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Merriam Family Tree
Genealogy Pages
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 1837 - 1865 (28 years)
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| Name |
MERRIAM, Francis Jackson [1] |
| Born |
18 Mar 1837 |
Boston, Suffolk Co, Massachusetts, United States  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
Sep 1865 |
| Notes |
- Note: There are slight discrepancies with birth and date dates between the National Park's Service listing and the Pope book, but we are positive the same person is being referenced:
This note from National Park Service: November 17, 1837 - November 28, 1865
"Despite his frailty and blindness in one eye, Meriam's hatred of slavery made him determined to join Brown. He served as Brown's rear guard in Maryland and escaped Harper's Ferry. During the Civil War, he served as captain in the Third South Carolina Colored Infantry."
This note from Pope book: "Aroused by the barbarism of slavery in his early manhood, he adopted the antislavery principles of his mother's father, the renowned abolitionist. He sympathized with, and contributed a considerable sum of his patrimony to John Brown, and was a companion of his at Harper's Ferry; escaped, having been on duty at a distance from the place where Brown and the majority were, at the crisis." [2]
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| Person ID |
I4412 |
SEQUOIA |
| Last Modified |
16 Jul 2019 |
| Father |
MERRIAM, Charles Danforth, b. 17 Apr 1814, Boston, Suffolk Co, Massachusetts, United States , d. 2 Jun 1845, Boston, Suffolk Co, Massachusetts, United States (Age 31 years) |
| Mother |
JACKSON, Eliza F, b. 31 Jan 1816, Boston, Suffolk Co, Massachusetts, United States , d. 29 Dec 1881, Boston, Suffolk Co, Massachusetts, United States (Age 65 years) |
| Married |
3 Nov 1836 |
Boston, Suffolk Co, Massachusetts, United States [3] |
| Family ID |
F2038 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Sources |
- [S255] GENEALOGY: MERRIAM GENEALOGY IN ENGLAND AND AMERICA, Pope, Charles Henry - 1906, (Reprint compiled by John Merriam Kingsbury through Bullbrier Press - 1986), pages 250, 381 (880). (Reliability: 3).
- [S419] HISTORY: Harper's Ferry, National Park Service, (United States Dept of Interior), Online reference is needed (Reliability: 3).
- [S205] MARRIAGE Record: Massachusetts, USA, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FH8V-L6D (Reliability: 2).
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