Individual Details

There is some question about whether John Merrill died in Missouri or Mississippi, but I feel sure it was Mississippi.

He married MARY WISEMAN 20 Jan 1773 in Rowan County, North Carolina. She was born Abt. 1750, and died Abt. 1818 in Franklin County, Georgia.
An account of John, the second son of Captain Benjamin and Jemima Merrill, will be found in the chapter on “The Merrills of Georgia.’
He was a Lt. in the Revolutionary War. He was a blacksmith and farmer. He resided in Wilkes and Hancock County, Georgia.
He served several years in the Revolution and was a Lieutenant in a light horse company after 1780. He was in Georgia by 1787, where bounty land for Revolutionary service was available in Wilkes County, then lived for a while in Hancock County and in Franklin County, Georgia, where his wife died about 1818. He went with son James to Monroe County, Mississippi in 1819.
In 1828 John Merrill applied for Revolutionary War pension

Birth	11 Dec 1750	Rowan County, North Carolina
Death	16 Oct 1838	Monroe County, Mississippi

Father	Benjamin Merrill (1730 - 1771)
Mother	Jemima Smith ( - 1803)
Sibling	Samuel Merrill (1748 - 1803)
Sibling	Andrew Merrill (1752 - 1829)
Sibling	Anna Merrill (1754 - 1828)
Sibling	William Merrill (1754 - )
Sibling	Nancy Merrill (1756 - 1837)
Sibling	Penelope Merrill (1759 - 1830)
Sibling	Charles Merrill (1761 - 1822)
Sibling	Elijah Merrill (1763 - )
Sibling	Jonathan Merrill (1767 - )