Ancestry of
Samuel F. B. Morse

Painter and Co-Inventor of Morse Code

John Child Jr.

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• • Great-grandfather of Samuel F. B. Morse — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 10 
  • Father:
  • John Child 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Wales   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1697 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 1 Sep 1764 
  • Death Location:
  • Woodstock, Windham, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Abigail Aspinwall
  • Marriage Date:
  • 7 Dec 1721 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Woodstock, Windham, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Sarah Child (Ahnentafel No:5 )

• Sources for John Child Jr.

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 2005, Vol. 159, pp. 317-318, 322-324.
  • ² Woodstock, CT: Vital Records, 1686-1854, p. 318, Death record for John Child.
  • ³ Woodstock, CT: Vital Records, 1686-1854, p. 27, Marriage record for John Child and Abigail Aspinwall.
  • ⁴ Paine, Lyman May, My Ancestors: A Memorial of John Paine and Mary Ann May of East Woodstock, Conn., Chicago: Printed for Private Circulation (1914), 67.