MORSE / MOORS
My 10th great grandfather, Samuel Morse (1576 –
1654) arrived on board the ship Increase
in 1635 with his wife, Elizabeth, a son Joseph, and “Elizabeth Daniel”, age 2,
a granddaughter. His living children
followed him to Massachusetts but were not listed on the Increase. The English origins of Samuel and Elizabeth have been
written up in journals. Samuel Morse is
the son of Rev. Thomas Morse of Foxearth Essex, and his wife Elizabeth Jasper
is the daughter of Lancelot Jasper and Rose Shephard of Suffolk. See below for the journals with their English
origins.
Upon arriving in New England, Samuel and Elizabeth Morse first
lived in Watertown, and in 1636 Samuel and his sons Joseph and Daniel were each
granted twelve acres in Dedham. In 1640 he was admitted to the church in
Dedham, and a few months later he became a freeman. He was one of the original nineteen settlers
of Dedham.
The inventory of his estate calls him “Samuell Morse of
Medfield, lately deceased”. His will
mentions his wife Elizabeth, John Morse, Daniell Morse, Mary Bullin & Ann
Morse “the wife of my dearly beloved son Joseph deceased, who with my said
children shall have an equal portion”.
The will was witnessed by two neighbors and Samuel Bullin, my 9th
great grandfather, husband of Mary, the youngest Morse child.
For more MORSE information:
The English origins of Samuel Morse were written up by G.
Andrews Moriarty in The American
Genealogist, Volume 24 (1949), pages 147 – 156.
A sketch of Samuel Morse by Robert Charles Anderson in The
Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634 – 1635, Volume V, pages
170 – 177.
The Ancestry of Colonel John Harrington Stevens and his wife Frances
Hellen Miller, by Mary Lovering Holman, 1951, (non paginated, sketches
15 – 18)
Caveat - some errors – The Morse Genealogy: being a revision of the
Memorial of the Morses published by Rev. Abner Morse in 1850, by Howard
Morse and Emily Levitt, 1903
Also:
The English origins of Elizabeth (Jasper) Morse were written
up by Myrtle Stevens Hyde in The American
Genealogist, Volume 62 (1987), pages 235- 40.
My MORSE genealogy:
Generation 1: Samuel Morse,
son of Rev. Thomas Morse, baptized 12 June 1576 in Boxted, Essex, England, died
in Medfield, Massachusetts 5 December 1654; married on 29 June 1602 in Redgrave,
Suffolk, to Elizabeth Jasper, daughter of Lancelot Jasper and Rose
Shepard. She was baptized on 30 January
1579/80 in Redgrave, and died on 20 June 1655 in Medfield. Seven children.
Generation 2: Mary Morse, baptized on 13 August 1620 in
Burgate, Suffolk, died on 14 February 1688 in Sherborn, Massachusetts; married
on 10 August 1641 in Dedham to Samuel Bullen.
Ten children
Generation 3: Ephraim
Bullen m. Grace Fairbanks
Generation 4: John Bullen m. Sarah Underwood
Generation 5: Grace Bullen m. Ebenezer Healy
Generation 6: Comfort Haley m. Abigail Allen
Generation 7: Comfort Haley m. Rebecca Crosby
Generation 8: Joseph Edwin Healy m. Matilda Weston
Generation 9: Mary Etta Healey m. Peter Hoogerzeil
Generation 10: Florence Etta Hoogerzeil m. Arthur Treadwell
Hitchings
Generation 11: Gertrude Matilda Hitchings m. Stanley Elmer
Allen (my grandparents)
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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday ~ Morse of Dedham
and Medfield, Massachusetts”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted May 26, 2018, (
