Brief Life History of John
When John Merrill was born on 9 February 1739, in Derryfield, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, British Colonial America, his father, Abraham Merrill, was 31 and his mother, Mehitabel Stevens, was 23.
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- John Merrill, "New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900"
- Legacy NFS Source: John Merrill -
- John Merrill, "New Hampshire, Birth Records, Early to 1900"
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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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