William Morrill and Elizabeth Foster


Index

Husband William Morrill
Born
22 MAR 1755[1] at Wilmington, Mass.
Died
18 JAN 1827[2] at Boston, Mass.
Father Rev. Isaac Morrill
Mother Dorothy Ruggles
Married
12 JUN 1783[3] at Boston, Mass.
Wife Elizabeth Foster
Born
1758[4]
Died
15 AUG 1831[5] at Boston, Mass.
Father
Mother

William Morrill was a merchant in Boston. He had a store at 45 Market Square, then in 1793 moved to 9 Marlborough Street. He sold broadcloth and fabric of all varieties, clothes, hats, shoes, hardware, cookware and crockery, and a wide assortment of other items, Columbian Centinel (Boston, MA), Source Medium: Newspaper
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CHILDREN

Name Harriet Morrill
Born
1785[7] at Boston, Mass.
Died
15 OCT 1841[8] at Boston, Mass.
Name James Morrill
Born
1786[9] at Boston, Mass.
Resided
1850[10] at Methuen, Mass.
Died
APR 1864[11]
Married 24 November 1839[12] to Abigail ____. Abigail ____ was b. in N.H., 1793[13]; d. in Salem, Mass., 29 October 1873[14]
Name Eliza Matilda Morrill
Born
1790[15] at Boston, Mass.
Died
08 MAR 1843[16] at Boston, Mass.
Name Edward Augustus Morrill
Born
29 OCT 1808 at Boston, Mass.
Died
28 FEB 1881[17] at Albany, N.Y.
Married Jane Colvin Randall
FOOTNOTES

[1]Annie Morrill Smith, Morrill Kindred in America, Volume 2 (Name: New York: Grafton Press, 1931;), 15.
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[2]ibid., 41.
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[3]Boston (Massachusetts) City Registrar, Report of the Record Commissioners of the city of Boston containing the Selectmen’s minutes (Name: Electronic database at www.familysearch.org;). Boston (Massachusetts) City Registrar, Report of the Record Commissioners of the city of Boston containing the Selectmen’s minutes (Electronic database at www.familysearch.org), Source Medium: Book
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[4]Date inferred from age at death.
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[5]Robert J. Dunkle and Ann S. Lainhart, Inscriptions and Records of the Old Cemeteries of Boston (Name: Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2000;), 487. Robert J. Dunkle and Ann S. Lainhart, Inscriptions and Records of the Old Cemeteries of Boston (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2000), Source Medium: Book
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[6]Columbian Centinel (Name: Boston, MA;), July 20, 1793, p. 4.

[7]Date inferred from age at death.
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[8]Robert J. Dunkle and Ann S. Lainhart, Inscriptions and Records of the Old Cemeteries of Boston (Name: Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2000;), 487. Robert J. Dunkle and Ann S. Lainhart, Inscriptions and Records of the Old Cemeteries of Boston (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2000), Source Medium: Book
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[9]Date and place derived from 1850 census.
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[10]1850 US Census , Methuen, MA, p. 275. 1850 US Census, Source Medium: Book
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[11]Annie Morrill Smith, Morrill Kindred in America, Volume 2 (Name: New York: Grafton Press, 1931;), 41.
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[12]ibid., 41.
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[13]Date and place derived from 1850 census.
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[14]Massachusetts Vital Records 1841-1910 Database (Name: Electronic Database: NewEnglandAncestors.org;), 256: 301.
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[15]Date inferred from age at death.
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[16]Robert J. Dunkle and Ann S. Lainhart, Inscriptions and Records of the Old Cemeteries of Boston (Name: Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2000;), 487. “Unmarried” Robert J. Dunkle and Ann S. Lainhart, Inscriptions and Records of the Old Cemeteries of Boston (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2000), Source Medium: Book
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[17]Annie Morrill Smith, Morrill Kindred in America, Volume 2 (Name: New York: Grafton Press, 1931;), 92.
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