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Captain Nathaniel Merriman
b.Abt 1614
Facts and Events
| Name[1][2][3] |
Captain Nathaniel Merriman |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[2][3] |
Abt 1614 |
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| Emigration[1] |
1632 |
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| Residence[1][4] |
1632 |
Massachusetts Bay Colony, New England, United States |
| Residence[1] |
1640 |
New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States |
| Marriage |
Bef 1647 |
Based on estimated date of birth of eldest known child (Nathaniel).
to Joan _____ |
| Residence[1] |
1670 |
Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States |
| Death[2][3] |
13 Feb 1693/94 |
Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Nathaniel Merriman, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Directory. (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jun 2015)
226.
"Merriman, Nathaniel: [Origin] London; [Emigration] 1632; [Resided] Massachusetts Bay, New Haven, Wallingford [WP 4:68; NGSQ 72:205-9; Waters 1445; Donald Lines Jacobus, Reunion of Descendants of Nathaniel Merriman (New Haven 1914); TAG 9:91-93]."
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 1. Nathaniel1 Merriman, in Merriman, Mansfield, and Donald Lines Jacobus. Reunion of Descendants of Nathaniel Merriman at Wallingford, Conn. June 4, 1913, with a Merriman Genealogy for Five Generations. (New Haven, Conn.: Donald L. Jacobus, 1914)
137-38.
"Nathaniel1 Merriman was born in England about 1613, served in the Pequot war of 1637, lived in New Haven from 1640 to 1670, then became one of the principal founders of Wallingford, Conn, where he died 13 Feb 1693/4. He was Ensign of the military company in New Haven, lieutenant of that in Wallingford, and was appointed a Captain to raise troops for King Philips War of 1675. He was town clerk of Wallingford for eight years, selectman for five years, and was nine times a deputy from Wallingford to the General Court of the Colony of Connecticut. He married Joan _____, who was born about 1628 and died in Wallingford 8 Dec 1709. Lieut. Nathaniel Merriman, in his will of 6 June 1692, mentions his wife Joane; sons John, Samuel, and Caleb; daughter Mary Curtis; and surviving daughters (New Haven Probate, vol. 2, p. 146)."
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Merriman, in Jacobus, Donald Lines. Families of Ancient New Haven. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1974)
5:1167.
"Nathaniel (Merriman), s. of George of London, b c. 1614, d 13 Feb 1693/4 æ. 80 (Wallingford Vital Records); Capt. … No basis of fact has been found for oft-repeated statements that he m (1) Abigail Olney."
- ↑ Guilford, Joan S. (Joan Sheridan). The Ancestry of Dr. J. P. Guilford. (Franklin, NC: Genealogy Publishing Service, 1990, 2003)
2:255.
"Nathaniel came to America in 1632 on the 'Whale,' Capt. Graves, Master, sailing from Southampton April 8 and arriving May 26. He came from London. … He was a veteran of the 1637 Pequot War."
- Nathaniel Merriman, in Find A Grave.
This burial is not documented in the Hale Collection. There appears to be no evidence of the actual place of burial. The pictured monument is almost certainly a cenotaph placed relatively recently (post 1930's).
- Correction of Printed Authorities: III. Merriman of New Haven, Conn., in The American Genealogist (TAG). (Donald Lines Jacobus, et.al.)
9:91-93.
"The ancestry of Nathaniel Merriman was as follows: (1) Thomas Merriman, a weaver, of Witney, co. Oxford, will proved at Oxford, 22 July 1559; wife Joan, sons Gregory, John, and James, and daughters Joan Norigg, Alice Peynter, and Marrie. (2) Gregory Merriman, a weaver, of Witney, died 1596, married before 1557, Mary Ring, sister of William Ring, yeoman, of Witney; children included George, Anna, bapt. 23 Jan. 1561, and Henry, bapt. 4 June 1570, the last two recorded at Witney. (3) George Merriman, cooper, of London, died 1655; children were John, Nathaniel, and Elizabeth (wife of John Norman). (References: Merriman Reunion and Genealogy, New Haven. 1914, pp. 32-37, 107-133; Merriman Bulletin, New York, 4 Mar. 1915, pp. 2-3; Merriman Bulletin, 4 June 1917, p. 1.)"
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