Benjamin Morrill of Boscawen, New Hampshire, holds patent no. 3,111 for an improvement to balances for weighing, issued May 26, 1843. He is more well known as a maker of various types of clocks, including mirror clocks, tall case clocks, banjo clocks, and shelf clocks. He also made at least four tower clocks, or towers with a clock on all four sides visible to the inhabitants of the town.

[1]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).

[2]1850 US Census , Boscawen NH, p. 272.

[3]Norton R. Bagley and Michael O. Vacca, Deaths in the Town of Boscawen, N.H. 1755-1864 (Concord, NH: Typewritten manuscript at the New Hampshire Historical Society, 1998).

[4]Portsmouth Journal and Rockingham Gazette (Portsmouth, NH), 21 February 1829, p. 3.

[5]N.H. Index to births, electronic library [note 1].

[6]Date and place derived from record of marriage.

[7]Katharine L. Morrill, Morrill Genealogies (Handwritten manuscript, 1903, New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord NH), 160.

[8]Massachusetts Vital Records 1841-1910 Database (Electronic Database: NewEnglandAncestors.org), 219: 304.

[9]Date and place derived from record of marriage.

[10]N.H. Index to births, electronic library [note 1].