Morrill, David Lawrence (1772-1849)

Name:

Morrill, David Lawrence (1772-1849)

Title:

Clerk, Town of Epsom
Member, New Hampshire House of Representatives, 1808-1816
Justice of the Peace, Goffstown, 1808-
Speaker, New Hampshire House of Representatives, 1817
Member, United States Senate, 1817-1823
Governor, State of New Hampshire, 1824-1827
Member, New Hampshire Medical Society
Member, Hillsborough County Agricultural Society
Member, New Hampshire Missionary Society
Member, New Hampshire Colonization Society
Member, American Doctrinal Tract and Book Society
Member, New Hampshire Chapter, Amercian Educational Society
Member, American Bible Society
Member, Amercian Sunday School Union
Member, Amercian Home Mission Society
Director, Bunker Hill Monument Association, 1824
Editor, New Hampshire Observer

Born:

06/10/1772

Birthplace:

Epping, NH

Died:

01/28/1849

Death Location:

Concord, NH

Residence:

Epping, NH 1772-
Wilmington, MA -1786
Exeter, NH 1789
Natick, MA
Epsom, NH 1793, 1800
Goffstown, NH 1802, 1820, 1830
Concord, NH 1840, 1849

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Physician 1792-1802, 1807-1830
Minister 1801-1807

Father:

Morrill, Samuel

Mother:

Lawrence, Anna

Relations:

Great grandfather of Morrill B. Donnald who donated table (1999.005) and mirror (2009.016)

Spouse:

Married (1) Jane Wallace, September 17, 1794
Married (2) Lydia Poor, 1824

Children:

One child by Jane Wallace
Children by Lydia Poor:
David Lawrence, born 1825; died 1826
David Lawrence, born June 2, 1827; died 1904; m. Margaret Jane Wentworth; 4 children
Samuel, born 1829; died 1905; physician
William Henry, born January 27, 1832; m. Emma O. Fisk

Notes:

George P. Hadley, History of the Town of Goffstown 1733-1920. Volume Two, Genealogy. (Concord, New Hampshire: The Rumford Press, 1922), 350-351.

Howard A. Kelly and Walter L. Burrage, American Medical Biographies. (Baltimore, Maryland: The Norman, Remington Company, 1920), 818-819.

Annie M. Smith, Morrill Kindred in Amercia, An Account of the Descendants of Abraham Morrill of Salisbury, Masschusetts 1632-1662 Through His Eldest Son Isaac Morrill 1640-1713.
(New York: te Lyons Genealogical Company, 1914), 69.

Old North Cemetery, Concord, NH