When John Merrill was born in 1758, in Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Isaac Merrill, was 50 and his mother, Mehitable Hastings, was 41. He married Patience Peaslee on 10 November 1780, in Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son.
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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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