Edmund Morse (abt. 1695 - abt. 1780)

Born about 26 Feb 1695 in Sherborn, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Rachel (Sheffield) Morse — married 4 May 1722 in Sherborn, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay [uncertain]

Descendants

Died about 25 Aug 1780 at about age 85 in Sherborn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States [uncertain]

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Biography

Born about 1694/95, at Sherborn, Massachusetts Bay. Son of Samuel and Bethia Holbrook.

Married Rachel Sheffield, who was born in 1702, in Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts.^[1] Rachel and Edmund had at least 5 children. ^[2]

• Beulah b. 4 March 1723
• Rachel b. 8 June 1725
• Margaret b. February 1728
• William b. 23 October 1734, d. 31 January 1735
• Elizabeth b. 9 March. 1737
• William (name apparently reused) b. 29 April 1746

According to his grave marker, Edmund died in August, 1780 and was buried in the Old Cemetery in Mendon, Worcester County, Massachusetts.^[3]

Research Notes

Samuel Morse was a fairly common name in Massachussetts, which has probably added to the confusion not only of his identity, but also to confusion about the identity of his spouse and children. Whether Edmund Morse of Sherborn--whose parents are recorded in original documents as Samuel and Bethia Morse of Sherborne^[4]--is the son of Samuel Morse of Groton remains uncertain.

Sources

1. ↑ Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 for Edmond Morse, Births, Marriages, and Death. Source Information Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 [database on-line with images]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data:Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook); in https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2495/images/40143_268709__0002-00064?usePUB=true&_phsrc=uWG218&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&pId=7088119.
2. ↑ Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 for Edmond Morse, Mendon Births, Marriages and Death, in https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2495/images/40143_268706__0001-00022?usePUB=true&_phsrc=uWG229&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&pId=7083309
3. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9520276/edmund-morse
4. ↑ Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 for Edmund Morse, Sherborn Births, Marriages and Death, in https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2495/images/40143_267965__0132-00024?usePUB=true&usePUBJs=true&pId=7595608. Source Information Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 [database on-line with images]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data:Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook).

• Baldwin, Thomas W. Vital Records of Sherborn, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. (Boston, Mass: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1911), 155. Morse, Edmond and Rachel Sheffield, May 4, 1722.
• The Sprague Project http://www.sprague-database.org/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I161708&tree=SpragueProject
• https://archive.org/details/165527/page/n62/mode/1up?q=Bethia