George P. Morrill of Canterbury, New Hampshire, received patent no. 207,671 for an improvement in the method of attaching tool heads such as hammers to the handle, issued September 3, 1878.

George P. Morrill enlisted on August 19, 1964 as a private for one year in Company I, First Ohio Light Artillery. He was discharged June 13, 1865. [6]

Additional information available.[7]

[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]1880 US Census , Canterbury NH, p. 70C.

[3]James Otis Lyford, History of the Town of Canterbury, New Hampshire, Volume 2 (Concord, N.H.: Rumford Press, 1912), 259.

[4]NEHGS Register , 81: 151.

[5]Lyford, Hist. of Canterbury NH 2 [note 3], 259.

[6][Anonymous], Revised register of the soldiers and sailors of New Hampshire in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1866 (Concord: I.C. Evans, 1895), 1067.

[7]Annie Morrill Smith, Morrill Kindred in America, Volume 2 (New York: Grafton Press, 1931), 236. See also Ezra S. Stearns, Geneological and Family History of the State of New Hampshire (New York, Chicago: Lewis Publishing, 1908), 715.

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

[10]Lyford, Hist. of Canterbury NH 2 [note 3], 259.

[11]ibid., 259.

[12]ibid., 259.

[13]ibid., 259.

[14]ibid., 259.

[15]ibid., 259.

[16]ibid., 259.

[17]ibid., 259.