Ancestry of
Samuel F. B. Morse

Painter and Co-Inventor of Morse Code

Sarah French

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• • 3rd Great-grandmother of Samuel F. B. Morse — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 37 
  • Father:
  • William French 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • Mar 1638 
  • Birth Location:
  • Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 12 Jun 1715 
  • Death Location:
  • Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts  
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Jonathan Peake
  • Marriage Date:
  • 15 Aug 1660 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts  
  • Child:

  Jonathan Peake Jr. (Ahnentafel No:18 )

• Sources for Sarah French

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Roxbury Deaths, Vol. 2, Page 610.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 2023, Vol. 177, p. 43.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles and others, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. II, C-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2001), 592.
  • ⁴ Linzee, John William, The History of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles of Roxbury, Mass. and Their Ancestors and Descendants, Boston: Privately Printed (1913), 426.
  • ⁵ Morris, Jonathan Flynt, The Lineal Ancestors of Edward Morris, and Mercy Flynt of Bilbraham, Mass., Hartford: Press of Wiley, Waterman and Eaton (1882), 20.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 36.