Benjamin Morrill and Mehitable Eastman

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. New-Hampshire Statesman and Concord Register (Concord, NH), July 26, 1828.
5. 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.
6. 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).
7. Boscawen town records incorrectly recorded that both Lucretia and her sister died in 1825. This seems to be incorrect, only her sister died in that year.
8. 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).
9. 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).