William Merrick

1763 - 1844  (81 years)

• Name	William Merrick
  Born	30 Apr 1763	Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts
  Gender	Male
  LifeSketch	1776	Merrickville, Grenville Ontario, Canada
  	Founder of Merrickville, Ontario, Canada
  FSID	L41K-TWN
  Reference Number	2876
  Died	5 Jul 1844	Merrickville, Grenville Ontario, Canada
  	Collar Hill Cemertery
  Buried	Cedar Hill Cemetery, Merrickville, Leeds and Grenville United Counties, Ontario, Canada
  Person ID	I2876	Brownlow
  Last Modified	16 Mar 2022

  
  

  Father	William Merrick,   b. 18 Jun 1730, Canaan, Litchfield, Connecticut ,   d. 1805, Cazenovia, Madison County, New York  (Age 74 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Ruth LNU,   b. 1730,   d. 1804, Cazenovia, Madison County, New York  (Age 74 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Married	New York
  Family ID	F1101	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sylvia Comstock,   b. 23 Feb 1848, Merrickville, Grenville County, Ontario,Canada ,   d. 23 Feb 1848, Merrickville, Grenville Ontario, Canada  (Age 0 years)
  Children	1. Charlotte Merrick,   b. 7 Mar 1791, Merrickville, Grenville Ontario, Can ,   d. 1867  (Age 75 years)  [natural]   2. William Merrick,   b. 28 Mar 1793, Merrickville, Grenville Ontario, Canada ,   d. 19 Apr 1867, Merrickville, Leeds & Grenville, Ontario, Canada  (Age 74 years)  [natural]   3. Charles Merrick,   b. 10 Jan 1796, Merrickville, Grenville Ontario, Canada  [natural]   4. Paula Merrick,   b. 23 Apr 1798, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 23 Apr 1804  (Age 6 years)  [natural]   5. Aaron Merrick,   b. 1 Oct 1800, Ontario, Canada  [natural]   6. Lavinia Merrick,   b. 20 Aug 1803, Ontario, Canada   7. Stephen Hedger Merrick,   b. 4 Jun 1807, Merrickville, Grenville Ontario, Canada ,   d. 2 Aug 1860, Merrickville, Grenville Ontario, Canada  (Age 53 years)  [natural]   8. Aurelia Merrick,   b. 14 Sep 1810, Merrickville, Grenville Ontario, Canada ,   d. May 1913, Merrickville, Grenville Ontario, Canada  (Age 102 years)  [natural]   9. Terrence Hamilton Merrick,   b. 11 Jul 1813, Merrickville, Grenville Ontario, Canada ,   d. 23 Jan 1885, Bruce, Ontario, Canada  (Age 71 years)  [natural]   10. Male Merrick  [natural]
  Last Modified	11 Nov 2023
  Family ID	F1130	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  William Merrick was recommended by Governor Simcoe to build the mill to open up the Rideau. The mill is located near the site called "Factory Village" and on the Ka-ya-derosseras Creek, where General Gordon also built a grist mill. He and his wife, Sylvia Comstock, came to Canada as United Empire Loyalists, where he founded the town of Merrickville, near Montreal, in 1789. Other residences of William Merrick are New Oswegatchie and Sorrel, Quebec, Canada. This source also gives the year of death for William Merrick as 1842. (Snowdon - North Wales, Britain to Union, New York, USA (Southwest of Syracuse, NY). Per 'Lanark Legacy: Nineteenth Century Glimpses of an Ontario County', Pg 204, William Merrick was licensed in the 1830s at Merrickville for a 42-gallon still and later an 85-gallon unit for the the manufacture of 'spirituous liquors'. In 1999 the Merrickville Library Genealogical Reference Center had record that William Merrick moved to Merrickville when William Jr was three years old or approximately 1790.