Laban Morrill and Sarah Ames

Husband

Laban Morrill

Born: 28 SEP 1740^[1] at South Hampton, N.H.
Died: 12 MAY 1812^[2] at Canterbury, N.H.
Married: ABT 1765
Father: Ezekiel Morrill
Mother: Jemima Morrill

NOTE: Needs independent verification: the death of Laban Morrill rests on Canterbury, Merrimack, New Hampshire, Town Records 1727-1864 (secondary information) alone and has not yet been confirmed by a second source.

Wife

Sarah Ames

Born: 25 MAR 1747^[4] at Canterbury, N.H.
Died: 25 JUL 1827^[5] at Canterbury, Merrimack, N.H.

NOTE: Needs independent verification: the death of Sarah Ames rests on The Samuel Ames family : a genealogical memoir of the descendants of Samuel Ames, of Canterbury, N.H. Six generations: 1723-1891 (secondary information) alone and has not yet been confirmed by a second source.

Children

Hannah Morrill1765 – 1765

Born: 14 AUG 1765^[7] · Canterbury, N.H.
Died: 25 AUG 1765^[8]

Samuel Ames Morrill1767 – 1856

Born: 14 APR 1767^[9] · Canterbury, N.H.
Died: 19 JUL 1856^[10] · Canterbury, N.H.
Married: Mary Chase family page →

Abner Morrill1769 – 1851

Born: 11 APR 1769^[11] · Canterbury, N.H.
Died: 11 MAY 1851^[12] · Wheelock, Vt.
Married: Mary Carpenter family page →

David Morrill1771 – 1863

Born: 17 AUG 1771^[13] · Canterbury, N.H.
Died: 22 JUN 1863^[14] · Canterbury, N.H.
Married: Betsey Sanborn family page →

Hannah Morrill1773 – 1864

Born: 18 DEC 1773^[15] · Canterbury, N.H.
Died: 24 OCT 1864
Married: John Moore — m. in Canterbury, N.H., 14 August 1794^[16]
John b. in Canterbury, N.H., 27 February 1769^[17]; d. 01 April 1810.

Judith Morrill1776 – 1815

Born: 07 JUL 1776^[18] · Canterbury, N.H.
Died: 05 SEP 1815 · Wheelock, Vt.
Married: Barnard Hoyt — m. in Canterbury, N.H., 22 November 1792^[19]
Barnard b. in Canterbury, N.H., 08 September 1768; d. in Wheelock, Vt., 05 May 1850.

Sarah Morrill1779

Born: 16 MAR 1779^[20] · Canterbury, N.H.
Married: Samuel Chadwick
Samuel b. in Boscawen, N.H., 26 May 1780^[21].

Jemima Morrill1781

Born

28 DEC 1781^[22] · Canterbury, N.H.

Married

(1) Jeremiah Clough — m. in Canterbury, N.H., 29 May 1816
Jeremiah b. in Canterbury, N.H., 15 June 1784^[23]; d. in Baton Rouge, La., ca. 1816.

(2) Samuel B. Dyer — m. ca. 1820

Ezekiel Marcellus Morrill1785

Born: 02 MAR 1785^[24] · Canterbury, N.H.
Married: Sarah Emery Bradley family page →

Peter Morrill1789 – 1815

Born: 29 MAR 1789^[25] · Canterbury, N.H.
Died: 21 MAY 1815^[26]

Anna Morrill1792 – 1854

Born: 23 FEB 1792^[27] · Canterbury, N.H.
Died: 06 FEB 1854^[28] · Canterbury, Merrimack, N.H.
Married: family page →

[Anonymous], Vital Records of Salisbury, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Topsfield, MA: Topsfield Historical Society, 1915), 170.
James Otis Lyford, History of the Town of Canterbury, New Hampshire, Volume 2 (Concord, N.H.: Rumford Press, 1912), 259. See also Canterbury, Merrimack, New Hampshire, Town Records 1727-1864, births register entry dated Canterbury May 5th 1792, ‘the Borths of Laben Morrell’, following the Jonathan Foster entry; before the Thomas Lewis entry of 13 July 1792 (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-899K-WSHV). Canterbury May 5th 1792 now Recorded the Borths of Laben Morrell Children Hannah Morrill Born August 14th 1765 and Dyed August 25 — 1765 Samuel Morrill Born April 14 the 1767 Abner Morrill Born April 11th 1769 David Morrill Born August 17th 1771 Hannah Morrill Born December 18th 1773 Judith Morrill Born July to by Sarah Morrill Born March 16th 1 Jemima Morrill Born December 28th 1781 Ezekiel Morrill Born March 2 1785 Peter Morrill Born March 29th 1789 . Anna Morrill Born February 23 1792 The above named Laben Morrill died May 12th 1812 The above named Peter Morrill departed this life 21 May 1865
James Otis Lyford, History of the Town of Canterbury, New Hampshire, Volume 2 (Concord, N.H.: Rumford Press, 1912), 259.
James Otis Lyford, History of the Town of Canterbury, New Hampshire, Volume 2 (Concord, N.H.: Rumford Press, 1912), 259. See also The Samuel Ames family : a genealogical memoir of the descendants of Samuel Ames, of Canterbury, N.H. Six generations: 1723-1891, First Generation, p. 15, entry for Laban and Sarah Ames Morrill; IA identifier samuelamesfamily00kimb (https://archive.org/details/samuelamesfamily00kimb). Laban, brother of David, was elected deacon, May, 1800, and held the office until his death. He was b. in Salisbury, Mass., 25 Sept., 1740; m. Sarah, dau. of Samuel Ames, of Canterbury. Laban d. in Canterbury 12 May, 1812. Sarah d. in Canterbury 25 July, 1827.
New Hampshire, Registrar of Vital Statistics, [New Hampshire] Index to births, early to 1900 (Salt Lake City: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1974).
James Otis Lyford, History of the Town of Canterbury, New Hampshire, Volume 2 (Concord, N.H.: Rumford Press, 1912), 260.
New Hampshire, Registrar of Vital Statistics, [New Hampshire] Index to births, early to 1900 (Salt Lake City: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1974).
James Otis Lyford, History of the Town of Canterbury, New Hampshire, Volume 2 (Concord, N.H.: Rumford Press, 1912), 260.
New Hampshire, Registrar of Vital Statistics, [New Hampshire] Index to births, early to 1900 (Salt Lake City: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1974).
James Otis Lyford, History of the Town of Canterbury, New Hampshire, Volume 2 (Concord, N.H.: Rumford Press, 1912), 260.
New Hampshire, Registrar of Vital Statistics, [New Hampshire] Index to births, early to 1900 (Salt Lake City: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1974).
Mrs. Charles Carpenter Goss, Colonial Gravestone Inscriptions in the State of New Hampshire (1942 reprint, Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1974), 32.
New Hampshire, Registrar of Vital Statistics, [New Hampshire] Index to births, early to 1900 (Salt Lake City: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1974).
James Otis Lyford, History of the Town of Canterbury, New Hampshire, Volume 2 (Concord, N.H.: Rumford Press, 1912), 260.
New Hampshire, Registrar of Vital Statistics, [New Hampshire] Index to births, early to 1900 (Salt Lake City: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1974).
New Hampshire, Registrar of Vital Statistics, [New Hampshire] Index to births, early to 1900 (Salt Lake City: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1974).
James Otis Lyford, History of the Town of Canterbury, New Hampshire, Volume 2 (Concord, N.H.: Rumford Press, 1912), 260.
New Hampshire, Registrar of Vital Statistics, [New Hampshire] Index to births, early to 1900 (Salt Lake City: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1974).
James Otis Lyford, History of the Town of Canterbury, New Hampshire, Volume 2 (Concord, N.H.: Rumford Press, 1912), 260.
New Hampshire, Registrar of Vital Statistics, [New Hampshire] Index to births, early to 1900 (Salt Lake City: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1974).
New Hampshire, Registrar of Vital Statistics, [New Hampshire] Index to births, early to 1900 (Salt Lake City: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1974).
New Hampshire, Registrar of Vital Statistics, [New Hampshire] Index to births, early to 1900 (Salt Lake City: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1974). “Marcellus”
New Hampshire, Registrar of Vital Statistics, [New Hampshire] Index to births, early to 1900 (Salt Lake City: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1974).
Katharine L. Morrill, Morrill Genealogies (Handwritten manuscript, 1903, New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord NH), 71.
New Hampshire, Registrar of Vital Statistics, [New Hampshire] Index to births, early to 1900 (Salt Lake City: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1974).
Anna Morrill Bradley (1792-1854) – Find a Grave Memorial, online at https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/78553317/anna-morrill-bradley (accessed 2026-09-12), Memorial 78553317. Anna Morrill Bradley: BIRTH 22 Feb 1792, Canterbury, Merrimack County, New Hampshire; DEATH 6 Feb 1854 (aged 61), Canterbury, Merrimack County, New Hampshire; BURIAL Canterbury Village Cemetery, Canterbury, Merrimack County, New Hampshire. Family Members — Parents: Laban Morrill 1740-1812, Sarah Ames Morrill 1747-1827. Spouse: Timothy Bradley 1786-1837 (m. 1810). Children: Asa Foster Bradley 1811-1892, Electa T. Bradley 1824-1902, Timothy Mathew Bradley 1836-1890.