Isaac Morrill, I

ISAAC MORRILL SON OF ABRAHAM MORRILL

Not to be confused with Abraham's brother Isaac Morrill

There is very little data on Isaac, though he was the patriarch of many members of the clergy. Because most of the records involving Isaac included his father Abraham, the data below will begin with his father and blend into data on Isaac:

Abraham Morrill formerly spelled Morill
Abraham Morrill, the first of this family of whom there is record, came to America with his brother Isaac (for whom he named his son) in the ship "Lion" in 1632. He was a blacksmith, and one of the first settlers of Salisbury, Massachusetts, acquiring land there in the first division, in 1640. Most people in America who spell their surname MORRILL are descendants of Abraham - although his 6th Great Grandson Albert Andrew Morrell changed the spelling of the family name to MORRELL (his two sisters Laura and Myra maintained the spelling of their maiden names as Morrill); thus Albert Andrew Morrell became the patriarch of Americans with the Morrell spelling. Some of his descendants changed the spelling to Merrill.

'Born: about 1614 in Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex, England
Immigration Arrival Date: 1632 Place: Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony[3]
Died: 20 Jun 1662 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Burial: Eliot Burying Ground Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony[7]
Abraham's date of birth is estimated based on a combination of factors:
(1) according to the Note below, Abraham was probably a minor (under 21) when he traveled on the ship Lyon in 1632, just 12 years after the Mayflower, with his brother Isaac Morrill, meaning that Abraham was born no earlier than 1610 because he was not on the list of those who gave the oath to the King, and
(2) Abraham was probably no longer a minor in 1635 because in that year he received a grant of land and was paying taxes, meaning that Abraham was born no later than 1615.[1]
Father: Richard Morrill
Mother: Unknown
Siblings: Joanna Morrill Brewer & Mary Morrill
Spouse: Sarah Clement Mudgett, daughter of Robert Clement of Haverhill.[2]
Married: 10 June 1645 in Salisbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Children with Sarah:
ISAAC MORRILL I,
Jacob Morrill,
Sarah Morrill,
Abraham Morrill,
Moses Morrill,
Aaron Morrill,
Richard Morrill,
Lydia Morrill,
Hepsibah Morrill Dibbs

Abraham and Henry Saywood built a corn mill in 1642, on land granted to them for that purpose.
Abraham signed the church petition in 1658; was living in Cambridge in 1632.

It seems that Abraham's brother, Isaac, had a number of children, but none of his sons survived infancy and early adulthood, so his name was not passed on through generations in his line.

Sonnet Tidwell gives this history of Abraham Morrill:
He most likely came on the ship Lyon in 1632 with his older brother Isaac.
We think he was young because he did not sign the Oath of Allegiance to the King, and only adult men were required to sign the Oath. We first find Abraham living alone in Cambridge, Massachusetts, paying taxes in 1634.
By 1640, Abraham becomes a founding member of the Puritan plantation at Salisbury, Massachusetts.
He was granted a house-lot on the "Green."
By 1642, he and Henry Saywood were granted 60 acres to build a corn mill.
Abraham Morrill died in Roxbury while visiting his brother.
The will of Abraham Morrill is signed two days before his death, the signature being not much more than a scribble.
Notable descendants of Abraham Morrill include:
David L. Morrill Governor of New Hampshire 1817-23;
Justin Smith Morrill Congressman from Vermont for 43 years and responsible for the Morrill Land Grant Act that established the country's agricultural colleges or 'Aggies'.

Abraham Morrill and his brother, Isaac Morrill sailed from England in 1632 on "The Lyon" to Cambridge, Massachusetts.
They arrived in Boston, Massachusetts on 16 September 1632, under the leadership of the Reverend Thomas Hooker.
Isaac his brother settled in Roxbury, Massachusetts where he became one of the most wealthy citizens of that town.
Abraham, a young man at the time, remained with the Reverend Hooker, establishing a town which he called NEWTON in Middlesex County of Massachusetts Bay Colony; this town later became CAMBRIDGE - home of Harvard University.
Abraham settled first in Cambridge, his homestead, settled there in 1634, was on lot #28, check out the photo of Cambridge three years after it was established.
Simon Bradstreet II, who lived on lot #27, became the last Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
The Reverend Thomas Hooker lived at lot #4, the location that is now part of Harvard Yard.
The college was founded in the "cow yard" in 1636.
In 1638 Abraham was a member of the "Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company", which is now an expensive fraternity focused on charitable giving; in fact, President John Kennedy was a prominent modern member, so Isaac and Abraham were part of this honorable Company centuries ago.
About 1640, Abraham left Cambridge, moving to Salisbury, a new Puritan settlement on the northern coastline of Massachusetts where he received a lot in the division of Salisbury.
It must have been difficult to set up a town in the area of woody hills; add the heavy winter snows and those that settled close to the ocean found their homes and lands washed into the sea on more than one occasion.
Indian attacks were common.
The home where Abraham resided is now a church yard.
Another interesting thing about the area is that the graves were covered with a large stone to prevent the wolves from digging up loved ones, and the stones are still found in the "Green" cemetery.
Abraham joined with Henry Saywood to obtain a grant of 60 acres and together they built a corn mill on the Powow River in 1642.
Abraham was primarily a blacksmith who kept a farm, cattle and horses.
It seems he was industrious; we find Abraham on the Commoner Taxed Rolls in 1650, and he signed a petition of 1658.
Abraham went to visit his brother, Isaac, in June of 1662; he was ill and should not have gone on this trip, but he did and he died while he was there.
He is buried next to his brother in the "Old First Burying Place" in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts.
Abraham's will is dated only two days before his death.
We can only assume he was too ill to sign his will legibly, as his signature was nothing but a scribble, yet it was known that he could read and write.
Abraham died several months before his daughter, Hepzibah, was born.
In all, his wife, Sarah, was left with six boys and three girls, ranging from an unborn to a 16-year-old.
After three years, Sarah remarried Thomas Mudgett.[8]

Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910 indexing project (batch) number: I00961-9 system origin: Massachusetts-EASy source film number: 893105
Stearns, Ezra S. Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire (Lewis Publishing Company, 1908) Vol. 2, Page 711
Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635 (New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1999) Page: pp 151-6

ABRAHAM MORRILL
MIGRATION: 1635 (based on grant of meadow at Cambridge on 20 August 1635 [CaTR 13]).
FIRST RESIDENCE: Cambridge.
MOVED TO: Salisbury 1640 [Salisbury TR 1:30].
OCCUPATION: He has been called a blacksmith [Hoyt 251], but no direct evidence for this has been found. The published version of his probate inventory, presumably abstracted from the original document, includes "the shop tools & iron tools & steel," valued at £14 [EPR 1:400], which would be consistent with this occupation. This item is missing from the recorded copy of the inventory [EPR 308:149].
EDUCATION. Signed his will by mark.
OFFICES: Essex petit jury, 13 April 1652 [EQC 1:251]. Admitted to the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company in 1638 [HAHAC 72-73]. His inventory included "4 guns, 3 pots, household goods & other iron" valued at £6 [EPR 308:149].
ESTATE: On 20 August 1635, "Abra[ham] Morrill" was granted one share in the undivided meadow in Cambridge [CaTR 13].
In the 8 February 1635/6 list of "men who have houses in the town at this present,"
"Abrah[am] Morrill" held one house in the the town [CaTR 18].
In the Cambridge land inventory on 5 October 1635, "Abraham Morrill" held four parcels: "in the town one house with garden and backside about half a rood"; "in Old Field about one acre and a rood"; "on Small Lot Hill about two acres"; and "in the Great Marsh about three acres" [CaBOP 20].
In the Cambridge land inventory of 1639, "Abraham Morill" held four parcels: "bought of Joseph Eason two acres of planting ground in the Old West [Field]"; "bought of Robert Parker six acres of land in the Old West Field"; "bought of James Luxeford three acres of planting ground in the Old West Field"; and "bought more of James Luxeford two acres of ground in the Old West Field" [CaBOP 48-49].
In the Cambridge land inventory of 6 September 1642, "Abraham Morrill" held five parcels: "in West End two acres of land"; "in the West Field nine acres"; "in the West Field two acres" (with marginal annotation "this parcel of 2 acres was Robert Parker's"); "in the Great Marsh six acres"; and "in the Great Marsh two acres" [CaBOP 113].
In an undated list of "lots given out by the town on the south side of Charles River," "Abram Morrell" received four acres in the Upper Division and four acres in the Lower Division [CaBOP 332].
On 12 February 1640/1, the town of Salisbury granted to "Abraham Morrill three acres ... for a houselot ..., also ... twelve acres ... for a planting lot upon the Hoghouse Neck ..., also ... a meadow lot containing per estimation six acres ..., also six acres ... of salt marsh" [Salisbury TR 1:30].
On 20 July 1645, "John Bridge bought of Abraham Morrill two acres of land in the West Field" [CaBOP 118].
On 8 April 1650, "John Bridge is appointed to make up so much of Abraham Morrill's common fence as lieth against his land that he bought of him & Abram to satisfy him for the same" [CaTR 86; CaBOP 338].

In his will [EPR 1:400, 308:148-49], dated 18 June 1662 and proved 14 October 1662, Abraham Morrill bequeathed
to "my dear and loving wife the one-half of my whole estate whether in housing, lands, cattle, debts due to me from any or moveables or whatever else is mine and this to be hers to dispose of as she shall see cause either in her lifetime or at her death";
to "my eldest son Isaac Morrill a double portion of the other half of my estate to be paid to him at the age of one and twenty years or day of marriage";
of "the rest of the said half of my estate to give unto my other five children: Abraham, Jacob, Sarah, Moses and Ledia[Lydia] Morrill to be equally divided between them and to be enjoyed by them as they come to the age of one and twenty years or at the day of marriage";
"my dear and loving wife and my eldest son Isaac Morrill" to be executors;
"my loving friend Mr. Thomas Bradbury and my loving brother Job Clemments" to be overseers [EPR 1:399-401, 308:467].
The inventory of the estate of "Abraham Morrell," taken 14 October 1662, totalled £507 10s.,
of which £268 was real estate:
"the now dwelling house, 56 acres of land, orchard & outhousen," £90;
"19 acres of land at the neck at old town," £22;
"a grant of ten acres of land," £5; "
a right in Mr. Hall's farm," £3;
"10 acres of meadow in the New Meadows," £20;
"9 acres of meadow in the Great Meadow," £20;
"the two higgledy-piggledy lots," £18;
"10 acres of meadow in the Bare Bury Meadows," £20;
"2 sweep acres & 2 acres in Mr. Hall's farm," £10;
"the house at town & houselot," £40;
and "a 3rd part of a corn mill at Haverhill," £20.
On 5 April 1694, "Sarah Mudget alias Morell" petitioned "concerning the division of the estate of her former husband, Abraham Morell, for consideration to be made of the charge she had been at about the estate and the bringing up of their children.
The youngest, a daughter named Ipsabe [Hepzibah] born about six months after her husband's death,
and the other young children were Lide [Lydia] not two years old,
Moses about five,
Abraham between seven and eight,
Sarah about ten;

and she lived a widow about three years" [EPR 1:400-1]. 

On 16 May 1694, "[w]hereas Abraham Morell late of Salisbury bequeathed to his widow Sarah one-half of his whole estate and unto his children, viz: Isaack, Jacob, Abraham, Moses, Sarah Rowell alias Morell and [blank] Severance alias Morrell the other half, and no division being yet made thay have chosen Col. Daniel Pierce, Deacon Tristram Coffin, Capt. Peter Coffin, Capt. Stephen Greenleafe and Mr. Thomas Currier of Amesbury to make a division according to the will" [EPR 1:401].
On 12 April 1697, "we whose names are underwritten, being legatees in the last will & testament of our honored deceased father Abraham Morrell of Salisbury, deceased June the eighteenth Anno Domini one thousand six hundred sixty & two" acknowledged receipt of their share of the estate from "our brother Isaac Morell, executor, in conjunction with Sarah, relict of said Abraham Morell our honored mother"; signed by "Jacob Morell," "Moses Morell," "Onesiphorus Page," "Sarah Page" (by mark), and "Sarah Morell" [EPR 1:401, 308:174].
On 31 January 1703/4, Essex probate court granted to "Isaac Morell, eldest son of Sarah Mudgett alias Morill, late of Salisbury, deceased intestate," administration on her estate [EPR 308:150].
"An addition[al] inventory of Abraham Morrell, deceased," taken 31 January 1703/4, totalled £57, all of which was real estate: "lot of land in division above the mill of 90 acres," £22; "a lot of 25 acres in a division near Hampton line," £10; "lot of 2 acres AA in the division of the Great Neck," £3; "lot in cow common of ten acres," £10; and "about 3 quarters an acre of meadow of the commonage," £12 [EPR 1:401, 308:149].
BIRTH: By about 1614 (based on grant of land in 1635). DEATH: Died 18 June 1662 [EPR 308:174]. Buried Roxbury 20 June 1662 ("Abraham Morrell of Salisbury fell sick in this town & died & was buried upon the 20" of the 4" [1662]" [RChR 177]). MARRIAGE: Salisbury 10 June 1645 Sarah Clement, daughter of Robert Clement of Haverhill (in his will of 6 September 1658, "Robertt Clements of Haverhill" included a bequest to "my sons Moses Pengrow & Abraham Morrill & John Osgood" [EPR 1:272-74; Hoyt 95-96; Percival Wood Clement, Ancestors and Descendants of Robert Clements, Mary Lovering Holman and Caroline Clement Brown, eds., 2 volumes (Philadelphia 1927), 25-30]. She married (2) Salisbury 8 October 1665 Thomas Mudgett. CHILDREN: ISAAC MORRILL, b. Salisbury 10 July 1646; m. Salisbury 14 November 1670 Phebe Gill (groom's name not included in marriage record), daughter of John Gill (in his will of I September 1690, "John Gill of the town of Salisbury" included a bequest to "my 2nd daughter Phebe Morrell twenty shillings" and appointed "my beloved son-in-law Isaack Morrell of Salisbury sole executor" [EPR 304:309-10; Hoyt 174]). JACOB MORRILL, b. Salisbury 24 August 1648; m. Salisbury 15 July 1674 Susanna Whittier, daughter of Thomas Whittier [Hoyt 358]. SARAH MORRILL, b. Salisbury 14 October 1650; m. (1) Amesbury 5 January 1670[/1?] Philip Rowell; m. (2) Salisbury 31 July 1695 Onesiphorus Page; m. (3) Salisbury 29 May 1708 Daniel Merrill. ABRAHAM MORRILL, b. Salisbury 14 November 1652; m. between 1686 and 1689 Sarah Bradbury, daughter of Wymond Bradbury [Hoyt 70, 253]. (The published record for this marriage includes the names of the bride and groom but no date. The record is followed by the parenthetical statement "[bet. 1686 and 1689]," perhaps based on the context of the entry in the original record. The eldest known child of this couple, a son named Bradbury, was horn at Salisbury on 22 March 1693/4.) MOSES MORRILL, b. Salisbury 28 December 1655; m. (1) by 1686 Rebecca Barnes (eldest known child b. Amesbury 12 August 1686), daughter of WILLIAM BARNES 11640, Salisbury) (in his will of 7 April 1696, "William Barnes of the town of Almsbury" included a bequest to "my daughter Rebecca wife unto Moses Morrel of Almsbury" [EPR 306:72-73; Hoyt 54]); m. (2) by an unknown date Mary (in his will of 14 May 1731, "Moses Morrill of Salisbury" declared that "my wife Mary I having made a covenant with her before marriage for her rights of dower and she having without provocation absconded herself from me and carried away my money and goods contrary to my order and without my leave and knowing that she has had more of my estate than she ought to have according to agreement before marriage and not proving a wife to me I give her nothing more" [EPR 319:3]). AARON MORRILL, b. Salisbury 9 August 1658; d. there 31 January 1658[/9]. RICHARD MORRILL, b. Salisbury 6 February 1659[/60?]; d. there 17 February 1659[/60?]. LYDIA MORRILL, b. Salisbury 8 March 1660[/1?]; m. Salisbury 9 November 1682 Ephraim Severance, son of JOHN SEVERANCE 11636, Ipswich} [Hoyt 314-15]. HEPZIBAH MORRILL, b. Salisbury [blank] January 1662[/3]; m. by 1690 John Dibbs (marriage recorded at Salisbury but date not included; eldest known child b. Salisbury 2 May 1690). (Since Hepzibah was born after her father's death, and he made no provision for her in his will, she is not included in all the documents settling his estate.)
ASSOCIATIONS: Abraham Morrill was brother of ISAAC MORRILL {1632, Roxbury} [GMB 2:1289-92].
Abraham Morrill died at Roxbury on 18 June 1662, exactly six months after Isaac Morrill died there, so Abraham may have been visiting members of Isaac's family.
In his will of 12 May 1657, Robert Bradish included bequests to "my loving wife Vastie Bradish," "my son-in-law Ezekiel Morrell" and "my loving brother Isaac Morrell" [SPR 1:335; GM 2:1:381-4]. Vashti was the second wife of Robert Bradish, and may have been a widow at the time of their marriage. Neither Isaac Morrill nor Abraham Morrill had a son named Ezekiel. This suggests that Ezekiel was the son of a third brother, and that Vashti may have been Ezekiel's mother, although other solutions to this puzzle remain possible based on the available evidence. Ezekiel Morrill died between 31 May 1662 and 13 June 1663 [Rodgers 2:157-58, citing MPR 2:176-79, Case #15424]. Abraham Morrill appears in a list of those who were to provide fencing at Cambridge, apparently dated 7 January 1632/3, but known to have been created at a later date [CaTR 5; GMN 1:12].

Footnotes & References

↑ New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1635, pages 152 and 154 ↑ Cutter, William Richard. Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts (Lewis historical Publishing Company - Boston, Mass., 1908) Vol 1, p 115 ↑ Source: #S45 Page: Place: Cambridge, Massachusetts; Year: 1632; Page Number: . Data: Text: Arrival date: 1632Arrival place: Cambridge, Massachusetts Note: @N1095@ ↑ Source: #S43 Data: Text: Marriage date: 10 Jun 1645Marriage place: Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts ↑ Massachusetts Marriages Page: 893105 Note: Sarah Clement spouse: Abraham Morrill marriage: 10 Jun 1645 - Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts. groom's name: Abraham Morrill bride's name: Sarah Clement marriage date: 10 Jun 1645 marriage place: Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts ↑ Unknown Source: p 425 Abraham, and Sarah Clement, June 10, 1645. CT. R. ↑ Find A Grave ↑ Vital Records of Salisbury, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Topsfield, MA: Topsfield Historical Society, 1915;)

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