Jacob Morrill and Susannah Whittier


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Husband Jacob Morrill
Born
24 AUG 1648[1] at Salisbury, Mass.
Died
23 APR 1718[2] at Salisbury, Mass.
Will 20 MAR 1718, proved 26 May 1718[3]
Father Abraham Morrill
Mother Sarah Clements
Married
15 JUL 1674[4] at Salisbury, Mass.
Wife Susannah Whittier
Born
27 MAR 1656[5] at Haverhill, Mass.
Died
15 FEB 1727[6] at Salisbury, Mass.
Father
Mother

Jacob Morrell was a member of the Society of Friends (Quakers). Quakers were not well liked by Puritans. In 1657, a stringent law was passed in Salisbury against harboring “any of the cursed sect of Quakers.” Violators were subject to a fine of 40 schillings. Harboring a Quaker in your house from the rain for few a minutes was illegal. Jacob was presumably an outcast from the ordinarily Puritan environment of Salisbury, which must be why so few vital records for this family can be found.
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CHILDREN

Name Capt. Ezekiel Morrill
Born
29 SEP 1675[8] at Salisbury, Mass.
Died
11 OCT 1732[9] at Salisbury, Mass.
Married (1) Abigail Wadleigh

(2) in Salisbury, Mass., 25 March 1730[10] to Sarah Robie. Sarah Robie was b. in Haverhill, Mass., 06 March 1684[11]; m. (2) in Haverhill, Mass., 21 October 1702 to Samuel Clough; m. (3) in Salisbury, Mass., 10 January 1734[12] to Joseph Taylor
Name Ens. Thomas Morrill
Born
ABT 1677 at Salisbury, Mass.
Died
13 JUN 1728[13] at Salisbury, Mass.
Married Hannah Allen
Name Hannah Morrill
Born
ABT 1682 at Salisbury, Mass.
Died
1767[14] at Salisbury, Mass.
Married in Salisbury, Mass., 14 January 1702[15] to Joseph Stockman. Joseph Stockman was b. in Salisbury, Mass., 28 February 1671[16]; d. in Salisbury, Mass., 17 February 1748[17]
Name Ruth Morrill
Born
09 OCT 1686[18] at Salisbury, Mass.
Died
13 DEC 1759[19] at Salisbury, Mass.
Married (1) in Salisbury, Mass., 02 February 1710[20] to Henry Young. Henry Young was b. in Haverhill, Mass., 11 January 1684[21]; d. in Salisbury, Mass., 07 September 1716[22]
(2) Rice Edwards
Name Jacob Morrill
Born
02 MAY 1689[23] at Salisbury, Mass.
Married (1) Mary Webster

(2) Mehitable Fifield
Name Aaron Morrill
Born
ABT 1690 at Salisbury, Mass.
Died
01 APR 1760[24] at Salisbury, Mass.
Married (1) Joanna Dow

(2) Eleanor Jones
Name Susanna Morrill
Born
14 JUN 1696[25] at Salisbury, Mass.
Died
26 FEB 1776[26] at Salisbury, Mass.
Married Israel Webster
Name Israel Morrill
Born
01 MAR 1699[27] at Salisbury, Mass.
Died
18 JUN 1739[28] at Amesbury, Mass.
Married (1) Mary Adams

(2) Naomy Tukesbury
FOOTNOTES

[1][Anonymous], Vital Records of Salisbury, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Name: Topsfield, MA: Topsfield Historical Society, 1915;), 169.
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[2]ibid.
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[3]David W. Hoyt, Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts (Name: Providence, R.I: Snow & Farnham, 1897;), 252.
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[4][Anonymous], Vital Records of Salisbury, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Name: Topsfield, MA: Topsfield Historical Society, 1915;).
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[5][Anonymous], Vital Records of Haverhill, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Name: Topsfield, MA: Topsfield Historical Society, 1910;), 1:319.
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[6][Anonymous], Vital Records of Salisbury, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Name: Topsfield, MA: Topsfield Historical Society, 1915;).
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[7]Joseph Merrill, History of Amesbury (Name: Haverhill: Press of Franklin P. Stiles, 1880;), 66.

[8][Anonymous], Vital Records of Salisbury, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Name: Topsfield, MA: Topsfield Historical Society, 1915;), 167.
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[9]ibid.
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[10]ibid.
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[11][Anonymous], Vital Records of Haverhill, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Name: Topsfield, MA: Topsfield Historical Society, 1910;), 1: 259.
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[12][Anonymous], Vital Records of Salisbury, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Name: Topsfield, MA: Topsfield Historical Society, 1915;), 434.
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[13]ibid., 597.
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[14]ibid.
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[15]ibid.
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[16]David W. Hoyt, Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts (Name: Providence, R.I: Snow & Farnham, 1897;), 329.
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[17][Anonymous], Vital Records of Salisbury, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Name: Topsfield, MA: Topsfield Historical Society, 1915;).
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[18]ibid., 174.
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[19]ibid.
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[20]ibid.
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[21]David W. Hoyt, Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts (Name: Providence, R.I: Snow & Farnham, 1897;), 373.
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[22]ibid., 373.
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[23][Anonymous], Vital Records of Salisbury, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Name: Topsfield, MA: Topsfield Historical Society, 1915;), 169.
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[24]ibid.
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[25]ibid., 161.
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[26]ibid., 631.
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[27]ibid., 161.
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[28]ibid. “killed pulling down his own barn”
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