Some time in the 1750s, Paul Morrill was granted 500 acres in Chichester, New Hampshire, and became an early settler of what was then a vast wilderness.

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

[2]Ezra S. Stearns, Geneological and Family History of the State of New Hampshire (New York, Chicago: Lewis Publishing, 1908), 713.

[3]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).

[4]North Star (Danville VT; Transcribed by Janice Boyko), 5 April 1825.

[5]George A. Gordon, South Hampton, N.H. Church Records, NEHGS Register , 53: 165.

[6]New Hampshire Patriot & State Gazette (Concord, NH), 28 April 1828, p. 3. "In Danville, VT. Mr. Isaac Morrill, aged 85."

[7]South Hampton Church Records (published) [note 5], 53: 166.

[8]New Hampshire Patriot & State Gazette (Concord, NH), 12 August 1841, p. 3. "He was the oldest man in town, and settled on the same farm where he died, in 1769, having lived there upwards of 71 years."

[9]South Hampton Church Records (published) [note 5], 53: 166.

[10]ibid., 53: 167.

[11]New Hampshire Patriot & State Gazette (Concord, NH), 9 May 1820, p. 3. "In Danville, Vt. Mr. Paul Morrill, 71; leaving eight brothers and two sisters."

[12]South Hampton Church Records (published) [note 5], 53: 168.

[13]ibid., 53: 275.

[14][Anonymous], Vital Records of Newburyport, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1911), 2: 722.

[15]South Hampton Church Records (published) [note 5], 53: 276.

[16]ibid., 53: 277.

[17]Mrs. Charles Carpenter Goss, Colonial Gravestone Inscriptions in the State of New Hampshire (1942 reprint, Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1974), 36.

[18]N.H. Index to births, electronic library [note 3].

[19]Annie Morrill Smith, Morrill Kindred in America, Volume 2 (New York: Grafton Press, 1931), 38.

[20]N.H. Index to births, electronic library [note 3].

[21]North Star (Danville VT; Transcribed by Janice Boyko), 14 January 1833. age 71

[22]Katharine L. Morrill, Morrill Genealogies (Handwritten manuscript, 1903, New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord NH), 30.

[23]Katharine L. Morrill manuscript [note 22], 30.