According to Nason’s History of Dunstable (Massachusetts), “A Universalist society was formed by citizens of Dunstable and the towns adjacent, and a constitution adopted, Jan. 21, 1818.”944 The name Peter Turrel appears on the list of original members. The name Peter Turril also appears on a list prepared in August 1800 of the rank and file of a company of “soldiers who should attend the muster to be held at Concord.”945

There is considerable variation in the spelling of the surname: Turel, Turrell, Terrill, etc.