Ensign Anthony Morse, son of Anthony and Elizabeth (Knight) Morse, born in Newbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British America, 1 January 1662/3; died in Massachusetts Bay Colony, 16 May 1710, age 47; buried in the First Parish Burying Ground, Newbury; married in Newbury, 4 February 1685, Sarah Pike, eleven children.
Timeline
1662/3, January 1. Birth of Anthony Morse, probably in Newbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British America.[1][2][3]
About 1677. Death of mother Elizabeth (Knight) Morse and sister Elizabeth Morse.
1678, February 25. Death of father Anthony Morse.
1685, February 4. Marriage of Anthony Morse and Sarah Pike in Newbury.[1][4]
1710, May 16. Death of Ensign Anthony Morse in Massachusetts Bay Colony. Burial in the First Parish Burying Ground, Newbury.[3]
Sources
↑ 1.01.1 Lord, Henry Dutch. Memorial of the Family of Morse, Compiled from the Original Records for the Hon. Asa Porter Morse. Cambridgeport, MA: Harvard Printing Co., 1896. pp 7, 18, 19. [Digital copy available from FamilySearch.]
↑ 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. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1861. p 237. [Digital copy available at Internet Archive].
↑ 3.03.1 Find A Grave, database online, Memorial# 49086878, www.findagrave.com. The memorial has the cemetery location and pictures of the headstone.
↑ 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. p 393. [Digital copy available at Internet Archive.]
Thank you to Kristen Cart, Find A Grave member #47008250, for permission to use her photograph of Anthony Morse's headstone.
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