Ancestry of
Harry Chapin

Singer and Songwriter

Abraham Merrill

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of Harry Chapin — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1480 
  • Father:
  • Nathaniel Merrill 
  • Mother:
  • Susanna -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1637 
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  • Death Date:
  • 28 Nov 1722 
  • Death Location:
  • Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Abigail Webster
  • Marriage Date:
  • 18 Jan 1660/1661 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Jonathan Merrill

  David Merrill (Ahnentafel No:740 )

  Sarah Merrill

• Sources for Abraham Merrill

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Newbury, Vol. 1, p. 314, Birth record for son David Merrill.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Newbury, Vol. 1, p. 316, Birth record for son Jonathan Merrill.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Newbury, Vol. 1, p. 319, Birth record for daughter Sara Merrill.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. VII, T-Y, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2011), 264.
  • ⁵ Holman, Mary Lovering, Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury and John Sargent Pillsbury, n.p.: n.p. (1938), 878, 1041-1043.
  • ⁶ Kilpatrick, Marian Douglas Jones, The Kilpatrick Family: Ancestors and Descendants of Marian Douglas Jones and Robert Jackson Kilpatrick, Beatrice, NB: Privately Printed (1930), 234.
  • ⁷ Morse, J. Howard and Miss Emily W. Leavitt, comp., Morse Genealogy Comprising the Descendants of Samuel, Anthony, William and Joseph Morse and John Moss, Springfield, Massachusetts: Springfield Printing and Binding Company (1903), Anthony Morse Section, pp. 14, 30.
  • ⁸ 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), 133.

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