Thomas Morrell and Lydia Frazee


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Husband Rev. Thomas Morrell
Born
22 NOV 1747[1] at Newtown, N.Y.
Died
08 AUG 1838[2] at Elizabethtown, N.J.
Father Jonathan Morrell
Mother Catherine Elverson
Married
24 MAY 1802 at Essex, N.J.
Other spouses (1) Eunice Woodruff

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Wife Lydia Frazee
Born
20 MAR 1774[3] at Westfield, N.J.
Died
11 OCT 1808[4] at Elizabethtown, N.J.
Father
Mother

Thomas Morrell was born in New York City. He moved to Elizabethtown, New Jersey about 1770. He entered the Revolutionary War in 1775 as Leutenant and was quickly promoted to Captain. In July 1776 at the battle at Flatbush he received wounds in the chest and hand and was very nearly captured. After three months and before his wounds had healed, he was commissioned a Major of Col. Ephraim Martin’s 4th New Jersey regiment and was in the battles of Brandywine and Germantown. He retired in October 1777 due to his wounds, which had never properly healed. After the war, he became a Methodist minister for periods in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Charleston. For the last fifty years of his life, he was minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Elizabethtown. Records of the Veterans Administration, Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application (National Archives Microfilm Publication M805), Source Medium: Microfilm
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CHILDREN

Name Child Morrell
Born
JAN 1803
Died
JAN 1803
Name Francis Asbury Morrell
Born
04 JUN 1804[6] at Elizabethtown, N.J.
Died
11 SEP 1805[7] at Elizabethtown, N.J.
Name Catherine Morrell
Born
31 OCT 1805[8] at Elizabethtown, N.J.
Died
20 MAY 1858[9] at Oconee, Ill.
Married in N.J., 19 March 1834[10] to William Alabone Wilmer
Name Rev. Francis Asbury Morrell
Born
27 JUL 1807[11] at Elizabethtown, N.J.
Died
12 DEC 1881 at Long Branch, N.J.
Married Mary Griffith
FOOTNOTES

[1]Date and place derived from Revolutionary War Pension Application.
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[2]Date derived from Revolutionary War Pension Application.
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[3]Rev. Edwin F. Hatfield, History of Elizabeth, New Jersey (Name: New York: Carlton & Lanahan, 1868;), 626. Rev. Edwin F. Hatfield, History of Elizabeth, New Jersey (New York: Carlton & Lanahan, 1868), Source Medium: Book
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[4]ibid., 626. Rev. Edwin F. Hatfield, History of Elizabeth, New Jersey (New York: Carlton & Lanahan, 1868), Source Medium: Book
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[5]Records of the Veterans Administration, Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application (Name: National Archives Microfilm Publication M805;), Roll 599, File S2872.

[6]Rev. Edwin F. Hatfield, History of Elizabeth, New Jersey (Name: New York: Carlton & Lanahan, 1868;), 626. Rev. Edwin F. Hatfield, History of Elizabeth, New Jersey (New York: Carlton & Lanahan, 1868), Source Medium: Book
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[7]ibid., 626. Rev. Edwin F. Hatfield, History of Elizabeth, New Jersey (New York: Carlton & Lanahan, 1868), Source Medium: Book
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[8]ibid., 626. Rev. Edwin F. Hatfield, History of Elizabeth, New Jersey (New York: Carlton & Lanahan, 1868), Source Medium: Book
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[9]Ann Lisa Pearson, Morrill/Morrell Families Association Newsletter , 2(1): 14.
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[10]ibid., 2(1): 14.
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[11]Rev. Edwin F. Hatfield, History of Elizabeth, New Jersey (Name: New York: Carlton & Lanahan, 1868;), 626. Rev. Edwin F. Hatfield, History of Elizabeth, New Jersey (New York: Carlton & Lanahan, 1868), Source Medium: Book
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