Moses Merrill

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Moses Merrill (1702 - 1776)

Moses Merrill aka Merrells
Born 25 Dec 1702 in Hartford, Connecticutmap
ANCESTORS ancestors
Son of Daniel Merrill and Susanna (Pratt) Merrill
Brother of Daniel Merrill, Susanna (Merrill) Steele, Jonathan Merrill, Ruth Merrill, Mary Merrill, Hepzibah (Merrill) Seymour, Daniel Merrill, Israel Merrill, Mary Merrill, Hezekiah Merrill and Rachel (Merrill) Shepard
Husband of Mary (Cook) Merrill — married 1726 in East Hartford, Hartford, Connecticutmap
Husband of Rachel (Wells) Merrill — married 20 Nov 1740 [location unknown]
Husband of Bathsheba (Pettibone) Merrill — married 12 Jan 1766 in Farmington, Ct., recorded at West Hartford. Ct.map
DESCENDANTS descendants
Father of Ruth (Merrill) Adams, Lodema (Merrill) Goodwin, Moses Merrill, Rachel (Merrill) Porter and Eleazor Merrill
Died 4 Aug 1776 at age 73 in Farmington, Hartford, Connecticutmap
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1 Biography
1.1 Children
1.2 Research Notes
2 Sources
2.1 See also
Biography

25 December 1702 born in Hartford, Connecticut, to Daniel and Susannah (Pratt) Merrill[1][2][3]

Married (1) Mary Cooke, b. 2 June 1706, daughter of Aaron Cooke and Martha Alleyn.[2]

Married (2) 20 November 1740 Rachel Wells, bp. 20 January 1716/7, d. 31 October 1763, daughter of Samuel Wells and Rachel Cadwell.[2]

Married (3) 12 January 1766 Bathsheba Grimes of Simsbury[2]

4 August 1776 died in West Hartford[2]

"Bathsheba was married shortly thereafter to Moses Merrills, who then died within a year, before the tax list was prepared in 1778, when she was described as his widow."[4][5]
Children

Children of Moses and Mary (Cooke) Merrill:[2]
Ruth, bp. 28 May 1727, m. Ebenezer Adams
Laodamia, b. 28 January 1728/9, m. Samuel Goodwin
Moses, bp. 18 July 1731, m. (1) Waitstill Heath, (2) Elizabeth Wells
Children of Moses and Rachel (Wells) Merrill:[2]
Mary, bp. 26 July 1741, m. Seth Barker
Samuel, bp. 2 March 1755, d. 2 September 1772
Rachel, m. Noah Porter
Research Notes

'I tracked down the details on the third marriage. It does not appear in any of the relevant vital or church records. The date that has been bouncing around the internet, and which I passed to you, is not of their marriage itself. On 12 Jan. 1766 at the West Hartford church, Moses Merril of Farmington and Bathsheba Grimes of Symsbury, published their intention to marry, but their marriage itself does not appear in the records of that church. It must have happened by 15 June 1766, when Bathsheba, wife of Moses Merril, was admitted to the church fellowship. The same West Hartford church records show Moses Merrills to have died 4 Aug. 1776 of "a complication of disorders", aged 70.'[5]
Sources

↑ Whittelsey, Charles B. The Ancestry and the Descendants of John Pratt of Hartford, Conn. Hartford, CT: The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1900. Page 19.
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Barbour, Lucius Barnes. Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1977. Page 397.
↑ "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906", database, FamilySearch ([1] : 7 January 2020), Daniell Merrill in entry for Moses Merrill, 1702.
↑ Petttibone Register, p 70.
↑ 5.0 5.1 Personal Communication from Todd Farmerie, Entered by Tom Bredehoft, 7/8/2013
See also

"A Merrill Memorial" by Samuel Merrill, Cambridge MA 1917-1928. Page 181 & 231 https://www.falmouthmehistory.org/resources/Documents/A%20Merrill%2...

http://www.jmerrill.net/

79. MOSES9 MERRILL (DANIEL8, JOHN7 *MERRILL, NATHANIEL6, NATHANIEL5, JOHN4 *MERRELL, THE YOUNGER, JOHN3 *MERYELL, JOHN2, THOMAS1) was born December 25, 1702 in Hartford, Hartford, Conn, and died August 4, 1776 in West Hartford, Hartford, Conn.

He married

• (1) SARAH COOK Bef. 1727. She was born June 2, 1706 in Hartford, Hartford, Conn, and died 1740.
• (2) RACHEL WELLES November 20, 1740 in West Hartford, CT, daughter of SAMUEL WELLES and RACHEL CADWELL. She was born Bef. January 20, 1711/12 in Hartford, Hartford, Conn, and died October 31, 1763 in New Hartford, Litchfield, Conn.
• (3) BATHSHEBA GRIMES January 12, 1766 in Farmington, CT. She was born Aft. 1740 in Simsbury, Conn, and died Unknown.

Notes for MOSES MERRILL: From "A Merrill Memorial" by Samuel Merrill, Cambridge, MA 1917-1928

Moses(4) Merrill (Daniel(3), John(2)) was born 25 Dec 1702 in Hartford, CT and died 4 Aug 1776. He lived in West Hartford, and after 1755 in Farmington, CT. He married (1) in West Hartford, Sarah Cook; (2) 20 Nov 1740, Rachel ??, who died 31 Oct 1765 in Westhartford, aet, 48, and (3) (published 12 Jan 1766, in West Hartford) Bathsheba Grimes (or Graham) of Simsbury. *

• it has been queried whether this third marriage was not instead the first marrigae of Moses, Jr.

Children of MOSES MERRILL and SARAH COOK are:

• i. RUTH10 MERRILL, b. Bef. May 28, 1727, West Hartford, Hartford, Conn.
• ii. LAODAMIA MERRILL, b. January 28, 1728/29, West Hartford, Hartford, Conn; d. May 6, 1790, Hartford, Hartford, Conn; m. SAMUEL GOODWIN, Abt. January 1749/50, Hartford, Hartford, Conn; b. October 10, 1710, Hartford, Hartford, Conn; d. September 30, 1776, Hartford, Hartford, Conn.
• iii. MOSES MERRILL, b. Bef. July 18, 1731, West Hartford, Hartford, Conn; d. April 3, 1794, West Hartford, Hartford, Conn; m. (1) ELIZABETH WELLES, Abt. 1755, Hartford, hartford, Conn; b. Bef. September 2, 1722, Hartford, Hartford, Conn; d. September 15, 1772, West Hartford, Hartford, Conn; m. (2) WAITSTILL HEATH, September 5, 1773, West Hartford, Hartford, Conn; b. 1744, Hartford, Hartford, Conn; d. February 19, 1826.
• iv. ALLEN MERRILL, b. 1734, West Hartford, Hartford, Conn; d. July 11, 1771, West Hartford, Hartford, Conn; m. MARY ANDRUS, May 4, 1766, Farmington, Conn; b. Abt. 1734; d. Unknown.

Children of MOSES MERRILL and RACHEL WELLES are:

• v. MARY10 MERRILL, b. Bef. July 26, 1741, West Hartford, Hartford, Conn; d. Unknown; m. SETH BARKER, April 15, 1764, Hartford, Hartford, Conn; b. Abt. 1740; d. Unknown.
• vi. SAMUEL MERRILL, b. Abt. 1743, Hartford, Hartford, Conn; d. September 2, 1772, Farmington, Conn.
• vii. ELEAZAR MERRILL, b. Abt. 1745; d. May 16, 1769; m. LOIS FOOTE, May 29, 1765, Farmington, Conn; b. April 4, 1746, Farmington, Conn; d. Unknown.

Child of MOSES MERRILL and BATHSHEBA GRIMES is:

• viii. RACHEL10 MERRILL, b. 1766, Conn.; d. Unknown; m. NOAH PORTER, Abt. 1785; b. Bef. 1766, Conn.; d. Unknown.

Notes for RACHEL MERRILL: From "A Merrill Memorial" by Samuel Merrill, Cambridge, MA 1917-1928

Rachel (Merrill) Porter had three sons, Robert, Edward and Noah, and a daughter Sophia. the sons were all clergymen. The youngest, Rev. Noah Porter, D. D., was for more than sixty years pastor of the church in Farmington. At his house was held, Sep 10 1810, the first meeting of the American Board of Copmmissioners ofr Foreign Missions. His son Ref. Dr. Noah Porter was President of Yale College 1871-86. Sophia Porter married Rev. Heman Humphrey, D. D., President of Amherst College 1823-45.