In a letter filed with the court on behalf of Joseph Morrill by his children in October 1847 shortly after he died, the Revolutionary War record was established. Joseph Morrill enlisted at Gilmanton in February 1781 for six months. He served four of those months as a private and was discharged early due to poor health. He later reenlisted for an additional six months and served the full term. The papers give the name of his wife as Martha Bean, and name the living children Polly Morrill, Hannah Morrill, David Morrill, and Joseph Morrill. [The fact that the eldest living son is named David in the letter rather than Daniel is a discrepancy that remains unexplained at the current time.] [5]

[1]David W. Hoyt, Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts (Providence, R.I: Snow & Farnham, 1897), 779.

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

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

[4]Date and place derived from Revolutionary War Pension Application of husband Joseph Morrill.

[5]Records of the Veterans Administration, Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application (National Archives Microfilm Publication M805), Roll 599, File R7399.

[6]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).

[7]N.H. Index to births, electronic library [note 6].

[8]ibid.

[9]ibid.

[10]ibid.

[11]Daniel G. Morrill Bible (Morrell, Morrill Families Association Newsletter 3(1)), 13.

[12]No record of the birth of Joseph Morrill is known to exist. However, he is the author of his father Joseph's Revolutionary War Pension Application and lists himself among the other living children.