Thomas Merritt and Sally Wright

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Husband Thomas Merritt ¹

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           Born: 1 Nov 1790 - ? Hartford, Hartford Co, CT 2
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           Died: 12 Nov 1874 - Strawberry Point, Clayton Co, IA 2
         Buried: 

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         Father: George Merritt (      -      ) 2
         Mother: 

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       Marriage: Abt 1810 - Fabius, Onondaga Co, NY

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   Other Spouse: Elizabeth Jewett (      -1847) 3 - 1836 4

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Wife Sally Wright ²

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            AKA: Emma Wright Thomas,5 Polly Wright 6
           Born: 
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           Died: 1834 4
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         Father: Jeremiah Wright (      -      ) 2
         Mother: 

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Children

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General Notes: Husband - Thomas Merritt

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He received a common school education in Hartford, Connecticut, and at the age of about twenty-one years removed to Chautauqua County, New York, near Forestville, by the way of Buffalo, at a time when the only tavern in that city was a double log house, and when there was no road to Forestville. He therefore found his way from Buffalo to his destination by the lake shore. He engaged in farming near Forestville until as late as 1850, when he removed to Deerfield township, Warren County, Pennsylvania. In 1864 he removed to Strawberry Point, Iowa, where he died. He was a thorough-going Whig from the time he became a voter until the dissolution of that party, and the organization of the Republican party. From that time until his death he voted with the Republicans. He was an out-spoken anti-slavery man.

His first wife died leaving a family of seven sons and three daughters.
He had five sons and three daughters with his second wife.

1 J. S. Schenck, History of Warren County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), Pg 624, BP 59, 68.

2 J. S. Schenck, History of Warren County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), Pg 624.

3 J. S. Schenck, History of Warren County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), Pg 625, BP 59.

4 J. S. Schenck, History of Warren County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), Pg 625.

5 J. S. Schenck, History of Warren County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), BP 59.

6 J. S. Schenck, History of Warren County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), BP 68.