Joseph Morse Jr (1744 - 1846)

Born 7 Mar 1744 in Sturbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay

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Died 10 Mar 1846 at age 102 in Vermont, USA

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Biography

Joseph was born in Sturbridge, Massachusetts on March 7, 1745. He was the son of Joseph Morse and Experience (Morse) Morse.^[1] He married Mary Martin in Sturbridge, September 14, 1768. She died May 10, 1829; he died March 10, 1846.^[2] They had quite a large family:

i. Eunice, born May 23, 1769, d.y.^[3]

ii. Amos, born January 19, 1771, died February 12, 1777.^[4]

iii. Leonard, born April 15, 1773, died February 6, 1777.^[5][4]

iv. Asenath, born July 29, 1775, died February 2, 1777.^[6][4]

v. Amos, born February 14, 1778, removed to Brookfield, Mass.^[7]

vi. Leonard, born August 21, 1780, married, in 1804, Rachel Grant; lived in Sturbridge, in Vermont, and at Morse's Plain, Mich.^[8]

vii. Asenath, born 2 July 1782.^[9]

viii. Betsey, born August 1, 1784, married John Tufts of Gorham, N. Y.^[10]

ix. Aaron Martin, born April 1, 1787.^[11]

x. Newell, born October 18, 1789, married, went to Gorham, N. Y., had two children and died there in 1819.^[12]

xi. Freeman, born 13 Jan 1792. He died at the age of nineteen years.^[13]

Sources

1. ↑ Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Ancestry Record 2495 #4620604
2. ↑ Morse Genealogy: Comprising the Descendants of Samuel, Anthony, William, and Joseph Morse and John Moss: Being a Revision of the Memorial of the Morses, published by Rev. Abner Morse, 1850, compiled by J. Howard Morse and Miss Emily W. Leavitt, under the auspices of The Morse Society, New York, 1903. Joseph Morse is Record #1475, Descendants of Samuel, Sixth Generation, Pg. 199.https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=kAvHcdo4tBUC&hl=en&pg=GBS.RA5-PA198 Morse Genealogy
3. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4XM-W9B : 10 November 2020), Joseph Morse in entry for Eunice Morse, 23 May 1769; citing Birth, Sturbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009532.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FH7K-43J : 10 November 2020), Asinath Morse, 2 Feb 1777; citing Death, Sturbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009532.
5. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4GR-K9T : 10 November 2020), Joseph; Junr Morse in entry for Leonard Morse, 15 Apr 1773; citing Birth, Sturbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007011132.
6. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZL3-L98 : 15 January 2020), Joseph Morse in entry for Asmith Morse, 1775.
7. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4XM-8HK : 10 November 2020), Joseph Morse in entry for Amos Morse, 14 Feb 1778; citing Birth, Sturbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009532.
8. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4GR-KS7 : 10 November 2020), Joseph; Junr Morse in entry for Leonard Morse, 21 Aug 1780; citing Birth, Sturbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007011132.
9. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQDH-WL5 : 15 January 2020), Joseph Morse in entry for Asenah Morse, 1782.
10. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQDH-78R : 15 January 2020), Joseph Morse in entry for Betsey Morse, 1784.
11. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQDH-XZZ : 15 January 2020), Joseph Morse in entry for Aaron Martin Morse, 1787.
12. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4GR-KZJ : 10 November 2020), Joseph Morse in entry for Newell Morse, 18 Oct 1789; citing Birth, Sturbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007011132.
13. ↑ "Vermont Vital Records, 1760-1954", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XFVT-GMS : 19 February 2021), Joseph Morse in entry for Freeman Morse, 1792.