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Legal mention of Samuel Ward is fairly innocuous. On 12 June 1643, he, Bozoan Allen and Lt. Anthony Eames were granted permission to set up a corn mill near the cove in Hingham, Plymouth co., MA for the use of the town[2,5]. On 22 September 1652, he was referred to as "Mister" in a court proceeding which concerned debts owned the estate of Bozoan Allen[2,6].
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The name of Ward (or Warde) WARD is of Norman origin, and found

on the ancient roll of Battle Abbey, England. The first of the family of whom there is mention is a noble captain of the name who accompanied William the Conqueror to England in 1066. There were families of the name living in Yorkshire and Durham. The ancient Ward coat-of-a rms is: Azure, a cross patence or. Crest: A wolf's head erased proper langued and dentated gules. Motto: Sub cruce salus. Henry Ward died inHingham, Massachusetts, May 15, 1642, and was possibly the father, and undoubtedly a near relative of Samuel Ward, the immigrant ancestor. It is believed by some investigators, however, that John Ward of Stratford, Suffolk, England, clot hier, was father to Samuel. He made a will October 19, 1629, proved May 18, 1631, bequeathing to son, "Samewell." (I) Samuel Ward, immigrant ancestor,born

in England, 1592, was a proprietor of Hingham in 1636. He was called yeoman, and' was admitted a freeman March 9, 1636-7; was deputy to the general court in November, 163738. He had a law suit in 1640 about land which he had received in payment for cloth sold. The town granted him and two others permission to set up a common corn mill for the town, June 12, 1643. He removed to Hull before 1655, and sold land at Hingham,March 30, 1665. He removed finally to Charlestown. He owned large tracts of land in Hingham, Hull and Charlestown. He died at Charlestown, August 30, 1682, aged eighty-nine. His will, dated March 6, 1681-2, proved October 3, 1682, bequeathed to wife Frances; son Samuel and Samuel's children; son-in-law Isaac Lobdell a house he had built in Charlestown; daughter Mary and her husband Ambrose Gool, land at Hull; Harvard College the island lying between Hingham and Hull, called Bomkin Island, which he wished to have called Ward's Island; man Rogers to serve three years longer. He married first , ? who died at Hingham, November 28, 1638; second,Frances , died in Boston, June 10,

1690. He and his wife were admitted to the church at Charlestown, August 9, 1656. Children: 1. Henry, mentioned below. 2. Samuel, baptized atHingham, November 18, 1638. 3. Mary, married Ambrose Gould. 4. Martha, married Isaac Lobdell.

ORIGIN: Beaworthy, Devonshire
MIGRATION: 1630 in the Mary and John
FIRST RESIDENCE: Dorchester
OCCUPATION: Minister.
FREEMAN: Requested 19 October 1630 (as "Mr. John Maveracke") and admitted 18 May 1631 [MBCR 1:80, 366].
EDUCATION: Matriculated at Oxford from Exeter College, 24 October 1595, aged eighteen, a clergyman's son; B.A. 8 July 1599; M.A. 7 July 1603; ordained at Exeter, Devonshire, as deacon and priest, 29 July 1597; curate at South Huish, Devonshire, from 1606 to 1614 and rector at Beaworthy, Devonshire, from 1615 to 1629 [Foster 3:992; Morison 389; NEHGR 69:154].
OFFICES: In 1633 as one of two ruling ministers and two deacons, Maverick established the rules of government for the town of Dorchester [DTR 2-6].
ESTATE: On 3 April 1633 he was the owner of two cows and responsible for forty feet of double-railed fence at Dorchester [DTR 1].
BIRTH: Baptized Awliscombe, Devonshire, 28 December 1578, son of Peter and Dorothy (Tucke) Maverick [NEHGR 69:153].
DEATH: Dorchester 3 February 1635[/6] ("Mr. John Maverick, teacher of the church of Dorchester, died, being near sixty years of age. He was a [blank] man of a very humble spirit, and faithful in furthering the work of the Lord here, both in the churches and civil state" [WJ 1:216]).
MARRIAGE: Ilsington, Devonshire, 28 October 1600 Mary Gye [NEHGR 69:153]. She died after 9 October 1666 [NEHGR 69:153]. (Her royal ancestry was proposed by John G. Hunt in 1961 [NEHGR 115:248-53].)
CHILDREN:
i SAMUEL, b. about 1602 (deposed 7 December 1665 "aged sixty-three years or thereabouts" [SLR 4:328]); m. between 1628 and 1630 Amias (Cole) Thompson, widow of DAVID THOMPSON [NHGR 9:112]. (In a letter dated 30 May 1669 he stated that "It is forty-five years since I came to New England" [NEHGR 96:236] and at another time he commented on "my observations which for severall years I have spent in America, even from the year 1624" [NEHGR 39:46; see also Three Episodes 328-35 (which gets the marital history of Maverick and Thompson wrong)].)
ii ELIAS, b. about 1604 (d. 8 September 1684 aged eighty years [NEHGR 96:239]); m. by 1635 Anna Harris, daughter of THOMAS HARRIS (first child b. Charlestown 3 February 1635/6 [ChVR 1:5]).
iii MARY, bp. South Huish, Devonshire, 30 November 1606; bur. there 6 March 1606/7.
iv AARON, bp. South Huish 6 March 1607/8; living 20 July 1622 when he was mentioned in the will of his great-uncle Radford Mavericke, but no further record [NEHGR 69:146].
v MARY, bp. South Huish 6 January 1609/10; m. about 1635 Rev. JAMES PARKER.
vi MOSES, bp. South Huish 3 November 1611; m. (1) by 6 May 1635 Remember Allerton, daughter of ISAAC ALLERTON; m. (2) Boston 22 October 1656 Eunice (_____) Roberts, widow of Thomas Roberts [BVR 57].
vii ABIGAIL, bp. South Huish 20 March 1613/4; m. by 1643 as his first wife John Manning (eldest child b. Boston 25 May 1643 [BVR 15]; about 1647 John Manning directed JOHN DEVEREUX to deliver a boat to "my brother Moses," intending Moses Maverick [EQC 1:216]).
viii ANTIPAS, b. say 1619; m. by about 1648 _____ _____ (daughter Katherine m. in 1668 or soon after [NEHGR 96:234; GDMNH 535; YLR 3:112]).
ix JOHN, b. say 1621; probably he who m. All Hallows London Wall, London, 15 April 1649 Jane Andrewes [NEHGR 78:448-49, 96:234].
ASSOCIATIONS: ROGER CLAP tells of being committed to the care of John Maverick as a child in England [Clap 18-19].
COMMENTS: On 19 March 1631/2 "Mr. Maverick, one of the ministers of Dorchester, in drying a little powder (which took fire by the heat of the fire pan), fired a small barrel of two or three pounds, yet did no other harm but singed his clothes. It was in the new meeting-house which was thatched, and the thatch only blacked a little" [WJ 1:72].
BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: The English ancestry of the Mavericks, including a summary of the first two generations of the family in New England, was ably communicated by Elizabeth French in 1915 [NEHGR 69:146-159]. In 1924 Charles Edward Banks published the Maverick parish register entries from South Huish, Devonshire, which had not been known to French [NEHGR 78:448-49]. In 1942 and 1943 William Prescott Greenlaw published a detailed genealogy of the first six generations of the Mavericks in New England, including notes on the Mavericks of South Carolina and Texas [NEHGR 96:232-41, 358-66, 97:56-64]. Greenlaw erred slightly in converting two of the South Huish baptisms discovered by Banks into baptisms at Huish, a distinct parish in Devonshire, some distance from South Huish.

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John Maverick was highly respected in the colony and was called "godly, Mr. Maverick" by Roger Clapp. He was a man of very humble spirit and faithful in furthering the work of the Lord, both in the church and civil state. In 1633, his son Samuel rec'd a grant of Noodles Island (east Boston..now Logan airport) Samuel was living there before that, for he and Amias were md there abt 1629-1630. Samuel built a new house there, and it was there that Mary's husband John died in 1636 at the age of nearly 60 years. Mary survived him many years and lived on Noodles Island with her son Samuel and his wife Amias. While Samuel was in England trying to get the puritans from gathering so much land, and settling the Puritan problem with the King of England Amias and her mother-in-law Mary [GYE] MAVERICK lived with each other with the children of Amias and Samuel.Mary Gye born 1580, married John Maverick and their son, Moses, married Remember Allerton who came on the Mayflower ship. Mary Gye is listed in the book "Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonist" by Fredrick Lewis Weiss, a noted historian and genealogist. The seventh Edition, printed in 1993 (Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc.) was used to outline the ancestors of Mary Gye (line # 261 in the book) and place some of them in this data base. This allowed tracing ancestral connections back through Knights, Earls, Lords, English Kings, Alfred the Great, William the Conqueror, Charlemagne, early Kings of Scotland, France and Italy, to as early at Afranius Syagrius, a Gallo-Roman Consul in 381 A.D. Reference to the information from the book is noted in the GED file; for example, Mary Gye is Weiss, 261-44, using Weiss' system for designating Line 261, Generation 44 in his book.


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Birth: Oct. 28, 1580IlsingtonDevon, EnglandDeath: Oct. 9, 1666DorchesterSuffolk CountyMassachusetts, USA" Rev. John Maverick married in Ilsington, Devonshire, 28 October 1600 Mary Gye. She died after 9 October 1666. (Her royal ancestry was proposed by John G. Hunt in 1961.)They had nine known children: Samuel, Elias, Mary, Aaron, Mary PARKER, Moses, Abigail Manning, Anitpas, & John. Source: Great Migration Begins.____________________Additional biographical information added Sept. 2010 by Richard B Cook, as follows:The Rev. John Maverick (1578-1635/6) and his wife Mary Gye (c. 1580-aft 1666) and children were among the earliest settlers of Dorchester, MA. John was born in Awliscombe, Devonshire, England. The date of his baptism in Awliscombe was Dec 28 1578. John Maverick's parents were the Rev. Peter ("Bull") Maverick (c. 1550-c. 1616) and Dorothy Tucke (?-?). Peter Maverick was reported to have died a violent death. No details have been uncovered. The well-educated John Maverick received a B.A. (1599) and an M.A. (1603) from Exeter College, Oxford. John Maverick was ordained a priest in 1597 at Exeter, Devonshire. [. . .]On Oct. 28, 1600 John Maverick married Mary Gye (app 1580-aft 1666). Mary Gye's documented genealogy is so vast as to extend some eleven generations back from her into thick medieval mists. Even though these fogs have never lifted and are not likely ever to lift, tenacious researchers of this line have tracked Mary Gye's ancestry to Charlemagne (747-813/14) and even to his Belgian grandfather, Charles Martel (the Hammer) (689-741), and on to Charlemagne's great grandfather, Pippin the Middle (aka Pippin the Fat) (635/40-714) and to Pippin's girlfriend, Alpaida (Elfide, Chalpaida). [. . .]After serving as rector for fourteen years (1615-1629) in the West Country, at Beaworthy in Devonshire, John Maverick resigned in order to sail to New England. [. . .]Mary and John Maverick decided to embark with their family for America and there create an evangelical nation in the wilderness, truly under the sovereignty of God alone. So they believed. [. . .]The Nonconformists' cause in England was greatly aided by its antagonists, with pride of place belonging to Archbishop William Laud (1573-1645), who was vindictive, cruel and ineffective. During his tenure as Bishop in London and finally at Canterbury, Bishop Laud looked increasingly to the unpopular Charles I (1600-1649) for the enforcement of church dictums. [. . .] Laud set himself against Parliament at a time when Parliament would assert itself against the King. The inflexible and unimaginative Laud staked all on Charles I. As a result, the two-way ecclesiastical denunciations of the 1620's became root-and-branch political warfare through the 1630's and bloody military battles in the decade following. In 1641 Laud was put in the Tower of London and, in the midst of three consecutive civil wars (1642-45, 48-49, 49-51), was beheaded in 1645. Charles I lost his head four years later. [. . .]Before their 1630 departure for America, the 140 reformer-immigrants gathered at Plymouth, chose John Maverick as one of the teachers of the Puritan church there. He was then selected one of two ministers to come to New England aboard the ship Mary & John. The Maverick family sailed from Plymouth in March 1630. Their ship was not formally associated with the seventeen ships in the convoy lead by John Winthrop. But the Mary & John, sailed with those ships and with the same destination, Massachusetts Bay Colony. They arrive safely.In 1632, the Reverend John Maverick was one of a committee of four, convened in Charlestown, to decide whether Governor Winthrop was at fault in a complaint made by the deputy governor, Thomas Dudley. Winthrop was accused of malfeasance for failing to move his residence to a new town ("Newtown") from Boston, after he had agreed to do so. Deputy Governor Dudley, apparently given to sudden anger, "began to be in a passion" over a number of other complaints he raised to the committee against Winthrop. When the two officials rose angrily towards each other, Maverick and the other committee members intervened to keep the governor and the deputy from coming to blows. The committee found some fault with Winthrop but not so much as Dudley would have wished.In 1633, John Maverick was chosen one of four men, two ruling ministers and two deacons, who established the rules of government for the town of Dorchester, MA. With twelve men of Dorchester chosen in 1633 as selectmen, Dorchester's was the first organized New England town government. The old town encompassed areas, which were eventually renamed as the population increased: Milton, Canton, Stoughton, Sharon [. . .]Dorchester Heights [. . .]When he died in 1635-6 at about 60 years of age, John Maverick was eulogized by Governor Winthrop and others. Maverick was described as a man "of very humble spirit, and faithful in furthering the work of the Lord here, both in the churches and civil state." [. . .]The speculation of genealogists has arrived at the idea that all American Mavericks descend from Mary Gye and John Maverick. This would include the prominent nineteenth and twentieth century Texas Mavericks, who gave their surname as the very definition of going-your-own-way. Samuel Augustus Maverick, a Texas rancher and signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence in 1836, is said to have been lax about branding his cattle. Since everyone else's cattle was branded, his unidentified cattle could be easily distinguished. "Maverick" cattle belonged to the Maverick who refused to go along with the branding. John and Mary Gye Maverick‘s gravesites are unknown. The location of the earliest Dorchester cemetery and meeting house is unrecorded".The above biographical material is taken from ALL OF THE ABOVE I by Richard Baldwin Cook (NATIVA BOOKS, 2007, 2009) pp. 201-211. For more details, see the author's page #47181028.
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Rev. John Maverick married in Ilsington, Devonshire, 28 October 1600 Mary Gye. She died after 9 October 1666. (Her royal ancestry was proposed by John G. Hunt in 1961.)
They had nine known children: Samuel, Elias, Mary, Aaron, Mary PARKER, Moses, Abigail Manning, Anitpas, & John.
Source: Great Migration Begins.
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Additional biographical information added Sept. 2010 by Richard B Cook, as follows:

The Rev. John Maverick (1578-1635/6) and his wife Mary Gye (c. 1580-aft 1666) and children were among the earliest settlers of Dorchester, MA. John was born in Awliscombe, Devonshire, England. The date of his baptism in Awliscombe was Dec 28 1578. John Maverick's parents were the Rev. Peter ("Bull") Maverick (c. 1550-c. 1616) and Dorothy Tucke (?-?). Peter Maverick was reported to have died a violent death. No details have been uncovered. The well-educated John Maverick received a B.A. (1599) and an M.A. (1603) from Exeter College, Oxford. John Maverick was ordained a priest in 1597 at Exeter, Devonshire. [. . .]

On Oct. 28, 1600 John Maverick married Mary Gye (app 1580-aft 1666). Mary Gye's documented genealogy is so vast as to extend some eleven generations back from her into thick medieval mists. Even though these fogs have never lifted and are not likely ever to lift, tenacious researchers of this line have tracked Mary Gye's ancestry to Charlemagne (747-813/14) and even to his Belgian grandfather, Charles Martel (the Hammer) (689-741), and on to Charlemagne's great grandfather, Pippin the Middle (aka Pippin the Fat) (635/40-714) and to Pippin's girlfriend, Alpaida (Elfide, Chalpaida). [. . .]

After serving as rector for fourteen years (1615-1629) in the West Country, at Beaworthy in Devonshire, John Maverick resigned in order to sail to New England. [. . .]

Mary and John Maverick decided to embark with their family for America and there create an evangelical nation in the wilderness, truly under the sovereignty of God alone. So they believed. [. . .]

The Nonconformists' cause in England was greatly aided by its antagonists, with pride of place belonging to Archbishop William Laud (1573-1645), who was vindictive, cruel and ineffective. During his tenure as Bishop in London and finally at Canterbury, Bishop Laud looked increasingly to the unpopular Charles I (1600-1649) for the enforcement of church dictums. [. . .] Laud set himself against Parliament at a time when Parliament would assert itself against the King. The inflexible and unimaginative Laud staked all on Charles I. As a result, the two-way ecclesiastical denunciations of the 1620's became root-and-branch political warfare through the 1630's and bloody military battles in the decade following. In 1641 Laud was put in the Tower of London and, in the midst of three consecutive civil wars (1642-45, 48-49, 49-51), was beheaded in 1645. Charles I lost his head four years later. [. . .]

Before their 1630 departure for America, the 140 reformer-immigrants gathered at Plymouth, chose John Maverick as one of the teachers of the Puritan church there. He was then selected one of two ministers to come to New England aboard the ship Mary & John. The Maverick family sailed from Plymouth in March 1630. Their ship was not formally associated with the seventeen ships in the convoy lead by John Winthrop. But the Mary & John, sailed with those ships and with the same destination, Massachusetts Bay Colony. They arrive safely.

In 1632, the Reverend John Maverick was one of a committee of four, convened in Charlestown, to decide whether Governor Winthrop was at fault in a complaint made by the deputy governor, Thomas Dudley. Winthrop was accused of malfeasance for failing to move his residence to a new town ("Newtown") from Boston, after he had agreed to do so. Deputy Governor Dudley, apparently given to sudden anger, "began to be in a passion" over a number of other complaints he raised to the committee against Winthrop. When the two officials rose angrily towards each other, Maverick and the other committee members intervened to keep the governor and the deputy from coming to blows. The committee found some fault with Winthrop but not so much as Dudley would have wished.

In 1633, John Maverick was chosen one of four men, two ruling ministers and two deacons, who established the rules of government for the town of Dorchester, MA. With twelve men of Dorchester chosen in 1633 as selectmen, Dorchester's was the first organized New England town government. The old town encompassed areas, which were eventually renamed as the population increased: Milton, Canton, Stoughton, Sharon [. . .]Dorchester Heights [. . .]

When he died in 1635-6 at about 60 years of age, John Maverick was eulogized by Governor Winthrop and others. Maverick was described as a man "of very humble spirit, and faithful in furthering the work of the Lord here, both in the churches and civil state." [. . .]

The speculation of genealogists has arrived at the idea that all American Mavericks descend from Mary Gye and John Maverick. This would include the prominent nineteenth and twentieth century Texas Mavericks, who gave their surname as the very definition of going-your-own-way. Samuel Augustus Maverick, a Texas rancher and signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence in 1836, is said to have been lax about branding his cattle. Since everyone else's cattle was branded, his unidentified cattle could be easily distinguished. "Maverick" cattle belonged to the Maverick who refused to go along with the branding.

John and Mary Gye Maverick‘s gravesites are unknown. The location of the earliest Dorchester cemetery and meeting house is unrecorded.

The above biographical material is taken from ALL OF THE ABOVE I by Richard Baldwin Cook (NATIVA BOOKS, 2007, 2009) pp. 201-211. For more details, see the author's page #47181028.

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DID MARY GYE DESCEND FROM CHARLEMAGNE

by Richard Baldwin Cook
(copyright 2010)

Did Mary Gye descend from Charlemagne?
God knows, might say a Puritan divine,
Like husband John, a man bold to made plain
That Calvin's theories shaped his somber mind.

From old England they moved; could not conform.
Was this move foreordained like Mary's line?
God knows, they fought against high churchly norms.
In Massachusetts, John's health soon declined.

Widowed Mary, life split between two shores,
Likely dismissed all though of ancestry.
God knows, her neighbors raised flintlocks and more,
To cut the native line root, branch and tree.

We show our pride when genealogies prove long.
God knows, the first Indian lines are gone.

Robert Gye alleges that he gave great sums to Radford Maverick to bring up his daughter Mary and that Maverick bestowed her in marriage to John Maverick, his cousin german [refers to children of brothers or sisters]. Maverick denies receipt of great sums of money and says he brought her up from childhood and gave her an education. Given the extensive time Robert spent in court and constant fines he was subject to, it would seem Radford received little or no money for his care of Mary Gye.
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Rev. John Maverick married in Ilsington, Devonshire, 28 October 1600 Mary Gye. She died after 9 October 1666. (Her royal ancestry was proposed by John G. Hunt in 1961.)
They had nine known children: Samuel, Elias, Mary, Aaron, Mary PARKER, Moses, Abigail Manning, Anitpas, & John.
Source: Great Migration Begins.
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Additional biographical information added Sept. 2010 by Richard B Cook, as follows:

The Rev. John Maverick (1578-1635/6) and his wife Mary Gye (c. 1580-aft 1666) and children were among the earliest settlers of Dorchester, MA. John was born in Awliscombe, Devonshire, England. The date of his baptism in Awliscombe was Dec 28 1578. John Maverick's parents were the Rev. Peter ("Bull") Maverick (c. 1550-c. 1616) and Dorothy Tucke (?-?). Peter Maverick was reported to have died a violent death. No details have been uncovered. The well-educated John Maverick received a B.A. (1599) and an M.A. (1603) from Exeter College, Oxford. John Maverick was ordained a priest in 1597 at Exeter, Devonshire. [. . .]

On Oct. 28, 1600 John Maverick married Mary Gye (app 1580-aft 1666). Mary Gye's documented genealogy is so vast as to extend some eleven generations back from her into thick medieval mists. Even though these fogs have never lifted and are not likely ever to lift, tenacious researchers of this line have tracked Mary Gye's ancestry to Charlemagne (747-813/14) and even to his Belgian grandfather, Charles Martel (the Hammer) (689-741), and on to Charlemagne's great grandfather, Pippin the Middle (aka Pippin the Fat) (635/40-714) and to Pippin's girlfriend, Alpaida (Elfide, Chalpaida). [. . .]

After serving as rector for fourteen years (1615-1629) in the West Country, at Beaworthy in Devonshire, John Maverick resigned in order to sail to New England. [. . .]

Mary and John Maverick decided to embark with their family for America and there create an evangelical nation in the wilderness, truly under the sovereignty of God alone. So they believed. [. . .]

The Nonconformists' cause in England was greatly aided by its antagonists, with pride of place belonging to Archbishop William Laud (1573-1645), who was vindictive, cruel and ineffective. During his tenure as Bishop in London and finally at Canterbury, Bishop Laud looked increasingly to the unpopular Charles I (1600-1649) for the enforcement of church dictums. [. . .] Laud set himself against Parliament at a time when Parliament would assert itself against the King. The inflexible and unimaginative Laud staked all on Charles I. As a result, the two-way ecclesiastical denunciations of the 1620's became root-and-branch political warfare through the 1630's and bloody military battles in the decade following. In 1641 Laud was put in the Tower of London and, in the midst of three consecutive civil wars (1642-45, 48-49, 49-51), was beheaded in 1645. Charles I lost his head four years later. [. . .]

Before their 1630 departure for America, the 140 reformer-immigrants gathered at Plymouth, chose John Maverick as one of the teachers of the Puritan church there. He was then selected one of two ministers to come to New England aboard the ship Mary & John. The Maverick family sailed from Plymouth in March 1630. Their ship was not formally associated with the seventeen ships in the convoy lead by John Winthrop. But the Mary & John, sailed with those ships and with the same destination, Massachusetts Bay Colony. They arrive safely.

In 1632, the Reverend John Maverick was one of a committee of four, convened in Charlestown, to decide whether Governor Winthrop was at fault in a complaint made by the deputy governor, Thomas Dudley. Winthrop was accused of malfeasance for failing to move his residence to a new town ("Newtown") from Boston, after he had agreed to do so. Deputy Governor Dudley, apparently given to sudden anger, "began to be in a passion" over a number of other complaints he raised to the committee against Winthrop. When the two officials rose angrily towards each other, Maverick and the other committee members intervened to keep the governor and the deputy from coming to blows. The committee found some fault with Winthrop but not so much as Dudley would have wished.

In 1633, John Maverick was chosen one of four men, two ruling ministers and two deacons, who established the rules of government for the town of Dorchester, MA. With twelve men of Dorchester chosen in 1633 as selectmen, Dorchester's was the first organized New England town government. The old town encompassed areas, which were eventually renamed as the population increased: Milton, Canton, Stoughton, Sharon [. . .]Dorchester Heights [. . .]

When he died in 1635-6 at about 60 years of age, John Maverick was eulogized by Governor Winthrop and others. Maverick was described as a man "of very humble spirit, and faithful in furthering the work of the Lord here, both in the churches and civil state." [. . .]

The speculation of genealogists has arrived at the idea that all American Mavericks descend from Mary Gye and John Maverick. This would include the prominent nineteenth and twentieth century Texas Mavericks, who gave their surname as the very definition of going-your-own-way. Samuel Augustus Maverick, a Texas rancher and signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence in 1836, is said to have been lax about branding his cattle. Since everyone else's cattle was branded, his unidentified cattle could be easily distinguished. "Maverick" cattle belonged to the Maverick who refused to go along with the branding.

John and Mary Gye Maverick‘s gravesites are unknown. The location of the earliest Dorchester cemetery and meeting house is unrecorded.

The above biographical material is taken from ALL OF THE ABOVE I by Richard Baldwin Cook (NATIVA BOOKS, 2007, 2009) pp. 201-211. For more details, see the author's page #47181028.

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DID MARY GYE DESCEND FROM CHARLEMAGNE

by Richard Baldwin Cook
(copyright 2010)

Did Mary Gye descend from Charlemagne?
God knows, might say a Puritan divine,
Like husband John, a man bold to made plain
That Calvin's theories shaped his somber mind.

From old England they moved; could not conform.
Was this move foreordained like Mary's line?
God knows, they fought against high churchly norms.
In Massachusetts, John's health soon declined.

Widowed Mary, life split between two shores,
Likely dismissed all though of ancestry.
God knows, her neighbors raised flintlocks and more,
To cut the native line root, branch and tree.

We show our pride when genealogies prove long.
God knows, the first Indian lines are gone.

MAYFLOWER!!