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Sargent Morrill went with his brother Abraham and several siblings of his wife Ruth to help found Danville, Vermont, and later founded Wheelock, Vermont.
In 1775 shortly after the battle at Lexington, Sargent Morrill enlisted as a private in the Revolutionary War at Canterbury, New Hampshire. He served his term through that winter, reenlisted in the Spring of 1776 and served several more months. The pension application was filed in 1832, by which time Sargent Morrill was a resident of Napoli, New York. Records of the Veterans Administration, Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application (National Archives Microfilm Publication M805), Source Medium: Microfilm
Sargent Morrill and his family were one of the first three families to live in Napoli, New York, residing there as early as the spring of 1819. The three families worked together to cut the first road to town, seven miles long. Franklin Ellis, History of Cattaraugus Co., New York (Philadelphia: L. H. Everts, 1879), Source Medium: Book
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FOOTNOTES [1]James Otis Lyford, History of the Town of Canterbury, New Hampshire, Volume 2 (Name: Concord, N.H.: Rumford Press, 1912;), 255.
[2]1790 US Census , Danville VT, p. 194. At the time there were six members of the family, three male and three female. 1790 US Census, Source Medium: Book
[3]1820 US Census , Little Valley NY, p. 19. This area would become Napoli a few years later. There are five males and two females. 1820 US Census.
[4]South Napoli Cemetary Transcriptions (Name: Electronic database at http://www.accessgenealogy.com/cemetery/newyork.htm;). South Napoli Cemetary Transcriptions (Electronic database at http://www.accessgenealogy.com/cemetery/newyork.htm), Source Medium: Book
[5]New Hampshire, Registrar of Vital Statistics, [New Hampshire] Index to marriages, early to 1900 (Name: Salt Lake City: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1975-6;).
[6][Anonymous], Vital Records of Amesbury, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Name: Topsfield, MA: Topsfield Historical Society, 1913;).
[7]South Napoli Cemetary Transcriptions (Name: Electronic database at http://www.accessgenealogy.com/cemetery/newyork.htm;). South Napoli Cemetary Transcriptions (Electronic database at http://www.accessgenealogy.com/cemetery/newyork.htm), Source Medium: Book
[8]Annie Morrill Smith, Morrill Kindred in America, Volume 2 (Name: New York: Grafton Press, 1931;), 61.
[9]Records of the Veterans Administration, Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application (Name: National Archives Microfilm Publication M805;), Roll 599, File S11090.
[10]Franklin Ellis, History of Cattaraugus Co., New York (Name: Philadelphia: L. H. Everts, 1879;), 475.
[11]Transcription of cemetary at Leon Illinois.
[12]Transcription of cemetary at Leon Illinois.
[13]Date derived from age at death.
[14]Tombstone inscription, Hopkins Cemetery, Centerville, New York. The cemetery sits on private property about 1000 feet from Rushford Road.
[15]Date inferred from age at death.
[16]Tombstone inscription, Hopkins Cemetery, Centerville, New York. The cemetery sits on private property about 1000 feet from Rushford Road.
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