Benjamin Morrill and Ruth Allen

Index

Husband

Lt. Benjamin Morrill

Born

27 JAN 1696/97[1]

Salisbury, Mass.

Died

25 JUN 1788[2]

Salisbury, Mass.

Father

Dea. Isaac Morrill

Mother

Abigail Brown

Married

21 JAN 1719/20[3]

Salisbury, Mass.

Wife	Ruth Allen

Born

5 MAR 1700/01[4]

Salisbury, Mass.

Died

3 AUG 1787[5]

Salisbury, Mass.

Father

Mother

The obituary of Ruth (Allen) Morrill reads, "Died at Salisbury, Mrs. Ruth Morrill, in the 88th year of her age--Her husband, Lieutenant Benjamin Morrill, is now living, in his 92nd year.--They lived together in a connubial relation 69 years. She has left near Seventy Great Grandchildren--some grown up." [6]

CHILDREN

Name	Margaret Morrill

Born

ABT 1720

Salisbury, Mass.

Died

27 NOV 1720[7]

Salisbury, Mass.

Name	Nathaniel Morrill

Born

24 MAR 1721/22[8]

Salisbury, Mass.

Died

1792[9]

Northwood, N.H.

Married

Elizabeth French

Name	Margaret Morrill

Born

19 JAN 1723/24[10]

Salisbury, Mass.

Married

in Salisbury, Mass., 14 December 1745[11] to Dean Wadleigh

Name	Abigail Morrill

Born

26 SEP 1725[12]

Salisbury, Mass.

Died

29 JAN 1736/37[13]

Salisbury, Mass.

Name	Ruth Morrill

Born

27 AUG 1727[14]

Salisbury, Mass.

Married

in Salisbury, Mass., 5 January 1747/48[15] to Jabez Tucker. Jabez Tucker was b. in Salisbury, Mass., 20 November 1726[16]; d. in Salisbury, Mass., 6 March 1781[17]

Salisbury VR show a Ruth m. Jan. 5, 1748 to Jabez Tucker. Hoyt shows Tucker "perhaps" married this Ruth, and perhaps married Ruth d. of Ezekiel and Abigail (Wadleigh) Morrill. [18]

Name	Micajah Morrill

Born

2 FEB 1729/30[19]

Salisbury, Mass.

Died

17 OCT 1810

Gilmanton, N.H.

Married

(1) Hannah Hackett
(2) Susanna Clough
(3) in South Hampton, N.H., 19 February 1771[20] to Bersheba Shaw

Name	Son Morrill

Born

23 APR 1732[21]

Salisbury, Mass.

Died

23 APR 1732[22]

Salisbury, Mass.

Name	Benjamin Morrill

Born

23 SEP 1736[23]

Salisbury, Mass.

Died

2 JUL 1815[24]

Newburyport, Mass.

Married

Elizabeth Pike

Name	Isaac Morrill

Born

9 JUL 1738[25]

Salisbury, Mass.

Died

16 AUG 1815[26]

Gilmanton, N.H.

Married

Hannah Merrill

Name	Abigail Morrill

Born

11 DEC 1740[27]

Salisbury, Mass.

Married

in Salisbury, Mass., 22 November 1759[28] to Ezekiel Merrill. Ezekiel Merrill was b. in Salisbury, Mass., 30 September 1736[29]; d. in Hebron, Maine, 1 January 1822[30]

Name	Stilson Morrill

Born

16 DEC 1744[31]

Salisbury, Mass.

Name	Dorothy Morrill

Born

1 OCT 1746[32]

Salisbury, Mass.

Married

in Salisbury, Mass., 16 May 1765[33] to Peletiah Hoyt

FOOTNOTES

[1][Anonymous], Vital Records of Salisbury, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Topsfield, MA: Topsfield Historical Society, 1915), 161.

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

[3]ibid.

[4]ibid., 14.

[5]ibid.

[6]Connecticut Journal (New Haven, CT), 5 September 1787, p. 2.

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

[8]ibid., 173.

[9]L. Sherman Elliott, Everlastings, the Cemeteries and burying grounds of Northwood, New Hampshire (Northwood NH: Northwood Historical Society, 1998).).

[10]Salisbury VR (published) [note 1], 171.

[11]ibid.

[12]ibid., 162.

[13]ibid.

[14]ibid., 174.

[15]Ezra S. Stearns, Geneological and Family History of the State of New Hampshire (New York, Chicago: Lewis Publishing, 1908), 713.

[16]Salisbury VR (published) [note 1], 241.

[17]ibid., 626.

[18]David W. Hoyt, Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts (Providence, R.I: Snow & Farnham, 1897), 770.

[19]Salisbury VR (published) [note 1], 172.

[20]George A. Gordon, South Hampton, N.H. Church Records, NEHGS Register , 52: 433.

[21]Katharine L. Morrill, Morrill Genealogies (Handwritten manuscript, 1903, New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord NH), 28.

[22]Salisbury VR (published) [note 1], 597.

[23]ibid., 164.

[24][Anonymous], Vital Records of Newburyport, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1911), 2: 722.

[25]Annie Morrill Smith, Morrill Kindred in America, Volume 2 (New York: Grafton Press, 1931), 11.

[26]Hoyt, Old Families of Salisbury & Amesbury [note 18], 785.

[27]Salisbury VR (published) [note 1], 162.

[28]ibid.

[29]ibid., 155.

[30]Joseph Crook Anderson, Maine Families in 1790 (Rockport, ME: Picton Press, 1988), 6: 317.

[31]Salisbury VR (published) [note 1], 162.

[32]ibid., 165.

[33]ibid., 427.