Ebenezer Morrill and Mary Morrill


Index

Husband Ebenezer Morrill
Born
15 DEC 1739[1] at Salisbury, Mass.
Died
30 JUN 1789[2] at Salisbury, Mass.
Father Ebenezer Morrill
Mother Abigail Osgood
Married
30 OCT 1762[3] at Amesbury, Mass.
Wife Mary Morrill
Born
ABT 1740
Father
Mother

In a newspaper article is recorded the story of Ebenezer’s death. “Last Tuesday morning as a gundalo, deeply laden, was returning from Plum Island to Salisbury, it was upset by a sudden squall of wind, about three miles above Newbury Port, by which accident Mr. Ebenezer Morrill of Salisbury, and Mr. Thomas Ordway of South Hampton, were drowned. They were worthy members of society, and have left large families to bemoan their loss. There were two other men on the boat, who saved themselves by swimming to shore.” The New Hampshire Recorder (Keene, NH), Source Medium: Newspaper
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CHILDREN

Name Abigail Morrill
Born
07 DEC 1763[5] at Salisbury, Mass.
Died
05 MAY 1767[6] at Salisbury, Mass.
Name Timothy Morrill
Born
27 NOV 1766[7] at Salisbury, Mass.
Died
10 APR 1830[8] at Salisbury, Mass.
Married Judith Currier
Name Samuel Morrill
Born
26 JAN 1770[9] at Salisbury, Mass.
Married in South Hampton, N.H., 21 November 1793[10] to Elizabeth Goodwin
Name Olive Morrill
Born
25 MAR 1776[11] at Salisbury, Mass.
Married in Salisbury, Mass., 29 October 1797[12] to Jonathan Welch
Name Joseph Morrill
Born
05 JUL 1779[13] at Salisbury, Mass.
Died
18 MAY 1858[14] at Boscawen, N.H.
Married Permelia Martin
Name Abigail Morrill
Born
16 AUG 1783[15] at South Hampton, N.H.
Died
NOV 1801[16] at Portsmouth, N.H.
Name Benjamin Morrill
Born
04 FEB 1785[17] at Salisbury, Mass.
Died
14 DEC 1841[18] at Salisbury, Mass.

Additional information available.[19]

Name Ebenezer Morrill
Born
17 JUN 1788[20] at Salisbury, Mass.
Died
30 APR 1840[21] at Salisbury, Mass.
Married Eunice Merrill
FOOTNOTES

[1][Anonymous], Vital Records of Salisbury, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Name: Topsfield, MA: Topsfield Historical Society, 1915;), 166.
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[2]ibid., 592. “Drowned.”
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[3]ibid.
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[4]The New Hampshire Recorder (Name: Keene, NH;), July 23, 1789, p. 4.

[5][Anonymous], Vital Records of Salisbury, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Name: Topsfield, MA: Topsfield Historical Society, 1915;), 162.
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[6]ibid.
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[7]ibid., 176.
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[8]ibid.
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[9]ibid., 174.
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[10]George A. Gordon, South Hampton, N.H. Church Records, NEHGS Register , 53: 164.
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[11][Anonymous], Vital Records of Salisbury, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Name: Topsfield, MA: Topsfield Historical Society, 1915;), 173.
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[12]ibid.
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[13]ibid., 170.
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[14]Cemetery Transcriptions from the NEHGS Manuscript Collections (Name: Electronic database at www.nehgs.org;).
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[15]David W. Hoyt, Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts (Name: Providence, R.I: Snow & Farnham, 1897;), 789.
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[16]Columbia Minerva (Name: Dedham, MA;), 17 November 1801, p. 3. Drowned. Columbia Minerva (Dedham, MA), Source Medium: Newspaper
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[17][Anonymous], Vital Records of Salisbury, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Name: Topsfield, MA: Topsfield Historical Society, 1915;), 164.
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[18]Massachusetts Vital Records 1841-1910 Database (Name: Electronic Database: NewEnglandAncestors.org;), 1: 28.
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[19]According to his death notice, Benjamin Morrill was a yeoman, or farmer who owns his own land. He is known as Benjamin 3rd in the Salisbury records, not to distinguish him from his father and grandfather, but rather to distinguish him from the many other Benjamin Morrills who lived in that town at the same time.
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[20][Anonymous], Vital Records of Salisbury, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Name: Topsfield, MA: Topsfield Historical Society, 1915;), 166.
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[21]ibid.
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