Ancestry of
Samuel F. B. Morse

Painter and Co-Inventor of Morse Code

Peter Morse

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Samuel F. B. Morse — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 16 
  • Father:
  • Anthony Morse 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Barnard   
  • Birth Date:
  • 14 Nov 1674 
  • Birth Location:
  • Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 2 Nov 1721 
  • Death Location:
  • Woodstock, Windham, Connecticut 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Woodstock Hill Cemetery, Woodstock, Windham, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Priscilla Carpenter
  • Marriage Date:
  • 22 Dec 1698 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Woodstock, Windham, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  John Morse (Ahnentafel No:8 )

  • Notes: 
  • Died from small pox only 3 days after his brother John died from it.

• Sources for Peter Morse

  • ¹ Cemetery Transcriptions from the NEHGS Manuscript Collections, (2002), 196010.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Newbury Births, Vol. 1, Page 341 .
  • ³ Vital Records of Woodstock, Connecticut, 1686-1854, Hartford, CT: The Case, Lockwood and Brainard Co. (1914), 2, 26.
  • ⁴ Cutter, William Richard, Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Middlesex Co., Mass., Vol. 2, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1908), 464.
  • ⁵ 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), 27.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 36.
  • ⁷ Sprague, William B., The Life of Jedidiah Morse, D.D., New York: Anson D. F. Randolph and Company (1874), 1.
  • ⁸ Torry, Clarence, New England Marriages Prior to 1700, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2004), 521.