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Samuel Morse

Samuel was born on November 18th, 1744 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts.¹ Samuel's father was John Morse and his mother is Mary Guild. His paternal grandparents were Ezra Morse and Mary; his maternal grandparents are Nathaniel Guild and Mehitable Farrington or Hartshorn. He had six brothers and three sisters, named John, Nathaniel, Levi, Phillius, Ebenezer, Gilead, Mary, Taphanes and Mary. He died at the age of 74 on September 3rd, 1819.²

Ancestor Pedigree Chart
- Samuel Morse
  - b.1586 in Dedham, England d.20 Jun 1654
  
  John Morse
  - b.1611 d.1657
  
  Elizabeth Jasper ^*
  - b.~  1587 d.20 Jun 1655 in Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts
  
  Ezra Morse
  - b.05 Dec 1643 d.1697
  
  Annis Chickering
  - d.01 Sep 1693
  
  Ezra Morse
  - b.28 Jan 1671 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts d.17 Oct 1760
  
  Joanna Hoare
  
  John Morse
  - b.10 Nov 1703 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts d.22 Nov 1750 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts
  
  Mary
  - d.17 Sep 1746
  
  Samuel Morse
  - b.18 Nov 1744 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts d.03 Sep 1819
  
  Richard Guild
  
  John Guild
  - b.~  1616 in England d.~03 Nov 1682 in Will proved
  
  Samuel Guild
  - b.07 Nov 1647 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts d.01 Jan 1730
  
  Elizabeth Crooke
  - d.31 Aug 1669
  
  Nathaniel Guild
  
  Samuel Woodcock
  
  Mary Woodcock
  
  Ann Hersey
  
  Mary Guild
  
  Mehitable Farrington or Hartshorn
  
  ^*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)

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Details of Samuel's family with Lois Wentworth

¹ Early Vital Records of Norfolk County, Massachusetts to about 1850 @ Dedham, p.72
² Memorial of the Morses: Containing the History of Seven Persons of the Name, who Settled in America in the Seventeenth Century. With a Catalogue of Ten Thousand of Their Descendants @ p. 6