Samuel Morrell and Margaret Warner

Husband

Samuel Morrell

Born: 03 MAR 1734^[1] at Newtown, N.Y.
Died: JUL 1783^[2] at Newark, N.J.
Will: 28 JUN 1772, proved 04 August 1783^[4]
Married: 21 FEB 1756 at Hunterdon Co., N.J.
Father: Thomas Morrell
Mother: Judith ____

Samuel Morrell of Newark, New Jersey, made his will on 28 June 1772, and it was proved at New York on 4 August 1783, which is the basis of the death date given here, estimated from the probate. The will leaves his estate to his wife while she remains a widow, a legacy to his daughter Margaret at her marriage and one to his son Stephen Hadden, and names as executors Stephen Dwight and his brother Jonathan Morrell; it does not name his wife. A published Morrell genealogy dates his birth to 1733 and gives his father Thomas Morrell’s children as Jonathan, Jacob, Samuel, Robert and Thomas, in agreement with Jonathan as his brother, whereas the birth recorded here is 3 March 1734. Needs independent verification: the identity of his wife, which neither the will nor the genealogy gives, and the date and place of his death, which the probate does not fix.^[5]

Wife

Margaret Warner

Children

Margaret Morrell1757

Born: ABT 1757

Steven Hadden Morrell1759

Born: ABT 1759
Married: Susannah Elsworth — m. in N.Y., N.Y., 1800

A guardianship of 28 June 1802 in Essex County, New Jersey, appoints Captain Stephen H. Morrell guardian of his two infant sons, Hedden and John, with James Hedden of Newark as fellow bondsman. The record does not say that this Stephen H. Morrell is the son of Samuel Morrell of Newark; the identification rests on the name, Hedden as the middle name of the one and the given name of a son, and Newark. If he is the same man, whether the sons’ mother was Susannah Elsworth, whom he married in New York in 1800, or an earlier wife is not established. Needs independent verification: his identity with the Stephen Hadden Morrell recorded here, which a baptism, deed or will naming his father would show.^[8]

[Anonymous], Presbyterian Church Records, Newtown, Collections of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society Vol. 8 (New York: Printed for the Society, 1928), 7.
Date estimated from date of probate. See also Abstracts of wills on file in the Surrogate’s Office, City of New York (Electronic images at http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/nys/nys_N.html), Samuel Morrell of Newark, New Jersey, will dated 28 Jun 1772 (date of proving). Dated June 28, 1772. … Proved, August 4, 1783, in New York, before Cary Ludlow, Esq.
Abstracts of wills on file in the Surrogate’s Office, City of New York (Electronic images at http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/nys/nys_N.html), 11: 204. In his will, Samuel names his son Stephen Hadden and daughter Margaret. His wife is mentioned but not by name.
Abstracts of wills on file in the Surrogate’s Office, City of New York (Electronic images at http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/nys/nys_N.html), Samuel Morrell of Newark, New Jersey, will dated 28 Jun 1772, proved 4 Aug 1783 at New York, Vol. XI pp. 203-204. In the name of God, Amen. I, Samuel Morrell, of Newark, in the Province of New Jersey. I direct all debts to be paid. I leave to my wife all my estate, real and personal, during her widowhood. She being obliged to bring up the children and pay the legacies. I leave to my daughter Margaret, at her marriage, as an outset, £100, New York money. And I leave £100 to my son, Stephen Hadden, as soon as he comes of age. … All the rest is to be put at interest until my son, Stephen Haddon, is of age, for his maintainance, and then all my estate to my children, Margaret and Stephen. I make Mr. Stephen Dwight, and my brother, Jonathan Morrell, executors. Dated June 28, 1772. Witnesses, Peter Brown, Nathaniel Richards, Martha Dwight. Proved, August 4, 1783, in New York, before Cary Ludlow, Esq. See also The Ancestry of Daniel Morrell of Hartford, with his descendants and some contemporary families, online at https://archive.org/details/ancestryofdaniel00morriala, Samuel Morrell, son of Thomas Morrell of Newtown, Long Island, third generation, p. 44. They had children, Jonathan, Born 1726; Jacob 1730; Samuel 1733; Robert 1737 and Thomas 1739. See also Abstracts of wills on file in the Surrogate’s Office, City of New York (Electronic images at http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/nys/nys_N.html), Samuel Morrell of Newark, New Jersey, will dated 28 Jun 1772 (date of proving). Dated June 28, 1772. … Proved, August 4, 1783, in New York, before Cary Ludlow, Esq.
Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Administrations, Etc., Volume X, 1801-1805, online at https://archive.org/details/calendarofnewjer00unse_4, Guardianship of Hedden and John Morrell, wards, Essex Co., 28 Jun 1802, p. 320. 1802, June 28. Morrell, Hedden and John, of Essex Co. Wards. On petition Capt. Stephen H. Morrell, that he be appointed Guardian to the persons and estates of his 2 sons (said infants) under 14 years of age. Guardian – Stephen H. Morrell. Fellowbondsman – James Hedden, of Newark, said Co. Lib. 40, p. 83; File 10146 G.