At the time of his marriage, Ashley C. Morrill was an attorney in Boston. Within a few years, he and his wife Sophia removed with Sophia's mother and two brothers to Minnesota. Ashley C. Morrill was the Indian Agent (with Minnesota Governor Alexander Ramsey) who negotiated the Treaty with the Chippewa in 1863 at the Old Crossing of Red Lake River in Minnesota. By the time of the 1870 census, Ashley lists his occupation as a manufacturer.

[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]Farmer's Cabinet (Amherst, NH), 4 August 1837, p. 3. "Mr. Morrill as filled many offices of responsibility in this state, and for the three years last past, has been a member of the Executive Council."

[3]James Otis Lyford, History of the Town of Canterbury, New Hampshire, Volume 2 (Concord, N.H.: Rumford Press, 1912), 264.

[4]Lyford, Hist. of Canterbury NH 2 [note 3], 264.

[5]1850 US Census , Canterbury NH, p. 209.

[6]Lyford, Hist. of Canterbury NH 2 [note 3], 264.

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

[8]Lyford, Hist. of Canterbury NH 2 [note 3], 265.

[9]ibid., 265.

[10]N.H. Index to births, electronic library [note 1], 265.

[11]Lyford, Hist. of Canterbury NH 2 [note 3], 265.

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

[13]Lyford, Hist. of Canterbury NH 2 [note 3], 264.

[14]ibid., 264.

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

[16]1870 US Census , 4th Ward St. Anthony MN, p. 688.

[17]Lyford, Hist. of Canterbury NH 2 [note 3], 264.

[18]Massachusetts Vital Records 1841-1910 Database (Electronic Database: NewEnglandAncestors.org), 110: 90.

[19]Lyford, Hist. of Canterbury NH 2 [note 3], 264.

[20]ibid., 264.

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