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Joseph Morse

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Margaret Mead — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 428 
  • Father:
  • Joseph Morse 
  • Mother:
  • Hannah Phillips   
  • Birth Date:
  • 26 Sep 1649 
  • Birth Location:
  • Holliston, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 18 Feb 1717/1718 
  • Death Location:
  • Sherborn, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Center Cemetery, Holliston, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Mehetabel Wood
  • Marriage Date:
  • 17 Oct 1671 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Joseph Morse (Ahnentafel No:214 )

  • Notes: 

  • The death record for Joseph Morse in Sherborn, Massachusetts, list the date of his death as 18 FEB 1717/18 which conflicts with his tombstone which gives 19 FEB 1717/18 as the date.

• Additional marriages for Joseph Morse

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  • Spouse:
  • Hannah Babcock
  • Marriage Date:
  • 11 Apr 1683
  • Marriage Location:
  • Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts

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  • Spouse:
  • Hannah Baxter
  • Marriage Date:
  • 17 May 1713
  • Marriage Location:
  • Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts

• Sources for Joseph Morse

  • ¹ Early New England Families, 1641-1700, Joseph Morse (m. 1638), p. 5.
  • ² Early New England Families, 1641-1700, Thomas Dyer (m. 1641, 1670), p. 6.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 12/17/2014).
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Sherborn, Vol. 1, p. 67, Birth record for son James Morse.
  • ⁵ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Holliston, Vol. 1, p. 111, Birth record for Joseph Morse.
  • ⁶ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Sherborn, Vol. 1, p. 215, Death record for Joseph Morse.
  • ⁷ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Holliston, Vol. 1, p. 338, Death record for Joseph Morse.
  • ⁸ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Medfield, Vol. 1, p. 159, Marriage record for Joseph Morse and Mehitabell Wood.
  • ⁹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Medfield, Vol. 1, p. 159, Marriage record for Joseph Morse and Hanah Badcock.
  • ¹⁰ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Weymouth, Vol. 2, p. 125, Marriage record for Joseph Morse and Hannah Dyer.
  • ¹¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Medfield, Vol. 1, p. 74, Birth record for son Joseph Morse.
  • ¹² Adams, Andrew N., A Genealogical History of Henry Adams, of Braintree, Mass., and His Descendants; also John Adams of Cambridge, Mass., Rutland, VT: The Tuttle Company (1898), 10.
  • ¹³ Morse, J. Howard and Miss Emily W. Leavitt, comp., Morse Genealogy Comprising the Descendants of Samuel, Anthony, William and Joseph Morse and John Moss, Springfield, Massachusetts: Springfield Printing and Binding Company (1903), 22-23.
  • ¹⁴ Morse, Rev. Abner, Memorial of the Morses: Containing the History of Seven Persons of the Name . . ., Boston: Published by William Veazie (1850), 40-41.