Moses Merrill (1737 - bef. 1790)

Born 9 Jun 1737 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Phebe (Coffin) Merrill — married 7 Apr 1757 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

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Biography

Moses Merrill was born on June 9, 1737, in Newbury, Massachusetts. He was the son of Nathan Merrill and Dorothy Carr.^[1][2]

Moses lived in North Yarmouth and Freeport, Maine. He married Phebe Coffin on April 7, 1757.^[3] They had several children.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29G-P44Q : 10 November 2020), Moses Merrill, 9 Jun 1737; citing Birth, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009725.
2. ↑ Merrill, 273, 385
3. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHLK-2MH : 10 November 2020), Moses Merrill, 7 Apr 1757; citing Marriage, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009725.
4. ↑ Merrill, 385

• Merrill, Samuel. A Merrill memorial : an account of the descendants of Nathaniel Merrill, an early settler of Newbury, Massachusetts. Cambridge, Mass.: unknown, 1917-1928. pp. 273, 385, Person ID #1092
• COFFIN GATHERINGS: Five Generations of Descendants of Tristram Coffin of Newbury and Nantucket, By W. S. Appleton. Boston: Press of David Clapp & Son, 1896, p 7. [An outgrowth of the anniversary meeting of the Coffin family at Nantucket in 1881.]

• Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011), Ancestry.com, Record for Phebe Coffin. http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=2495&h=14107432&indiv=try.
• Barney Genealogical Record, Nantucket Historical Association Research Library. Personal page - 530.