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Nathaniel1 and His Sons
Part II
First Generation
Second Generation

A Merrill Memorial

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    Samuel Merrill, 1928, reprint 1983

8 - Third Generation, p 175-6

   NATHANIEL3 MERRILL (Nathaniel2) was born 8 Feb. 1664/5, in Newbury, Mass., and died 4 July, 1738, in Haverhill, Mass. He removed from Newbury to Haverhill in 1698, and settled in the West Parish of the town. He married (1) Rebecca Brown, daughter of Isaac and Rebecca Brown. She died 9 Dec. 1689. He married (2) Sarah Woodman, daughter of Edward and Mary (Goodridge) Woodman of Newbury. She was born 18 July, 1665. Children:

  37  
i.   Nathaniel4, b. 23 Nov. 1688; d. 8 Apr. 1749.
  
  38   ii. Peter4, b. 1689.
 
  iii. Hannah4, b. 30 Dec. 1692; d. young.
 
  iv. Sarah4, b. 26 Oct. 1694; d. 10 July, 1748; m. 1714,
       Nathaniel Clement, son of John and Elizabeth
   (Ayer or Ayres) Clement; he was b. in June,
   1689, in Haverhill; lived Haverhill. Children:
      Abiah, b. 27 May, 1715.                              (Clement)
      Elizabeth, b. 6 Mar. 1716/17.
      Nathaniel, b. 16 Oct. 1719.
      Sarah, b. 2 Mar. 1721/2.
      Jeremiah, b. 15 June, 1724.
      Samuel, b. 8 Apr. 1726.
      David, b. 23 May, 1728; d. young.
      John, b. 1 July, 1730.
      David, b. 8 Nov. 1734; d. 1738.
 
  v. Mary4; m. 1717, John Ladd, son of Samuel and
       Martha (Corliss) Ladd of Haverhill; he was
   b. 22 June, 1694; lived Haverhill. Children:
      John, b. 14 Feb. 1717/18; d. 1741.                   (Ladd)
      Timothy, b. 1 Nov. 1719.
      Lydia, b. 8 Dec. 1721; m. Josiah Gage.
      Nathaniel, b. 5 Apr. 1724; m. (1) Abigail Bodwill,
         and (2) Mary Hervey; lived Methuen, Mass.
      Abigail, b. 12 July, 1726; m. Samuel Roberts.
      Mary, b. 31 Oct. 1728.
      Rebecca, b. 3 Jan. 1731/2.
      Martha, b. 7 July, 1737.
      William, b. 24 Jan. 1738/9.
 
  vi. Rebecca4; was living in 1738; m. 3 Dec. 1724, in
       Haverhill, Josiah Gage, (prob. son of Daniel
   and Martha [Burbank] Gage of Bradford, Mass.);
   lived in Haverhill (*)  Children:                            (Gage)
      Lydia, b. 3 Oct. 1725.
      Nathaniel, b. 2 Apr. 1728.
      Mehitable, b. 4 Sept. 1730.
      Amos, b. 26 Mar. 1732/3.
      Rebecca, b. 20 June, 1734.(**)
 
  39 vii. Samuel4, b. 2 Aug. 1702; d. 25 Apr. 1742.
 
  viii. Elizabeth4, b. 2 Nov. 1704; m. 22 Oct. 1727, in Haverhill,
       Caleb Page; lived Haverhill. Children:                    (Page)
      Caleb, b. 12 Feb. 1728/9.
      Jeremiah, b. 16 Aug. 1730.
      Mary, b. 16 Aug. 1732.
      Deborah, b. 26 June, 1735; d. young.
      Elizabeth, b. 16 Feb. 1737/8.
      Achsah, b. 22 Feb. 1739/40.
 
  40 ix. John4, b. 12 Feb. 1706/7; d. 3 July, 1741.
 
  41 x. Joseph4, b. 3 July, 1709.
 
  xi. Benjamin4, b. 4 July, 1710; d. same day.
 
  42 xii. Stephen4, b. 1706 (?); d. 19 Aug. 1785.

Facsimile of signature of Nathaniel3 Merrill.
(From his will, dated 6 June, 1738. In the
will he is described as "husbandman.")

* Josiah Gage and family removed to Dracut, Mass. He died 18 July, 1775, in Pelham, N.H.

** Rebecca4 (Merrill) Gage had also children as follows:
          Josiah, b. 3 May, 1738, in Dracut.
          Benjamin, b. 20 July, 1740, in Dracut.
          Mehitable, bap. 22 Aug, 1742, in Salem, N.H.
          Hannah; m. Jesse Wilson of Pelham.

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