According to his death notice, Benjamin Morrill was a yeoman, or farmer who owns his own land. He is known as Benjamin 4th in the Salisbury records, not to distinguish him from his father and grandfather, but rather to distinguish him from the many other Benjamin Morrills who lived in that town at the same time.

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

[2]Massachusetts Vital Records 1841-1910 Database (Electronic Database: NewEnglandAncestors.org), 2: 202.

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

[4]ibid., 174.

[5]1850 US Census , Salisbury MA, p. 13.

[6]Mass. Vital Records 1841-1910 (electronic library) [note 2], 319: 297.

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

[8]ibid.

[9]ibid., 169.

[10]Joan Baptiste, Tombstone Inscriptions of Mount Prospect Cemetery, Amesbury MA (E-mail message to author, 27 May 2003).

[11]Salisbury VR (published) [note 1], 174.

[12]ibid., 165.

[13]Mass. Vital Records 1841-1910 (electronic library) [note 2], 274: 284.

[14]Salisbury VR (published) [note 1], 170.

[15]Annie Morrill Smith, Morrill Kindred in America, Volume 2 (New York: Grafton Press, 1931), 164.