Samuel Morse

• General Notes
  • Resided at Redgrave and Burgate, Suffolk, England, and Watertown 1635, Dedham 1636, and Medfield 1651, MA. Samuel was a signer of The Covenant of Dedham, MA in 1636. A husbandman, Samuel embarked Apr. 15, 1635 on the 'Increase' bound from London to New England, together with wife, son Joseph, and granddaughter Elizabeth DANIEL (age 2). Member of First Church at Dedham, MA; freeman Oct. 8, 1640. Will dated Dec. 2, 1654, with estate inventoried Dec. 5, 1654 at £124.7.0.
    
    He and wife came on the "Increase" along with their son Joseph and granddaughter Elizabeth Daniell. They lived first at Watertown, MA, but after a short time went to Dedham at the time of Dedham's founding in 1636. When the settlement of Medfield was projected, he cast his lot with the new town. He did not have a house lot assigned him, but his inventory includes a "house and materials to finish same". His will gives everything to his wife Elizabeth, by her to be given to the heirs at her decease. They had eleven children.

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