Daniel Morse, Sr.

DANIEL MORSE, b. say 1610; Massachusetts Bay, freeman 6 May 1635 (as Dan[ie]ll Morse," first in a sequence of three Watertown men) [MBCR 1:371]; m. by 1639 Lydia Fisher (eldest known child b. Dedham 8 August 1639 [DeVR 1]), daughter of ANTHONY FISHER {.1637, Dedham} [NEHGR 151:182-83]. (In his will of 9 March 1687[/8], Daniel Morse twice mentioned land that I purchased of my brother Daniel Fisher” [Wm. Inglis Morse (and Mary Lovering Holman), Genealogiae or Data Concerning the Families of Morse, Chipman, Phinney, Ensign and Whiting (Boston 1925), 10-11 , citing MPR 10:316].)

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"This agrees with info in Morse genealogy. He came to MA at a later period than his parents. Settled in Watertown in 1635. His name is 28th on a Covenant of 1636; in August, 1636, a home was assigned himm in Dedham, in the part of it that is now Medfield.

Later he purchased 800 acres of land in Bogestow, the petition for that town didn't succeed; eventually the town of Sherborn was founded there. With his sons, he was "by far the greatest landholder" and they held one third of the new subscriptions. He was "evidently a man of large possessions and a leader in civic affairs."

He was leader among the proprietors of Sherborn, first selectman, chosen one of a commission for treating with the Natick INdians for 4000 acres of land in what is now Ashand and Hopkins, MA, for an equal quqanit y in what now constiutes the northwest and central parts of Sherborn. The town agreed to pa 300 bushels of corn, and Daniel Morse paid 3/4 of this. "In all public meetings, precedence was yielded to him." Will probated 6/13/1688. (Early Planters of Sherborn, Holliston and Medway).

Robert Charles Anderson's article on Samuel Morse, Great Migration Immigrant, New England Ancestors, Summer 2007, does not give a last name for his wife Lydia, doesn't discuss why not, and gives only local vital records as sources. Morse Genealogy said his wife was Lydia Fisher. Anderson shows that there was no record of the marriage. Morse Memorial and Fisher Genealogy also say Lydia married Daniel Morse. There is confusion about which Anthony Fisher was her father; she was the daughter of Anthony Jr., son of Anthony Sr. and Mary Fiske.

The Fisher Genealogy says:

"The inventory of [Anthony Fisher Jr's] estate, showing only personal property in Dedham and Dorchester, was presented by Ensign Daniel Fisher, July 26, 1671, and an agreement for the distribution was made as follows: "July 26, 1672, We whose names are hereto written being he sons and ye daughters of our late deceased father Anthony Fisher, sometimes called 'of Dorchester', deceased,', etc., and signed by Daniel, Nathaniel, and Cornelius Fisher, Daniel Morse, and Joanna Fisher".

Daniel Morse seems to have signed for his wife, who was living at the time.

The estimated year of birth of son Daniel places him in a five year gap between two other children baptized at Redgrave. A microfilm of the original parish register for REdgrave was examined to try to find Daniel. No such record was found. However, the register is hard to read for some portions of the period of time between 1608 and 1613. Another baptism for this family was found, however, for a son Samuel bapt 1 May 1603, one year after the marriage of the immigrnat and two years before teh baptism of the next child (I think leading to including a son Samuel in the family who is not listed elsewhere).

Daniel married Lydia /Fisher/, daughter of Anthony /FISHER/ and Alice //, before 1636 in , England. (Lydia /Fisher/ was christened on 4 Mar 1620-4 Mar 1621 in Syleham, Suffolk, England and died on 29 Jan 1690-29 Jan 1691 in Sherborne, Massachusetts.)"

This agrees with info in Morse genealogy. He came to MA at a later period than his parents. Settled in Watertown in 1635. His name is 28th on a Covenant of 1636; in August, 1636, a home was assigned himm in Dedham, in the part of it that is now Medfield.

Later he purchased 800 acres of land in Bogestow, the petition for that town didn't succeed; eventually the town of Sherborn was founded there. With his sons, he was "by far the greatest landholder" and they held one third of the new subscriptions. He was "evidently a man of large possessions and a leader in civic affairs."

He was leader among the proprietors of Sherborn, first selectman, chosen one of a commission for treating with the Natick INdians for 4000 acres of land in what is now Ashand and Hopkins, MA, for an equal quqanit y in what now constiutes the northwest and central parts of Sherborn. The town agreed to pa 300 bushels of corn, and Daniel Morse paid 3/4 of this. "In all public meetings, precedence was yielded to him." Will probated 6/13/1688. (Early Planters of Sherborn, Holliston and Medway).

Robert Charles Anderson's article on Samuel Morse, Great Migration Immigrant, New England Ancestors, Summer 2007, does not give a last name for his wife Lydia, doesn't discuss why not, and gives only local vital records as sources. Morse Genealogy said his wife was Lydia Fisher. Anderson shows that there was no record of the marriage. Morse Memorial and Fisher Genealogy also say Lydia married Daniel Morse. There is confusion about which Anthony Fisher was her father; she was the daughter of Anthony Jr., son of Anthony Sr. and Mary Fiske.

The Fisher Genealogy says:

"The inventory of [Anthony Fisher Jr's] estate, showing only personal property in Dedham and Dorchester, was presented by Ensign Daniel Fisher, July 26, 1671, and an agreement for the distribution was made as follows: "July 26, 1672, We whose names are hereto written being he sons and ye daughters of our late deceased father Anthony Fisher, sometimes called 'of Dorchester', deceased,', etc., and signed by Daniel, Nathaniel, and Cornelius Fisher, Daniel Morse, and Joanna Fisher".

Daniel Morse seems to have signed for his wife, who was living at the time.

The estimated year of birth of son Daniel places him in a five year gap between two other children baptized at Redgrave. A microfilm of the original parish register for REdgrave was examined to try to find Daniel. No such record was found. However, the register is hard to read for some portions of the period of time between 1608 and 1613. Another baptism for this family was found, however, for a son Samuel bapt 1 May 1603, one year after the marriage of the immigrnat and two years before teh baptism of the next child (I think leading to including a son Samuel in the family who is not listed elsewhere).

Cutter says: Bethiah Morse, born in Sherborn on March 24, 1646, died in 1717, the daughter of Daniel Morse, who was born in England in 1613 and died at Sherborn in 1688.

Daniel Morse settled first in Watertown, Massachusetts, where he was made freeman May 6, 1635. eH married Lydia Fisher in Dedham, where he lived for a time. She was sister of Anthony Fisher Sr and she died at Sherborn January 29, 1691. Daniel Morse was son of Samuel Morse, the immigrant who came in the Increase from London in 1635, aged fifty with his wife Elizabeth, aged forty eight, He died December 5, 1654 and she died June 20, 1655.

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Source:

Morse Genealogy by J. Howard Morse and Emily Leavitt P. 3

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