Nathaniel Merrill (bef. 1634 - 1682)

Born before 25 May 1634 in Lawford, Essex, England

Ancestors

Husband of Joanna (Kinney) Merrill — married 15 Oct 1661 in Newburyport, Essex, MA

Descendants

Died 1 Jan 1682 after age 47 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts

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Biography

Nathaniel Merrill immigrated to New England as a child during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640).

Nathaniel was baptized on 25 May 1634 at Lawford, Essex, England, the son of Nathaniel & Susannah (Wolterman) Merrill.

Nathaniel is listed as one of those who took the oath of allegiance at Newbury on 25 Feb. 1668 along with his brothers Abel and Daniel.^[1]

Marriage: Joanna Kinney (entry is clearly Kinney!) to Nathaniel Merrill 16 Oct 1661 at Newburyport^[2]The children of Nathaniel & Joanna were John, Nathaniel, Peter, Joanna, Hannah & Mary.

On 19 Apr. 1678 Nathaniel Merrill of Nubery purchased an acre of meadow in Haverhill from Daniel Lad for "£3 & a flitch of Bacon." He also purchased 50 acres from Thomas Duston in Haverhill on 15 Mar. 1677/8 which was the property appraised in 1682 for £120.^[3]

He is buried at Newbury Neck Cemetery, Newbury, Essex, MA, his will was probated January 1682.

In the name of god amen:
I Nathanuel Marrill of newbury in masathusith: newingland: being sensabel of my owne mortallity and haveing att this time my Rationall undarstanding and memory dou make this as my last will and testament: commiting my sole to god and my body to the dust: in hopes of a Joyfull Resarection: and as for my worldly goods I despose of them as folloeth:

I give to my belovid wife gone [Joan]: all my dwelling howsing and barne with all my upland and meddow: and marshlands that I have with in the township of newbury/ and my fre howld: and privilidgis in all commans et: as allso all my stok of cattell and shep: and swine: and howssald goods: with all: other mowfabels: all which to be for the benefet of my wife duoring her widdohowd: but if my wife marry again: then: she shall have no Right to all above said gieven her: but onely har thards as the law douth a low: or thre pound ayear to be peaid har as by this my will appoyentid:

Item: I geve to my son John marrill: my dwelling howssing and barne and orchard: and all my lands: bouth meddows and upland: with my fre howld: and Rights and privilidgis: in all comon lands liing and being with in the township of newbury: to him and his lawfull eares of his owen boddy lawfully begotten: to be the lawful inherytance of my son John and to be posesid of it at his mothars death: or at the day of har marriage: if she marry again: and then my will is that my son John peay to his mothar yearly: thre pound a year duaring har life: providid my wife Renowns har thards

Item Igeve to my othar tow sons: nathanuel and petar: all my land and meddow and privilidgis thar unto belongin: the which: is and lieth with in the town and bownds of hauerhill: equally to be devided betwen them:

Itam I geve to my tow daftars twenty pound a peces to be paide by my son John marrill within fieue yeares aftar he douth in hearrit his portion gevin him by this my will: all soo I geve my tow daftars the one halfe of my howsald goods: at the deth of my wife: or when my wife shall marry again: and the othar half of my howsald goods: I leve with my wife for she to despose of to my children as she shall se mete

allsoo I dow appoyent my wife: gone marrill to be the executor of this my will: to pay all my debtes and Reseue all my debtes: and to tak care that this my will be parformid: soo far as it can be duering har life all so my will is that if ethar of my tow daftars dy be fore thear portion is due to har as by this my will geven: then the othar which sarviee shall have the hoal geven to boath of them: allso if my son John dy without Isshue: that then that by this my will geven to him: shall be the in heritance of my sons that sarviee and I dou hear by declear this to be my last will and testament as witnis my hand and seail: this furst day of desembar 1682 witnisis to the sining and seailing hiar of
the mark of nathanll X maril
Tristram Coffin
Aquila Chase

Invintory of the estate of nathanuel marril latate of newbury taken this 18: dy of Jeneary: 1682 by us the subscribars

to 21 akars of upland and housing and
frehould.............................................................100 00 0
to 12 akars of marsh: 72lb: to ten shep:
3£-10s-0d- to a mare: and 7 swine.................080 10 0
to 2 oxen and fowar cowes and tow steares:
34£: to 3 cattell and a calf................................042 00 0
to 3 gere 5s to thre potts 40s: to kettles 46s:
to six platars 42s...............................................006 13 0
to a chamber pot 6s: to tow poringars 4s:
to a plate: 2s......................................................000 12 0
to 2 copes: 3s to a quart pot 5s to a sive: 2s:
to a warming pan.............................................001 03 0
to a friing pan: and a gridiaron and 3 bottels
and tow bottels.................................................000 16 6
to a sas pan and a cettell: 5s: to trais: disheis:
bowles: pails: trimls..........................................001 15 0
to tobes barrils cillars charne: 20s to 2 guns
40s......................................................................003 00 0
to 2 tramils and tonges: 15s to atis and wigis and
bettel rings........................................................002 10 0
to 12 pare of shetis and 8 napkins: 13£-2s-0d
to a table cloth 4s.............................................013 06 0
to 13: pillocasis 46s: to 3 towils: 3s: to 3 coverlids:
and a [ ].........................................................007 09 0
to 2 blinkets 25s to a father bead: 6£ to a
boustar: 16s......................................................008 01 0
to 2 pillos 12s: to a bested cord and mat 15s:
to [ ] 40s........................................................003 07 0
to 2 whels: and tow chests 16s: to waring
aparrill 5£..........................................................005 16 0
to arthen ware and severall small things 10s:
to flax 16s..........................................................001 06 0
to 3 chestates 5s: to carpendars tules: and a ax:
18s to a slid 4s..................................................001 07 0
to barly and indean corne: 16£ to carts and
wheles and yockis.............................................018 00 0
to a rowp: and hors takeling: 10s to a sword
and bulits and powder.....................................000 19 0
to pork 40s: to land and orchard at haverhil
120£-0s-0d.........................................................122 00 0
to plowes: howes spade perax: to sieths 40s
to a box 5s.........................................................001 05 0
to a prsel of wowlling cloth 40s to bridls: 5s
to child bed lining.............................................004 00 0
to a grindstone 3s: to forkes and rakes 4s to
bookes 10s to [ ] 18d....................................000 18 6
to 3 chares 5s: to cardes: 5s: to a meail traw:
4s: to 2 [ ] 2s.................................................000 16 0
to a cradle and cradell Rug 9s: to a tow
combe: 3s..........................................................000 12 0
to a saddell and pillion and pillion cloth.......002 10 0
.............................................................................520 7 0

Taken by ows: Tristram Coffin: will: sayear: Edward woodman

Debtes due to be paid out of this estate 46£-9s-9d 46 9 8^[4]

Research Notes

• The Seven children of Nathaniel Merrill (1634-1683) in "A Merril Memory" by Samuel Merrill 1983 ^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ Essex County Records- Vol.30, p. 56; Oaths of Freeman in Old Norfolk County- Alonzo Quint, NEHGR- V. 6, p. 201 (Apr. 1852)
2. ↑ Newburyport Births, Marriages and Death. https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/2495/40143_270402__0001-00005?pid=14103452
3. ↑ Norfolk County Records- Book III, fol. 76 and 124.
4. ↑ Essex County Registry of Probate- Docket No. 18304
5. ↑ Nathaniel Merrill, 2nd Generation, in "A Merrill Memorial," by Samuel Merrill, Volume 1, Section [2] pg 163-164, archive.org, text online, https://archive.org/details/merrillmemoriala01merr/page/162/mode/2up

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• Holman, Mary Lovering. Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury and John Sargent Pillsbury: compiled for Helen Pendleton (Winston) Pillsbury. N.p.: n.p., 1938.
• "A Merrill Memorial"- Samuel Merrill, Cambridge, MA, 1917-1928- Vol. I, pp. 74-7, 163-4
• "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury"- David Hoyt, Snow & Farnum, Providence, 1897- Vol. I, pp. 244-7
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