John Morrell and Sarah Hodgdon
Kittery, Maine · married abt 1665 · 7 children
John Morrell
Sarah Hodgdon
- Born
- ABT 1650
Cambridge, Mass.
- Died
- ABT 1710
Kittery, Maine
John Morrell is found in Ipswich, Massachusetts, in 1661, about four years before his marriage in Kittery. “Acting under this law [for avoiding the settlement of poor people], the Selectmen [of Ipswich] made complaint to the Ipswich Court in March 1661, that they had notified Daniel Grazier and John Morrill, Irishmen, that they were not willing to have them as inhabitants and they had not removed.” We don’t know of any other John Morrell in New England at this time, the only other family of this surname is Abraham Morrill of Salisbury, so it is highly likely that this is our John Morrell of Kittery. In addition, 1661 aligns well with the first mention of John in Kittery, which was in 1663, occupation “plasterer.” This is the first clue we have as to the nationality of John Morrell, as it seems at least some folks in Ipswich believed he was of Ireland. Thomas Franklin Waters, Ipswich in the Massachusetts Bay Colony (Ipswich MA: Ipswich Hist. Soc., 1917), Source Medium: Book
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Additional information available.[4]
Children
- Born
- 1675 · Kittery, Maine
- Died
- 1763 · North Berwick, Maine
- Married
- Born
- 1676 · Kittery, Maine
- Died
- JAN 1741 · Kittery, Maine
- Married
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Samuel Drown — m. in Boston, Mass., 03 February 1698[8]
Samuel b. in Maine, 07 March 1676; d. in Kittery, Maine, 25 January 1721.
- Born
- 1678 · Kittery, Maine
- Married
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(1) George Huntress — m. in Dover, N.H., 04 August 1701[9]
George b. in Portsmouth, N.H., 1680; d. ca. 1713.(2) Nicholas Frost — m. in Kittery, Maine, 03 December 1714
Nicholas b. in Kittery, Maine, 1674; d. May 1718.(3) Thomas Darling — m. in Portsmouth, N.H., 1720
Thomas b. in N.H., 1677; d. in Durham, N.H., 1739.
- Born
- 1680 · Kittery, Maine
- Married
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Jonathan Nason — m. in Dover, N.H., 27 April 1702[10]
d. in Kittery, Maine, ca. 1746.
- Born
- 1682 · Kittery, Maine
- Married
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John Tidy — m. ca. 1702
John b. ca. 1683; d. January 1766.
- Born
- 1684 · Kittery, Maine
- Died
- 1724
- Married
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Phoebe Heard — m. in Maine, 1712
Phoebe b. in Kittery, Maine, 15 January 1692; m. (2) in Kittery, Maine, 29 August 1724 to Thomas Stevens.
Sources
- E. S. Stackpole, Old Kittery and Her Families (Name: 1903; reprint, Somersworth: New England History Press, 1981;), 619. Date inferred from record of a deposition given by John Morrell.
. - Clarence Almon Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (Name: Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1971;). Clarence Almon Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1971), Source Medium: Book
. - Thomas Franklin Waters, Ipswich in the Massachusetts Bay Colony (Name: Ipswich MA: Ipswich Hist. Soc., 1917;), 389.
- In Morrill Kindred, Annie Morrill Smith states that Ethel Morrill McCollister held the belief that John Morrell of Kittery was a nephew of the two brothers Abraham and Isaac. DNA testing, however, has conclusively ruled this out. His parents and place of birth are unknown, though Mrs. McCollister suggests his father was Richard Morrell, who was in Portsmouth N.H. in 1640, brother of Nicholas Morrell, mariner. Lois Fooshee Williamson states that her family tradition is that this family comes from North Riding of Yorkshire, England.
. See also John Morrell first turns up in Maine record in 1663, occupation “plasterer.” He was a “Friend,” or Quaker, as were many of his descendents.
. - E. S. Stackpole, Old Kittery and Her Families (Name: 1903; reprint, Somersworth: New England History Press, 1981;), 619. As per deposition.
. - ibid., 619. Estate was admimistered in 1757.
. - Clarence Almon Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (Name: Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1971;). Clarence Almon Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1971), Source Medium: Book
. - Dover Historical Society, Vital Records of Dover, New Hampshire (Name: Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1977;), 130.
. - ibid., 130.
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