When Obadiah Morse II was born on 16 August 1730, in Walpole, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Obadiah Morse, was 32 and his mother, Bethiah Ruggles, was 24. He married Mary Willet on 13 March 1755, in Walpole, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. He registered for military service in 1776. He died on 21 July 1776, in Hull, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 45.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
"""At the end of the Second Continental Congress the 13 colonies came together to petition independence from King George III. With no opposing votes, the Declaration of Independence was drafted and ready for all delegates to sign on the Fourth of July 1776. While many think the Declaration was to tell the King that they were becoming independent, its true purpose was to be a formal explanation of why the Congress voted together to declare their independence from Britain. The Declaration also is home to one of the best-known sentences in the English language, stating, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."""""""
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.
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