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Samuel
Merrill, 1928, reprint 1983
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- Third Generation,
p 199
Stephen3
MERRILL (Daniel2)
was born 16 Sept. 1688, in Newbury, Mass. His will was
dated 15 July, 1747, and it was admitted to probate 9
June, 1755. He married (1) 20 July, 1710, Mary Carr, daughter
of James and Mary (Sears) Carr of Newbury and Salisbury,
Mass., who was born 15 Dec. 1678, in Newbury, and died
27 June, 1744, in Salisbury. (*)
He married (2) in Salisbury, Mary Hardy of Kensington,
N.H., who died 4 Nov. 1747, in Salisbury. He was a farmer
and weaver, and lived in Salisbury, where his children
were born, as follows:
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Daniel4,
b. 15 Apr. 1711. |
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Stephen4,
b. 29 Jan. 1712/13; d. 24 Nov. 1793. |
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Aaron4,
b. 2 Jan. 1714/15; d. 16 Sept. 1716. |
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Elizabeth4,
b. 3 July, 1717; m. 25 May, 1740, |
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Thomas
Edmunds. |
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v.
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Aaron4,
b. 10 Aug. 1719; lived Amesbury, Mass.; |
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shipwright;
bought land in Oct. 1744, at Webster
Point, bounded by the Merrimack
and
Powow Rivers, for a ship-yard; m.
24 May, 1744,
in Amesbury, Betty Muggridge (or
Moggaridge)
of Salisbury, prob.
a widow, who d. 11 July,
1773, in Salisbury, and he prob.
m. (2) Rhoda
Osgood. Whether he had children
is not ascertained. |
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Joshua4,
b. 20 Feb. 1720/1; d. unm. 30 Dec. 1737, |
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in
Salisbury. |
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Ezra4,
b. 24 Apr. 1723; d. unm. 19 June, 1745, at |
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Cape
Breton, while in military service. |
*
Hoyt, "Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury,"
p. 86, queries whether the Mary Carr who married Stephen3
Merrill was not a daughter of William and Elizabeth (Pike)
Carr of Salisbury. This Mary Carr was baptised 3 July,
1692. William and James Carr were brothers.
Facsimile
of signature of Stephen3 Merrill. (From his will.)
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