Ancestry of
Cornelius Merry

Cornelius Merry

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  • Cornelius Merry is said to have participated in the Falls Fight, 18 MAY 1676 during King Philip's War.

    Cornelius Merry bought land from Praisever Turner of Northampton, Massachusetts. The land consisted of two parcels at Worronoco "being seven or eight miles . . . from Springfield," one half of twenty five acres of meadow and one half of twenty five acres of upland meadow, with the other halves being purchased by Edmund Hart.

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  • Spouse:
  • Rachel Ballard

• Sources for Cornelius Merry

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Northhampton, Vol. 1, pp. 9, 86, 1049, Birth record for daughter Rachel Merry.
  • ² The Journal of The American Irish Historical Society, Boston and New York: The Society (1898-1941), 1904, Vol. 4, p. 70.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 2, G-O, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), Vol. 2, p. 867.
  • ⁴ Barbour, Lucius Barnes, Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut, Baltimore, Maryland: Reprinted for Clearfield Co., Inc. by Genealogical Publishing Co. (2001), 400.
  • ⁵ Jacobus, Donald Lines and Edgar Francis Waterman, Hale, House and Related Families: Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1978, reprinted from 1952), 257.
  • ⁶ Mackenzie, George Norbury, ed., Colonial Families of the United States of America, Vol. 6, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1995, originally published 1912), 223.