Henry Morrill and Eleanor Currier

Index

Husband

Col. Henry Morrill

Born

20 JUN 1731[1]

Salisbury, Mass.

Died

20 OCT 1778[2]

Salisbury, Mass.

Father

Aaron Morrill

Mother

Joanna (Dow) Heath

Married

5 OCT 1756[3]

Amesbury, Mass.

Wife	Eleanor Currier

Born

2 NOV 1731[4]

Amesbury, Mass.

Died

SEP 1817[5]

Salisbury, Mass.

Father

Ezekiel Currier

Mother

Mehitable Morrill

Henry Morrill of Salisbury was a Captain in Col. Caleb Cushing's regiment, which marched April 20, 1775 in response to the alarm of April 19. By 1776, he was Lieutenant Colonel, Col. Timothy Pickering's regiment, and later under col. Jacob Gerrish's regiment. He was on a muster roll of field and staff officers at Winter Hill, January 22, 1778. [6]

CHILDREN

Name	Capt. Ezekiel Morrill

Born

15 OCT 1756[7]

Salisbury, Mass.

Died

NOV 1793[8]

At Sea

Married

in Salisbury, Mass., 14 May 1778[9] to Elizabeth March. Elizabeth March d. in Salisbury, Mass., 27 May 1789[10]

The death notice of Ezekiel Morrill reads as follows: "Died on his passage from Hispaniola to Philadelphia. Capt. Ezekiel Morrill of Amesbury. His reputation for every social virtue is so well established among Friends, that it needs no newspaper panegyrick. He was a good citizen, an honest man, and ever distinguished in the line of the militia as a brave officer and good soldier." [11]

Name	William Morrill

Born

16 APR 1760[12]

Salisbury, Mass.

Died

4 MAY 1846[13]

Salisbury, Mass.

Married

Sarah Pidgeon

Name	Mehitable Morrill

Born

29 MAY 1762[14]

Salisbury, Mass.

Died

14 FEB 1801[15]

Salisbury, Mass.

Married

in Salisbury, Mass., 22 November 1781[16] to Jacob Brown. Jacob Brown d. in Salisbury, Mass., 19 January 1834[17]

Name	Levi Morrill

Born

15 OCT 1764[18]

Salisbury, Mass.

Died

19 FEB 1858[19]

Salisbury, N.H.

Married

Mary Bagley

Name	Capt. Ephraim Morrill

Born

24 AUG 1767[20]

Salisbury, Mass.

Died

24 SEP 1831[21]

Amesbury, Mass.

Married

Polly Barnard

Name	Mary Morrill

Born

22 AUG 1770[22]

Salisbury, Mass.

Died

ABT 1810

Married

in Salisbury, Mass., 2 January 1796[23] to James Osgood

Name	Eleanor Morrill

Born

7 APR 1773[24]

Salisbury, Mass.

Died

12 NOV 1810

Will

12 NOV 1810, proved 9 January 1811[25]

FOOTNOTES

[1][Anonymous], Vital Records of Salisbury, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Topsfield, MA: Topsfield Historical Society, 1915), 168.

[2]Salisbury VR (published) [note 1], 593.

[3][Anonymous], Vital Records of Amesbury, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Topsfield, MA: Topsfield Historical Society, 1913), 425.

[4]Amesbury VR (published) [note 3], 74.

[5]The Repertory (Boston, MA), 18 September 1817, p. 2.

[6]Secretary of the Commonwealth, Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution , 11: 55.

[7]Salisbury VR (published) [note 1], 167.

[8]Salem Gazette (Salem, MA), 12/2/1793, p. 3. "On his passage from Hispaniola to Philadelphia."

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

[10]ibid.

[11]Newburyport, MA, Impartial Herald , November 22, 1792, page 3.

[12]Salisbury VR (published) [note 1], 176.

[13]ibid.

[14]ibid., 172.

[15]ibid., 533.

[16]ibid.

[17]ibid., 532.

[18]ibid., 171.

[19]Cemetery Transcriptions from the NEHGS Manuscript Collections (Electronic database at www.nehgs.org).

[20]Salisbury VR (published) [note 1], 167.

[21]ibid.

[22]ibid., 171.

[23]ibid., 432.

[24]ibid., 166.

[25]Katharine L. Morrill, Morrill Genealogies (Handwritten manuscript, 1903, New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord NH), 42. Names her mother and all her siblings.