Benjamin Morse, my 3rd great grand uncle, was born on the date in 1809 in New Gloucester, Maine, the seventh of ten children born to Enoch Morse and Eunice Russell, and their fourth son.
When he was 28 years old, Benjamin married a widow named Sarah "Sally" Bennett, whose husband John had passed away two years before. With this marriage, he also welcomed Sally's five yo"ung children.
Benjamin and Sally soon started their own family in New Gloucester:
Ursula C., b. 1838
Horace "Nelson", b. 1841
Freeman H., b. 1844
Josephine M., b. 1846
By the 1850 U.S. Census, they were truly a blended family, with four Allen children, and three Morse children. "Nelson" died when only 4 years old.
Benjamin lived and farmed in New Gloucester his whole life, and died there on January 20, 1890.
I haven't found his grave yet, but will research it during a future trip to Maine.
Sources:
1840 US Census; Census Place: New Gloucester, Cumberland, Maine; Roll: 138; Page: 313; Image: 556; Family History Library Film: 0009702.
1850 US Census; Census Place: New Gloucester, Cumberland, Maine; Roll: M432_250; Page: 79A; Image: 350.
1860 US Census; Census Place: New Gloucester, Cumberland, Maine; Roll: M653_437; Page: 16; Image: 579; Family History Library Film: 803437.
1880 US Census; Census Place: New Gloucester, Cumberland, Maine; Roll: 478; Family History Film: 1254478; Page: 394D; Enumeration District: 040; Image: 0179.
Ancestry.com. Maine, Death Records, 1617-1922 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.
"Maine, Marriages, 1771-1907," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F48P-YVS : accessed 14 December 2014), Benjamin Morse and Sally, Mrs. Allen, 27 May 1837; citing , reference yr 1745-1858 p 249; FHL microfilm 11,587
"Maine, Marriages, 1771-1907," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F4N7-31V : accessed 14 December 2014), Benjamin Morse and Sally, Mrs. Allen, 27 May 1837; citing New Gloucester, Cumberland, Maine, United States, reference ; FHL microfilm 11,587.
"Maine, Vital Records, 1670-1907 ", index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/QV3S-LS9Z : accessed 14 December 2014), Benjamin Morse and Sally Allen, 1837.
"United States Census, 1870," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M6D6-7K4 : accessed 14 December 2014), Benjamin Morse, Maine, United States; citing p. 7, family 42, NARA microfilm publication M593, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington D.C.; FHL microfilm 552,039.
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