Selected Families and Individuals


Joseph Dyer 1. Joseph married Hannah Frairy.

Hannah Frairy 1. Hannah married Joseph Dyer.

They had the following children.

  F i Sarah Dyer was born on 19 Sep 1702. She died on 6 Apr 1752.

Captain Joseph Morse [Parents] 1 was born 1 on 26 Jul 1649. He died 1 on 19 Feb 1717 in Sherborn. Joseph married 1 Mehitable Wood on 17 Oct 1671.

Other marriages:
Badcock, Hannah

Mehitable Wood was born 1 on 22 Jan 1655. She died 1 on 12 Nov 1681. Mehitable married 1 Captain Joseph Morse 1 on 17 Oct 1671.


Joseph Morse [Parents] was born 1 about 1615. He died 1 before 1658 in Dedham. Joseph married Hannah Phillips on 1 Jul 1638.

Only son who came from England to America.

Joseph Morse, son of Samuel Morse (1), the immigrant, also a progenitor of Edwin Ruthven Morse, of Worcester, was born in England in 1615. He settled first in Watertown. but in 1637. after his father came, removed to Dedham. He married in 1638, Hannah Phillips. While he was clearing the land at Medfield and preparing the house for his family they lived at Dorchester, but he died before he had his new home ready and the growing corn and unfinished log house were left for his children to care for. The widow married in 1658. Thomas Boyden. who died in Boston in. 1676 at the home of her eldest daughter. The children of Joseph and Hannah (Phillips) Morse were: Samuel, born 1639, mentioned below; Hannah, 1640; Sarah, 1643; Dorcas, 1645. died 1725; Elizabeth. 1647, died 1715; Joseph, 1649. died 1718. settled in Sherborn; Jeremiah. 1651 : A child, who died young.

Hannah Phillips. Hannah married Joseph Morse on 1 Jul 1638.

Other marriages:
Boyden, Thomas

They had the following children.

  M i Samuel Morse was born in 1639.
  M ii Captain Joseph Morse was born on 26 Jul 1649. He died on 19 Feb 1717.

Samuel Morse 1 was born 1 about 1587 in England. He died 1 in 1654. Samuel married Elizabeth 1.

Might be son of Richard and Margaret Symson.

Samuel Morse was born in England in 1586. He sailed for New England in the ship "Increase." April 15. 1635, and settled at Dedham. He was admitted a freeman there October 8, 1640. and later removed to the adjoining new town of Medfield, where many of his descendants have lived. He was a town officer of Dedham and one of the proprietors. He died April 5, 1654, and his will was proved January 30. 1654. His widow died June 20, 1655. [Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts: with a history of Worcester Society of Antiquity, Volume 1]

Ancestor of Samuel Finley Breese Morse (April 27, 1791 – April 2, 1872); American contributor to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs, co-inventor of the Morse code, and an accomplished painter.

Elizabeth 1 was born 1 about 1586. She died 1 in 1654. Elizabeth married Samuel Morse 1.

They had the following children.

  M i
John Morse was born 1 in 1611. He died 1 on 16 Nov 1657.
  M ii
Daniel Morse was born 1 in 1613.
  M iii Joseph Morse was born about 1615. He died before 1658.
  F iv Abigail Morse.
  F v Mary Morse.
  M vi
Jeremiah Morse 1.

Thomas Boyden 1. Thomas married Hannah Phillips on 3 Nov 1658.

Hannah Phillips. Hannah married Thomas Boyden on 3 Nov 1658.

Other marriages:
Morse, Joseph


Robert Badcock 1. Robert married Joanna Phillips.

Joanna Phillips 1. Joanna married Robert Badcock.

They had the following children.

  F i Hannah Badcock was born on 8 Feb 1664. She died on 9 Nov 1711.

Daniel Fisher.

Abigail Morse [Parents] 1. Abigail married Daniel Fisher.


Samuel Bullen.

Mary Morse [Parents] 1. Mary married Samuel Bullen.


Samuel Morse [Parents] was born 1 in 1639. Samuel married Elizabeth Wood in 1665.

Elizabeth Wood died 1 in 1682. Elizabeth married Samuel Morse in 1665.

They had the following children.

  M i
Joshua Morse was born 1 on 2 Apr 1677.

Ed Kind.

Ruth Cook [Parents].

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