Brief Life History of Amos
When Amos Morse was born about 1786, in East Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Daniel Morse, was 37 and his mother, Mary Challis, was 34. He married Lucretia Swasey Dean on 15 September 1817, in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, United States for about 5 years. He died on 11 February 1861, at the age of 76, and was buried in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Amos Morse, "United States Census, 1860"
- Amos Morss, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Amos Morse, "New Hampshire Marriage Records, 1637-1947"
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1786 · Shays' Rebellion
Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
1787 · The Making of the U.S. Constitution.
The Philadelphia Convention was intended to be the first meeting to establish the first system of government under the Articles of Confederation. From this Convention, the Constitution of the United States was made and then put into place making it one of the major events in all American History.
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Name Meaning
Welsh and English: variant of Morris .
Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames, especially Moses . Compare Morris .
History: Samuel Morse (1791–1872), inventor of the electric telegraph andof Morse code, was a direct descendant of Anthony Morse of Wiltshire,England, who had emigrated to MA in 1635.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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