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Samuel Morse
 
m. 8 Jul 1666
  1. Jonathan Morse1667 -
  2. Mary Morse1670 -
  3. Nathan Morse1672/73 -
  4. Samuel Morse1676 -
  5. Lydia Morse1682 - 1763
  6. Elizabeth Morse1684 -
  7. Ebenezer Morse1689 -
m. Bef 1695
  1. Edmund Morse1694/95 -
  2. Margaret Morse1699 -
  3. Elizabeth Morse1701/02 -
  • HSamuel Morse1676 -
  • W.  Mary Cook (add)
m. 12 Jan 1712/13
  1. Andrew Morse1713 -
  2. Abijah Morse1716 -
  3. Nathan Morse1720 -
  4. Mary Morse1724/25 -
  5. Jonathan Morse1729 -
Facts and Events
Name[2] Samuel Morse
Gender Male
Birth[1] 10 Aug 1676 Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage Bef 1695 Based on birth of eldest known child
to Bethiah Holbrook
Marriage 12 Jan 1712/13 Sherborn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United Statesto Mary Cook (add)
References
  1. Births, in Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1903)
    p.75.

    MORSE, Samuell, s. Jonathan and Marie, [born] Aug. 10, 1676.

  2. Morse, Abner. Memorial of the Morses: containing the history of seven persons of the name, who settled in America in the seventeenth century : with a catalogue of ten thousand of their descendants : to which are added biographical sketches of many of their number. (Boston: William Veazie, 1850)
    p. 20, 23.

    [The format used by Morse is very confusing. Comments have been inserted in brackets to indicate the parent/child links he indicates with his numbering system.]

    [p. 20:]
    Samuel [child 9 of Daniel and Lydia, family on p. 21], [born] 12, (3,) '61, d. March 2, 1704, m. Deborah ---.
    Samuel [child 4 of Jonathan and Mary Barbour, family on p. 22], b. 10 Aug 1676, m. Bethiah ---.

    [p. 21:]
    Samuel [child 9 of Daniel and Lydia)] wife Deborah ---, died Oct. 5, 1719, resided at Sherborn. (Children Samuel 1687 [child 1, children listed on p. 22], Eleazar 1688, ...)

    [p. 22:]
    Samuel [child 4 of Jonathan and Mary Barbour] w. Bethiah, m. (2) 13 Jan 1712-13 Mary Cook. (Children: Edmund 1695, Margaret 1699, Elizabeth 1702, Andrew 1713, Abijah 1718, Nathan 1720, Mary 1725, Jonathan 1729)
    Samuel [child 1 of Samuel and Deborah] w. Mary Cook, m. 1712-13, d. November 20, 1787, r. Needham. (Children by Mary: Deborah 1715, Samuel 1717, Mary 1720, Joseph 1723, Miriam 1725, Amos 1729, Joseph, 1727, Benj. 1731, Sarah 1734.)

    [Morse has clearly given the marriage to Mary Cook to two different Samuel Morses. The marriage is recorded in Sherborn and is followed by the birth of Andrew in Sherborn to Samuel and Mary in Oct 1713. So it appears Mary Cook was the second wife of the Samuel Morse born in 1676. The other Samuel and Mary Morse do not have a child until Aug 1715 in Needham, which is 2 1/2 years after the marriage to Mary Cook, so this is probably a different Mary...]