Samuel Morse 
(1576 - 5 December 1654)
Date this page was last edited=2 Feb 2012
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Samuel Morse was born in 1576. He was the son of Thomas Morse and Margaret King.1,2 Samuel Morse was baptized on 12 June 1576 at Boxted, Essex, England.3
Samuel Morse married Elizabeth Jasper, daughter of Lancelot Jasper and Rose ____, on 29 June 1602 at Redgrave, Suffolk, England.3 Samuel Morse and Elizabeth Jasper emigrated on 15 April 1635 from London, England, to New England on the ship Increase.3,4,5 Samuel Morse was a husbandman.3
G. Andrews Moriarty, Jr., in his 1929 article, wrote: On his arrival in New England Samuel Morse went first to Watertown, Mass., where he was admitted to the church and where his son Daniel, who had crossed the Atlantic before his father, had already settled. . . Samuel Morse remained only a short time in Watertown. In 1636 he was a proprietor of Dedham, where he was prominent in the early settlement of the town, a member of the First Church there at its organization, a freeman 8 Oct. 1640, and a town officer. His last days were spent at Medfield, Mass., which had been set off from Dedham in 1651 and was the home of his daughter Mary, the wife of Dea. Samuel Bullen. The son of a minister of the Church of England, Samuel Morse was a man of fair education and of considerable importance in the Massachusetts communities in which he lived. Among his numerous descendants were several ministers, graduates of Harvard.6 He left a will dated 2 December 1654 at Medfield, Massachusetts.7,8
The inventory of his estate, taken 5 December 1654, showed a valuation of £124. 7s.7,9
Samuel Morse died on 5 December 1654 in Medfield, Massachusetts.3
Samuel Morse married Elizabeth Jasper, daughter of Lancelot Jasper and Rose ____, on 29 June 1602 at Redgrave, Suffolk, England.3 Samuel Morse and Elizabeth Jasper emigrated on 15 April 1635 from London, England, to New England on the ship Increase.3,4,5 Samuel Morse was a husbandman.3
G. Andrews Moriarty, Jr., in his 1929 article, wrote: On his arrival in New England Samuel Morse went first to Watertown, Mass., where he was admitted to the church and where his son Daniel, who had crossed the Atlantic before his father, had already settled. . . Samuel Morse remained only a short time in Watertown. In 1636 he was a proprietor of Dedham, where he was prominent in the early settlement of the town, a member of the First Church there at its organization, a freeman 8 Oct. 1640, and a town officer. His last days were spent at Medfield, Mass., which had been set off from Dedham in 1651 and was the home of his daughter Mary, the wife of Dea. Samuel Bullen. The son of a minister of the Church of England, Samuel Morse was a man of fair education and of considerable importance in the Massachusetts communities in which he lived. Among his numerous descendants were several ministers, graduates of Harvard.6 He left a will dated 2 December 1654 at Medfield, Massachusetts.7,8
The inventory of his estate, taken 5 December 1654, showed a valuation of £124. 7s.7,9 Samuel Morse died on 5 December 1654 in Medfield, Massachusetts.3
Child of Samuel Morse and Elizabeth Jasper
- John Morse+7 (1607/8-1657)
Citations
- [S398] G. Andrews Moriarty Jr., "Genealogical Research in England", 385.
- [S398] G. Andrews Moriarty Jr., "Genealogical Research in England", 284.
- [S398] G. Andrews Moriarty Jr., "Genealogical Research in England", 286.
- [S403] Samuel G. Drake, "Founders of New England", 311.
- [S343] Hotten, Our Early Emigrant Ancestors, 64-65.
- [S398] G. Andrews Moriarty Jr., "Genealogical Research in England", 289.
- [S398] G. Andrews Moriarty Jr., "Genealogical Research in England", 290.
- [S401] Morse and Leavitt, Morse Genealogy, Part 1, 2-3.
- [S401] Morse and Leavitt, Morse Genealogy, Part 1, 3.
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