Herrick. Grandson and granddaughter Daniel Merrill and Lucy Merrill each receives twenty-five dollars. His two eldest sons John Herrick and Daniel Herrick receive one dollar each. Son William Herrick receives the messuage or tenement in Sedgwick and all the freehold estate. The residue of the personal estate goes to youngest son William who was also named executor. In a codicil dated 3 April 1818, John Herrick changed the bequest to his daughter Lucy Harriman to one dollar and the bequests to daughters Abigail Osgood, Hannah Herrick, and Mary Herrick to sixty dollars each. On 11 March 1820, notice was sent to the following heirs that the will had been filed: John Herrick, Lucy Harriman wife of Peter Harriman, Mary Lufkin wife of Samuel Lufkin, and Hannah Herrick, all of Sedgwick and Abigail Osgood wife of David Osgood of Bluehill.1

1 Maine Probate, Hancock County, Estate Files, Estate of John Herrick, Case No. 804

Biography

Herrick book has a list of names only but just below has the marriages of some of the children
https://archive.org/details/genealogicalregi00herrrich/page/32/mode/2up?q=osgood

The Osgood book does not have the first Phineas either – where did I get that from? I am taking the first Phineas out
https://archive.org/details/genealogyofdesce00osgo/page/264/mode/2up?q=herrick

children at Image 606 FHL Film # 008140089 -- is missing the first Phineas – lists 13 children
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSK7-RSCJ-5?i=605&cat=208389

Sedgwick, Maine Vital Records Prior to 1800, Collection No. 1, Transcribed by Grace Limeburner, March 1941, FHL Film # 008140089, Images 586-636
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSK7-RSC2-X?i=585&cat=208389

John Herrick’s death is at image 689 in another volume
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSK7-RSCK-6?i=688&cat=208389



birth of Samuel Lufkin I think is at image 596
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSK7-RSCL-J?i=595&cat=208389
children of Thomas and Susannah Cole at image 602
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSK7-RSCL-Y?i=601&cat=208389


1785 Census of Sedgwick with John Herrick
https://books.google.com/books?id=bXJAAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_book_other_versions_r&cad=4#v=onepage&q&f=false

Property

On 1 April 1796, John Herrick, yeoman of Sedwick, in consideration of one hundred dollars conveyed lot number 49 of the second division in Sedgwick, the property lying on the east side of the Castine River, to Daniel Carlton of Sedgwick. On the same date, for payment of fifty dollars, Daniel Carlton conveyed to John Herrick a tract of land lying on the east side of Herrick Bay. On 26 October 1797, John Herrick purchased the dower rights of Mercy Torey, former wife of Samuel Robinson, deceased, the total property acreage being 100 acres and the dower rights being to one-third of that property.1


Hancock deeds – 4:55, 4:442, 2:314, 6:214
Deed books
https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/334690?availability=Family%20History%20Library


1 Maine Land Records, Hancock County, 2:314, 4:55, 4:442. 6:214