JACOB IDOL MILITARY RECORD REVOLUTIONARY WAR

1780 HE ENLISTED. PRIVATE IN CAPTAIN JAMES BILLINGSLEY'S COMPANY OF NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTED MALITIAL. FOR 3 MONTHS

1781, FEB. ENLISTED, PRIVATE IN CAPT WILLIAM DAVIS' NORTH CAROLINA COMPANY. FOR 1 MONTH. HE AS CAPTURED BY TORIES BUT ESCAPED.

1781 SUMMER ENLISTED IN CAPTAIN LOPP'S COMPANY IN COLONEL SMITH'S REGIMENT AS A FIRST SEGEANT
HE WAS ALLOWED A PENSION WHILE RESIDENT OF STOKES CO, NC

HOSEA MERRILL AND SARAH PHILLIPS

HOSEA BORN HEBRON, CONN, JUNE 19, 1761
CAPT IN REVOLUTIONARY WAR, SOME REOCRDS SAY HE WAS A PRIVATE
HE STOOD GUARD OVER MAJOR ANDRE THE NIGHT BEFORE THE MAJOR WAS EXECUTED.
SARAH WAS BORN 1762.

CHILDREN
HOSEA BORN 1782
MARRIED LUCRETIA BASSETT

LAURA BORN MAY 23, 1786
MARRIED VINE GROVENER, NOV 18, 1805

LUCY BORN SEPT 22, 1788
MARRIED LOWELL GOODMAN

PHILLIP BORN OCT 12, 1790
REARED ON HIS FATHER'S FARM AND BOUGHT LAND THAT IS NOW PART OF ALLEN FARM. HE WAS A DEMOCRAT, SERVED AS HIGHWAY SURVEYIR
MARRIED FRANCES STANTON

JUSTIN BORN JAN 16, 1792
WHO LIVED IN AVON, NY AND DIED IN PITTSFIELD, MASS

ADDISON BORN MAY 20, 1794
DIED IN FLINT, MICH AT 78 YEARS OLD

SARAH BORN JAN 20, 1796
MARRIED LEWIS THOMPSON

AYRES P BORN APRIL 17, 1798
WAS A DOCTOR AND LIVED IN THESOUTH

ANNA BORN APRIL 6, 1800
MARRIED WALTER GOODMAN

AUGUSTUS BORN 1802, DIED IN INFANCY


HOSEA SON OF GAD MERRILL AND MARY SKINNER