Esther (Chase) Merrill (1674-abt.1751) | WikiTree FREE Family Tree

Esther Merrill formerly Chase

Born 18 Nov 1674 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Daughter of Aquila Chase II and Esther (Bond) Chase

Sister of Joseph Chase Sr, Anne (Chase) Folsom, Rebecca (Chase) Savory, Priscilla (Chase) Hills, Hannah (Chase) Hoyt, Abigail (Chase) Robinson, Benjamin Chase and Jemima (Chase) Ordway

Wife of Daniel Merrill Jr. — married before 5 Sep 1694 in Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Mother of Joseph Merrill, Daniel Merrill III, Abigail (Merrill) Hills, Judith (Merrill) Downer, Peter Merrill, Sarah (Merrill) Bartlett, Benjamin Merrill, Thomas Merrill, Enoch Merrill, Edmond Merrill and Moses Merrill SR

Died about 1751 at about age 76 in Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Biography

According to A Merrill Memorial^[1] . . . "Daniel Merrill was born 8 Mar. 1671/2, in Newbury, Mass. He married Esther Chase, daughter of Aquila and Esther (Bond) Chase of Newbury. She was born 18 Nov. 1674, and died in 1751. To his widow, jointly with his son Peter, administration on his estate^[2] was granted 29 Sept. 1725. All the children appear to have been living 2 Oct. 1751. Daniel Merrill was a member of the Congregational Church in West Newbury."

Marriage

Daniel Merrill and Esther Chase were married before 5th September 1694. ^[3]

Sources

↑ "A Merrill Memorial An Account of the Descendants of Nathaniel Merrill." Wikitree Space. Accessed 9 Mar. 2024.
↑ "Essex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1638-1881.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives.)." Daniel Merrill 1725. Accessed 9 Mar. 2024.
↑ "Lost babes : fornication abstracts from court records, Essex County, Massachusetts, 1692." 1745 : Sanborn, Melinde Lutz : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/lostbabesfornica00sanb. Accessed 9 Mar. 2024. Daniel Merrill & Hester Chase, now Married were fined 40s each for fornacation on September 5, 1694.

See also:

Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania: Genealogical and Personal Memoirs, Volume 3, John Woolf Jordan, Wilfred Jordan Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1911 Page 1387.
Genealogical Memoir of the Chase Family of Chesham [only mention of Esther is her birth on page 11]

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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Esther by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Esther: