My husband descends from the Henry Herrick who left Leicester and settled in Salem, Massachusetts.

Henry's children and grandchildren were much involved in the Salem witch trials of 1692 - one of our blackest moments. If you rent the movie "The Crucible" with Daniel Day Lewis and Winona Ryder, you'll see that George Herrick was the sheriff who kept arresting the accused witches. Henry Herrick Jr. was one of the accusers that caused the execution of Sarah Good.

If you start with Sir William Herrick, you'll see he had a son Henry (6th child) that moved to Massachusetts (as noted in FIFTH Generation) . I've copied in that section below.

Henry married Editha and their son Zachariah is my husband's line. Zachariah, his son Henry, and a number of other Herrick relatives are found throughout the Salem witchcraft transcripts.
Although the Herricks mostly lived in Beverly, that was just another village across they bay from Salem Village with a ferry boat connection. And the Reverend Hale who figures prominently in the witchcraft trials was the pastor of the Beverly church, not the Salem church. Zachariah also had a son Stephen and that is my husband's line.
Stephen was 20 and married that same year as the infamous witch trials (1692 - they hanged 17 witches in one village that summer) so I suspect he was just a bit too young and too preoccupied to get involved.
A couple generations of sons later we get to Alvin Herrick and his son Coit Livingston Herrick, the last to be born in Massachusetts. They headed west, with Coit picking up a wife in Ohio, then farming in Iowa, then on to California. Coit is buried in California. His son Emerson is my husband's great grandfather (my husband's middle name is Emerson).

We have two sons. As I told them, they have the dubious honor of being what the chinese like to call the 7th son of the 7th son. They descend from Herrick men who typically produced a lot of sons, but the younger ones didn't inherit - they had to go make do for themselves. We can trace their grandfathers all the way back to Sir William, but always by way of the younger sons, rarely by way of first born. My sons are the 11th generation down from Henry Herrick - Sir William's son. So, as I explained to them, when they run across a Herrick in America, they are approximately 11th cousins.

Here's our section of that link you sent me, and I've red highlighted our line:

Sir William HERRICK was born on 1 Feb 1557 in Leicester, England. Died on 2 Mar 1652 in Beau Manor, Leicester, England. He was a Goldsmith in London and was knighted by King James I (Queen Elizabeth had died in 1603!). Another source states: of London and Beaumanor Park, Leicestershire, England. Was a member of Parliament from 1601 - 1630, knighted 1605, Ambassador to Turkey. The Herrick COAT OF ARMS: Arms: Argent a fesse vaire or and gu. Coat: A bull's head couped argent horned and eared sable gorged with a chaplet of roses ppr. Motto: Virtus Omnia Nobilitat (words mean virtue, all, nobility... therefore the motto probably means: Virtue in all nobility.)

He married Lady Joan MAY in 1596. Lady Joan MAY was born in 1578. Died on 3 Jul 1645 in Beau Manor, Leicester, England. They had the following children:

• * 19 i. William HERRICK
• * 20 ii. Robert HERRICK was born in 1598 in Loughborough, Leicester, England. Died in 1639.
• * 21 iii. Richard HERRICK
• * 22 iv. Thomas HERRICK was born in 1602 in Beau Manor, Loughborough, Leicester, Eng. Died as an infant.
• * 23 v. Elizabeth HERRICK was born in 1603 in Beau Manor, Loughborough, Leicester, Eng. Died as an infant.
• * +24 vi. Henry HERRICK
• * 25 vii. Roger HERRICK was born in 1606 in Beau Manor, Loughborough, Leicester, Eng.
• * 26 viii. Dorothy HERRICK
• * 27 ix. Mary HERRICK
• * 28 x. John HERRICK was born in 1612 in Beau Manor, Loughborough, Leicester, Eng. Died in 1630.
• * 29 xi. Martha HERRICK
• * 30 xii. Elizabeth HERRICK ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FIFTH GENERATION
• 24. Henry HERRICK was born on 16 Aug 1604 in Loughborough, Leicester, England. Died on 20 Jul 1671 in Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts. One source states: of Salem, MA; one of the founders of the first church in Salem, 1629, and of the first church in Beverly, 1667. There is a story that Henry Herrick was named in honor of a son of James I, who had knighted Henry's father. Another source: Henry, who was first cousin of the Rev. Robert Herrick, the poet, left England for America ca 1629, and settled in Cape Ann Syde (now Beverly), near Salem, Mass; became freeman in 1630. With his wife, he was among the thirty who founded the first church in Salem. He married Editha LASKIN (OR LARKIN) about 1632. Editha LASKIN (OR LARKIN) was born in 1612 in England. Died on 16 Mar 1672 in Beverly, Essex, Mass. They had the following children (all born in Beverly, Sussex, Mass.):
• * 31 i. James HERRICK, b. 1633; d. 1687.
• * 32 ii. Thomas HERRICK, b. 1635,
• * 33 iii. Zachariah HERRICK, b. 12/25/1636; d. 5/20/1695. Mar. Mary Dodge.
• * 34 iv. Ephraim HERRICK, b. 2/11/1638; d. 9/18/1693; Mar. Mary Cross.
• * 35 v. Henry HERRICK, b. 1/16/1640; d. 6/1702. Mar. (1) Lydia Woodbury, (2) widow Sarah (Alcock) Giddings.
• * +36 vi. Joseph HERRICK Esquire
• * 37 vii. Elizabeth HERRICK
• * 38 viii. John HERRICK, b. 5/25/1650, d. 1680. mar. Mary REDINGTON
• * 39 ix. Benjamin HERRICK, b. 1652; d. 1677.