Ezekiel Morrill and Abigail Wadleigh

Index

Husband

Capt. Ezekiel Morrill

Born

29 SEP 1675[1]

Salisbury, Mass.

Died

11 OCT 1732[2]

Salisbury, Mass.

Will

10 OCT 1732, proved 30 October 1732[3]

Father

Jacob Morrill

Mother

Susannah Whittier

Married

22 JAN 1704/05[4]

Salisbury, Mass.

Other spouses

(2) in Salisbury, Mass., 25 March 1730[5] to Sarah (Robie) Clough. Sarah (Robie) Clough was b. in Haverhill, Mass., 6 March 1683/84[6]; m. (1) in Haverhill, Mass., 21 October 1702 to Samuel Clough; m. (3) in Salisbury, Mass., 10 January 1733/34[7] to Joseph Taylor

Wife	Abigail Wadleigh

Born

30 MAR 1684[8]

Salisbury, Mass.

Died

29 MAY 1728[9]

Salisbury, Mass.

Father

Mother

Guardianship of the sons of Ephraim Morrill "late of Salisbury", namely Thomas "a minor about seventeen" and Ezekiel "a minor about 14", was granted to Ephraim Wadleigh on September 2, 1734. Joseph Osgood and Abner Morrill are listed as sureties. [10]

CHILDREN

Name	Jonathan Morrill

Born

ABT 1706

Salisbury, Mass.

Died

12 SEP 1706[11]

Salisbury, Mass.

Name	Ezekiel Morrill

Born

3 SEP 1707[12]

Salisbury, Mass.

Died

24 JUL 1783[13]

Canterbury, N.H.

Married

(1) Jemima Morrill
(2) in Salisbury, Mass., 2 November 1776 to Joanna Gilman. Joanna Gilman was b. in South Hampton, N.H., ca. 1755

Name	Abner Morrill

Born

12 JUL 1709[14]

Salisbury, Mass.

Died

19 OCT 1766[15]

Methuen, Mass.

Married

Lydia Greeley

Name	Hannah Morrill

Born

16 MAR 1710/11[16]

Salisbury, Mass.

Died

2 OCT 1784

Hampstead, N.H.

Married

(1) Samuel Currier
(2) in Hampstead, N.H., 5 February 1768[17] to Daniel Little

Name	John Morrill

Born

28 MAR 1713[18]

Salisbury, Mass.

Married

(1) Abigail Flanders
(2) Edith Tirrell

Name	Thomas Morrill

Born

19 SEP 1715[19]

Salisbury, Mass.

Married

in Salisbury, Mass., 24 June 1740[20] to Elizabeth Severance. Elizabeth Severance was b. in Salisbury, Mass., 1715

Name	Ephraim Morrill

Born

9 DEC 1717[21]

Salisbury, Mass.

Died

ABT 1790

Married

Dorothy Hoyt

Name	Abigail Morrill

Born

27 JAN 1718/19[22]

Salisbury, Mass.

Married

in Salisbury, Mass., 25 April 1741[23] to Henry Lunt. Henry Lunt was b. in Newbury, Mass., 2 April 1714[24]; d. in Chester, N.H., February 1761

Name	Ruth Morrill

Born

9 NOV 1721[25]

Salisbury, Mass.

Married

in Salisbury, Mass., 13 March 1743/44[26] to Daniel Brown. Daniel Brown was b. in Salisbury, Mass., 12 December 1720[27]

Salisbury VR show a Ruth m. Jan. 5, 1748 to Jabez Tucker. Hoyt suggests Tucker "perhaps" married this Ruth, and perhaps married Ruth d. of Benjamin and Ruth (Allen) Morrill.

Name	Susanna Morrill

Born

10 JAN 1722/23[28]

Salisbury, Mass.

Died

ABT 1804

Married

in South Hampton, N.H., 25 January 1747/48[29] to Joseph Godfrey

Name	David Morrill

Born

1724[30]

Salisbury, Mass.

Died

ABT 1725

Salisbury, Mass.

Name	Sarah Morrill

Born

29 APR 1728[31]

Salisbury, Mass.

FOOTNOTES

[1][Anonymous], Vital Records of Salisbury, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Topsfield, MA: Topsfield Historical Society, 1915), 167.

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

[3]David W. Hoyt, Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts (Providence, R.I: Snow & Farnham, 1897), 256.

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

[5]ibid.

[6][Anonymous], Vital Records of Haverhill, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Topsfield, MA: Topsfield Historical Society, 1910), 1: 259.

[7]Salisbury VR (published) [note 1], 434.

[8]ibid., 243.

[9]ibid.

[10]County Clerk, Essex County Probate (Microfilm of original papers, Massachusetts Archives, Boston), 321: 95.

[11]Salisbury VR (published) [note 1], 594.

[12]ibid., 167.

[13]James Otis Lyford, History of the Town of Canterbury, New Hampshire, Volume 2 (Concord, N.H.: Rumford Press, 1912), 254.

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

[15][Anonymous], Vital Records of Methuen, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Topsfield, MA: Topsfield Historical Society, 1909), 329.

[16]Salisbury VR (published) [note 1], 168.

[17]Hampstead (New Hampshire) Town Clerk, [Hampstead, New Hampshire] Town Records, 1746-1867 (Salt Lake City: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1950).

[18]Salisbury VR (published) [note 1], 169.

[19]ibid., 176.

[20]ibid.

[21]ibid., 167.

[22]ibid., 162.

[23]ibid., 424.

[24][Anonymous], Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1911), 1: 296.

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

[26]ibid.

[27]ibid., 29.

[28]Salisbury VR (published) [note 1], 175.

[29]George A. Gordon, South Hampton, N.H. Church Records, NEHGS Register , 52: 428.

[30]Salisbury VR (published) [note 1], 165.

[31]ibid., 175.