While residing in Atkinson, New Hampshire, John Morrill enlisted as a private in the Revolutionary War. He served between November 1776 and August 1777 in the New Hampshire Regiment commanded by Col. Pierce Long. He participated in the battle at Fort Ann. In his own words, "I am by occupation a farmer, my health poor having the Rheumatism very badly, am able to work about half of my time." Having no children with him to help him farm, "I have been confined in jail for debt several times within ten years." In 1805 he was living in Newbury, Vermont. In 1807 he moved to Landaff, New Hampshire. In 1819 he moved to Haverhill, New Hampshire. In 1831 he moved to Landaff, New Hampshire. [7]

Simeon Morrill was Mayor of London, Ontario, Canada. [14]

[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]Mrs. Charles Carpenter Goss, Colonial Gravestone Inscriptions in the State of New Hampshire (1942 reprint, Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1974), 17.

[3]Date and place derived from Revolutionary War Pension Application.

[4]Goss, NH Colonial Gravestone Inscriptions [note 2], 17. See also N.H. Index to births, electronic library [note 1].

[6]Goss, NH Colonial Gravestone Inscriptions [note 2], 17.

[7]Records of the Veterans Administration, Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application (National Archives Microfilm Publication M805), Roll 599, File W24016.

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

[9]ibid.

[10]ibid.

[11]ibid.

[12]ibid.

[13]Date derived from Revolutionary War Pension Application for John Morrill.

[14]Ann Lisa Pearson, Morrill/Morrell Families Association Newsletter , Vol VII, No 3, p. 363.

[15]Date derived from Revolutionary War Pension Application for John Morrill.

[16]Date derived from Revolutionary War Pension Application for John Morrill.