Elias Maverick

Elias Maverick arrived in America with his parents and family on the “Mary & John” in 1630. Twenty-six-year-old Elias was the second son of Reverend John Maverick, an Oxford-educated Anglican priest, and his wife Mary Gye. Elias’ older brother Samuel had traveled to North America as early as 1622. In 1624 Samuel settled and built a fortified house in Winnisimmet (present day Chelsea), six years before Winthrop arrived. The structure is said to be the first permanent house in Massachusetts.

While the rest of the recently arrived Maverick family settled in Dorchester, Elias settled in Winnisimmet. He was admitted to the nearby Charlestown Church in 1632, and took the Freeman's Oath the following year.

Elias married Anna Harris in 1633, the daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Stitson, fellow recipients of allotments on Pullen Point. In the winter of 1633 a smallpox epidemic struck the Native Americans in the area. Elias, and possibly his brother Samuel, helped bury the dead, and removed and cared for a number of orphans.

Elias’ allotment of land on Pullen Point is recorded as:

“Elias Mavericke, 12 Acrs of upland: bounded towards the North by the Common Shore, towards the East by an highway 2 rodd in breadth, running between the Lotts over the neck, towards the Allottment of Valentine Hill, and towards the West by the Common shore.” 1

Elias and Anna had eleven children; John (1636), Abigail (1637), Elizabeth (1639), Sarah (1640), Elias (1643), Peter (1645), James (1646), Mary (1650), Ruth (1654), Paul (1657), and Rebecca (1659). All lived through infancy, married, and most had children.

Elias joined the Artillery Company and was a made a First Sergeant in 1658. He died in 1684 and was buried in Charlestown. His wife moved to Reading where her daughters Sarah and Ruth lived. Anna died in 1697 in Reading, Mass.

Elias’ land on Pullen Point is recorded as owned by Edward Hutchinson by 1690.

Selected Maverick descendants, locations, events, and objects of note:

Stacy Family of Cape Ann - George O. Stacy (b. 1853) was the proprietor of several large hotels on Cape Ann including, Hawthorne Inn, Moorland at Bass Rocks, and the Colonial Arms, the largest summer hotel of the North Shore. He was a descendant of the granddaughter of Elias, Abigail (Maverick) Clark (b. 1676) and her husband John Stacy. - Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern, Mass., Vol. 1, William Richard Cutter, 1908, pg. 362, ebook
Raid on Haverhill (1708) - Catherine (Maverick) Skipper and hwe second husband, John Johnson, were killed in this attack by Native Americans and French during the Queen Anne's War - Haverhill suffered its most devastating Indian attack in the summer of 1708, Olde Pentucket - Haverhill's First 100 years
Colonial Dorchester, S.C. - Mary (b. 1648) and her husband Aaron Way, Jr., and his father Aaron Way, Sr., were in a Dorchester, Mass. church congregation that set off in 1696 to create a new Puritan colony in South Carolina. It was abandoned in 1751. - The Town of Dorchester, in South Carolina: A Sketch of Its History, Henry A. M. Smith, 1905, Internet Archive

Maverick House, East Boston, Mass. - First built in 1833 as a wood frame building that dominated Maverick Square, marked the beginning of the development of the commercial area. - Commercial Casebook; Maverick and Central Squares, East Boston, Historic Boston, pg. 5
Maverick Square, East Boston, Mass - Also in East Boston; Maverick St., and the Maverick Cotton Mill (opened in 1910) - East Boston History, East Boston Initiative

Samuel Maverick (d. 1770 at the Boston Massacre) (PDF). Likely a descendant of Elias' father Rev. Samuel Maverick, the seventeen year old Samuel Maverick was killed when he ran out of his house when he heard a fire alarm. - History of the Boston Massacre, March 5, 1770, Frederic Kidder, 1870, Library of Congress
Samuel Augustus Maverick (b. 1803). Possible descendant of Elias' bother Nathaniel Maverick. Born in South Carolina, he was not in favor of succession before the Civil War, and disapproved of slavery. In 1835 he moved to Texas. - Ancestors of the Texas Family, Samuel A. Maverick Blog

Selected Elias Maverick Descendants

Elias (b. 1604); m. Anna Harris

John (b. 1636); m. Catherine Skipper

Abigail (b. 1637); m1. Mathew Clark, m2. Benjamin Balch

Mary (Maverick) Clark (b. 1676); m. John Stacy

Nymphas Stacy (b. 1699); m. Hannah Littlehale

Benjamin Stacy (b. 1738); m. Lucy Whitham

Eli Stacy (b. 1780); m. Mary Saunders

Samuel Stacy (b. 1819); m. Harriet Gilbert

George Odiorne Stacy (b. 1863); m. Jane Parker

Mary (b. 1648); m. Aaron Way

Aaron Way (b. 1673) m. Mary Groton

Links

Elias Maverick - The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 69, 1915, pg. 154, ebook
A History of East Boston - William H. Sumner, 1858, pg. 86, Internet Archive
Maverick Family Origins - Samuel Maverick Blog
Elias Maverick, Sr. - Kristin C. Hall Blog
Elias Maverick m Anne Harris 1623 - Susan's Space
Elias Maverick MD 1633 Ann Harris of Massachusetts - Genealogy.com
Descendants of Alexander Maverick (RTF) - Bexar Genealogy, Steve Gibson
¹ A Documentary History of Chelsea: including the Boston Precincts of Winnisimmet, Rumney Marsh, and Pullen Point, 1624-1824, Vol. 1, pg. 118 - Mellen Chamberlain, 1908, Internet Archive

Elias Maverick Descendants

Colonial Arms, Gloucester, Mass., Built by George Stacy (b. 1863) in 1904, it was booked solid for 4 years, then burned on New Year's Eve 1908. - The Grand Hotels of Gloucester and Cape Ann, 1905, Stories from Ipswich

Grave of Catherine (Maverick) Johnson and John Johnson, The widow of John Maverick (b. 1636) and her husband were killed in the 1708 Raid on Haverhill - Haverhill's First 100 years

Bell Tower from church in Dorchester, S.C. Mary Maverick (b. 1648) and her husband Aaron Way, Jr.were in a Dorchester, Mass. church congregation that set off in 1696 to create a new Puritan colony. - Colonial Dorchester State Historic Site, South Caroline State Parks

Possible John Maverick Descendants

Samuel Maverick (d. 1770 at the Boston Massacre) (PDF). Likely a descendant of Elias' father Rev. Samuel Maverick - History of the Boston Massacre, March 5, 1770, Frederic Kidder, 1870, Library of Congress

Samuel Augustus Maverick (b. 1803). Texas lawyer, politician, and land baron, his name is the source of the term "maverick," first cited in 1867, which means "independently minded. Possible descendant of Elias' bother Nathaniel Maverick. - Wikipedia

Maverick House, East Boston, Mass., Located in Maverick Square, the hotel was irst built in 1833, it burned down twice - Boston Public Library, Digital Commonwealth