My Descent from Henry Merritt

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Katherine Merritt-John Damon
Zachary Damon-Martha Woodworth
Martha Damon-Edward Jenkins
Mary Jenkins-Peleg Bryant
Anna Bryant-Joshua Lincoln, Jr.
Peleg Lincoln-Elizabeth Twombly
Elizabeth Lincoln-Levi Johnson, Jr.
Elizabeth L. Johnson-Horatio N. Keene
Anna Evelyn Keene-Francis Woods Darling
Laura Keene Darling-Edward Payson True
Edward Keene True-Mildred Louise Richenburg
James Duncan True
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Henry Merritt

Henry Merritt was born in Tenterden, Kent County, England, in 1590, and died in Scituate, Massachusetts 30 November 1653. He had a wife, but we have not been able to find out anything about her.

Henry Merritt was an early settler of Scituate, as early as 1626, though not a freeman until 1638. There is a deed in the Colony records, dated 1628, from Henry Merritt to Nathaniel Tilden, conveying planting lands on the Third Cliff. He was one of the Conihassett partners, and a town officer in 1642.

Henry Merritt and his wife had at least three children, places and dates of births unknown:

  • Henry.
  • John, m. Elizabeth Wyborn.
  • Katherine, m. John Damon.
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Katherine Merritt

Wife:
Katherine Merritt
Born: Place and date unknown.
Died: in Scituate, MA, 8 December 1655.
Father: Henry Merritt.
Mother: unknown.
Husband:
John Damon
Born: probably in England.
Died: in Scituate, MA in 1676/7.
Parents: Unknown. His mother's maiden name was probably Gillson.
Married: in Scituate, MA, 16 June 1644.
John Damon married second, in 1659, Martha Howland, daughter of Arthur and Margaret (-----) Reed Howland, who survived him.

See the entry on John Damon for details of this family.

John Damon Prior Page Line of Descent Pedigree Chart Index of surnames The Merritt Bibliography Other sites of interest Home Page

The Merritt Family Bibliography

Clapp, Henry Lincoln, Fifty Ancestors.

Sherman, Jeanette Johnson, Johnson-Mitchell Ancestry with Allied Families, 1967, p. 125, book found in the Free Library, Belfast, ME and the Appleton Public Library, Appleton, ME.


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