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Samuel was born on August 21st, 1672 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut.  Samuel's father was Thomas II Merritt and his mother was Jane Sherwood.  His paternal grandparents were Thomas I Merritt and Susanna Cranniwell; his maternal grandparents were Thomas Sherwood and Alice Seabrook. He had nine brothers and four sisters, named John, Ephhraim, Joseph, Isaac, Steven, Edward, Thomas, Mathew, Thomas III, Alice, Jane, Rose and Elizabeth.  He was the seventh oldest of the fourteen children.  He died at the age of 50 in 1722.

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