Demeritt, John (1728-1826)

Name:

Demeritt, John (1728-1826)

Title:

Selectman, Town of Madbury, 1763, 1765, 1766, 1772, 1775
Ensign, New Hampshire Militia, 1772
Captain, New Hampshire Militia, 1774
Major, 2nd Regiment, New Hampshire Militia, Appointed November 13, 1775
Member, General Court of New Hampshire, 1776-1777

Other Names:

DeMerritt, John

Born:

12/29/1728

Birthplace:

Madbury, NH

Died:

01/07/1826

Death Location:

Madbury, NH

Residence:

Madbury, NH

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Farmer

Father:

Demeritt, John (1698-1773)

Mother:

Buzzell, Margaret (1697-1777)

Spouse:

(1) Cate, Elizabeth (1725-1762), May 5, 1756
(2) Davis, Elizabeth (1729-1827)

Children:

Paul, born April 9, 1757; died 1835; m. Betsey Davis
Lois, born August 16, 1758; died October 9, 1838; m. Israel Demeritt
John, March 9, 1762; died March 19, 1846; m. (1) Lois Davis; (2) Deborah Meserve

Notes:

Eloi A. Adams, Madbury, It People and Places. (Madbury, NH: Bicentennial Committee of the Town of Madbury, 1968), 137, 138.

Nathaniel Bouton, Compiler and Editor. Provincial Papers. Documents and Records Relating to the Province of New-Hampshire, From 1764-1776... Volume VII. (Nashua, NH: Oren C. Moore, 1873), 655, 751.

Jennie M. DeMerritt, The Story of the Old House. Madbury, NH: Privately Printed, 1929.

Everett S. Stackpole and Winthrop S. Meserve. History of the Town of Durham, New Hampshire (Oyster River Plantation) With Genealogical Notes. Volume Two. Genealogical. (Durham, NH: Town of Durham, 1913), 119.

Ezra S. Stearns, Editor. Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire. a Record of Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a Nation. Volume. IV. (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), 1832.

"Inscriptions from Gravestones at Madbury, N. H.," The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 87(October, 1933), 349.

Descendants of Eli Demeritt, www. eagleswind.com/ancestry/ demeritts/d1.htm#1815

Demeritt Cemetery, Durham, NH