Sargent Morrill and Ruth Hoyt
Sargent Morrill
- Born
- 24 JUN 1754[1] at Canterbury, N.H.
- Resided
- 1790[2] at Danville, Vt.
- Resided
- 1820[3] at Little Valley, N.Y.
- Died
- 06 NOV 1834[4] at Napoli, N.Y.
- Married
- 16 SEP 1777[5] at Canterbury, N.H.
- Father
- Ezekiel Morrill
- Mother
- Jemima Morrill
Sargent Morrill went with his brother Abraham and several siblings of his wife Ruth to help found Danville, Vermont, and later founded Wheelock, Vermont. [6]
In 1775 shortly after the battle at Lexington, Sargent Morrill enlisted as a private in the Revolutionary War at Canterbury, New Hampshire. He served his term through that winter, reenlisted in the Spring of 1776 and served several more months. The pension application was filed in 1832, by which time Sargent Morrill was a resident of Napoli, New York. [7]
Sargent Morrill and his family were one of the first three families to live in Napoli, New York, residing there as early as the spring of 1819. The three families worked together to cut the first road to town, seven miles long. [8]
Ruth Hoyt
- Born
- 24 JUL 1759[9] at Amesbury, Mass.
- Died
- 04 JUL 1828[10] at Napoli, N.Y.
- Father
- Thomas Hoyt
- Mother
- Miriam Kimball
Children
- Born
- 1780 · Vt.
- Died
- ABT 1785
- Born
- 1781
- Died
- ABT 1782
- Born
- 1781
- Born
- 1783
- Born
- 1784
- Born
- 1785
- Born
- 1790 · Danville, Vt.
- Died
- 21 SEP 1864 · Leon, Ill.
- Married
-
William Foy — m. ca. 1811
William b. in N.H., 20 December 1791; d. in Leon, Ill., 16 January 1869.
- Born
- 26 FEB 1801 · Danville, Vt.
- Died
- 07 JUN 1884 · Napoli, N.Y.
- Married
- Born
- 1803