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Saturday, May 7, 2016

My 64 ~ Researching My 4th Great Grandparents : Enoch Morse and Eunice Russell

My 4th great grandfather, Enoch Morse, was born on July 3, 1772, in Gray, Maine. He was the second son born to John Morse and Sarah Sanders. John is the DAR Patriot from whom I descend; I became a Daughter on March 5th this year.

In 1794, Enoch married Eunice Russell, with whom he had 10 children. Not much is known about Eunice Russell, and that made my DAR application quite challenging. Most researchers of the Russell Family assume that she is the daughter of James Russell and Lydia Mitchell. Most convincing for me was the marriage between Enoch's sister Sarah and James' son Nathaniel.

For all of their married life, Enoch and Eunice lived in New Gloucester, Maine, where Enoch was a farmer and blacksmith, and where all their children were born.

Mark, b. 1795

Enoch, Jr., b. 1799

Stephen, b. 1803

Susan F., b. 1804

Mary, b. 1806

Happia, b. 1808

Benjamin, b. 1809

Cynthia, b. 1811^*

Hannah, b. 1815

and

Margaret, b. 1820

*My 3rd great grandmother

It was daughter Hannah's death record which gave me Eunice's maiden name:

Eunice died in New Gloucester on December 24, 1825, according to this death record, but I have not yet found her grave.

Following her death, Enoch married Eleanor Bradbury, of Minot, Maine, the daughter of Benjamin Bradbury and Eleanor Fellowes, on May 27, 1826. With Eleanor, Enoch had three children:

Russell B., b. 1827

Alfred J., b. 1828

Apphia Jane, b. 1829

At the age of 80, Enoch Morse passed away on August 16, 1852, in New Gloucester. He is buried in Webber Cemetery there.

Sources:

Ancestry.com, 1810 United States Federal Census (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010), Ancestry.com, Year: 1810; Census Place: New Gloucester, Cumberland, Maine; Roll: 11; Page: 272; Image: 00274; Family History Library Film: 0218682.

Ancestry.com, 1820 United States Federal Census (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010), Ancestry.com, 1820 U S Census; Census Place: New Gloucester, Cumberland, Maine; Page: 283; NARA Roll: M33_33; Image: 155.

Ancestry.com, 1830 United States Federal Census (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010), Ancestry.com, 1830; Census Place: New Gloucester, Cumberland, Maine; Series: M19; Roll: 46; Page: 149; Family History Library Film: 0009700.

Ancestry.com, 1840 United States Federal Census (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010), Ancestry.com, Year: 1840; Census Place: New Gloucester, Cumberland, Maine; Roll: 138; Page: 313; Image: 556; Family History Library Film: 0009702.

Ancestry.com, 1850 United States Federal Census (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009), Ancestry.com, Year: 1850; Census Place: New Gloucester, Cumberland, Maine; Roll: M432_250; Page: 79A; Image: 350.

Ancestry.com, Maine, Death Records, 1617-1922 (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010), Ancestry.com, Maine State Archives; Cultural Building, 84 State House Station, Augusta, ME 04333-0084; Pre 1892 Delayed Returns; Roll #: 78.

Ancestry.com. Maine, Marriage Records, 1713-1937 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.

Ancestry.com, Web: Maine, Find A Grave Index, 1700-2012 (Provo, UT. USA, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012), Ancestry.com.

Gray, Ruth, editor. Maine families in 1790 (Camden, Maine, Picton Press, 1990), p.202.

"Maine Deaths and Burials, 1841-1910," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4ZV-XMJ : accessed 6 October 2015), Eunice Morse, 24 Dec 1825; citing reference yr 1745-1858 p 477; FHL microfilm 11,587.

Morse, J. Howard and Emily W. Leavitt, Morse genealogy, comprising the descendants of Samuel, Anthony, William, and Joseph Morse and John Moss, being a revision of the Memorial of the Morses, published by Rev. Abner Morse in 1850 (New York, New York, The Morse Society, 1903.

Thursday, December 18, 2014

52 Ancestors: #50 Benjamin Morse (1809-1890)

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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This is the 50th in a series, “52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks,” coordinated by Amy Johnson Crow at

No Story Too Small.

Tuesday, May 13, 2014

52 Ancestors: #19 Susan Morse Marston (1804-?)

Susan Morse, my third great grand aunt, was born on this date in 1804, in New Gloucester, Maine, the 4th of 10 children born to Enoch Morse and Eunice Russell, and their first daughter.

As with many of my female colonial ancestors, I know little about Susan. The granddaughter of John Morse, a member of Colonel Edmund Phinney's Regiment of Foot, in the early days of Maine's engagement in the Revolutionary War, she undoubtedly grew up in an environment of anxious anticipation, predicated by the newly formed nation. The towns of Gray and New Gloucester contributed a significant portion of rebellious fervor in those early days, and I imagine she probably met and conversed with many a newly minted patriot.

Photo credit: Serge Melki / Creative Commons

On October 21st, in 1827, Susan and Simeon Marston filed their intention to wed in Gray. Together, they had four children, all born in Gray:

Andrew J., b. 20 October, 1831

John M., b. 17 January 1833

Rebecca, b. 20 January 1835

Samuel M., b. 16 July 1842

After Simeon's death in 1847, Susan married a second time, in 1850, this time to Daniel Leighton of Falmouth. Daniel Leighton was the son of Hatevil Leighton and Lucy Staples, and had been married before, to a Mary Staples.

There exists no evidence as to when Susan died, although it was probably between 1860 and 1870. Her grave is also a mystery.

Photo credit:

Colonial Woman Williamsburg
By Serge Melki from Indianapolis, USA (Colonial Woman Williamsburg Uploaded by russavia) [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Sources:

1830 US Census; Census Place: Gray, Cumberland, Maine; Page: 165; Roll Number: 46, Simeon Marston.

1840 US Census; Census Place: Gray Town, Cumberland, Maine; Roll: 139; Page: 547; Image: 1025, Simeon Marston.

1850 US Census; Census Place: Gray, Cumberland, Maine; Page: 219A; Image: 423, Susan Marston.

1860 US Census; Census Place: Falmouth, Cumberland, Maine; Page: 11; Image: 390, Susan Leighton.

Ancestry.com. Maine, Birth Records, 1621-1922 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010, Susan Morse.

Black, Howard G., Jr. Vital Records of Gray, Maine to the Year 1930 (Bowie, Md.: Heritage Books, 2004), p.141.

Leighton, Perley M. A Leighton genealogy: descendants of Thomas Leighton of Dover, New Hampshire. Compiled by Perley M. Leighton based in part on data collected by Julia Leighton Cornman. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1989.) p. 248.

Maine families in 1790. (Picton Press, 2009), Vol. 10, p.388 viii.

Marriage returns of Cumberland County, Maine, prior to 1892. Maine Genealogical Society Special Publication No. 29. (Picton Press, 1998), p.43.

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This is the 19th in a series, “52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks,” coordinated by Amy Johnson Crow at No Story Too Small.