Ancestry of
Harry Chapin

Singer and Songwriter

Eliphalet Merrill

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Harry Chapin — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 370 
  • Father:
  • David Merrill 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Morse   
  • Birth Date:
  • 7 Oct 1717 
  • Birth Location:
  • Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Lydia Clough
  • Marriage Date:
  • 10 Jul 1739 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Mary Merrill (Ahnentafel No:185 )

• Sources for Eliphalet Merrill

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Newbury, Vol. 1, p. 317, Birth record for Liphe Merrill.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Amesbury, Vol. 1, p. 310, Marriage record for Eliphelet Merril and Lydia Clough.
  • ³ New Hampshire: Births to 1901, Deaths and Marriages to 1937, Births M to 1901, p. 28163, Birth record for daughter Mary Morrel.
  • ⁴ 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, p. 14.
  • ⁵ 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), 135.

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