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Samuel
Merrill, 1928, reprint 1983
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- Third Generation,
p 197-8
Moses3
MERRILL (Daniel2)
was born 3 Sept. 1683, in Newbury, Mass., and died 17
Jan. 1756, in Salisbury, Mass., where he had lived from
his boyhood. His home was in a section then known as "Pitch
Pine plain," a mile and a half from East Salisbury
village, on the road leading to Seabrook.†
He and his wife Mary joined the Congregational Church
in Salisbury 21 May, 1710, and he became a deacon of the
church. His wife died 15 Dec. 1760. Children, born in
Salisbury:
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Apphia4,
b. 25 Dec. 1704; m. 2 Mar. 1724/5, Ebenezer |
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Collins
of East Kingston, N.H. Children:
Jonathan. (Collins)
Robert; "captain;"
lived Sandown, N.H.
Benjamin.
Ebenezer.
Sarah; m. Joseph
Hoit.
Mary; m. Moses
Stevens.
Mercy; m. Daniel
Sanborn.
Apphia; m. James
Fogg; lived Kensington
and
Deerfield, N.H. |
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Sarah4, b. 7 Apr. 1706; m. 16 Apr. 1724, in Salisbury,
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Capt.
Thomas Bradbury, son of Jacob and
Elizabeth (Stockman) Bradbury of
Salisbury,
who was b. 16 Aug. 1699; lived Salisbury
until
about 1744, and then removed to
Biddeford,
and afterward to "Narraganset
No. 1" (See pp. 144-5.)
(now Buxton), Me. Capt. Bradbury
was one of
the first settlers of Buxton, and
was a distinguished
soldier and Indian fighter. He
commanded, in 1748-9, at the block-house
on
the west side of the Saco River,
half a mile below Union
Falls. Children:
Elizabeth, b.
1727; m. Lieut. Samuel5 Merrill, (Bradbury)
(Thomas4,
John3, Daniel2). (See 891.)
Jacob, bap. 15
Sept. 1728; m. Abigail Cole of
Biddeford.
Moses, b. Feb.
1730; m. Mary Page.
Samuel, b. 1733.
Thomas, b. 1735;
m. Ruth Page of Salisbury;
lived
Buxton; lieutenant in Revolution.
William, b. 1738;
m. Susanna Hopkinson;
lived
Buxton.
Sarah, b. 1739;
m. 1763, Joseph Leavitt of Buxton.
Mary, bap. 1744,
in Salisbury; m. 5 Nov. 1767,
Samuel
Sands of Buxton.
Benjamin, bap.
Apr. 1744, in Biddeford; d. 1834;
m.
9 July, 1767, Mary Elden of Buxton; removed
to
Ohio in 1800.
Mercy, bap. 1746;
m. John Appleton of Buxton.
Jabez, bap. 1749,
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Moses4,
b. 28 Dec. 1707; d. 9 Apr. 1795. |
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Mary4,
b. 25 Oct. 1709; d. 17 Feb. 1726/7. |
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Samuel4,
b. 20 July, 1711; d. 12 July, 1801. |
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Mercy4,
b. 4 Nov. 1713; m. 1 Feb. 1735/6, Samuel |
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Clark;
lived Hampton, N.H. |
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Betty4,
b. 18 Nov. 1715; m. 10 Dec. 1741, Humphrey4 |
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Merrill
(James3, Abel2) of Falmouth, Me.;
lived Falmouth. (See 122,
p. 285) |
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Jacob4,
b. 25 Sept. 1719; d. 25 May, 1721. |
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Benjamin4,
b. 16 Feb. 1720/1. (See p. 640) |
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Daniel4,
b. 27 Apr. 1723. |
The
facsimile of signature of Moses3 Merrill is from his will,
dated 30 Jan. 1755. (Inventory, £ 625, 6s. 10d.)
†
See page 93.
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