William Morse (1614 - 1683)

Born 17 May 1614 in Marlborough, Wiltshire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Unknown) Morse — married before 1635 in England

Descendants

Died 29 Nov 1683 at age 69 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay

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William Morse migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). (See The Great Migration (Series 2), by R. C. Anderson, vol. 5, p. 177) Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm

Biography

William Morse was baptized in Marlborough, Wiltshire, England May 17, 1614. He was the son of Anthony Morse. He migrated to New England in 1635, on the ship James. He died in Newbury, Massachusetts November 29, 1683.^[1]

William and his wife Elizabeth had the following known children (approximate birth order based on order named in will):^[1]

• Elizabeth, b say 1640; had four children as of Aug 8, 1683
• Hannah, b Newbury March 6, 1641/2; m John Stiles by 1669
• Jonathan, b say 1644; m Mary Clarke at Newbury, May 3, 1671
• Obadiah, b about 1646; m Elizabeth Rawlins by 1670
• Timothy, b Newbury June 16, 1648; d Newbury Dec 10, 1659
• Abigail, b Newbury Feb 14, 1651/2; m first John Hendrick by 1678; m second Moses Pingry by 1695

William Morse died November 29, 1683, in Newbury, Massachusetts.^[2] and is buried in the "Burying Ground of the First Settlers," in Newbury. ^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Great Migration 1634-1635, M-P. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010.) Originally published as: The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume V, M-P, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2007. Reference page 177-180
2. ↑ Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850, Newbury Volume 2, page 668
3. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/60233820/william-morse

• "Massachusetts, Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FCMR-PXJ : accessed 07 Jul 2014), William Morse, 29 Nov 1683; citing Newbery, Essex, Massachusetts, reference 6; FHL microfilm 877468.
• Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (The Essex Institute, 1911) Vol. 2, Page 668
• The Blue Laws (Case, Tiffany & Co., Hartford, 1838)

• Page 309: "In the third year, 1679, the House of William Morse, at Newbury, was infested with demons after a most horrid manner,..."
• Page 311: "A little Boy belonging to the family, was a principal sufferer in these molestations..."

• Doliber, Donald A., It Happened in Essex County: Rehearsal for Hysteria - Newbury 1680, The Essex Genealogist (Essex Society of Genealogists, Mass., 1981) Vol. 1, Page 74.