Ancestry of
Samuel F. B. Morse

Painter and Co-Inventor of Morse Code

John Morse

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• • Great-grandfather of Samuel F. B. Morse — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 8 
  • Father:
  • Peter Morse 
  • Mother:
  • Priscilla Carpenter   
  • Birth Date:
  • 29 Dec 1699 
  • Birth Location:
  • Woodstock, Windham, Connecticut 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • 13 Nov 1764 
  • Death Location:
  • Woodstock, Windham, Connecticut 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Woodstock Hill Cemetery, Woodstock, Windham, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Peake
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 8 Jan 1725/1726 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Woodstock, Windham, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Jedidiah Morse (Ahnentafel No:4 )

• Sources for John Morse

  • ¹ Cemetery Transcriptions from the NEHGS Manuscript Collections, (2002), 197495.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 05/10/2011).
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 2005, Vol. 159, p. 322.
  • ⁴ Vital Records of Woodstock, Connecticut, 1686-1854, Hartford, CT: The Case, Lockwood and Brainard Co. (1914), 6, 32.
  • ⁵ 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.
  • ⁶ 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), 52.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 36.