Benjamin Morrill and Mary Choate

1. 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).
2. 1850 US Census, Boscawen NH, p. 272.
3. Norton R. Bagley and Michael O. Vacca, Deaths in the Town of Boscawen, N.H. 1755-1864 (Concord, NH: Typewritten manuscript at the New Hampshire Historical Society, 1998).
4. Portsmouth Journal and Rockingham Gazette (Portsmouth, NH), 21 February 1829, p. 3.
5. 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).
6. Benjamin Morrill of Boscawen, New Hampshire, holds patent no. 3,111 for an improvement to balances for weighing, issued May 26, 1843. He is more well known as a maker of various types of clocks, including mirror clocks, tall case clocks, banjo clocks, and shelf clocks. He also made at least four tower clocks, or towers with a clock on all four sides visible to the inhabitants of the town.
7. Date and place derived from record of marriage.
8. Katharine L. Morrill, Morrill Genealogies (Handwritten manuscript, 1903, New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord NH), 160.
9. Massachusetts Vital Records 1841-1910 Database (Electronic Database: NewEnglandAncestors.org), 219: 304.
10. Date and place derived from record of marriage.
11. 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).