Zachariah PADDOCK (1636-1727)

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Individual Note

He built a house in East Precinct, Yarmouth (now Dennis), Cape Cod, Barnstable County, Massachusetts on land given to his wife by her father at the time of their marriage. It is the oldest extant house built by a Paddock. It has been renovated and moved to the Bass river, South yarmouth. It was recently owned by Mrs. Richardson (nee Howes) and Mrs. Maxwell Barus.

Zachariah Paddock resided, East Precinct, Yarmouth, now Dennis, Cape Cod, Barnstable County, Massachusetts on land given to his wife by her father at the time of her marriage. In 1666 he built a house at Yarmouth, the oldest extant house built by a Paddock, now much renovated and moved to near Bass River, South Yarmouth. "Zachary Paddock" and his wife were mentioned in the will of her father 10 March 1667. He served on a coroner's jury to investigate the death of a child of Nicholas Nickerson 24 Oct. 1667. He was granted 50 acres at Seaconnet, part of Tatamanuck's land 7 July 1680 and later, same year, on the grand jury. He was Deputy (Representative), General Court at Plymouth 8 July 1706, 1707-8. On the seating committee of the new meeting house 1717 "an important office in early pilgrim times" --- Quakers were exempt from charge and those desiring pews had to build them at their own expense. His widow was admitted to the Second Church from the First Church, Yarmouth 6 Aug. 1727. Of the sons: Ichabod, Joseph and Nathaniel removed to Nantucket Island, where the name often appeared PADDACK -- Ichabod, however, did not remain there -- and Zachariah, John, Robert and Judah established themselves in Yarmouth. His sons Joseph and Nathaniel and their early descendants, many of whom were mariners and whaling ship captains, married into several of the old historic families of Nantucket --- Macy, Hussey, Folger, Coffin, Starbuck, Gorham, Swain, Worth, Gardner, Bunker, Pinkham, Chadwick, Coleman and others. A Macy led the first band of settlers on Nantucket Island 1659 and a descendant of the Nantucket Macy's established the famous department store in New York City. A Hussey took the first sperm whale 1712 which sparked a change in the whaling industry. From the Folgers derived the mother of Benjamin Franklin and the donor of the Shakespeare museum and library in Washington, D.C. These early whaling families left mansions at Nantucket that are now landmarks, but the "Oldest House" there, built 1686, is the Coffin-Paddack House on Sunset Hill, also called the Jethro Coffin House and the Horseshoe House because of the large horseshoe-shaped design on its chimney. The Paddack-Paddock Burying Ground or Ancient Paddock Cemetery, almost at the foot of Scargo Hill, has been described: "Within the neat iron-rail and granite-post fence stand the gravestones -- along one end marshalled erect, white and briefly worded, along the opposite end and through the middle of the enclosure dark, moss-grown illegible at times, tipping, split or crumbled into powdery dust". The earliest markers show the conventional decorations -- winged death's head, weeping willow and so on. Many of the early ones give the name PADDACK. Probably the last Paddock to own the cemetery was Hannah H. Paddock of Boston, Mass. Elizabeth Twitchell described her visit there in 1897: "About a mile and a half beyond the town ... in a field ... a graveyard wholly devoted to one family ... not more than 40 graves in all. The old ones were so mossy and sunken that it was as much as we could do to read them ... It was quite impressive to be in such a remote and lovely spot and think back all those years. In the distance, interesting old farm houses with green doors and sometimes old knockers on them, way beyond that the sea and the boats, nearby a tangle of flowers and a great deal of swampy land ... and ... wild roses still in bloom over the stone walls".

Zachariah's son Capt. Judah Paddock married Alice Alden whose Grandfather John Alden came to this country on the Mayflower in 1620. (From the Paddock Genealogy, written by Robert Curfman)

SOURCE: BOOK: "THE PADDOCK GENEALOGY: Descendants of Robert Paddock of Plymouth Colony, Blacksmith and Constable 1646, by Robert Curfman, Page 252

[The Paddock genealogy : descendants of Robert Paddock of Plymouth Colony, blacksmith and constable, 1646

Fort Collins, Colo.: Curfman, 1977, 257 pgs., Fort Collins Colorado, c.1977] EXCERPT: Pages 4-57, 219-220, 252

Copies of pages obtained from: http://persi.heritagequestonline.com

NOTE: Milan Paddock took the paragraph above from Page 28 of the book. Since, I now have a copy of this page, the transcription looks to be fairly accurate, but, of course, not all of it as she has indicated.

EXCERPT: "....From the Folgers derived the mother of Benjamin Franklin and the donor of the Shakespeare museum and library in Washington, D.C. These early whaling families left mansions at Nantucket that are now landmarks, etc...."

[23 July 2010, SLJuhl RNBSC, Compiler; [email protected]; niece of Roy "Paul" Paddock (c.1919-2000) of Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, USA, son of Ulysses Grant Paddock.]^2,3

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