Friday, October 8, 2021

52 Ancestors - Week 400: #623 Grace (Warren) Morse (1671-1753) of Watertown and Marlborough, Massachusetts

 Grace Warren (1671-1753) is #623 on my Ahnentafel  List, my 7th great-grandmother, who married #622 Joseph Morse (1667-1733)  in 1691 in Marlborough, Middlesex County,  Massachusetts Bay Colony.

I am descended through:

* their daughter #311 Mary Morse (1697-????) married #330 James Maynard (1694-????)  in about 1719.
* their daughter #155 Lydia Maynard (1722-1802) married #154 David Batherick (1722-1794)in 1742.
* their daughter #77 Lydia Batherick (1752-1795) married #76 Phinehas Brigham (1755-1802)  in 1779.
* their son #38 Lambert Brigham (1794-1834) married #39 Sophia Buck (1797-1882) in 1817.
* their daughter #19 Sophia Newton (1834-1923) married #18 Edward Hildreth (1831-1899) in 1852.
* their daughter #9 Hattie Louisa Hildreth (1857-1920) married #8 Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922) in 1874.
* their son #4 Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942) married #5 Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962) in 1900.
* their son #2 Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983) married #3 Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002) in 1942.
* their son #1 Randall Jeffrey Seaver (1943-living)

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1)  PERSON (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
 

*  Name:                       Grace Warren[1–4]

*  Alternate Name:       Grace Warrin[5]
*  Alternate Name:       Grace Morse[7-8]
*  Alternate Name:       Grace Warren Morse[6]

*  Sex:                          Female

*  Father:                     Daniel Warren 1626-1706
*  Mother:                   Mary Barron 1631-1715

2)  INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Birth:                       14 March 1671/2, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[1-6]

*  Distribution:            3 September 1733 (age 62), husband's will proved; Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[7]

*  Death:                     22 July 1753 (age 82), Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[6,8]
*  Burial:                    after 22 July 1753 (after age 82) Old Common Cemetery, Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[6]

3)  SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Spouse 1:               Joseph Morse 1667-1733
*  Marriage 1:            20 January 1690/1 (age 18) Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[1–4]

*  Child 1:                Joseph Morse (1692-1756)
*  Child 2:                Grace Morse (1694-1731)
*  Child 3:                Mary Morse (1697-    )
*  Child 4:                Elizabeth Morse (1699-1775)
*  Child 5:                Jonas Morse (1703-1779)
*  Child 6:                Patience Morse (1705-1776)
   
4)  NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):  

Grace "Warrin" was born 14 March 1671/2 in Watertown, Massachusetts Bay, the daughter of Daniel and Mary (Barron) Warren of Watertown[1-6].

Grace married at age 18 on 20 January 1690/1 to Joseph Morse (1667-1733) of Groton, Massachusetts[1-4] in Watertown.  They had six children, the first two were born in Watertown and recorded in the Watertown town records book, and the last four were born and recorded in Marlborough  and recorded in the town vital record book:

*  Joseph Morse (1692-1756), married 1716 Abigail Barnes (1695-1741).
*  Grace Morse (1694-1731), married 1716 Jacob Hinds (1685-1764).
*  Mary Morse (1697-????), married 1719 James Maynard (1694-????).
*  Elizabeth Morse (1699-1775), married 1717 Benjamin Woods (1691-1740).
*  Jonas Morse (1703-1779), married 1735 Lucy Eager (1707-1802).
*  Patience Morse (1705-1776), married 1726 Jonathan Keyes (1702-1778).

Joseph Morse died on 11 July 1733 in Marlborough, having written his will on 9 April 1733.  It was proved on 3 September 1733[7].  In the will, Grace received as the widow:
"5'ly I Will and Bequeath unto my Tender and Wellbeloved Wife Grace During the Time that she shall Remain my Widow, the Continual Improvement of all and every Part of my Buildings orchards fences Plowlands Meadows and the Continual Incomes from thence arising, which are not Heretofore by Deed, or by this my present will Disposed of.

"6'ly I Will and bequeath unto my Wife afores'd all my Moveable Estate within my now Dwelling house (Bonds excepted) and also one Horse Two Cowes and Four sheep to be at her Dispose to any or all of my three Daughters above Named as she my said Wife shall Judge most expedient."
Grace Morse, widow of Joseph Sr., died on 22 July 1753 in Marlborough at age 82[6,8].  She is buried in Old Common Cemetery in Marlborough, but there is no surviving gravestone.  Grace (Warren) Morse left no probate record.
5.  SOURCES

1. Henry Bond, M.D.,  Family Memorials: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts (Boston, Mass. : Little, Brown & Co., 1860), Volume 1, page 620, #4 Daniel Warren family sketch.

2. J. Howard Morse 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 : Springfield Printing and Binding Company, 1903), page 12, #45, Joseph Morse family sketch.

3. Charles Hudson, History of the Town of Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, from its first settlement in 1657 to 1861  (Boston, Mass. : Press of T.R. Marvin & Son, 1862), page 416, #2-11- Joseph Morse family sketch.

4. "New England Marriages to 1700," online database with digital images, AmericanAncestors.org (New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008, Third Supplement, page 188, Joseph Morse and Grace Warren entry, 20 January 1690.

5. "Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988," indexed database and digital image, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com : accessed 6 October 2021); Watertown > Births, Marriages and Deaths > page 70 (image 154 of 3991), Grace Warrin birth entry, 14 March 1671.

6. Find A Grave, indexed database and digital image,  (http://www.findagrave.com), Old Common Cemetery, Marlborough Mass., Grace Warren Morse memorial #71760759.

7. Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Probate case files, Volume: Middlesex 14000-15599 Estate File #15528 (4 images), Joseph Morse estate, 1733; "Middlesex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1648-1871," indexed database and digital images, New England Historical and Genealogical Society, American Ancestors (https://www.AmericanAncestors.org : accessed 17 January 2021); Digitized mages provided by FamilySearch.org from original records at Probate Registry, Cambridge, Mass.

8. Franklin P. Rice (editor), Vital Records of Marlborough, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849  (Boston, Mass. : Franklin P. Rice ,1908), Deaths, pg .378, Grace Morse, widow of Joseph Sr., entry, 22 July 1753.

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NOTE: In 2014, Amy Johnson Crow suggested a weekly blog theme of "52 Ancestors" in her blog post 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks on the No Story Too Small blog. I have extended this theme in 2021 for an eighth year to 416 Ancestors in 416 Weeks. The list of 52 Ancestors biographies from my great-grandparents to the 7th great-grandparents (in work) is in https://www.geneamusings.com/p/ancestor-biographies.html.

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