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Stricker Family Tree - Jeremiah Belcher, Merchant

Jeremy Belcher - Merchant
Family Connection - 8th Great-grandfather of Roy Ellsworth Stricker


Bottom Map - Location of Essex County
Top Map - Location of Ipswich in Essex County

Jeremiah Belcher was born in England in about 1614. He migrated to Massachusetts on the ship Susan & Ellen in 1635 and settled in Ipswich. He was admitted to the Ipswich church and was named Freeman on March 13, 1638. 

In 1639, Jeremiah married Mary Clifford in Ipswich. They had four children:

            Samuel            b. 1639        d. 1714
            Jeremy             b. 1641       d. 1722
            Mary                b. 1643        d. 1691
            John                 b. 1649        d. unknown, after 1671

Mary Clifford died on March 5, 1652. On September 30, 1652, Jeremiah married Mary Lockwood. They had seven children:

            Abigail            b. 1654        d. 1687
            Dorcas             b. 1656        d. 1730
            Judith              b. 1658        d. 1714
            Mary                b. 1660        d. 1731
            David               b. 1662        d. unknown, before 1692
            Richard            b. 1665        d. 1720
            Ann                  b. 1667        d. 1759

Jeremiah Belcher was a merchant by trade, and was licensed to sell "strong waters" - alcohol. He was granted a house lot on what is today Market Street between Saltinstall Street and the Ipswich River. He  was also granted three hundred acres by the General Court in May 1659. 

Jeremiah Belcher served on the Essex County Petit Jury six times between 1646 and 1669. He served on the Essex County Grand Jury twice, in 1647 and 1648. He was a Selectman (Town Councilman) in 1665. He was also a Sergeant in the local militia. 

There are several land transactions recorded for Jeremiah Belcher. He mortgaged his one-hundred acre farm to George Corwin four times - in 1660, 1664, 1667, and 1674. In 1680, he and his wife sold a large part of his land - over 900 acres. 

Jeremiah Belcher died without making a will. The exact date is unknown, but it was between 1680 and 1690. In March 1693, Jerimiah's oldest son Samuel was tasked with the administration of his father's estate. The value of his estate was not totaled in the inventory. Mary Lockwood Belcher died in Ipswich in October of 1700 - she never remarried. 

The settling of the estate was not without controversy. At some point, land formerly belonging to Jeremiah Belcher was purchased by a man named Nathaniel Adams. At Adams death, apparently heirs of Jeremiah's sons Richard Belcher and David Belcher, and the heirs of John Andrews, Judith Belcher's husband, tried to claim the land. John Gould (Abigail's husband), Walter Russell (son of the older Mary Belcher), Daniel Gould (Dorcas's husband), Moses Burnham (Ann's husband) , and Thomas Andrews (younger Mary's husband) went to court to assert that the Belcher family had no claim on the land. The Court agreed and the land was transferred to Nathanial Adams' sons. 

The burial locations of Jeremiah and his two wives is unknown. 




Jeremiah Belcher > Judith Belcher > Judith Andrews > Jerusha Larabee > Ebenezer Grover > Aaron Palmer Grover > William Grover > Eugene Aaron Grover > Lillian May Grover > Gertrude Myra Newland > Roy Ellsworth Stricker
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