Born in Medfield, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Ancestors 
Daughter of Joseph Cheney
and Hannah (Thurston) Cheney
Sister of
Hannah Cheney, Margaret (Cheney) Bullard, Prudence Cheney, Joseph Cheney, Susanna Cheney, Mary Cheney, Mary Cheney, Josiah Cheney, Prudence Cheney, Melitiah (Cheney) Amidon, Hannah Cheney [half], Joseph Cheney [half], Ephraim Cheney [half] and Hannah Cheney [half]
Wife of
Jeremiah Morse Jr
— married
19 Nov 1699 in Medfield, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Province
Descendants 
Died
at about age 46
in Medfield, Sufffolk, Massachusetts Bay Province
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Biography
Birth
Mehitabel was born to Joseph and Hannah Cheney in Medfield on July 10, 1680[1]
Marriage
Jeremiah married 'Mehettabel Chany' in Medfield on , Nov. 19, 1699[2]
They settled in the part of Medfield that became Medway in 1713.
Children
Jeremiah and Mehitabel had, mostly in Medfield: [3]
- Josiah, b. July 1, 1701,
- Uriah, b. Dec. 27, 1702, died April 17, 1704
- Mehitabell, b. Sept. 21, 1704, married Jeremiah Clark,, Feb. 2, 1727-8[4]
- Jeremiah, b. June 20, 1706, died Sept. 8 of that year
- Jeremiah, b. Aug. 19, 1707
- Uriah, b. Sept. 27, 1709
- Thomas, b. Oct. 17, 1711
- Mary, b. Sept 18, 1713 in Medway[5]
- Nathaniel, b. Oct. 30, 1713 in Medway[6]
- Abigail, b. Dec. 31, 1717, died Aug. 1, 1741
Death
Mehitabell Cheney Morse died a widow in Medfield on Oct. 4, 1727[7]
Sources
- ↑ Norfolk, Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts to the year 1850, page 31
- ↑ Norfolk, Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts to the year 1850, page 159
- ↑ Norfolk, Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts to the year 1850, pages 73-75, 159-160, 224-226
- ↑ Research Note: she might instead have been the Mehitable Morse who married Samuel Shears Dec. 13, 1726 but the many intermarriages between Clarks and this branch of the Morses argue otherwise
- ↑ Norfolk, Vital Records of Medway, Massachusetts to the year 1850, page 95
- ↑ Norfolk, Vital Records of Medway, Massachusetts to the year 1850, page 95
- ↑ Norfolk, Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts to the year 1850, page 299
- Tilden, William. History of the Town of Medfield, Massachusetts. 1650-1886 (Geo. H. Ellis, Boston, 1887) Page 441.
- Pope, Charles Henry. The Cheney Genealogy (Boston, MA, 1897) Page 45.
- Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1903)
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Cheney-2138 and Cheney-37 appear to represent the same person because: These profiles have the same exact birth and approx death dates, same parents (in the bio on -2138), and have to be the same person. One has her birth family, the other has her married family. Please merge them.
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