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Kezia (Hardy) Merrill (1711 - 1783)

Kezia Merrill formerly Hardy
Born in Boxford, Essex County, Massachusettsmap
Ancestors ancestors
Wife of — married 27 May 1731 (to 18 Jan 1783) in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusettsmap
Descendants descendants
Died at age 71 in Boxford, Essex County, Massachusettsmap
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Biography

Kezia Hardy was born in 1711 in Boxford to Nathaniel Hardy and Prudence Hardy.[1] She married Stephen Merrill, of Amesbury, in 1731. [2] The couple settled initially in West Haverhill, where they recorded 3 children, before moving to Boxford for the rest, as follows:

  1. Asa, b. 30 June 1732 (Haverhill)
  2. Timothy, b. 4 Feb. 1733/34 (Haverhill)
  3. Elizabeth, b. 24 Oct. 1736 (Methuen); d. 1822
  4. Jesse, bpt. 7 Jan. 1738/39 (Boxford); d. 1816
  5. Richard, bpt. 9 Dec. 1744 (Boxford); d. 1799
  6. Stephen, bpt. 25 June 1749 (Boxford), and
  7. Mehitable, b. 14 June 1753 (Boxford).

She died in 1783 at Boxford, at age 71.[3]

Sources

  1. Vital Records of Boxford, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (Topsfield Historical Society, Topsfield, Mass., 1905)| Page 45
  2. Vital Records of Amesbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (The Topsfield Historical Society, Topsfield, Mass., 1913)| Page 421
  3. Vital Records of Boxford, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (Topsfield Historical Society, Topsfield, Mass., 1905)| Page 249

See Also:

  • Hardy and Hardie, Past and Present, Compiled by H. Claude Hardy and Rev. Edwin Noah Hardy, Syracuse Typesetting Co., 1935| Page 386, Person #36
  • A Merrill Memorial - an account of the descendants of Nathanial Merrill.




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