When Mehitable Merrill was born on 22 March 1756, in Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Isaac Merrill, was 48 and her mother, Mehitable Hastings, was 39. She married Moses Plummer on 24 March 1774, in Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. She died after 1802.
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Welsh and English: from a female personal name of Celtic origin, found in Welsh as Meriel and Meryl and in Irish as Muirgheal, earlier Muirgel (‘sea-bright’).
English: habitational name from one or more of the many places whose names derive from Middle English mirie, merie, murie ‘merry, pleasant’ (Old English myrge) + hill, hell, hull ‘hill’ (Old English hyll), including two places called Merry Hill in Staffordshire and a third in Hertfordshire.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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