John Morrill / Sarah Hodson (F117)

Family: John Morrill / Sarah Hodson (F117)

m. 1667

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  • John MorrillFather | Male
    John Morrill

    Born  Abt 1640  Kittery, York, Maine, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  Abt 1723  Kittery, York, Maine, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Buried     
    Married  1667  [1, 2, 3]  Kittery, York, Maine, USA  [1, 2, 3] Find all individuals with events at this location
    Father   
    Mother   

    Sarah HodsonMother | Female
    Sarah Hodson

    Born  Abt 1650   
    Died  Abt 1710   
    Buried     
    Father  Nicholas Hodson | F161 Group Sheet 
    Mother  Elizabeth HODSON | F161 Group Sheet 

    Child 1 | Female
    Adah Morrill

    Born     
    Died     
    Buried     
    Spouse  Jonathan Mason | F114 
    Married     

    Child 2 | Male
    Abraham Morrill

    Born     
    Died     
    Buried     
    Spouse  Phoebe Heard | F118 
    Married     

    Child 3 | Female
    Sarah Morrill

    Born     
    Died     
    Buried     
    Spouse  George Huntress | F119 
    Married     

    Child 4 | Female
    Hannah Morrill

    Born     
    Died     
    Buried     
    Spouse  John Tiddy | F115 
    Married     

    Child 5 | Female
    Elizabeth Morrill

    Born     
    Died     
    Buried     
    Spouse  Thomas Hobbs | F116 
    Married     

    Child 6 | Male
    Nicholas Morrill

    Born  Abt 1668   
    Died     
    Buried     

    Child 7 | Male
    + John Morrill

    Born  Abt 1675  Kittery, York, Maine, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  Abt 1718  Kittery, York, Maine, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Buried    North Berwick, York, Maine, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Spouse  Hannah Dickson | F108 
    Married  16 Dec 1701   


  • 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)