Ancestry of
Samuel F. B. Morse

Painter and Co-Inventor of Morse Code

Sidney Breese

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• • Great-grandfather of Samuel F. B. Morse — 4th Generation
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  • 8 Jun 1767 
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  • Trinity Churchyard, New York, New York 
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  • Elizabeth Pinkethman
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  Samuel Breese (Ahnentafel No:6 )

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  • The epitaph from his tombstone in Trinity Churchyard shows the humor of Sidney Breese.

    “SIDNEY BREESE, JUNE 8, 1767, MADE BY HIMSELF. HA! SIDNEY, SIDNEY, LYEST THOU HERE! I HERE LYE TILL TIME IS FLOWN TO ITS EXTREMITY.”

• Sources for Sidney Breese

  • ¹ Lamb, Mrs. Martha J. and Mrs. Burton Harrison, History of the City of New York: Its Origin Rise, and Progress, Volume 3, New York: The A. S. Barnes Company (1896), 745.