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REV. CHARLES H. MERRILL, D. D.9 (Abel K.8, Benjamin7, Abels, John5, Abel4, Abel3, Abel2, Nathaniel1) born Haverhill June 16, 1845; graduated Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, 1863; Dartmouth 1867; Andover Seminary 1870; married Sept. 6, 1870, in Washington, D. C., Laura Bartlett, daughter Daniel Ford Merrill. (See. D. F. M.) Six children:
1. JOSIAH LEVERETT10 b. Mankato, Minn., June 7, 1871; m. Katherine Lakey at Holidaysburg, Pa., Nov. 4, 1905. Two chil .: (1) Josiah Leverett, Jr.11, b. Sept. 20, 1906; (2) Alice Katherine11 b. Apr. 6, 1910.
2. WALTER HIBBARD10 b. Marlboro Feb. 17, 1873.
3. MARGARET BELL10 b. W. Brattleboro, Vt., Feb. 29, 1876.
4. ABBIE LUELLA10 b. W. Brattleboro, Vt., Feb. 23, 1878; m. July 1, 1908, Joseph Fairbanks. Two chil .: (1) Edward Joseph11 b. Jan. 19, 1910; (2) Philip Merrill b. July 9, 1913.
5. ELIZABETH DORA10 b. W. Brattleboro, Vt., Feb. 24, 1887; m. July 14, 1909, Arthur A. Sprague. Three chil .: (1) Richard Merrill11 b. Apr. 12, 1910; (2) William Wal- lace11 b. Dec. 6, 1912; (3) Arthur G., Jr.11, b. Sept. 1, 1915.
6. WINIFRED SALISBURY10 b. St. Johnsbury, Vt., Apr. 22, 1891.
Mr. Merrill was pastor at Mankato, Minn., and West Brattleboro, Vt. Received degree Dartmouth 1901. Secretary Vermont Domestic Missionary Society. Resides St. Johnsbury, Vt. His nephew, Charles C., is his assistant.
MERRILL
DANIEL FORD MERRILL born Stratham Nov. 2, 1812, son of Rev. Asa and Esther Fowler Merrill. Graduated at Dartmouth in the class of 1835. Married at Mobile, Ala., May 23, 1845, Luella Bartlett, daughter of Jacob and Laura (Bartlett) Bell, born Haverhill Jan. 18, 1823. While in college he taught for a time in the academy at Haver- hill and at that time made the acquaintance of his future wife. About 1840 he went to Mobile, Ala., and opened a boys' preparatory school there, called Barton Academy. This was afterwards enlarged and girls were admitted. He was the first superintendent of public schools in Mobile, and was chairman of a committee to secure Agassiz and other famous scientists for lectures in that city. Owing to failing health he gave up his school in 1858 and took charge of a copper mine on the border of Georgia, Alabama and North Carolina, which he managed very successfully for two years. In the fall of 1860 he purchased the Joseph Bell estate at the Corner, now owned and occupied by Fred W. Page, and went there with his family intending to spend a year before returning South. In the meantime the Civil War broke out. The principal of the academy was taken ill, and he remained in Haverhill till 1865, having charge most of the time of the academy and also serving the town as superintendent of schools. In Feb. 1865, he was appointed clerk in the office of the second auditor of the treasury, which position he held for twenty years, when he was removed during the Cleveland administration to make room for "a deserving Democrat." He remained in Washington till his death, May 1, 1904, in his ninety-second year. His wife died Dec. 11, 1910. Six children:
1. LAURA BARTLETT b. Mobile, Ala., Oct. 27, 1847; m. Rev. Charles H. Merrill of St. Johnsbury, Vt. (See.)
2. HELEN DORA b. Mobile Aug. 23, 1849; d. May 13, 1850.
3. ANNA DORA b. Hav. Aug. 3, 1851; m. Charles H. Merwin of Washington, D. C., and has three chil .: Charles M., an architect in New York City; John O., an electrician in Erie, Pa .; and Anna D.
4. MARY HELEN b. Mobile, Ala., Jan. 11, 1854; m. Edward M. Bentley of New York City; has one s., Edward S., a graduate of Yale and now (1916) in Harvard Law School.
5. LUELLA BELL b. Hav. Apr. 7, 1857; m. Professor Amos G. Draper, Gallandet College, Washington, D. C. Two chil .: Mrs. Constance D. Howard, Los Gatos, Calif .; Ernest G. Draper, president American Creosoting Co., New York City. Mrs. Draper is the efficient editor of the monthly magazine devoted to the interests of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
6. DANIEL FORD b. Hav. Aug. 6, 1859; d. unm. Oct. 10, 1914. 39
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MONTGOMERY
JOHN MONTGOMERY born 1730 in County Armagh, Ireland; came to America in 1749; died Londonderry Mar. 4, 1702. His brother, Thomas, had come to America previously, and had settled in Philadelphia with another brother. John had intended to join them, but the vessel in which he took passage for America altered its course and he was car- ried to Boston. Soon after he went to Londonderry, N. H., having learned that some bearing his name had already settled there. He married Mary, daughter of Capt. George Knox, then stationed at Halifax, whose wife was the daughter of a Hugh Montgomery who married a McGregor. They were the parents of eight children, all born in Londonderry:
1. JANE m. John Clark.
2. MARY m. James Bridges.
3. SARAH m. Thomas McClary.
4. ALEXANDER m., Ist, Rebecca Peabody; 2d, Sarah A. Porter.
5. JOHN.
6. THOMAS m. Lucy Blanchard.
7. ELIZABETH m. Phineas Ayers. (See Ayers.)
8. JAMES m. Sally Hills.
GEN. JOHN MONTGOMERY, second son of John and Mary Montgomery, born London- derry, 1764; settled in Haverhill about 1789; married (published Jan. 4, 1789) Elizabeth, daughter of Jonathan and Zelpha (Adams) Ring, born May 30, 1771, died Apr. 21, 1816; married, second, Mar. 9, 1817, Mrs. Patience Cram, born 1794, died June 25, 1874. He died Feb. 21, 1825. When published Jan. 4, 1789, he was named as of Andover, Mass. He entered at once on an active career; was one of the pioneer merchants at the Brook, owned a sawmill, a gristmill, and was engaged in various enterprises, in all of which he was successful. He was one of the corporators of the Coos Bank, chartered in 1803; was the largest stockholder and was its president for several years, until, during his absence from home in the War of 1812, he was succeeded by Moses P. Payson of Bath. A man of great force and energy of character he took an active part in the affairs of the town; was moderator on several occasions; represented the town for three years, 1803, '04 and '05, in the legislature and held numerous positions of trust and responsibility. He was early interested in military affairs, and at the outbreak of the War of 1812 was lieutenant-colonel of the Thirteenth Regiment militia. Though in his political views, he was a thorough-going Federalist and had little sympathy with the war party, he was commissioned brigadier-general and was placed in command of the troops stationed at Portsmouth for the defense of the harbor, where he rendered loyal and faithful service. He was a charter member of Union Lodge, F. and A. M., and was worshipful master in 1802-03. His loyalty to the church, even when disciplined, is evidenced by the following minute in the church records under date of May 3, 1799: "Bro. John Montgomery sent in a confession to be read in public for his transgression in riding on two occasions on the Lord's Day, which was accepted." The large, square, two-story house at the Brook was built by him early in the last century, and has been known for many years as the Montgomery house. Its handsome interior has been but little changed since it was first finished. It is now (1916) owned by the estate of Capt. J. LeRoy Bell. Gen. Montgomery was of prepossessing personal appearance, was pos- sessed of fine musical talent, and was "given to hospitality." He had large influence in the northern part of the state, as well as in his own town where he was a recognized leader. For several years he was Haverhill's largest taxpayer. Neither of his two sons married, but his daughters had numerous descendants. Of these none are, so far as known, living in town. He had eleven children, all born in Haverhill. By his first mar- riage there were nine:
1. MARY b. Mar. 5, 1790; d. Apr. 24, 1869; m. at Granville, N. Y., Aug. 26, 1810. Samuel Batchelder b. Jaffrey June 8, 1784, d. Cambridge, Mass., Feb. 9, 1879.
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In 1808 Mr. Batchelder became interested in a cotton mill in New Ipswich, the second erected in the state, and later was engaged in the management of mills in Lowell, Mass., Exeter, and the York Mills in Saco, Me. A pioneer in the great cotton manufacturing industry in America, he was engaged in it continuously from 1808 to 1870, when he retired from active management at the age of eighty- six. He was the inventor of several machines and appliances, some of which are still in use in cotton mills. Their nine chil. were: (1) John Montgomery b. Oct. 12, 1811; (2) William b. Dec. 12, 1813; (3) Mary Ann b. Aug. 2, 1815; (4) Horace b. Oct. 11, 1817; (5) Isabella b. Sept. 2, 1819, m. Dec. 3, 1851, Thomas P. James of Philadelphia; (6) Edward Everett b. Sept. 19, 1821; (7) Eugene b. Nov. 13, 1822; (8) Francis Lowell, b. Apr. 2, 1825; (9) Francis Lowell, b. Jan. 9, 1830.
2. ANN or NANCY b. Apr. 8, 1792; m. Dec. 7, 1815, John West of Boston. A dau. of John and Nancy West m. Edward H. Rollins, afterwards congressman and United States senator from New Hampshire, and their s., Frank West Rollins, a leading Boston banker, was governor of his state. Resided in Concord; d. 1914.
3. MARY b. Oct. 1, 1794; d. Apr. 14, 1817.
4. GEORGE KNOX b. Jan. 5, 1797; d. unm. Feb. 9, 1817.
5. ELIZA b. July 31, 1799; m. Dec. 26, 1817, Nathaniel F. Hurd of Corinth, Vt.
6. JOHN ADAMS b. Sept. 2, 1801; d. Apr. 5, 1803.
7. HARRIET ADAMS b. Aug. 10, 1805; d. Apr. 25, 1817.
8. ELLEN DOUGLAS b. Sept. 10, 1810; m. Joseph Manahan.
9. CHARLOTTE b. Mar. 18, 1813; m. Hezekiah Packard.
Mrs. Patience Cram, the second wife of Gen. Montgomery, born 1794, was the eldest daughter of John and Phebe (Beede) Purrington, and the granddaughter of Daniel and Patience (Prescott) Beede of East Kingston.
10. MYRA dau. John and Patience (Purrington-Cram) Montgomery, b. May 24, 1818; m. Nov. 23, 1834, Jonathan S. Nichols. (See Nichols.)
11. MARTHA bapt. July 9, 1820.
MORRILL
ALFRED MORRILL2, son of Ebenezer1 and Jeannette (McLean) Morrill, born Danville, Vt., Dec. 9, 1824; died Benton, Feb. 1, 1915; married 1853, at Stanstead, P. Q., Lucia, daughter of Sylvester and Patience (Hill) Wheeler, born July, 1826; died Nov. 1901. Five children:
1. EBEN3 (Alfred2, Ebenezer1) b. Durham, P. Q., May 22, 1854. He came to the states when a small boy and at the age of 16 entered the cotton mills at Lawrence. He took charge of the weaving and was in the employ of B. B. & K. Knights Co. of Rhode Island, from 1880 till 1902, when he came to Haverhill, purchasing the Shepard place and the Colebrook place on the Brushwood road. He was the first carrier on Route No. 2 at Pike, resigning in 1917. He m. Mar. 31, 1879, at Manchaug, town of Sutton, Mass., Nancy, b. Millbury, Mass., dau. Lawrence and Mary (Dumberly) Hall. Eleven chil. of Eben:
(1) MARY ANNIE4 b. Aug. 31, 1880; d. July 31, 1881, at Manchaug, Mass.
(2) LAWRENCE ALBERT4 b. Jan. 8, 1882, at Manchaug, Mass .; m. at Lowell, Mass., 1902, Annie, dau. Martin and Ann Groecke of Bradford, Eng. Seven chil. of Lawrence A .: (a) Alfred Lawrence5 b. Feb. 13, 1903, at Pike; (b) Lawrence Albert, Jr.5 b. Sept. 12, 1904, at Pike; (c) Herman5 b. Nov. 8. 1906, at Bridgewater, Mass .; (d) Lucia Ann5 b. Jan. 21, 1908, at Bridgewater, Mass .; (e) Mary Louise5 b. Aug. 18, 1909, at Pike; (f) James Robert5 b. Sept. 3, 1911, at Pike; (g) Eben5 b. Jan. 1, 1916, at Worcester, Mass.
(3) WINIFRED4 b. Oct. 22, 1883, at Manchaug; grad. Hav. academy and New Hampshire Agricultural and Scientific College, 1911, engraving course; m. Oct. 4, 1914, at Dorchester, Mass., Mary Farrell. Child, Dorothy May5, b. Nov. 22, 1915, at Waverley, Mass.
(4) LUCIA JEANNETTE4 b. Nov. 28, 1885, at Benton; grad. Memorial Hospital, Worcester, 1911; m. Nov. 28, 1911, Charles Natt of Worcester. Chil .: (a) Ruth5 b. Apr. 7, 1913, at Worcester; (b) Rose5 b. and d. Jan. 12, 1914, at Worcester.
(5) EBEN JR.4 b. June 30, 1887, Benton; d. July 18, 1913, at Victoria, B. A.
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(6) CHARLES HARRISON4 b. Feb. 28, 1889, White Rock, R. I. Volunteer in U. S. A. in 1917; 101st Regt. Field Artillery H, 2 Co.
(7) FREDERICK4 b. May 24, - , White Rock, R. I .; grad. Hav. Academy 1911; m. Beulah, dau. Allen and Elizabeth (Titus) Brown. Chil .: (a) Marshal Brown5, b. June 10, 1915, d. June 29, 1915; (b) Phylis Arlene5 b. Nov. 11, 1916, Piermont; (c) Charles Roderick5 b. Mar. 31, 1918.
(8) DOROTHY4 b. May 23, 1893; grad. Hav. Academy and Hartford Hospital, Hartford, Conn.
(9) JOHN HOLT4 b. Feb. 21, 1897. Volunteer U. S. A. Feb. 15, 1918, 426 Track Co. 412 Supply Train, 2 M. Corps.
(10) HERMAN ALFRED4 b. Apr. 8, 1899; grad. Hav. Academy 1917. Volun- teer U. S. A. June 1917, 315 Regt. Inf., Medical Department.
(11) ALICE HOLT4 b. Sept. 21, 1900, at Pike.
2. JESSIE FREMONT3 b. Oct. 2, 1856, at Ryegate, Vt .; m. Frank C. Mosher of Island Pond, Vt .; d. 190 -. Chil .: (1) dau. b. and d .; (2) Curtis b. Mar. 1899, at Island Pond.
3. ALBERT WHEELER3 b. June 2, 1858, at Barnston, P. Q.
4. HERMAN ALFRED3 b. Feb. 26, 1861, at Barnston, P. Q.
5. JEANNETTE3 b. 186-, Beaver Dam, Wis .; grad. normal school at Worcester, Mass., and post grad. Harvard College, English course.
MORRIS
THOMAS MORRIS1 of East Fairfield, Vt., came to Haverhill in 1896, and resided with his sons until his death in 1906. Three of his sons had previously settled in town.
THOMAS MORRIS2 born East Fairfield, Vt., Feb. 25, 1857; came to Haverhill in 1875; married Nov. 2, 1879, Carrie I., daughter Alonzo W. and Hannah Cole Putnam. Two children born in Haverhill:
1. ALONZO W. MORRIS3 b. Nov. 14, 1880; m. Nov. 30, 1911, Rena K. Gould of Pier- mont.
2. JOHN P. MORRIS3 b. Jan. 10, 1886; m. June 24, 1914, Ella J. Moore of Island Pond, Vt.
WILLIAM H. MORRIS2 born East Fairfield, Vt., Mar. 3, 1859; came to Haverhill in 1883; married Nov. 26, 1885, Lizzie M., daughter Alonzo W. and Hannah Cole Putnam. She died June 6, 1909. Two children born in Haverhill :
1. MINNIE E. MORRIS3 b. May 2, 1889.
2. WALTER P. MORRIS3 b. Nov. 14, 1891; m. June 23, 1914, Mary E. Blake. They have one child, Walter B. Morris, b. June 28, 1916.
The Morris brothers live on the Putnam farms on the turnpike, Thomas occupying the Putnam homestead and William H. the "Billy" Porter place.
EDWARD J. MORRIS2 born East Fairfield, Vt., June 8, 1864; came to Haverhill in 1885; married Sept., 1898, Daisy P. Stevens of Piermont. He died Haverhill Feb. 24, 1913. One child, Edna A. Morris, born June 10, 1910.
MORRISON
SAMUEL MORRISON1, son of John and Elizabeth (Alexander) Morrison, born London- derry Mar. 5, 1752; married Mary Roads; died West Fairlee, Vt., 1802.
WILLIAM MORRISON2 (Samuel1) born Londonderry May 3, 1776; married Oct. 8, 1808, at Haverhill, Stira, daughter Joshua and Abiah (Ladd) Young, died Bath July 17, 1853.
CHARLES ROBERT MORRISON3 (William2, Samuel1) born Bath Jan. 23, 1819; married Dec. 22, 1842, Susan, daughter Solomon and Susannah (Fuller) Fitch of Littleton; edu- cated at Newbury Seminary; studied law and admitted to the bar, July 1842. He died Sept. 15, 1893; she died Feb. 20, 1900. Began practice of his profession in Bath, but came to Haverhill in 1845; appointed circuit justice Court of Common Pleas in 1851; removed in 1855, when Know Nothings made a clean sweep of all Democratic office holders.
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After this removal he went to Manchester and resumed practice. Was adjutant of the Eleventh New Hampshire Volunteers. Was thrice wounded in the service. After the war returned to his practice in Manchester till 1887, when he removed to Concord. He was author of " Digest of New Hampshire Reports," 1868; "Probate Directory," 1870; "Justice and Sheriff," 1872; "Town Officer," 1876; "Digest of Laws Relating to Common Schools," 1SS1; "Proofs of Christ's Resurrection from a Lawyer's Standpoint," 1885; "Digest of All New Hampshire Reports," 1891. He also prepared a history of his branch of the Morrison family for publication in the general work by L. A. Morrison. He was a Democrat in politics; in religious faith a Congregationalist. He was an able lawyer of solid rather than brilliant attainments.
MORSE
The Morses of Haverhill trace their ancestry to different New England early settlers. The names of Anthony Morse, William Morse, Joseph Morse and Samuel Morse appear on the New England records at an early date, William1 and Anthony1 of Newbury, Essex County, Mass., were brothers, and Samuel1 of Dedham, Mass., and Joseph of Ipswich, Mass., were also brothers.
SAMUEL MORSE1 of Dedham, Mass., born in England, emigrated to New England 1635; was first at Watertown, Mass .; settled at Dedham 1636 or 1637, and died at Medfield Apr. 5,1654.
JOSEPH MORSE1 (brother of Samuel1) born in England about 1587; emigrated to New England 1635; settled in Ipswich prior to 1641, and died there.
ANTHONY MORSE1 born May 9, 1606, Wiltshire, England; emigrated to New England and settled at Newbury 1635; died there Oct. 12, 1686. Twice married. Eleven children.
WILLIAM MORSE1 (brother to Anthony1) born in England; and came to New Eng- land on same vessel with Anthony. Settled in Newbury, Mass .; died Nov. 29, 1683. Four children.
The first family of the name of Morse located in Haverhill was that of Uriah Morse, who with his wife came from Northfield, Mass., June 1762 and settled upon the bank of Poole Brook, west of the bridge on the main road and a little southwest of the house where David Merrill lived many years. Uriah Morse and Hannah, his wife, boarded Capt. John Hazen's men while they were building the mills.
URIAH MORSE" was a descendant of Samuel Morse1 of Dedham, Norfolk County, Mass .; was born Jan. 31, 1730-31, the son of Isaac4 and Elizabeth Morse of Holliston, Shrewsbury and Worcester, Mass. He removed to Northfield, Mass., about the time of his marriage, between 1750-60, and thence in 1762 to Haverhill, where he was the first "Taverner." After some years' residence in Haverhill, he removed to Newfane, Vt., where other descendants of Samuel Morse had located in the Revolutionary period, and where he died. With the exception of Uriah, it is believed that all others bearing the name of Morse in Haverhill have been descendants of Anthony Morse1, the emigrant settler in New England.
No less than six descendants of the sixth generation from Anthony Morse1 were among the first settlers of Haverhill. They were:
I. STEPHEN MORSE6 (Thomas5, Dea. Stephen4, Ensign Anthony3, Lieut. Anthony2, Anthony1).
II. CAPT. EDMUND MORSE6 (Thomas5, Dea. Stephen4, Ensign Anthony3, Lieut. Anthony2, Anthony1), brother of Stephen6.
III. CAPT. STEPHEN MORSE® (Stephen5, Dea. Stephen4, Ensign Anthony3, Lieut. Anthony2, Anthony1) cousin of Stephen and Capt. Edmund6.
IV. DANIEL MORSE6 (Daniel5, Benjamin4, Dea. William3, Dea. Benjamin2, Anthony1).
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V. JOHN MORSE6 (Daniel5, Benjamin4, Dea. William3, Dea. Benjamin2, Anthony1), brother Daniel6.
VI. DEA. JONATHAN MORSE6 (Stephen5, Abel4, Benjamin3, Dea. Benjamin2, Anthony1).
These will be taken up as six distinct families, and descendants traced from the Haverhill settlers.
I. DESCENDANTS STEPHEN MORSE
STEPHEN MORSE6 born Jan. 28, 1756 or 57; married Sally Kay about 1780, soon after coming to Haverhill from Bradford, Mass .; died June 14, 1843. He settled on what came to be known as "Morse Hill" on the old Coventry road from the Plains to Coventry Meadows. He was a soldier in the War of the Revolution. Was a blacksmith. Had a family of twelve sons and two daughters. In the Democratic-Republican of June 28, 1843, appears the following obituary: "Died 14th inst. Mr. Stephen Morse, aged eighty- eight years. He was a Revolutionary soldier, and the father of twelve sons, all but one of whom lived to the estate of manhood. He was for forty years a member of the Metho- dist Church. At a family reunion in 1836, ten of his sons with their families were pres- ent. They repaired to church where the eldest son, Rev. Bryan Morse, preached a sermon appropriate to the occasion. His widow and nine sons survive him." Children all born in Haverhill:
1. BRYAN7.
2. CALEB7.
3. JOHN C.7
4. THOMAS7 b. Jan. 13, 1789; m., 1st, Judith Parker of E. Bradford, Mass .; m., 2d, Rebecca Greenough; m. 3d, Jane Breckinridge. Eleven chil., seven by first wife four by third. He lived in Massachusetts and later in Pittsburg, Pa., where he died. None of his descendants lived in Hav.
5. STEPHEN7 b. Nov. 18, 1790; m., Sally Forsyth; lived in Hav.
6. ROBERT7 b. July 30, 1792; m. July 17, 1814, Susannah Hayes. He lived in West Rumney; was a stage proprietor, and organized the first stage route between Concord and Hav. and was largely interested in other lines. His descendants are widely scattered, but none live in Hav.
7. JOSHUA7 b. Apr. 3, 1794; m. Ruth White. No issue. Kept stage tavern at Rumney.
8. ISAAC7 b. Dec. 13, 1795; d. 1803 from bleeding at nose.
9. GEN. JAMES7 b. Aug. 28, 1797; m. Nov. 1818 Louisa P. Page, b. Mar. 7, 1797, d. Dec. 1885, St. Armands, P. Q. He d. St. Armands, Sept. 1877. Lived at Waterford, Vt., and later St. Armands. A grandson, Henry Woolson Morse,9 b. Boston 1858, well known composer of comic opera music; lives New York City.
10. AARON7 b. Sept. 16, 1799; m. 1st, Pamelia T. Niles of Hav., Jan. 24, 1826, d. Dec. 28, 1853; m. 2d, Mrs. Harriett A. Knight, widow of Dean E. Knight. He d. at Williston, Vt., Oct. 1876; she d. 1898. He left Hav. when a young man and lived at Hyde Park and Williston, Vt. Four chil., none of whom or descendants lived in Hav.
11. TIMOTHY7 b. Apr. 27, 1803; m. Jan. 27, 1822, Pamelia, dau. of Colton Haines of Rumney. Lived in Newbury, Vt., where he was a prominent business man and citizen. (For sketch see History of Newbury, Wells, pp. 640-41.) He d. Sept. 7, 1862. Seven chil.
12. HIRAM7 b. Aug. 17, 1804; m. (Pub. June 7, 1833) Mary, dau. Winthrop Elliott of Hav., b. Mar. 1, 1808, d. Lawrence, Mass., Sept. 13, 1880. He d. Hav. Apr. 10, 1850. Six chil .: (1) Susannah8, (2) Josiah8, (3) Roswell Elliott8, (4) Emily8, (5) Sarah K.8, (6) Hiram D.8 Josiah lived in Hav., d. 1856 unm. The three last named lived in Lawrence, Mass.
REV. BRYAN MORSE7 (Stephen6), eldest son, born Nov. 28, 1781; marrried, first Susan- nah, daughter Timothy Stevens of Bath (published Aug. 19, 1802); married, second, Eliza D. (Torr) Repill, daughter of Vincent Torr of Newmarket, and widow of Grover Repill. He lived at the Corner in the house opposite the Col. Johnston place until 1833 when he removed to Lowell, Mass. He was a blacksmith, a cabinetmaker and local preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church. While living in Lowell, he was engaged
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for some years in mercantile pursuits. He lived also for a time at Salmon Falls, remov- ing from there to Groveland, Mass., where he lived till his death. Nine children, six by first and three by second marriage.
1. HORACE B.8 b. Hav. Mar. 1804; grad. at Dartmouth 1823; d. by drowning near Portsmouth; unm.
2. PEABODY A.8 b. Hav. 1805; m. May 16, 1837, Virginia Sompayrac of Natchitoches, La .; grad. at Dartmouth, class of 1830. After leaving college he was tutor for three years in the family of Judge Brooks of the Virginia Supreme Court, with whom he studied law, and was admitted to the bar. In 1833 he went to Natchi- toches, La., where he practiced law with great success, and was for several years a member of the state legislature, serving with great distinction. In 1843 he went to California where he held official positions of honor and trust, among which were those of judge of the San Francisco court, and commissioner of the funded debt. In 1854 he returned to Louisiana where he engaged in the practice of his profession till his death in 1878. Five chil .: (1) Ernest Bryan9 b. Jan. 13, 1839; (2) Mary Josephine9 b. Aug. 24, 1841; (3) P. Evarist9 b. May 17, 1842; (4) Eliza Desirie9 b. May 28, 1844; (5) Katie A.9 b. May 12, 1846.
3. GEORGE W.8 b. Hav. 1812; m. June 26, 1848, Marion Bloodworth. He was educated at Hav. Academy, and early displayed wonderful mechanical and inventive skill. At the age of 18 he invented a gun with a magazine lock which could be fired sixty times without priming, and later, in 1856, he invented the "metallic car- tridge case," which made breach loading small arms a success. On account of imperfections in the application for a patent drawn up by his lawyer, he was deprived of priority of invention, though such priority was a quarter of a century later, admitted by officers of the Ordnance Department and Patent Office experts after careful examination, an admission concurred in by Secretary of War Robert T. Lincoln. Mr. Morse, at the time of his death in 1888, was a resident of Wash- ington, D. C., but had previously lived many years in Louisiana. One child, Peabody Atkinson Morse9, b. May 12, 1842, at Natchitoches, La.
4. PRISCILLA P.8 b. Hav. about 1814; went south and m. at Natchitoches, La., Dec. 30, 1840, Adolphe Sompayrac. Four chil .: (1) Arthur Atkinson9; (2) Virginia Eliza9; (3) George Adolphe9; (4) Paul Lewis9.
5. ISAAC S.8 b. Hav. Dec. 27, 1817; educated at the academy. Went with his father to Lowell, Mass., in 1833; began the study of law in 1837 and was admitted to the bar in 1840; was city solicitor of Lowell, and had a lucrative practice. Re- moved to Cambridge in 1861; was district attorney for Middlesex County from 1855 to 1871. He was an able lawyer, painstaking, honorable and faithful to the trusts committed to his care. (See Bettinger, p. 334-36.) He m. Sept. 5, 1840, Eloise LaBarte. Four chil., 2 sons and 2 daughters: George A.9, Emma Bab- cock9, Frank9, Eloise9.
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