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- [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
- [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-- ...
- [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)
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, d. Abt 1723, Kittery, York, Maine, USA 
