Brief Life History of Hannah
When Hannah Merrill was born on 22 August 1762, in Atkinson, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States, her father, John Merrill, was 25 and her mother, Mary Emerson, was 20. She married James Smith about 1787, in Plaistow, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She died on 14 December 1846, in her hometown, at the age of 84, and was buried in Atkinson Cemetery, Atkinson, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States.
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- Hannah Merrill, "New Hampshire, Birth Records, Early to 1900"
- Hannah Marrit, "New Hampshire Marriage Records, 1637-1947"
- Hannah Merrill Poor, "Find A Grave Index"
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776
New Hampshire is 9th state.
1786 · Shays' Rebellion
Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
Name Meaning
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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