Biographical review : containing life sketches of leading citizens of Strafford and Belknap countries, New Hampshire . Merrill has been ob-tained by him from General Lewis Merrill,U. S. A., of Philadelphia. In HubbardsHistory of New England it is stated thatthe plantation at Agawam (Ipswich) was fromthe first year of its being raised to a townshipso filled with inhabitants that some of thempresently swarmed out into another place, alittle further eastward . . and called it New-berry (Newbury). Among them were Na-thaniel and John Merrill and the reverendand learned Mr. Parker. This was about163
Biographical review : containing life sketches of leading citizens of Strafford and Belknap countries, New Hampshire . Merrill has been ob-tained by him from General Lewis Merrill,U. S. A., of Philadelphia. In HubbardsHistory of New England it is stated thatthe plantation at Agawam (Ipswich) was fromthe first year of its being raised to a townshipso filled with inhabitants that some of thempresently swarmed out into another place, alittle further eastward . . and called it New-berry (Newbury). Among them were Na-thaniel and John Merrill and the reverendand learned Mr. Parker. This was about1634-35, the company having wintered inIpswich. In the town records of Newbury,under date of January 11, 1644, appears thename of James Merrill as selecting lot , and Abraham Merrill selecting lot ; and under date of March 17, 1642, in alist of freeholders is the name of John Mer-rill, brother of Nathaniel. These early pro-genitors were the first and the only persons ofthe name so far as known to emigrate to thiscountry. Later on, members of the family tookactive part, as American patriots, in the French. JOHN F. MERRILL. BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 565 and Iiuliaii and in the Revolutionary War. Itis recorded that Samuel Merrill, born at Salis-bury, Mass., August 4, 1728, was serving as asoldier under the command of Captain ThomasBradbury in 1748, being stationed at theblock-house, which was situated below UnionFalls. He also served in the RevolutionaryWar, being Lieutenant of the conijiany com-manded by Jeremiah Hill, Ksq., at the battleof Bunker Hill. In 1747 he married Eliza-beth, daughter of Captain Thomas died at his home at Salmon Falls, Buxton,Me., May 4, 1822. The traditional history of the Merrill familydates back to the time of the crusades, whenthe name was spelled De Merle. Its memberswere of Norman descent, and were residents ofthe north of France, whence, after sufferingpersecution because of their Huguenot proclivi-ties, they fled to Scotland, and even
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