Moses Morrill and Hannah Jordan

Index

Husband

Rev. Moses Morrill

Born

1 MAY 1719[1]

Salisbury, Mass.

Died

9 FEB 1778[2]

Biddeford, Maine

Father

Capt. John Morrill

Mother

Mary Stevens

Married

1 DEC 1743[3]

Biddeford, Maine

Wife	Hannah Jordan

Born

8 MAY 1726

Biddeford, Maine

Resided

1850[4]

Bangor, Maine

Father

Samuel Jordan

Mother

Olive Plaisted

Moses Morrill graduated from Harvard College in September 1740 with a Master of Arts degree. [5]

By 1742 Moses Morrill became the minister at Biddeford, Maine, where he remained for many years.

CHILDREN

Name	Samuel Jordan Morrill

Born

9 DEC 1744[6]

Biddeford, Maine

Died

ABT 1783

Married

in Biddeford, Maine, 1 January 1781[7] to Sarah Allen. Sarah Allen was b. in Salisbury, Mass., 14 February 1741/42[8]; d. in South Berwick, Maine, 24 August 1825[9]; m. (2) in Berwick, Maine, 9 February 1784[10] to John Thomson

Name	John Morrill

Born

23 NOV 1746[11]

Biddeford, Maine

Died

5 AUG 1838[12]

Limerick, Maine

Married

Catherine Adams

Name	Col. Joseph Morrill

Born

5 FEB 1747/48[13]

Biddeford, Maine

Died

1840[14]

Saco, Maine

Married

Mary Jordan

Name	Sarah Morrill

Born

12 MAY 1751[15]

Biddeford, Maine

Name	Hannah Morrill

Born

23 SEP 1753[16]

Biddeford, Maine

Died

25 MAY 1790[17]

Portland, Maine

Married

in Biddeford, Maine, 24 December 1772[18] to John Storer

Name	Olive Morrill

Born

16 NOV 1755[19]

Biddeford, Maine

Died

30 JUL 1833[20]

Limerick, Maine

Name	Mary Morrill

Born

23 APR 1758[21]

Biddeford, Maine

Married

in Biddeford, Maine, 1 January 1781[22] to William Allen

Name	Elizabeth Morrill

Born

20 JUL 1760[23]

Biddeford, Maine

Name	Tristram Morrill

Born

8 AUG 1762[24]

Biddeford, Maine

Died

ABT 1763

Name	Abigail Morrill

Born

13 AUG 1763[25]

Biddeford, Maine

Name	Tristram Morrill

Born

27 APR 1766[26]

Biddeford, Maine

Died

1844[27]

Biddeford, Maine

Married

(1) Catherine McClintock
(2) Elizabeth Whitten

Name	Nahum Morrill

Born

4 DEC 1768[28]

Biddeford, Maine

Died

19 FEB 1838[29]

Wells, Maine

Married

Sarah Littlefield

Name	Capt. Moses Morrill

Born

18 FEB 1776[30]

Biddeford, Maine

Died

21 AUG 1802[31]

Wells, Maine

Married

Mercy Bourne

FOOTNOTES

[1][Anonymous], Vital Records of Salisbury, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Topsfield, MA: Topsfield Historical Society, 1915), 173.

[2]A. K. P. Meserve, Records of the First Congregational Church in Biddeford, Historical & Genealogical Recorder , V(4): 206.

[3]Meserve, Rec. of 1st Cong. Church, Biddeford ME [note 2], VI(1): 293.

[4]1850 US Census , Bangor ME, p. 72.

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

[6]Meserve, Rec. of 1st Cong. Church, Biddeford ME [note 2], VI(2): 337.

[7]Maine 1743-1891 Marriage Index (Electronic database at www.genealogy.com). Samuel Jordan is referred to as Jordan

[8]Salisbury VR (published) [note 1].

[9]Joseph Crook Anderson, Maine Families in 1790 (Rockport, ME: Picton Press, 1988), 4: 284.

[10]ibid., 4: 284.

[11]Meserve, Rec. of 1st Cong. Church, Biddeford ME [note 2], VI(2): 338.

[12]Maine Cemetary Inscriptions, York County (Camden ME: Picton Press, 1995), 2: 1162.

[13]Meserve, Rec. of 1st Cong. Church, Biddeford ME [note 2], VI(2): 340.

[14]David W. Hoyt, Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts (Providence, R.I: Snow & Farnham, 1897), 789.

[15]Meserve, Rec. of 1st Cong. Church, Biddeford ME [note 2], VI(4): 494.

[16]ibid., VI(4): 497.

[17]Cumberland Gazette (Portland, ME), June 7, 1790, p. 3.

[18]Maine 1743-1891 Marriage Index (Electronic database at www.genealogy.com).

[19]Meserve, Rec. of 1st Cong. Church, Biddeford ME [note 2], VI(4): 499.

[20]Maine Cemetary Inscriptions, York County (Camden ME: Picton Press, 1995), 2: 1162.

[21]Meserve, Rec. of 1st Cong. Church, Biddeford ME [note 2], VII(1): 10.

[22]Maine 1743-1891 Marriage Index (Electronic database at www.genealogy.com).

[23]Meserve, Rec. of 1st Cong. Church, Biddeford ME [note 2], VII(1): 13.

[24]ibid., VII(2): 83.

[25]ibid., VII(2): 83.

[26]ibid., VII(2): 85.

[27]Maine Cemetary Inscriptions, York County (Camden ME: Picton Press, 1995), 1: 222.

[28]Meserve, Rec. of 1st Cong. Church, Biddeford ME [note 2], VII(2): 87.

[29]Lester MacKenzie Bragdon, Inscriptions from Gravestones at Wells, ME, NEHGS 92 , 340.

[30]Meserve, Rec. of 1st Cong. Church, Biddeford ME [note 2], VII(4): 184.

[31]Inscriptions at Wells, Maine [note 29], 340. "Died at sea."