There is a possibly that I could be related to the Merritt family of Conneticut. My grandmother came from a very wealthy black family who's other family members were white. She told me there was a parkway the Merritt Parkway named after some of her family. Before I was born the were not allowed to do any family research, this was sometime in the '70s. I have an old family album from the early 1900s that has photos of both black and white family members.