Fear (Morse) Perkins (1765 - 1853)

Born 9 Oct 1765 in Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died 9 Oct 1853 at age 88 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Fear was born Plympton, Massachusetts in 1765. She was the daughter of Ephraim Morse and Fear West.

Fear married Asa Perkins (1754-bef.1850) and they had one son.

Fear died in Bridgewater in 1853.

Research Notes

• There was a Fear Morss, child of Ephraim and Fear, born in Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, on Oct. 9, 1765.^[1]

• There was a Fear Morse who died at age 87 on 9 Oct 1853 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts.^[2] She is listed as "Single".

• AmericanAncestors.org has no record of a marriage between Fear Morse and Asa Perkins as of Oct 2021.

• Interesting that Fear used the last name of Morse on her 1850 U.S. Census record and her death record. She is also marked as "single" on the death record. The dates and people indicate that these records do belong to her.

Sources

1. ↑ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016). Found here.
2. ↑ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910. (From original records held by the Massachusetts Archives. Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004.). Found here.

• "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCGJ-VKS : 15 January 2020), Fear Morss, 1765.

• "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHGC-5JS : 10 November 2020), Fear Morse, 9 Oct 1853; citing Death, Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009809.

• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MD97-D31 : 22 December 2020), Fear Marse in household of Asa Perkins, Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

Acknowledgements

This person was created on 21 October 2010 through the import of master 11_12.ged.