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Samuel
Merrill, 1928, reprint 1983
105
- Fourth Generation,
p 271
Nathaniel4
MERRILL (Abel3,
Abel2)
was born 1 Mar. 1712/13, in Newbury, Mass., and died in
1796. He graduated at Harvard College in 1732. He was
ordained and settled as pastor of the second church (Congregational)
in Nottingham, Mass., in 1737. By a change in the Provincial
boundary in 1741 the town came into New Hampshire, and
from 1746 until 1830 it was known as Nottingham West.
In 1830 the name was changed to Hudson. Mr. Merrill had
a large and devoted following in the church through a
pastorate of fifty-nine years. He married, 11 July, 1738,
Elizabeth Sargent, daughter of Dr. Nathaniel and Dorothy
(Bradstreet) Sargent of Portsmouth, N.H. She died in April,
1795, aged 80. Children:
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Nathaniel5,
b. 25 Sept. 1739; d. 16 Oct. 1785. |
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Betty-Bradstreet5,
b. 6 Sept. 1741; m. Timothy |
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Warron;
d. without issue. |
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Mary5,
b. 28 Aug. 1743; d. 13 Jan. 1746. |
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John5,
b. 26 Oct. 1745. |
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v. |
Abel5,
b. 23 Dec. 1747; lived Concord, N.H.; m. |
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Ruth
(Hadley) Cliamberlain. |
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Dorothy5, b. 11 Feb. 1748/9; Rev. William Elliot,
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Baptist clergyman; he was b. in Dec. 1748,
son of John and Sarah Elliot of
Bradford,
Mass., and Nottingham West; |
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Olive5, b. 4 Dec. 1751; m. Isaac5 Merrill (Samuel4,
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Abel3,
Abel2). (See 101.) |
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Sarah5,
b. 31 Oct. 1753; m. (1) Asa Hildreth, and |
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(2)
Timothy Warren. |
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Benjamin5,
b. 13 Apr. 1756; d. 28 Apr. 1756. |
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Ruth5,
b. 13 Apr. 1756; m. William Parham; lived |
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Tyngsboro,
Mass. |
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Molly5,
b. 1758; d. 25 Oct. 1851; m. Benjamin Morse |
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xii. |
Theodore5,
b. 1760. |
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