Ancestry of
Peter Fonda

TV and Movie Actor

John Merrill

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of Peter Fonda — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 772 
  • Father:
  • Nathaniel Merrill 
  • Mother:
  • Susanna -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1635 
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  • Death Date:
  • 18 Jul 1712 
  • Death Location:
  • West Hartford, Hartford Co., Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Watson
  • Marriage Date:
  • from 23 Sep 1663 to 23 Dec 1663 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Hartford, Hartford Co., Connecticut 
  • Children:
  
  

  Sarah Merrill

  John Merrill

  Abraham Merrill

  Daniel Merrill (Ahnentafel No:386 )

  Wilterton Merrill

  Susannah Merrill

  Abel Merrill

  Isaac Merrill

  Jacob Merrill

  • Notes: 

  • Some secondary sources give 23 SEP 1663 as the marriage date for John Merrill and Sarah Watson, while others give 23 DEC 1663. I have not been able to find any primary records to resolve the discrepancy.

• Sources for John Merrill

  • ¹ New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1882, Vol. 13, p. 126.
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1955, Vol. 32, pp. 198-199.
  • ³ Torrey's New England Marriages Prior to 1700, Vol. 2, p. 1029.
  • ⁴ Barbour, Lucius Barnes, Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut, Baltimore, Maryland: Reprinted for Clearfield Co., Inc. by Genealogical Publishing Co. (2001), 390-391, incorrectly gives John's father's name as Abraham.
  • ⁵ Holman, Mary Lovering, Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury and John Sargent Pillsbury, n.p.: n.p. (1938), 1041.
  • ⁶ Hopkins, Timothy, The Kelloggs in the Old World and the New, Vol. 1, San Francisco, California: Sunset Press and Photo Engraving Co. (1903), 39.
  • ⁷ Watson, Thomas, John Watson, of Harford, Conn., and His Descendants: A Genealogy, New York: Press of J. M. Bradstreet (1865), 7-8.

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