Offline Resources

• The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Mass., with Related Families of Newbury, Haverhill, Ipswich, and Hampton, David Webster Hoyt. Published in four volumes, 1897, 1902, 1916, and 1919. Available at amazon.com.
  
  This is a meticulously researched work that includes the genealogy of the first eight generations of Morrills descended from Abraham Morrill, based on rare and early original documents. The book Morrill Kindred based its first eight generations on the work of Hoyt. There are few if any errors in this work, and I consider it authoritative on the subject. Most of its information is incorporated into this site.
  
  
• Morrill Kindred in America, Annie Morrill Smith (Lyons Genological Company, 1914). Available from higginsonbooks.com.
  
  This book chronicles several thousand Morrills and their families, through at least 1900. Though it is certainly not complete or error free, it is probably the single best compiled genealogy of the descendents of Abraham Morrill.
  
  
• Morrill Lineage, Lois Fooshee Williamson (Augusta, GA; 1980).
  
  
• Morrell Morrill Families Association Newsletter, Ann Lisa Pearson (1981-1989).
  
  This is a great resource, not only for new family connections, but also for background on English roots, on the surname, and on the coat of arms.(I am missing volumes 5 and 6, can anyone offer copies?)
  
  
• History of Amesbury, Joseph Merrill, 1880.
  
  This book contains no geneological information. It does chronicle the founding years of Salisbury, where Abraham Morrill lived and where so many generations of his descendents lived. It is invaluable for its references to the first settlers of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts, including Abraham Morrill, and for providing a picture of life in those early years.
  
  

• By the Name of Morrill, 1632-1987, Madeline L. Witter (White Birch Printing, Inc., 1987?). Apparently not available except through libraries.

• American Ancestry of Benjamin Morrill and his wife, Miriam Pecker Morrill, Of Salisbury, Mass., and their descendents to 1901. Horace Edwin Morrill (Dayton, Ohio, 1903). On file in Library of Congress.
  
  
• The Ancestry of Daniel Morrell of Hartford, with his descendants and some contemporary families. Francis V. Morrill (Hartford, Conn., 1916)
  
  
• Hibbard Morrill and his descendents 1640-1910. Betsey Morrill Spencer (Middlebury, Vermont Press of Seymour Brothers, 1910). On file in Library of Congress.
  
  
• Old Kittery and Her Families, E. S. Stackpole (1903, reprinted by New England History Press, 1981). Early descendents of John Morrell of Kittery.
  
  
• Boston Transcript Newspaper. In a series of articles by Ethel Morrell McCollister starting in June 1936, hundreds of descendents of John Morrell of Kittery are documented.
  
  
• Passengers on the Lion from England to Boston, 1632, and Five Generations of their Descendants, by Sandra Sutphin Olney (1992), 2 volumes. Available from lineages.com.
  
  
• The Morrills of the seventeenth century, and the first generation of the eighteenth, in America., E. D. Morrill (Camden, Ala., Printed by E. D. Morrill, 1886).
  
  This is a one page illustration of some of the main lines of descent from Abraham Morrill of Salisbury. In his book, Charles Henry Morrill reprinted a portion of it, adding his own ancestry. Charles Henry Morrill claimed that E. D. Morrill had researched over 10,000 descendents, however if this is true there is no reminant of it.