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| Marriage[3] |
Bet 1662 and 1665 |
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| Alt Marriage[1] |
by Abt 1669 |
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Children
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Children
The probate records do not identify any children of this union. The Newbury VR has an entry which may indicate at least one child was born to Joseph and Mary."Morss, ___. d. Joseph, deceased, [born] Jan 21, 1678[/79]" This same child died the next month, "Morse, ___, ch. Joseph, small pox, Feb. 5, 1678." There is also the death record of "Morse, Sara, d. Joseph, [died] July 7, 1677.
The unnamed child is most certainly the child of Joseph & Mary (Woodis)(Pearse) Morse. The second (Sara) may be the child of Joseph & Mary, or Joseph & Lydia (Plummer) Morse, who resided in Newbury, where Lydia's death is recorded.
The absence of children, with the exception of one in 1678/9, is most irregular; one child born to this couple after at least 9 years of marriage (assuming Anderson's by about 1669). Were there other children born elsewhere?
References
- ↑ Joseph Morse, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011)
5:162.
Joseph Morse [son of Anthony & Ann (Cox) Morse].. m. by about 1669 Mary (Woodis) Pierce, daughter of Richard Woodis and widow of George Pierce..
- Morss, in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Mass.: The Essex Institute, 1911)
1:346, 2:668.
- ↑ Anderson assigns the phrase "by about 1669" including a citation to a 13 Oct 1668 land transaction which is quoted "(on 13 October 1668, 'Richard Woodys of Boston ..., fisherman,' stated he 'did diverse years since give & grant freely, unto his son-in-law Goerge Peirce that married with his daughter Mary, in case he should have by her a son & Heir living which also he had, & called him after his father' name"
Boston records indicate George died in 1661. His son was born in 1661/2. The land gift must have occurred prior to his death, and the 1678 land transaction was simply stating the history of the gift. The 1678 deed can not be used as an indicator of the date of widow Mary's marriage to Joseph Morse. At this time period, it is unlikely that a widow with a newly born infant would wait almost 10 years to remarry. It is more likely that she remarried within the first few years of her 1st husband's death (1661).
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