Isaac Morrill and Dorothy Ruggles

Index

Husband

Rev. Isaac Morrill

Born

20 MAY 1718[1]

Salisbury, Mass.

Died

17 AUG 1793[2]

Wilmington, Mass.

Will

29 SEP 1791[3]

Father

Dea. Isaac Morrill

Mother

Abigail Brown

Married

4 AUG 1743[4]

Billerica, Mass.

Other spouses

(1) Mary Ayer

Wife	Dorothy Ruggles

Born

7 JAN 1721/22[5]

Billerica, Mass.

Died

20 MAY 1804[6]

Wilmington, Mass.

Father

Rev. Samuel Ruggles

Mother

Elizabeth Whiting

Isaac Morrill graduated Harvard College in September 1740 with a Master of Arts degree. [7]

Isaac was minister at Wilmington, Massachusetts for more than 50 years between 1741-1793.

The will of Isaac Morrill names wife Dorothy, sons Isaac, James, Eliakim, William, Nathaniel, daughters Elizabeth Ford wife of Cadwallader Ford, Dorothy, and Abigail. Also names grandsons David and Samuel. Dorothy and Abigail are single at the time of the codicil Jan. 16, 1792.

Dorothy Ruggles is a direct descendant of Thomas Dudley, governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony 1630-1633, through Samuel4, Martha3 Woodbridge, Mercy2 Dudley, Thomas1. Thomas Dudley is a direct descendant of William I the Conqueror, and therefore also King Henry II and King John I. Descendants of Dorothy Ruggles may claim royal and noble ancestry. [8]

CHILDREN

Name	Samuel Morrill

Born

21 APR 1744[9]

Wilmington, Mass.

Died

21 SEP 1785[10]

Epping, N.H.

Married

Anna Lawrence

Name	Elizabeth Morrill

Born

1 JUN 1746[11]

Wilmington, Mass.

Died

6 AUG 1804[12]

Wilmington, Mass.

Married

in Wilmington, Mass., 23 May 1776[13] to Cadwallader Ford. Cadwallader Ford was b. in Ireland, 27 November 1743; d. in Wilmington, Mass., 15 October 1804[14]

Name	Isaac Morrill

Born

13 AUG 1748[15]

Wilmington, Mass.

Died

5 MAY 1839[16]

Natick, Mass.

Married

Mary Mann

Name	James Morrill

Born

8 FEB 1750/51[17]

Wilmington, Mass.

Died

3 APR 1833[18]

Boston, Mass.

Married

Mary Glover

Name	Eliakim Morrill

Born

2 JAN 1753[19]

Wilmington, Mass.

Died

13 AUG 1824[20]

Dedham, Mass.

Married

Ruth Russell

Name	William Morrill

Born

22 MAR 1755[21]

Wilmington, Mass.

Died

18 JAN 1827[22]

Boston, Mass.

Married

Elizabeth Foster

Name	Nathaniel Morrill

Born

22 APR 1757[23]

Wilmington, Mass.

Died

23 OCT 1828[24]

Wilmington, Mass.

Married

Hannah Jaquith

Name	Dorothy Morrill

Born

13 JUL 1760[25]

Wilmington, Mass.

Married

2 August 1814[26] to Joel Jenkins. Joel Jenkins was b. in Wilmington, Mass., 23 September 1757[27]; m. (1) 13 June 1784[28] to Elizabeth Walker

Name	Son Morrill

Born

22 APR 1763[29]

Wilmington, Mass.

Died

22 APR 1763[30]

Wilmington, Mass.

Name	Abigail Morrill

Born

19 MAY 1765[31]

Wilmington, Mass.

Died

3 DEC 1851[32]

Wilmington, Mass.

Name	Phebe Morrill

Born

17 JUL 1768[33]

Wilmington, Mass.

Died

29 MAR 1790[34]

Wilmington, Mass.

FOOTNOTES

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

[2]James Edward Kelley, Wilmington records of births, marriages, and deaths from 1730 to 1898 (Lowell MA: Thomson & Hill, 1898), 238.

[3]Annie Morrill Smith, Morrill Kindred in America, Volume 1 (New York: Lyons Genealogical Company, 1914), 64.

[4][Anonymous], Vital Records of Billerica, Massachusetts, to the year 1850 (Boston MA: Wright & Potter, 1908).

[5]Billerica VR (published) [note 4], 166.

[6]Wilmington VR (published) [note 2], 238.

[7]Boston Post Boy (Boston, MA), September 1, 1740, p. 3.

[8]Marston Watson, Royal Families: Americans of royal and noble ancestry. Volume 1: Governor Thomas Dudley and Descendents (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Pub. Co., 2002).

[9]Wilmington VR (published) [note 2], 59.

[10]Katharine L. Morrill, Morrill Genealogies (Handwritten manuscript, 1903, New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord NH), 52.

[11]Wilmington VR (published) [note 2], 59.

[12]ibid., 224.

[13]ibid., 164.

[14]ibid., 224.

[15]ibid., 59.

[16]Barre Gazette (Barre, MA), 24 May 1839, p. 3.

[17]Wilmington VR (published) [note 2], 59.

[18]Robert J. Dunkle and Ann S. Lainhart, Inscriptions and Records of the Old Cemeteries of Boston (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2000), 432.

[19]Wilmington VR (published) [note 2], 59.

[20]Vital Records of Dedham, MA 1635 - 1845 , 437.

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

[22]Smith, Morrill Kindred II [note 21], 41.

[23]Wilmington VR (published) [note 2], 59.

[24]Smith, Morrill Kindred II [note 21], 42.

[25]Wilmington VR (published) [note 2], 59.

[26]NEHGS Register , 66: 321.

[27]ibid., 66: 321.

[28]ibid., 66: 321.

[29]Wilmington VR (published) [note 2].

[30]ibid.

[31]ibid., 59.

[32]ibid., 169.

[33]ibid., 59.

[34]ibid., 238.