Ancestry of
Samuel F. B. Morse

Painter and Co-Inventor of Morse Code

Samuel Finley

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• • Great-grandfather of Samuel F. B. Morse — 4th Generation
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  • 2 Jul 1715 
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  • Armagh, County Armagh, Ireland (now Northern Ireland) 
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  • 17 Jul 1766 
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  • Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania 
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  Rebecca Finley (Ahnentafel No:7 )

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  • 5th President of New Jersey College (later known as Princeton University)

• Sources for Samuel Finley

  • 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.
  • ² Sprague, William B., The Life of Jedidiah Morse, D.D., New York: Anson D. F. Randolph and Company (1874), 15.
  • ³ Wikipedia, "Samuel Finley", (accessed 05/10/2011).
  • ⁴ Youmans, William Jay, ed., Pioneers of Science in America: Sketches of their Lives and Scientific Work, New York: D. Appleton and Company (1896), 234.