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Patriot Summary
Caleb Barton Merrill (1764-1842) served in the Massachusetts Continental Line as a private in the Ninth Regiment in Captain Thomas Hunt's Company of Light Infantry under Colonel Henry Jackson and later in the Second Regiment in Captain Robert Bradford's Company under Colonel Ebenezer Sprout. Caleb Barton Merrill was born in Tyringham, Berkshire County, Massachusetts on April 25, 1764. He married Sarah Jackson and together they had several children. They moved to Springfield Township, Michigan in 1841. Caleb Barton Merrill died July 2, 1842, and is buried in the Lakeview Cemetery in Clarkston, Oakland County, Michigan. SAR Patriot Number P-248019 DAR Patriot Number A077860 Find-A-Grave Number 71607767From the History of Oakland County, Michigan by Thaddeus D. Seeley (1912)
Capt. Caleb Barker Merrell was a commissioned officer in the American army during the struggle for independence, participating in the battles of Bennington, Bemis Heights, Saratoga, Stillwater and the surrender of Burgoyne, October 17, 1777. He was at one time taken prisoner, conveyed to Canada and was for some time confined by British authority. This memorial of him is given in Lakin’s History, Military Lodge F. & A. M. No. 93, Manlius, N. Y. (p. 59), of which he was evidently a member. He was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, and died in Springfield, Oakland county, Michigan, July 2, 1842, at the advanced age of eighty-eight years. His wife was Sally Jackson, to whom he was married June 29, 1788. She was born October 3, 1766 and died July 22, 186—, daughter of Col. Giles and Anna Thomas Jackson. Capt. Merrell came to Michigan with his son, John J. Merrell in 1833, and settled in Springfield. He is buried in the cemetery at Clarkston.