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Samuel
Merrill, 1928, reprint 1983
4 - Second Generation,
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167-8
ABRAHAM2
MERRILL (Nathaniel1)
was born in 1636 or 1637 in Newbury, Mass., and died 28
Nov. 1722. He was a weaver, and lived in the north part
of the town, (now West Newbury),
(see supra pp. 85-90) near the mouth
of Artichoke River. He was a deacon of the Congregational
Church in Newbury, and was active in the party opposing
Rev. Thomas Parker, being one of the founders of the Episcopal
Church. He married (1) 18 Jan. 1660/1, Abigail Webster,
daughter of (*)
John and Mary (Shatswell) Webster, of Ipswich, who died
12 Aug. 1712, aged 70, and (2) in September, 1713, Sarah
Bond of Salisbury (widow), daughter of Robert Clements
of Haverhill. Children, born in Newbury:
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Abigail3, b. 13 Aug. 1665; d. 9 Oct. 1708;
m. Hananiah |
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Ordway,
son of James and Ann (Emery)
Ordway; he was b. 2 Dec. 1665 in
Newbury, and
d.June, 1758; lived Newbury. Children:
(Ordway) |
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Rebecca,
b. 22 Dec. 1690. |
Joanna,
b. 15 Apr. 1698. |
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Abigail,
b. 2 Aug. 1693. |
Elizabeth,
b. 2 Feb. 1701/2. |
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Nathaniel,
b. 3 July, 1695. |
Mary,
b. July, 1706. |
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ii. |
Mary3, b. 5 July, 1667; d. 11 Oct. 1703;
m. 22 Dec.
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1685,
Jonathan Thurlow, son of Francis and
Anne (Morse) Thurlow of Newbury;
he was b.
14 Mar. 1660/1, and d. 22 Sept.
1703; lived
Newbury. Children: (Thurlow) |
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Elizabeth,
b. 20 Nov. 1686. |
Mary,
b. 1 July, 1698; d. young. |
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Abraham,
b. 20 Oct. 1688. |
Jonathan,
b. 29 Aug. 1699. |
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Francis,
b. 20 Apr. 1692. |
Prudence,
b. 4 Sept. 1701. |
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Richard,
b. 20 June, 1694. |
John,
b. 4 Mar. 1702/3. |
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Abigail,
b. 10 Feb. 1695/6;
m.
John Sawyer, Newbury. |
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Elizabeth3,
b. 26 Apr. 1669; was living in 1712; |
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m.
2 Oct. 1693, in Newbury, Joseph Emery, son of
John, Jr., and Mary (Webster) Emery;
he was
b. 23 Mar. 1662/3, and d. 22 Sept.
1721; lived
Andover, Mass. Children: |
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Joseph,
b. 29 Apr. 1696; m. Abigail4 Merrill
(Emery)
(Abraham3,2.)
(See 17.)
Elizabeth, b.
28 Sept. 1698; m. Robert Pease
of Andover, Mass.,
and Enfield, Conn.
Mary; m. 31 Dec.
1722, Joseph Parker.
Sarah; m. William
Bussell (Russell?)
Abigail, b. Nov.
1705; m. Abel (or Abiel) Prye.
Their
son Simon Frye (1737-1822) was a
State
Senator and Councillor of Massachusetts,
a
justice of the Court of Common
Pleas
of York County and Chief Justice of
the
same court in Oxford County (District
of
Maine.)
Hannah, b. 10
Dec. 1710; d. unm. 1746. |
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Hannah3,
b. 9 Jan. 1670/1; was living in 1712; m. |
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Aug. 1695, in Newbury, Shubael Long, son of
(**)
Dea. Robert and Alice (Stevens) Long; he was
b. 14 Apr. 1661, and d. 1731; lived
in Newbury.
Children:
(Long)
Robert, b. 20
May, 1696.
Abigail, b. 31
Jan. 1697/8; d. 18 Jan. 1776; m.
(as
second wife) Joseph Emery. (See
above.)
John, b. 2 Nov.
1701.
Samuel. |
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Abraham3,
b. 20 Sept. 1672; d. 26 Sept. 1744. |
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John3,
b. 15 Oct. 1673 |
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Jonathan3,
b. 19 Jan. 1675/6. |
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David3,
b. 20 Feb. 1677/8. |
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Sarah3,
b. 9 Oct. 1679; m. (pub. 7 Oct. 1696) Joseph |
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Morse,
son of Benjamin and Ruth (Sawyer) Morse
of Newbury; he was b. 10 Feb. 1671/2,
and d. 9
Sept. 1745, in Casco, Me., while
in the army;
lived in Newbury and Methuen, Mass.
Children: (Morse) |
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Sarah,
b. 30 Dec. 1697. |
Meribah,
b. 22 June, 1714. |
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Joseph,
b. 30 Apr. 1700. |
Amos,
b. 6 Sept. 1716. |
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Abigail,
b. 17 July, 1706. |
Moses,
b. 3 Nov. 1722. |
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Esther,
b. 5 Jan. 1708/9. |
William,
b. 1726. |
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Mary,
b. 5 Aug. 1711. |
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Susanna3,
b. 6 Dec. 1681; d. 15 Dec. 1681. |
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Prudence3,
b. 1 Oct. 1683; d. 5 May. 1718; m. 25 Nov. |
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1702,
John Bartlett, son of John and Mary (Rust)
Bartlett of Newbury; he was b. 24
Jan. 1682/3;
lived Amesbury, Mass. Children:
(Bartlett)
Prudence, b. 10
Sept. 1704.
Mary, b. 18 Aug.
1706.
Dorcas, b. 13
Feb. 1715.
Hannah, b. 29
Apr. 1718. |
*
Hannah Webster, sister of Abigail, married Michael Emerson,
and was the mother of Hannah Duston of Haverhill, heroine
of the famous exploit in which ten Indians were killed,
in 1697, by their three English captives.
**
Coffin's "History of Newbury" gives the name
of Robert Long's wife as Alice Stevens; according to Hoyt's
"Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury" it
was Alice Short.
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