Samuel MORSE

____ - 5 Dec 1654

  • BAPTISM: 12 Jun 1576, Boxted, Essex, England
  • EMIGRATION: 1635, Watertown, Middlesex, MA
  • DEATH: 5 Dec 1654, Medfield, Suffolk, MA
Father: Thomas MORSE

Family 1 : Elizabeth JASPER
  • MARRIAGE: 29 Jun 1602, Redgrave, Suffolk, England
  1.  Samuel MORSE
  2.  Elizabeth MORSE
  3.  John MORSE
  4.  Daniel MORSE
  5. +Joseph MORSE
  6.  Sarah MORSE
  7.  Mary MORSE


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[5101] (The dates quoted here are from Anderson's "Great Migration". Other sources quoted
below obviously vary in details.)

"Morse Genealogy"
J. Howard Morse, Emily W. Leavitt
Morse Society, New York, 1903
"Samuel Morse - was born in 1587, died April 5 (June 20), 1654. In the Register of Dedham,
England, was found: "Richard Morse married February 15, 1586, Margaret Symson, and their
son Samuel was baptized July 25, 1587." At the time of Samuel's decease in Dedham, Mass.,
in 1654, he was 67 years of age, whence it is argued that this Samuel is more likely to have
been the son of Richard and Margaret Morse than of Rev. Thomas Morse, whose will Rev.
Abner Morse, placed on record as promising to have been that of the father of Samuel of
Dedham, Mass. Samuel Morse married, before he left England, Elizabeth ----, who was born
in 1587, died in 1654."

"Genealogiae, or Data concerning the Families of Morse"
Morse, William Inglis
Lynn, MA; 1925
p3: "Samuel Morse, born probably in Dedham, England, or its near vicinity, in 1585, died
in Medfield, Mass., 5 Apr 1654, aged sixty-seven years. He married in England about 1610,
Elizabeth ----, born there in 1587, died in Medfield, 10 June 1655. "

"Will of Rev. Thomas Morse"
Copied by Horatio G. Somerby; Commentary by Abner Morse
NEHGR v19, p264 (Jul 1865)
"The above Rev. Morse was no doubt the father of Samuel, of
Dedham and Medfield, who at aged 50, in 1635, embarked at London..."

"Suffolk County Wills"
(From the NEHGR; index by Judith McGhan)
Genealogical Publishing; Baltimore, MD; 1984
p49, Will of Samuell Morse, dated 02 Dec 1654.

"Genealogical Research in England: Morse"
G. Andrews Moriarty
NEHGR v83 pp70-84 (Jan 1929); pp278-294 (Jul 1929)

"The Parentage of Samuel Morse of Dedham, Mass."
G. Andrews Moriarty
TAG v25, pp54-56 (Jan 1949)

"Pioneers of Massachusetts"
Pope, Charles Henry
Boston, MA; 1900
p320, "Morse, Morss, Moss, Mosse; Samuel... husbandman...
came in the Increase April 15, 1635..."

"A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England"
James Savage
Pub. Boston, 1860-1862
Repub. Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 1998
v3, p241, "SAMUEL, Dedham, f. of Daniel, came in the Increase, from London, 1635,
aged 50, with w. Elizabeth 48, and s. Joseph..."

"Samuel Morse, Great Migration Immigrant"
Robert Charles Anderson
"New England Ancestors", Vol. 8, No. 3 (Summer 2007), pp 34-36
[excerpt from "The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England"
Vol. V (M-P), Aug 2007]
"BIRTH: Baptized Boxted, Essex, 12 June 1576 [NEHGR 83:77, 284], probably
son of the Rev. Thomas Morse of Foxearth, Essex (see COMMENTS below).
DEATH: Medfield 5 December 1654.
MARRIAGE: Redgrave, Suffolk, 29 June 1602 Elizabeth Jasper [NEHGR
83:81], baptized 30 January 1579/80 [NEHGR 83:80], daughter of Lancelot
Jasper [NEHGR 83:293-94]. She died at Medfield on 20 June 1655."

"New England Marriages Before 1700"
Clarence A. Torrey, Baltimore, MD, 1985
(as found on NEHGS CD-ROM, Boston, 2001)
"MORSE, Samuel (1576-1654) & Elizabeth JASPER (1580-1655); Redgrave or Suffolk,
by 1611, 29 Jun 1602, ca 1610; Dedham/Medfield"


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