Ancestry of
Ben Jealous

President and CEO of NAACP

Joseph Morse

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• • 9th Great-grandfather of Ben Jealous — 12th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 3040 
  • Father:
  • Anthony Morse 
  • Mother:
  • Ann Cox   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1637 
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  • Death Date:
  • 15 Jan 1678 
  • Death Location:
  • Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Woodhouse
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1669 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Benjamin "Tertius" Morse

  Joseph Morse (Ahnentafel No:1520 )

  Joshua Morse

  • Notes: 
  • Joseph died of small pox. Joseph and Mary are believed to be the parents of John Morse who married Sarah Tucker.

• Sources for Joseph Morse

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Newbury Deaths, Vol. 2, p. 667.
  • ² Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. V, M-P, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2007), 162.
  • ³ Hill, Peter B., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 11, Part 1, 2nd edition, Edward Doty, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2009), 23.
  • ⁴ 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), Anthony Morse Section, pp. 3, 11.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 173.
  • ⁶ Torry, Clarence, New England Marriages Prior to 1700, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2004), 521.

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