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.
↑ 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.
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