Abraham Merrill (1707 - 1760)

Born 29 May 1707 in Newberry, Essex, Massachusetts

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Died 1760 at about age 52 in Manchester, New Hampshire

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Biography

Born in Newberry, Essex, Massachusetts, USA on 1707 to Jonathan Merrill and Mary Brown. Abraham married Mehitable Stevens and had 10 children. He passed away on 1760 in Manchester, New Hampshire, USA.

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• http://records.ancestry.ca/abraham_merrill_records.ashx?pid=33232076

A Merrill Memorial: An Account of the Descendants of Nathaniel Merrill, An Early Settler of Newbury

#76 Abraham 4 Merrill (Johnathan 3, Abraham 2) was born 29 May, 1707 in Newbury, Mass. He lived in Haverhill, Mass., and Plaistow and Derryfield (now Manchester), NH. Sergeant. About 1745 he settled at Merrill's Falls, or Merrill's Ferry, on the Merrimack, "just below the old granite bridge." On petition of Abraham Merrill and Thomas George the town of Derryfield was incorporated in 1751. At the first town meeting he was chosen one of the surveyors of highways, and at several subsequent town meetings was chosen a selectman. Of more than fifty persons who paid taxes in 1758, 1759 and 1760 toward the fund for building a meeting house, only one paid an assessment higher than the L73 which was credited to "Sergt. Abraham Miral". He married, 20 June 1734, Mehtiable Stevens of Haverhill.

Children:

1. Mehitable 5, born 19 April 1735 in Haverhill

2. Sarah 5, born 30 October 1736 in Haverhill

3. John 5, born 9 February 1738/9 in Plaistow; enlisted from Derryfield and served at Fort William Henry; was taxed in Derryfield in 1760.

4. Abraham 5, born 30 April 1741 in Plaistow (more downline in book)

5. Jonathan 5, born 26 October 1743 in Plaistow (more downline in book)

6. Ruth 5, born 14 August 1746 in Derryfield

7. Mary 5, b 11 June 1749 in Derryfield

8. David 5, born 4 November 1752 died December 1831 (more downline in book)

9. Nathaniel 5, born 15 September 1755 in Derryfield (more downline in book)

10. Elizabeth 5, born 17 January 1758 in Derryfield.

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