William Morrill was a merchant in Boston. He had a store at 45 Market Square, then in 1793 moved to 9 Marlborough Street. He sold broadcloth and fabric of all varieties, clothes, hats, shoes, hardware, cookware and crockery, and a wide assortment of other items, [6]

[1]Annie Morrill Smith, Morrill Kindred in America, Volume 2 (New York: Grafton Press, 1931), 15.

[2]Smith, Morrill Kindred II [note 1], 41.

[3]Boston (Massachusetts) City Registrar, Report of the Record Commissioners of the city of Boston containing the Selectmen's minutes (Electronic database at www.familysearch.org).

[4]Date inferred from age at death.

[5]Robert J. Dunkle and Ann S. Lainhart, Inscriptions and Records of the Old Cemeteries of Boston (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2000), 487.

[6]Columbian Centinel (Boston, MA), July 20, 1793, p. 4.

[7]Date inferred from age at death.

[8]Robert J. Dunkle and Ann S. Lainhart, Inscriptions and Records of the Old Cemeteries of Boston (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2000), 487.

[9]Date and place derived from 1850 census.

[10]1850 US Census , Methuen, MA, p. 275.

[11]Smith, Morrill Kindred II [note 1], 41.

[12]ibid., 41.

[13]Date and place derived from 1850 census.

[14]Massachusetts Vital Records 1841-1910 Database (Electronic Database: NewEnglandAncestors.org), 256: 301.

[15]Date inferred from age at death.

[16]Robert J. Dunkle and Ann S. Lainhart, Inscriptions and Records of the Old Cemeteries of Boston (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2000), 487. "Unmarried"

[17]Smith, Morrill Kindred II [note 1], 92.