Archelaus Morrill of Salisbury marched with Capt. Henry Morrill's company on April 20, 1775, in response to the alarm of April 19, the beginning of the Revolutionary War. He served 8 days. [5]

[1][Anonymous], Vital Records of Salisbury, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Topsfield, MA: Topsfield Historical Society, 1915), 164.

[2]Salisbury VR (published) [note 1].

[3][Anonymous], Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1911), 1: 531.

[4]Salisbury VR (published) [note 1].

[5]Secretary of the Commonwealth, Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution , 11: 54.

[6]Salisbury VR (published) [note 1], 176.

[7][Anonymous], Vital Records of Haverhill, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Topsfield, MA: Topsfield Historical Society, 1910).

[8]Salisbury VR (published) [note 1], 164.

[9]Joan Baptiste, Tombstone Inscriptions of Mount Prospect Cemetery, Amesbury MA (E-mail message to author, 27 May 2003). No evidence can be found for the death date of 1823 given in Morrill Kindred.