Ebenezer MERRICK b. 05/23/1728 d. 03/1819
Ebenezer MERRICK b. 05/23/1728 d. 03/1819 - Notes
| 1. | == Biography == Captain Ebenezer Merrick was born in 1722 and died 1819. He had (at least) one daughter Hannah who married Captain Seth Briggs in Dummerston, Vermont. <ref>[https://archive.org/details/historyoftownofd00mans/page/n163 The ''History of The Town of Dummerston'' : the first town settled by Anglo Saxon descendants in the state] Mansfield, David Lufkin; Ludlow, VT : A. M. Hemenway 1884. (Page: 185)</ref> It is not clear when Ebenezer arrived in Dummerston, Vermont but he is mentioned in 1785 "Dec 24, Capt. Ebenezer Merrick made his 'Pitch of land,' 200 acres bought of Colonel Willard of WInchester; located onWest river road, north of the village. Merrick also made several other purchases of land in that locality and resold to first settlers." <ref> [https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=D9UbAQAAMAAJ&rdid=book-D9UbAQAAMAAJ&rdot=1 The Vermont Historical Gazetteer: A Magazine, Embracing a History of Each Town, Civil, Ecclesiastical, Biographical and Military] Abby Maria Hemenway, January 1, 1891 Carrie E.H. Page</ref> == Sources == <references /> * Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed December 5, 2017), "Record of Ebeneezer Merrick", Ancestor # A077738. * [http://www.Ancestry.com Ancestry Family Trees] * Family Data Collection - Individual Records Publication: Name: Edmund West, comp.. Family Data Collection - Individual Records [databaseon-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000. |