Nicholas Morrill

Male Abt 1668 -


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  • Name Nicholas Morrill 
    Born Abt 1668 
    • blacksmith, inheritbd the homestead at Kittery, and with hie father established the ferry between Dover Neck and Kittery.
    Gender Male 
    Siblings 6 siblings 
    Person ID I394  BriggsFamily
    Last Modified 10 Apr 2022 

    Father John Morrill,   b. Abt 1640, Kittery, York, Maine, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt 1723, Kittery, York, Maine, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 83 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Sarah Hodson,   b. Abt 1650,   d. Abt 1710  (Age 60 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Married 1667  Kittery, York, Maine, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3
    1667 Marriage Morrill Hodson
    1667 Marriage Morrill Hodson
    John Morrell Bio
    John Morrell Bio
    Family ID F117  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S57] North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2016;), 1667 Marriage Morrill Hodson.
      Name: Sarah Hodson
      Gender: Female
      First Marriage Date: 1667
      Father: Nicholas Hodson
      Mother: Elizabeth
      Spouse: John Morrell

    2. [S88] Red Book Volume I -- The Morrill Family, Marion Stephen Morrill, (Name: Self;), John Morrill Story.
      It was in 1655 that Fernando Georges named his great tract of land in the New World "New Somersetshire", and in 1639 procured the royal charter of what ie now part of the State of Maine. Massachusetts did not lay claim to Maine 'til 1652, so it was in Kittery Township, New Somersetshire, that the first American of the name of Morrill was born.
      John Morrilll was born in Kittery in 1640, but an exhaustive search has failed to reveal the slightest evidence as to the place or hie parentage. By trade he was a brick mason, but in 1686 he was licensed to "conduct" a ferry and tavern. He built his first cabin on Birchen Brook, South Berwick, on land which was his wife's' dowry. He swapped it in 1676 for a place at cold Harbor (Eliot) which remained in the family line until 1926, when it was sold by Charles Morrill to Robert Johnson, who also is a lineal descendant of John Morrill. In 1950 the house burned. He is believed to have swapped to the Cold Harbor property in order that he might , get possession of clay for the brick making plant he built on the site. It was operated by several generations of the Morrill family, and vessels were tied up to the wharf loading for towns to the south-- Massachusetts, Maryland and Virginia towns. 7
      Between 1658 and 1703, he was granted 3100 acres of land by King George "for services in the Indian War". He was a Quaker, and fought the Indians for defensive purposes only. In 1690 John Morrill's house was one of the few garrisons of refuge left on the Maine coast.
      In 1720 he was again ordered to fortify, and in 1722 his son Nicholas who had been deeded the property was ordered to fortify again. These garrisons were kept and defended by their inhabitants. After the Indian wars ended the garrison was razed to make room for the mansion which burned in 1930, soon after Johnson purchased it.
      John Morrill married Sarah Hodgdon, who was born about 1650 and died in 1710. Her father, Nichoae Hodgdon, lived in Hingham, Massachusetts, in 1636, and in Cambridge in 1650. later moving to Kittery. While in Cambridge he owned 200 acres of land at Cambridge Hill, now Newton. John and Sarah has seven children-- ...

    3. [S64] New England Marriages Prior to 1700, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;), 1667 Marriage Morrill Hodson.
      Name: John Morrill
      Gender: Male
      Birth Year: 1640
      Marriage Date: 1667
      Marriage Place: Kittery, ME
      Spouse: Sarah (Hodson)