Person:Matthew Merriam (1)

Rev. Matthew Merriam

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m. 12 Nov 1723

Facts and Events

Name^[1]^[2]	Rev. Matthew Merriam
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]^[2]	25 Jan 1737/38	Meriden, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Christening^[1]	29 Jan 1737/38	Meriden, New Haven, Connecticut, United StatesFirst Congregational Society
Degree^[2]	1759	A.B., Yale College.
Degree^[2]	1765	A.M., Harvard College.
Ordination^[2]	25 Sep 1765	South Berwick, York, Maine, United StatesMinister at South Berwick.
Death^[2]	18 Jan 1797	South Berwick, York, Maine, United States (probably)

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Merriam, in Jacobus, Donald Lines. Families of Ancient New Haven. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1974)
5:1163.

"Matthew (Merriam), b 25 Jan 1738 (Wallingford Vital Records), bp 29 Jan 1737/8 (church record, First Congregational Society, Meriden); rem. to ~~Berwick, Mass.~~ [South Berwick, Maine.]"
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 ^2.5 Matthew Merriam, in Pope, Charles Henry. Merriam Genealogy in England and America: Including the "Genealogical Memoranda" of Charles Pierce Merriam, the Collections of James Sheldon Merriam, etc. (Boston: Charles H. Pope, 1906)
83-84.

"Matthew⁶ (Merriam) (Nathaniel,⁵ John,⁴ William,³ Joseph,² William¹), born at Wallingford, Ct, Jan. 25, 1738; married first, at Milton in 1766, Elizabeth, daughter of Oxenbridge Thatcher, Jr., of Boston. She was born April 1, 1743, and died about 1790. He married second, Jan. 15,1791, Mrs. Bethiah Evans, of Boston. He was graduated at Yale College, A.B. 1759; received the degree of A. M. from Harvard in 1765; was ordained pastor of the Congregational church at South Berwick (Maine), Sept. 25, 1765, and continued in office till his death in January 18, 1797."