At the age of 43, Jacob M. Morrill enlisted on October 6, 1862 in Company D, Sixteenth Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, as a private. He mustered out August 20, 1863. [6]

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

[2]1850 US Census , Hopkinton NH, p. 141. Parents of Jacob were both born in Massachusetts. Might be son of Joseph and Permelia (Martin) Morrill, brother of Ebenezer who lived next door.

[3]NEHGS Cemetary Transcriptions [note 1].

[4]ibid.

[5]ibid.

[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), 781.

[7]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).

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

[9]NEHGS Cemetary Transcriptions [note 1].

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

[11]NEHGS Cemetary Transcriptions [note 1].

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

[13]NEHGS Cemetary Transcriptions [note 1].

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

[15]NEHGS Cemetary Transcriptions [note 1].

[16]ibid.

[17]ibid.