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Harry Chapin

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Harry Chapin

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    Benjamin Morse

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    • 8th Great-grandfather of Harry Chapin — 11th Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 1482 
    • Birth Date:
    • 28 Mar 1639/1640 
    • Birth Location:
    • Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts 
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    • Death Date:
    • from 22 Jun 1714 to 5 Jun 1716 
    • Death Location:
    • prob. Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts 
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    • Marriage Date:
    • 27 Aug 1667 
    • Marriage Location:
    • Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts 
    • Children:

    • Benjamin Morse

      Ruth Morse

      Joseph Morse

      Sarah Morse

      Hannah Morse

      Mary Morse (Ahnentafel No:741 )

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  • Sources for Benjamin Morse

    • 1 Historical Collections of the Essex Institute, 1907, Vol. 43, p. 169.
    • 6 Appleton, W. S., Some Descendants of William Sawyer of Newbury, Mass., Boston: Press of David Clapp and Son (1891), 1.
    • 7 Coffin, Joshua, A Sketch of the History of Newbury, Newburyport, and West Newbury From 1635 to 1845, Boston: Published by Samuel G. Drake (1845), 400.
    • 9 Kilpatrick, Marian Douglas Jones, The Kilpatrick Family: Ancestors and Descendants of Marian Douglas Jones and Robert Jackson Kilpatrick, Beatrice, NB: Privately Printed (1930), 233-234.
    • 10 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, 12-14.
    • 11 Stearns, Ezra S., comp., Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire: A Record of the Achievements of Her People . . ., Vol. 1, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company (1908), 258.
    • 12 Stearns, Ezra S., comp., Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire: A Record of the Achievements of Her People . . ., Vol. 1, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company (1908), 135.
    • 13 Torry, Clarence, New England Marriages Prior to 1700, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2004), 520.

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