Capt. Nathaniel Merriman

Abt 1613 - 1694  (~ 81 years)

• Name	Nathaniel Merriman  [1, 2]
  Prefix	Capt.
  Birth	Abt 1613	England   [3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	13 Feb 1694	Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut   [3, 4]
  Person ID	I1529	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	22 Nov 2020

  
  

  Father	George Merriman   d. 1655, London, England
  Family ID	F102	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Joan,   b. Abt 1628   d. 8 Dec 1709, Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut (Age ~ 81 years)
  Children	+ 1. Hannah Merriman,   b. 16 May 1651, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut
  Family ID	F2666	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Sep 2015

  
  

• Notes

  He was never married to an Abigail Olney. See The American Genealogist 9:91, 1932. Emigrated 1632, first in Boston, then New Haven 1640-70, then one of the principal founders of Wallingford, Connecticut. Served in the Pequot War of 1637. Ensign of the New Haven company, lieutenant of that in Wallingford, and was appointed a Captain to recruit troops for King Philip's War in 1675. Town clerk of Wallingford for eight years, selectman for five years, and nine times a deputy from Wallingford to the General Court.

  
  

• Sources

  [S184] Genealogy of the Ives Family: Including a History of the Early Settlements and the Movement from Quinnipiac to the Black River by Arthur Coon Ives. Watertown, New York, 1932. [S185] Families of Ancient New Haven, originally published as New Haven Genealogical Magazine, vols. I-VIII, compiled by Donald Lines Jacobus. Rome, New York: Clarence D. Smith, 1923-1932. [S721] Reunion of Descendants of Nathaniel Merriman at Wallingford, Conn. June 4, 1913, with a Merriman genealogy for five generations by Donald Lines Jacobus. New Have, Connecticut: 1914. [S1051] History of Wallingford, Connecticut from its Settlement in 1670 to the Present Time by Charles Henry Stanley Davis, M.D. Meriden, Connecticut: 1870.