In 1870, Leonard Morrill is found living in Salisbury with John and Sarah Sanborn but without the rest of his family.

Leonard Morrill of Amesbury enlisted as a Private on 1 August 1862 at the age of 29 in Company I, 1st Heavy Artillery Regiment Massachusetts. He mustered out on 8 July 1864 and then reenlisted on 29 August 1864 in Company 29th, Unattached Heavy Artillery Regiment Massachusetts. He mustered out again on 16 June 1865. [6]

[1][Anonymous], Vital Records of Salisbury, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Topsfield, MA: Topsfield Historical Society, 1915), 170.

[2]1870 US Census , Salisbury MA, p. 783b.

[3]Annie Morrill Smith, Morrill Kindred in America, Volume 2 (New York: Grafton Press, 1931), 164.

[4]Massachusetts Vital Records 1841-1910 Database (Electronic Database: NewEnglandAncestors.org), 135: 137.

[5]Date and place derived from record of marriage.

[6]Historical Data Systems, American Civil War Soldiers (Electronic database at http://www.ancestry.com).

[7]Mass. Vital Records 1841-1910 (electronic library) [note 4], 132: 178.

[8]ibid., 150: 170.