Ebenezer Morrill and Mary Morrill

Husband

Ebenezer Morrill

Born: 15 DEC 1739^[1] at Salisbury, Mass.
Died: 30 JUN 1789^[2] at Salisbury, Mass.
Married: 30 OCT 1762^[3] at Amesbury, Mass.
Father: Ebenezer Morrill
Mother: Abigail Osgood

Wife

Mary Morrill

Born: ABT 1740

In a newspaper article is recorded the story of Ebenezer’s death. “Last Tuesday morning as a gundalo, deeply laden, was returning from Plum Island to Salisbury, it was upset by a sudden squall of wind, about three miles above Newbury Port, by which accident Mr. Ebenezer Morrill of Salisbury, and Mr. Thomas Ordway of South Hampton, were drowned. They were worthy members of society, and have left large families to bemoan their loss. There were two other men on the boat, who saved themselves by swimming to shore.” ^[4]

Children

Abigail Morrill1763 – 1767

Born: 07 DEC 1763^[5] · Salisbury, Mass.
Died: 05 MAY 1767^[6] · Salisbury, Mass.

Timothy Morrill1766 – 1830

Born: 27 NOV 1766^[7] · Salisbury, Mass.
Died: 10 APR 1830^[8] · Salisbury, Mass.
Married: Judith Currier family page →

Samuel Morrill1770

Born: 26 JAN 1770^[9] · Salisbury, Mass.
Married: Elizabeth Goodwin — m. in South Hampton, N.H., 21 November 1793^[10]

Olive Morrill1776

Born: 25 MAR 1776^[11] · Salisbury, Mass.
Married: Jonathan Welch — m. in Salisbury, Mass., 29 October 1797^[12]

Joseph Morrill1779 – 1858

Born: 05 JUL 1779^[13] · Salisbury, Mass.
Died: 18 MAY 1858^[14] · Boscawen, N.H.
Married: Permelia Martin family page →

Abigail Morrill1783 – 1801

Born: 16 AUG 1783^[15] · South Hampton, N.H.
Died: NOV 1801^[16] · Portsmouth, N.H.

Benjamin Morrill1785 – 1841

Born: 04 FEB 1785^[17] · Salisbury, Mass.
Died: 14 DEC 1841^[18] · Salisbury, Mass.

Additional information available.^[19]

Ebenezer Morrill1788 – 1840

Born: 17 JUN 1788^[20] · Salisbury, Mass.
Died: 30 APR 1840^[21] · Salisbury, Mass.
Married: Eunice Merrill family page →

[Anonymous], Vital Records of Salisbury, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Topsfield, MA: Topsfield Historical Society, 1915), 166.
[Anonymous], Vital Records of Salisbury, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Topsfield, MA: Topsfield Historical Society, 1915), 592. “Drowned.”
[Anonymous], Vital Records of Salisbury, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Topsfield, MA: Topsfield Historical Society, 1915).
The New Hampshire Recorder (Keene, NH), July 23, 1789, p. 4.
[Anonymous], Vital Records of Salisbury, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Topsfield, MA: Topsfield Historical Society, 1915), 162.
[Anonymous], Vital Records of Salisbury, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Topsfield, MA: Topsfield Historical Society, 1915).
[Anonymous], Vital Records of Salisbury, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Topsfield, MA: Topsfield Historical Society, 1915), 176.
[Anonymous], Vital Records of Salisbury, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Topsfield, MA: Topsfield Historical Society, 1915).
[Anonymous], Vital Records of Salisbury, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Topsfield, MA: Topsfield Historical Society, 1915), 174.
George A. Gordon, South Hampton, N.H. Church Records, NEHGS Register, 53: 164.
[Anonymous], Vital Records of Salisbury, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Topsfield, MA: Topsfield Historical Society, 1915), 173.
[Anonymous], Vital Records of Salisbury, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Topsfield, MA: Topsfield Historical Society, 1915).
[Anonymous], Vital Records of Salisbury, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Topsfield, MA: Topsfield Historical Society, 1915), 170.
Cemetery Transcriptions from the NEHGS Manuscript Collections (Electronic database at www.nehgs.org).
David W. Hoyt, Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts (Providence, R.I: Snow & Farnham, 1897), 789.
Columbia Minerva (Dedham, MA), 17 November 1801, p. 3. Drowned.
[Anonymous], Vital Records of Salisbury, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Topsfield, MA: Topsfield Historical Society, 1915), 164.
Massachusetts Vital Records 1841-1910 Database (Electronic Database: NewEnglandAncestors.org), 1: 28.
According to his death notice, Benjamin Morrill was a yeoman, or farmer who owns his own land. He is known as Benjamin 3rd in the Salisbury records, not to distinguish him from his father and grandfather, but rather to distinguish him from the many other Benjamin Morrills who lived in that town at the same time.
[Anonymous], Vital Records of Salisbury, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Topsfield, MA: Topsfield Historical Society, 1915), 166.
[Anonymous], Vital Records of Salisbury, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Topsfield, MA: Topsfield Historical Society, 1915).