In 1777, Abraham Morrill joined the Revolutionary Army with the militia of Canterbury under General Burgoyne and participated in the attack of Fort Ticonderoga. He later participated in the Battle at Bennington under General Starks. After about a year of service, he returned to Canterbury and acted as a minute man there for two and a half years. In his deposition, Abraham Morrill says that after the war he removed to Wheelock Vermont for about twenty years, then to Bloomfield New York for about five years, then to Livingston New York for about seven years, and finally to Ogden New York. [6]

[1]Date and place derived from Revolutionary War Pension Application.

[2]North Star (Danville VT; Transcribed by Janice Boyko), 10/26/1845.

[3]Ann Lisa Pearson, Morrill/Morrell Families Association Newsletter , 1(3): 13.

[4][Anonymous], Vital Records of Amesbury, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Topsfield, MA: Topsfield Historical Society, 1913).

[5]James Otis Lyford, History of the Town of Canterbury, New Hampshire, Volume 2 (Concord, N.H.: Rumford Press, 1912), 266.

[6]Records of the Veterans Administration, Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application (National Archives Microfilm Publication M805), Roll 599, File R7394.

[7]Vermont, Secretary of State, General index to vital records of Vermont, early to 1870 (Salt Lake City: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1951).

[8]New Hampshire, Registrar of Vital Statistics, [New Hampshire] Index to births, early to 1900 (Salt Lake City: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1974).

[9]Vermont VR, electronic library [note 7].

[10]ibid.

[11]ibid.

[12]ibid.

[13]ibid.

[14]ibid.

[15]ibid.

[16]ibid.

[17]ibid.