Ancestry of
Bill Belichick

NFL Head Coach

Stephen Merrill

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Bill Belichick — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 484 
  • Father:
  • Nathan Merrill 
  • Mother:
  • Hannah Kent   
  • Birth Date:
  • 6 Jun 1711 
  • Birth Location:
  • Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 6 Nov 1756 
  • Death Location:
  • Fort William Henry, Lake George, New York 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elisabeth Bailey
  • Marriage Date:
  • 4 Nov 1731 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  David Merrill (Ahnentafel No:242 )

  • Notes: 

  • Stephen Merrill died “in ye service at Fort Wm. Henry.”

• Sources for Stephen Merrill

  • ¹ Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Birth record for son David Merrill.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Newbury, Vol. 2, p. 326, Marriage record for Stephen Merrill and Elisabeth Bailey.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Tewksbury, Vol. 1, p. 231, Death record for Stephen Merrill, died at Fort William Henry.
  • ⁴ The Essex Genealogist, 1999, Vol. 19, p. 178.
  • ⁵ Merrill, Samuel, A Merrill Memorial: An Account of the Descendants of Nathaniel Merrill, An Early Settler of Newbury, Massachusetts, Cambridge, Massachusetts: n.p. (1928), 203, 275.
  • ⁶ Stearns, Ezra S., comp., Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire: A Record of the Achievements of Her People . . ., Vol. 1, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company (1908), 137.
  • ⁷ Wikipedia, "Fort William Henry", (accessed 03/24/2020).