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Nathaniel Merrill

Nathaniel Merrill[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14]

Male 1601 - 1655  (53 years)


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  • Name Nathaniel Merrill 
    Birth 1 May 1601  Wherstead, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [10] 
    Gender Male 
    Baptism 4 May 1601  Wherstead, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 8] 
    Will 8 Mar 1654/5  [1, 15] 


    • Witnes by these psents that I Nathaniell Merrill of Newbury in the Countie of Essex being sicke of body but through gods mercy of perfect memory I do here make my last will and testament,
      I first bequeath my soule into the hands of my blessed Redeemer with an assured hope of a joyfull resurection, and my body when it shall please the lord to take me out of this fraile life to bee buryed in the burying place of Newbury, and for my worldly goods I giue and dispose of as followeth Impr I giue and bequeath vnto susanna my wife fiue akers of plowable land lying next to my brother Johns land and halfe the marsh dureing her naturall life and a cow and three heifers and all my household goods, And out of this estat so giuen to my wife I giue and bequeath vnto my daughter Susanna fiue pounds when she shalbe at the age of twenty yeares then I giue and bequeath vnto my Son Nathaniell (whom I appoint as my true and lawfull heire) all my land and freehold after my wiues decease, and all the working tooles & Implements of husbandry and all the cattell and stocke besids And out of this stocke
      I appoint that my Son Nathaniell shall pay theise legacyes as followeth, that is I giue vnto my son John when he shallbee of the age of two and twenty yeers the summe of fiue pounds,
      And also I giue and bequeath vnto my Son Abraham at the age of two and twenty years fiue pounds,
      And I giue and bequeath vnto my sonne Daniell also at the age of one and twenty years fiue pound and
      I giue and bequeath to my son Abell fiue pounds also at the age of one and twenty years,
      And I appoint my Sone Nathaniell to be my sole executor and all my debts & funerall rites being discharged I appoint him to haue all the rest of my goods & chattels vndisposed and
      I desire my brother John merill and Anthony somerby to be the ouerseers of this my las t will & testament In witness whereof I haue st my hand march the eight in the yeare one thousand six hundred fifty foure but if gods puidence should by losses & crosses |vpon ye estate| more than ordinary: then proportionobly to be abated in the legacyes

      his mark Nathaniell n n merrill

      Witness:
      Richard Knight
      Anthony Somerby
      John merrell
    Death 16 Mar 1654/5  Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 4, 10, 13] 
    Inventory 23 Mar 1654/5  [15] 
    by Daniell (his D mark) Thurston, Richard Knight and Archelaus Woodman
    • Ten akers of upland and thre akers of marsh with the previledge of a grehold or commage, £20; one cow and a calfe, £4; 15 s; three heifers of three yeare old & 2 claves £12; 10s; two steers of two yeare old & two heifers £11; three yearelings, £4, one old cart & wheeles and sled and an old barow, £1; 2 spades, a mattock, a betle, 4 wedges, a crosscut & a handsaw & 4 axes and 4 hooes, £2; 3 old tubs, a fanne, an Iron staple & ring & 2 prongs & shovell, 10s; his weareing apparell, £2; ten bushells of malt & barly, 5 bushells of wheate & nine bushels of rye & about 35 bushells of Indian corne, £10; 16s; two muskets and 2 swords with match & powder, £2; cats & pease, 10s; sixe small swyne, £3; 2 flock beds & bolsters & 2 paire of sheets, old, £4; 2 old ketles, 2 skillets & a smal braspot & Iron pot, £1 10s; an old warming pan, fire shovell, grid Iron, tongs, & other small Iron things & a spitt, 12s; 4 small pewter dishes & a skimmer, dishes & spoones, 12s; a truckle bedsted, 2 buckets and a pr of cottrells, 10s; a small cart rope & halfe bushell & a pecke, 5s; a small cubberd & 2chests, 16s; one drinke vessell, 2 wheels, one powdring tub, ten milk trayes & 3 cheesfats, £2; total £84; 6s; his debts for Rent due to Mr Cutting, £5; in small debts, £2.

      Source: Essex County Quarterly Court Files 3:10
    Probate 27 Mar 1654/5  [1, 4] 
    • by John Merrill and Anthony Somerby.
    Burial Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [10] 
    Cemetery:
    Burying Ground of the First Settlers
    Person ID I7282  Duane's Ancestors
    Last Modified 17 Nov 2016 

    Father Nathaniel Merrill,   b. Abt 1571, Belstead, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Feb 1627, Wherstead, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 56 years) 
    Mother Mary Blacksoll,   b. 1574, Wherstead, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1624, Wherstead, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 50 years) 
    Marriage 27 Feb 1592  Belstead, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Family ID F2987  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Susannah ________,   b. Abt 1607, Wherstead, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 25 Jan 1672/3, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 66 years)  [11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17] 
    Marriage 23 Sep 1633  Wherstead, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 6, 18, 19, 20] 
    Children 
    +1. Nathaniel Merrill,   b. Abt 1638, Lawford, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 Jan 1682/3, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 45 years)
     2. Deacon John Merrill,   b. 16 Feb 1636, Lawford, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 Jul 1712, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, British America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 76 years)
    +3. Deacon Abraham Merrill,   b. Abt 1636, Lawford, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Nov 1722, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 86 years)
     4. Susanna Merrill,   b. Abt 1640, Newbury, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 Oct 1690, Suffield, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 50 years)
    +5. Sgt. Daniel Merrill,   b. 20 Aug 1642, Newbury, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Jun 1717, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 74 years)
    +6. Abel Merrill,   b. 20 Feb 1643/4, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Oct 1689, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 45 years)
    Family ID F2983  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 4 Apr 2020 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 1 May 1601 - Wherstead, Suffolk, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBaptism - 4 May 1601 - Wherstead, Suffolk, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 23 Sep 1633 - Wherstead, Suffolk, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 16 Mar 1654/5 - Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay, British America Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - Cemetery:
    Burying Ground of the First Settlers - - Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States    		 Link to Google Earth
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    Pin Legend  : Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  • Coats of Arms
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  • Sources 
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    2.  2.  [S144] Mass & Maine Families, Vol. 2, 594, 00368.

    3.  3.  [S335] Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester V1, 871, 00216.

    4.  4.  [S661] New England Families Genealogical and Memorial, 1918, 00661.

    5.  5.  [S18] Salisbury and Amesbury, 99, 00466.

    6.  6.  [S482] Torrey 1st, 504, 00395.

    7.  7.  [S259] NEHGS Register, 23:473, 00390.

    8.  8.  [S440] Merrill Memorial Volume 1, 159, 00379.

    9.  9.  [S682] TEA, 5:192, 00682.

    10.  10.  [S1122] Find A Grave, Memorial# 6879067, 00974.

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    12.  12.  [S576] TGMSP, John Webster, 00516.

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    14.  14.  [S1357] NEXUS, 11:62, 00206.

    15.  15.  [S437] Essex County Wills, merrilln.htm, 00181.

    16.  16.  [S1122] Find A Grave, Memorial# 138350201, 00974.

    17.  17.  [S867] TAG, 68:174, 00863.

    18.  18.  [S18] Salisbury and Amesbury, 384, 00466.

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