Ancestry of
Samuel F. B. Morse

Painter and Co-Inventor of Morse Code

Dorcas French

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• • 4th Great-grandmother of Samuel F. B. Morse — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 73 
  • Father:
  • Thomas French 
  • Mother:
  • Susan Riddlesdale   
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  • Christening Date:
  • 31 Jul 1614 
  • Christening Location:
  • St. Edmund's, Assington, Suffolk, England  
  • Death Date:
  • 30 Dec 1697 
  • Death Location:
  • Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts  
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Christopher Peake
  • Marriage Date:
  • 3 Jan 1636/1637 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts  
  • Child:

  Jonathan Peake (Ahnentafel No:36 )

• Additional marriages for Dorcas French

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  • Spouse:
  • Griffin Craft
  • Marriage Date:
  • AFT Feb 1679

• Sources for Dorcas French

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Roxbury Deaths, Vol. 2, Page 496.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 2023, Vol. 177, p. 42.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 1, A-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 491, 705.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 3, P-W, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1414.
  • ⁵ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. III, G-H, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2003), 705.
  • ⁶ Davis, Walter Goodwin, The Ancestry of Dudley Wildes, Portland, ME: Anthoensen Press (1959), 64.
  • ⁷ Linzee, John William, The History of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles of Roxbury, Mass. and Their Ancestors and Descendants, Boston: Privately Printed (1913), 412, 425-426.