Sargent Morrill went with his brother Abraham and several siblings of his wife Ruth to help found Danville, Vermont, and later founded Wheelock, Vermont. [8]

In 1775 shortly after the battle at Lexington, Sargent Morrill enlisted as a private in the Revolutionary War at Canterbury, New Hampshire. He served his term through that winter, reenlisted in the Spring of 1776 and served several more months. The pension application was filed in 1832, by which time Sargent Morrill was a resident of Napoli, New York. [9]

[1]James Otis Lyford, History of the Town of Canterbury, New Hampshire, Volume 2 (Concord, N.H.: Rumford Press, 1912), 255.

[2]1790 US Census , Danville VT, p. 194. At the time there were six members of the family, three male and three female.

[3]1820 US Census , Little Valley NY, p. 19. This area would become Napoli a few years later. There are five males and two females.

[4]South Napoli Cemetary Transcriptions (Electronic database at http://www.accessgenealogy.com/cemetery/newyork.htm).

[5]New Hampshire, Registrar of Vital Statistics, [New Hampshire] Index to marriages, early to 1900 (Salt Lake City: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1975-6).

[6][Anonymous], Vital Records of Amesbury, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Topsfield, MA: Topsfield Historical Society, 1913).

[7]South Napoli Cemetary Transcriptions (Electronic database at http://www.accessgenealogy.com/cemetery/newyork.htm).

[8]Annie Morrill Smith, Morrill Kindred in America, Volume 2 (New York: Grafton Press, 1931), 61.

[9]Records of the Veterans Administration, Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application (National Archives Microfilm Publication M805), Roll 599, File S11090.

[10]Transcription of cemetary at Leon Illinois.

[11]Transcription of cemetary at Leon Illinois.

[12]Date derived from age at death.

[13]Tombstone inscription, Hopkins Cemetery, Centerville, New York. The cemetery sits on private property about 1000 feet from Rushford Road.

[14]Date inferred from age at death.

[15]Tombstone inscription, Hopkins Cemetery, Centerville, New York. The cemetery sits on private property about 1000 feet from Rushford Road.