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Samuel
Merrill, 1928, reprint 1983
17
- Third Generation,
p 187-8
Abraham3
MERRILL (Abraham2)
was born 20 Sept. 1672, in Newbury, Mass., and died 26
Sept. 1744, in Amesbury, Mass., whither he removed about
1720. He was a deacon. (See next
page.) (See p. 88) He married (published
7 Oct. 1696, in Newbury) Abigail Bartlett, daughter of
Samuel and Elizabeth (Titcomb) Bartlett of Newbury. She
was born 14 Apr. 1674, in Newbury, and died 11 July, 1728,
in Amesbury. Children:
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Abraham4,
b. 23 Aug. 1698. |
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Abigail4,
b. 5 May, 1701, in Newbury; d. 13 Jan. |
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1736;
m. 4 Aug. 1730, her cousin Joseph Emery
of Andover, Mass., son of Joseph
and Elizabeth
(Merrill) Emery, who removed to
Pembroke,
(See 4,
p. 167.) N.H., and there died 12 July, 1776;
after her death Joseph Emery m.
(2) his
cousin Abigail Long, dau. of Shubael
and
Hannah (Merrill) Long, who d. 18
Jan. 1776,
(See 4,
p. 168.) in Pembroke. Children of Joseph and
Abigail (Merrill)
Emery:
Elizabeth; m.
Samuel Eames (or Eades) of (Emery)
Haverhill,
Mass.
Jacob; d. 16 Mar.
1777; grad. Harvard College
1761;
pastor Cong. church Pembroke;
m.
Elizabeth Cushing, dau. of Rev. James
Cushing
of Haverhill, Mass. Three ch. |
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Elizabeth4,
b. 2 May, 1705, in Newbury; m. (1) 10 |
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Oct.
1728, Nathaniel Whittier of Haverhill,
Mass., who was b. 8 Dec. 1700, and
d. 28 June,
1740; m. (2) 3 Dec. 1741, Jonathan
Marsh;
lived Haverhill. Children:
John. b. 22 Aug.
1729; d. Dec. 1735. (Whittier)
Abigail, 23 Aug.
1731; d. Dec. 1735.
Elizabeth, b.
3 July, 1733; d. Dec. 1735.
Nathaniel, b.
28 Nov. 1735.
John, b. 6 Apr.
1738. |
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Isaac4,
b. 25 Feb. 1707/8; d. Feb. 1787. |
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Jacob4,
b. 10 Feb. 1710/11; d. 3 June, 1735; |
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tradition
says accidentally shot. |
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Lydia4,
b. 23 Dec. 1713, in Newbury; d. 3 Mar. 1737/8, |
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in
Haverhill; m. 31 Mar. 1736, in Amesbury, Jacob
Ela (or Ely), son of John and Rachel
(Page)
Ela of Haverhill; he was b.1 Feb.
1711/12, and
d. 2 May, 1752; he m. (2) 1 Nov.
1738, Edna (Little)
Gale; lived Haverhill. Child: (Ela)
Abigail, b. 1737;
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Facsimile
of signature of Abraham3 Merrill. (From his
will, dated 22 July, 1735)
Abraham3
Merrill lived in the part of Amesbury known as Jamaco.
(See Merrill's History of Amesbury, p. 199.) It is now
the town of Merrimac.
Abraham3 Merrill of "Almsbury",
yeoman, by will dated 22 July, 1735, gave to his son Abraham4
fifty-four acres of land, with buildings, in Amesbury,
"where on my sd son lives;" also
land at "Country pond" in Amesbury, and land
in Kingston, N.H. To his daughters Abigail (Emery), Elizabeth
(Whittier) and Lydia he gave £ 105 each. To his
son Issac, whom he named as executor, he gave the residue
of his estate.
In August, 1708, Abraham3
Merrill was corporal in a company of Newbury men employed
in scouting and searching the woods on the north side
of the Merrimack for hostile French and Indians. He served
three weeks, and was paid £ 1, 7 s. - (Currier,
History of Newbury, pp. 536-9) He was a "snowshoe
man" in the company of Capt. Hugh March. (Ibid, p.
542.) S.M.
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