Ruth (Sawyer) Morse (1648 - 1707)

Born 16 Sep 1648 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Wife of Benjamin Morse — married 27 Aug 1667 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died 22 Nov 1707 at age 59 in Newbury, Essex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Ruth Sawyer, daughter of William and Ruth (Bitfield) Sawyer, born Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British America, 16 September 1648; died Newbury, 22 November 1707, age 59; buried at the Burying Ground of the First Settlers, Newbury; married 26 August 1667, Benjamin Morse.

Timeline

1648, September 16. Birth of Ruth Sawyer.^[1][2][3][4] (Savage gives her birth as 10 September 1648).^[5]

1667, August 26. Marriage of Ruth Sawyer and Benjamin Morse probably in Newbury.^[1][3][6]. Cutter^[7] gives the marriage date as 26 August 1669. Savage^[8] has the date as 27 August 1667.

1707. Death of Ruth (Sawyer) Morse in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony. (The year 1707 is from the previous undocumented WikiTree profile. The Find-A-Grave memorial has the year 1715 (also undocumented)^[1]. Ruth was buried in the Burying Ground of the First Settlers, Newbury.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Find A Grave, database online, Memorial# 61147790, www.findagrave.com.
2. ↑ Stearns, Ezra S. Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire, A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a Nation, Volume I, p 100. New York, The Lewis Publishing Co., 1908. [ Digital copy available at Internet Archive.]
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Appleton, W. S. Some Descendants of William Sawyer of Newbury, Mass. Boston: Press of David Clapp & Son, 1891. p 1. [Digital copy available at Internet Archive].
4. ↑ The Essex Institute. Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusette to the End of the Year 1849. Volume I, Births. Salem, MA: Newcomb & Gauss, 1911. p 466. [Digital copy available at Internet Archive.]
5. ↑ Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692 on the Basis of Farmer's Register. Volume IV, p 31. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1862. [Digital copy available at Internet Archive].
6. ↑ The Essex Institute. Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849, Volume II, Marriages and Deaths. Salem, MA: Newcomb & Gauss, 1911. pp 341, 442. [Digital copy available at Internet Archive.]
7. ↑ Cutter, William Richard, A.M. Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Volume II, pp 417-418, 464. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1908. [Digital Copy available at Google Books]
8. ↑ Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692 on the Basis of Farmer's Register. Volume III, p 237. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1861. [Digital copy available at Internet Archive].

See also:

• Smith, C. Banford. Descendants of Samuel Poore 1620-1683 And His Wife, Rebecca of Newberry, Massachusetts Through Five Generations. Newburyport, MA: Parker River Researchers, 1991. [Digital copy available for borrowing at Internet Archive.]
• Ancestry Family Trees. Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.

Acknowledgments

• Thank you to the genealogists who initiated and added facts and sources to this profile (see Changes Tab).