Deacon Benjamin Morse

1640 -

• Name	Benjamin Morse
  Birth	4 Mar 1640	Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
  Married	27 Aug 1667 (27 years)	Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.   [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
  Ruth Sawyer, the daughter of Lt. William and Ruth (Bitfield) Saywer. She was born on 16 September 1648 in Newbury, Massachusetts.1 On 30 May 1693 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, Ruth Sawyer was mentioned in the will of Lt. William Sawyer. She died about 1715. Issue: 1. Benjamin Morse (1668-1743) 2. Ruth Morse (1669-____) 3. Joseph Morse (1672-____) 4. William Morse (1674-1749) 5. Sarah Morse (1676-1680) 6. Philip Morse (1677-____) 7. Sarah Morse (1680-____) 8. Ann Morse (1681-____) 9. Mary Morse (1686-____) 10. Samuel Morse (1688-____)
  History	1668 (27 years)
  He took the Oath of Fidelity and Allegiance. He did so again in 1678.
  Freeman	1673 (32 years)
  Religion	say 1680 (39 years)	Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.   [6]
  Ruth and Benjamin were members of the First Baptist Church in Boston.
  Living	1707 (66 years)
  Siblings	5 brothers and 5 sisters
  1. Robert Morse   2. Peter Morse   3. Joseph Morse,   b. About 1634, Wiltshire, England d. 15 Jan 1678, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  (Age 44 years) + 4. Lt. Anthony Morse,   b. 1638, Wiltshire, England d. 22 Feb 1677, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  (Age 39 years) ▻ Elizabeth Knight,  m. 8 May 1659 ;   Mary Barnard,  m. 11 Nov 1669   5. Deacon Benjamin Morse,   b. 4 Mar 1640, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.   6. Sarah Morse   7. Hannah Morse   8. Lydia Morse   d. young   9. Lydia Morse,   b. 7 Oct 1647, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 19 May 1648, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  (Age 0 years)   10. Esther Morse   11. Joshua Morse
  Patriarch & Matriarch	Anthony Morse   d. 12 Oct 1686, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.   (Father)  Mary  (Mother)
  Person ID, Branch	I18324
  Last Modified	26 Mar 2019

  
  

  Father	Anthony Morse   d. 12 Oct 1686, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Mary
  Relationship	Birth
  Family ID	F1356	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Pedigree

  ← Click to display 1Deacon Benjamin Morse(1640 – ) 2Anthony Morse( – 1686) 3Mary

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 4 Mar 1640 - Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Married - 27 Aug 1667 - Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Religion - say 1680 - Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Sources 🟢 Primary Evidence 🟡 Secondary Evidence 🟠 Tertiary Evidence 🔴 Unreliable Evidence

  [S814] Sawyer, Eleanor Grace. Sawyer Families of New England 1636-1900 , (Camden, Maine: Penobscot Press, 1995). [S829] Underhill, Lora Altine Woodbury. Descendants of Edward Small of New England. Volume 1 , (New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1934). [S830] Sawyier, Nathaniel. A Genealogy of Some of the Descendants of William Sawyer of Newbury, Mass, (Manchester, New Hampshire: William E. Moore, 1889). [S811] Appleton, William S. "Family of William Sawyer of Newbury", (Boston: The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, volume XXVIII, 1874). [S812] Appleton, William S. Some Descendants of William Sawyer of Newbury, Mass., (Boston: David Clapp & Son, 1891). [S645] Hoyt, David W., The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts, with some Related Families of Newbury, Haverhill, Ipswich, and Hampton volume II, Reprint 1902, (Providence, Rhode Island: Snow & Farnham, 1902). [S813] Currier, Richard Sawyer. Genealogical History of the Currier Family , (Montpelier, Vermont: Capital City Press, 1935).