Ancestry of
Samuel F. B. Morse

Painter and Co-Inventor of Morse Code

Jedidiah Morse

View famous kin of Jedidiah Morse

• • Grandfather of Samuel F. B. Morse — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 4 
  • Father:
  • John Morse 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Peake   
  • Birth Date:
  • 8 Jul 1726 
  • Birth Location:
  • Woodstock, Windham, Connecticut 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 28 Dec 1819 
  • Death Location:
  • Woodstock, Windham, Connecticut 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Woodstock Hill Cemetery, Woodstock, Windham, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Child
  • Marriage Date:
  • 19 Feb 1746/1747 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Woodstock, Windham, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Jedidiah Morse (Ahnentafel No:2 )

• Sources for Jedidiah Morse

  • ¹ Cemetery Transcriptions from the NEHGS Manuscript Collections, (2002), p. 199295, Cemetery record for Jedidiah Morse.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 05/10/2011).
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 2005, Vol. 159, pp. 317-318, 322.
  • ⁴ Woodstock, CT: Vital Records, 1686-1854, p. 285, Marriage record for Jedidiah Morss and Sarah Child.
  • ⁵ Child, Elias, Genealogy of the Child, Childs and Childe Families, of the Past and Present in the United States and the Canadas, Utica, NY: Curtiss and Childs, Printers (1881), 258.
  • ⁶ Dexter, Franklin Bowditch, Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College with Annals of the College History, Volume 4, July 1778-June 1792, New York: Henry Holt and Company (1907), 295.
  • ⁷ 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.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 36.
  • ⁹ Sprague, William B., The Life of Jedidiah Morse, D.D., New York: Anson D. F. Randolph and Company (1874), 1.