186 THE RETROSPECT OF THE YEAR. 



and it passed by his will to three sons, of whom Upham 

 finds Joseph, the fifth son, to have been in possession in 

 16<>2. Alford died in 1677. 



This Henry Herrick appears to have been the progeni- 

 tor of our great Herrick family. He is thought to have 

 been in Virginia before coming to Massachusetts Bay, 

 and he joined the First Church in Salem in 1629. He was 

 the fifth son of that famous courtier, diplomatist, Cheap- 

 side goldsmith, Queen Elizabeth's Turkish Ambassador, 

 money-lender to King James, and long-time member of 

 parliament, Sir William Herrick of Beau Manor Park in 

 Leicestershire, the uncle of the poet. 1 Upham finds rea- 

 son to think that Joseph before 1692 occupied the Cherry 

 Hill property which lies at the extreme southeast corner 

 of the region infected by the witchcraft frenzy. He was 

 at various times a militia corporal, a witchcraft constable, 

 a town representative, a parish magnate, and a West India 

 merchant, and was known at the close of his career for 

 some occult reason as Governor Herrick. Before the mis- 

 erable delusion had passed away, he did what he could to 

 recant and to vindicate the memory of some of its victims. 

 Neither he nor his father had taken more kindly than had 

 Alford to the church methods of the day, for Henry Herrick 

 and his wife Edith were fined for giving aid and comfort to a 

 "person excommunicate" and Joseph was at one time in 

 much disfavor for his skepticism as to the prevailing views 

 of Diabolism and Satanic interference. 2 



Since the death of Governor Joseph Herrick in 1718, 

 Cherry Hill has been described in a series of wills, deeds, 

 inventories and indentures which give a rare picture of 



See Herrick Genealogy, Revised Edition of 1885, pp. 7-13, 17-19, 418; Hist* 

 Coll. Essex Inst., Vol. IV, pp. 266-7. 



Herrick Genealogy, pp. 210-14, 363-7. Upham's History of Witchcraft and 

 Snlem Village, Vol. I, map and pp. 66, 153-4, 209-70. 76., Vol. II, pp. 12, 28, 272- 

 Stone's History of Beverly, pp. 250-7. Mass. Hist. Coll., 6th Series, Vol. i, p. 15. 



