John Merrill

1663 - 1705  (42 years)

• Name	John Merrill  [1]
  Birth	16 Feb 1663	Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	15 May 1705	Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts   [2]
  Person ID	I37895	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of RAH
  Last Modified	30 Jun 2022

  
  

  Father	Nathaniel Merrill,   b. Abt 1634   d. 1 Jan 1683, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts (Age ~ 49 years)
  Mother	Joanna Ninny,   b. Abt 1627   d. 8 Feb 1718 (Age ~ 91 years)
  Marriage	15 Oct 1661	Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts   [3]
  Family ID	F22278	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Lucy Webster,   b. 19 Dec 1664, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts d. Aft 1717 (Age > 54 years)
  Children	+ 1. Hannah Merrill   d. 9 Jun 1744, Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts
  Family ID	F22273	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	30 Jun 2022

  
  

• Notes

  John Merrill (1663-1705) = Lucy Webster (1664-1717) Abel Merrill (d. 1753) = Sarah Bodwell (1694-1737) Elizabeth Merrill (b. 1728) = Benjamin Pierce (1726-1764) Benjamin Pierce Jr.* (1757-1839) = Anna Kendrick (1768-1838) Franklin Pierce (1804-1869), 14th President of the United States Making Robert A. Heinlein a third cousin three times removed to Franklin Pierce. ----- * This Benjamin Pierce was the 11th governor of New Hampshire, serving from 1827 to 1828 and 1829 to 1830.

  
  

• Sources

  [S6391] Descendants of John Hutchins of Newbury and Haverhill, Massachusetts by Edwin Colby Byam, ed. Jack Randolph Hutchins. Washington, D.C., 1975. [S2304] Ancestors of American Presidents by Gary Boyd Roberts. 2009 edition, 2012 reprint with 2015 corrigenda. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. [S630] Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury and John Sargent Pillsbury by Mary Lovering Holman. Concord, New Hampshire: The Rumford Press, 1938.