Individual Details

Anthony Morse is included on the Newbury Settlers Monument. Anthony Morse Jr. settled in Newbury, Massachusetts in 1635, and registered as a shoemaker. He built a house about a half mile south of the old cemetery in what is now called Newbury old town. He was admitted as a Freeman May 25, 1636. On a slight eminence in a field which was later owned by Michael Little, and which is still called Morse’s field; traces of his house are still visible a few rods from the road.He and his wife were members of the Newbury, Mass, church in 1674. It states in one of the town records that Anthony Morse, Senior, is to keep the meeting house and ring the bell and “see that the house be cleane swept, and the glasse of the windows to be carefully look’t unto, if any should happen to be loosed with the wind, to be nailed close again.”

Birth	Abt 1607	Marlborough, Wiltshire, England
Marriage	2 May 1629	Marlborough, Wiltshire, England - Ann Cox
Immigration	1635	on the ship James, Newbury, Massachusetts Bay
Death	12 October 1686	Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay
Occupation		shoemaker

Spouse	Ann Cox (1608 - 1679)
Child	Sarah Morse (1641 - 1711)
Child	Robert Morse (1629 - )
Child	Anthony Morse (1631 - )
Child	Anne Morse (1634 - )
Child	Peter Morse (1635 - )
Child	Joseph Morse (1637 - )
Child	Benjamin Morse (1639 - )
Child	Hannah Morse (1643 - )
Child	Lydia Morse (1647 - 1648)
Child	Mary Morse (1649 - 1662)
Child	Hester Morse (1651 - )
Child	Joshua Morse (1653 - )

Father	Anthony Morse ( - )
Mother	Christian ( - )

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