Tombstone Tuesday ~ Patriot John Morse of Gray, Maine

John Morse

Born in Falmouth (now Portland), Maine

August 3, 1746

Died Gray, Maine

June 20, 1826

I found his grave this summer in the Gray Corner Cemetery,

 in Gray, Maine.

"Blessed are the pure in heart for
 they shall see God."

John Morse, my 5th great grandfather, served as a private in Capt. Moses Merrill's Company, in Col. Edmund Phinney's 31st Regiment of Foot, from his enlistment on May 15, 1775 to July 5, 1775.

Leonicea (nee Riggs) was his second wife, and was awarded a widow's pension in 1853. The pension file, #W27871, includes births and deaths from the family Bible, which may help me prove my lineage for membership in the DAR.

Sources:

Ancestry.com. U.S., Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.

Original data: Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files (NARA microfilm publication M804, 2,670 rolls). Records of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Record Group 15. National Archives, Washington, D.C. Pension Application No. W27871.

Ancestry.com. Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution, 17 Vols.[database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1998.

Original data: Secretary of the Commonwealth. Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution. Vol. II, p.101. Boston, MA, USA: Wright and Potter Printing Co., 1896.