History of Oakland County Michigan a narrative account of its historic progress, its people, its principal interests / compiled from the official records of the county, the newspapers and data of personal interviews, under the editorial supervision of Thaddeus D. Seeley.

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HISTORY OF OAKLAND COUNTY

(XI.) Darius, b. Oct. 8, 1809; d. Jan. 2, 1892, Conway, Livingston
Co., Mich.; m. Dec. io, 1837, Livonia, Mich., Ann Eliza Grant; b. Feb.
27, 1822 Great Barrington, Mass.; living (1912) dau. of Warren G.
Grant and Sophia Wilcox of Livonia.
CALEB BARKER MERRELL
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, I86-, 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.
Children: (i.) John Jackson Merrell, b. March 22, 1797, at Whitestone, N. Y.; d. Apr. 6, 1866; m. July 31, 1822, Maria Paddock, b. Jan.
4, 1804, Caznovia, N. Y.; died May 7, 1883.
(II.) Charlotte, b. Jan. I5, I8o4; d. Apr. 4, 1873; m. John W. Pratt,
b. Apr. 17, 1802; d. Apr. 24, 1847, Springfield.
(III.) Charles.
(IV.) Helen, m. - Lovett.
(V.) Anna, m. David Leonard.
LEVI GREEN
Levi Green was born in Coventry, R. I., June 6, 1758, and died in
West Bloomfield, Oakland county, Michigan, on the 2ISt of June, 1859.
At the time of making application for a pension, September 28, 1832, he
was a resident of Livonia, N. Y. He enlisted July i, 1776, for eight and
one half months under Captain Baldwin; 2nd enlistment July I, 1777,
one month, under Captain Newell; 3rd enlistment August, 1777, under
Captain Brown, Colonel Simonds regiment, Massachusetts troops. He
was engaged in the battle of Bennington. His grandson, Horace A.
Green, has in his possession the original pension papers and a powder
horn carved with his name which was carried through the war.
Levi Green's wife was Asenath Robinson. Their son, Zephaniah
Ripley Green, with whom the father lived, arrived in West Bloomfield in
July, 1832. He is buried in the North Farmington cemetery. Many of
his descendants are living in Oakland county.
Children: (I.) Aurelia, b. Nov. 5, 1785, Cheshire, Mass.; d. 1866,
buried in Palermo, N. Y.; m. Joseph Chapel; m. 2nd, Selim Dayton.
(II.) Eunice, m. David Cripen.
(III.) Waterman, killed by falling tree when 18 years old.