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Ruth Brackett (Morse)

Also Known As: "Ellis"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts
Death: September 25, 1692 (55)
Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts
Immediate Family:

Daughter of John Morse of Boston and Annas Morse
Wife of Joseph Ellis of Dedham and John Brackett of Billerica
Mother of Joseph Ellis, Jr.; Ruth Ellis; John Ellis; Mary Ellis; Rachel Crosby and 5 others
Sister of John Morse, Jr.; Samuel Morse; Rachel Morse; Joseph Morse; Sarah Morse and 6 others

Managed by: David Newell
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About Ruth Brackett

"Ruth y e wife of brother Joseph Ellis" was received into Full Communion, 12 Feb. 1664, "she being y e daughter of o r brother John Morse".


Backus, Mary Elizabeth Neilson. The New England ancestry of Dana Converse Backus. (Salem, Massachusetts: Backus, 1949) 59.

John Brackett married, March 3, 1675/6, his second wife, Ruth Morse, widow of Joseph Ellis, and they had four children, one dying young. The father died, intestate, March 18, 1685/6, and administration of his estate was granted to his widow, Ruth, October 7, 1686, in Boston, by the Hon. Joseph Dudley, Esq. The widow with her three children removed to Dedham, where her parents lived.


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Ruth Brackett's Timeline

1637
June 3, 1637
Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts
1639
1639
1663
December 2, 1663
DEDHAM, MA.
1666
March 2, 1666
Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States
1667
November 25, 1667
DEDHAM, MA.
1671
March 24, 1671
DEDHAM, MA.
1675
January 19, 1675
DEDHAM, MA.
1677
October 19, 1677
Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States