Samuel Morgan (abt. 1638 - abt. 1698)

Born about 1638 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Dixie) Morgan — married 15 Oct 1658 in Salem, Massachusetts

Husband of Mary (Phippen) Black — married about 1692 in Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died about Nov 1698 at about age 60 in Beverly, Essex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Samuel Morgan was born about 1636 or 1637 in Salem, Massachusetts. He was baptized at age 14 in 1650 in First Church, Salem. Elizabeth Dixie was baptized in 1641 in Marblehead, Massachusetts, just west of Salem. They were married in 1658, when he was 22 years old and she was at least 18. The couple settled in Beverly, Massachusetts, about three miles north of Salem, where they had many children:

1. Aaron (1663)
2. twins Joseph and Samuel (1666; Joseph died young)
3. Luke
4. Robert (1670)
5. John (1673)
6. William
7. Joseph (1681)
8. Elizabeth
9. Anne (1685)

Elizabeth died in February 1690, leaving Samuel with children ages 5 through 24. Samuel moved to Beverly in 1691 and remarried to Mary Phippen. He died in 1698 when he was about 62.

Sources

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