Mehitable Frary

Mehitable married Hezekiah Root on 12 Jul 1682. Hezekiah (son of Thomas Root) was born in of Deerfield, Franklin, Massachusetts; died on 29 Sep 1690 in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Mehitable Root was born on 24 May 1688 in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts.

Notes:

He was of Hatfield in 1668, and in Deerfield by 1670, the second known settler. He was killed in the Raid on Deerfield.

Sampson married Mary Daniel on 14 Jun 1660 in Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts. Mary (daughter of Robert Daniel and Elisabeth Morse) was born on 2 Sep 1642 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died after 29 Feb 1704 in On forced march to Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 29 Feb 1704, Deerfield, Franklin, Massachusetts

Notes:

She survived the Raid on Deerfield but was taken captive and died (or was killed) on the ensuing forced march to Canada.

Notes:

Emigrated with his wife and children about 1636. Possibly first at Watertown. At Dedham in 1637, where he was a founder of the church; then at Medfield by 1652.

He may have been the John Frary son of Henry Frary, baptized 28 Oct 1604 at North Walsham, Norfolk.

John married Prudence Townsend on 17 Jun 1628 in St. George Colegate, Norwich, Norfolk, England. Prudence (daughter of Edmund Townsend) was born before 28 Jun 1601; was christened on 28 Jun 1601 in St. Mary Coslany, Norwich, Norfolk, England; died on 24 Feb 1691 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Elisabeth Morse before 1631. Elisabeth (daughter of Samuel Morse and Elizabeth Jasper) was born before 6 Mar 1606; was christened on 6 Mar 1606 in Redgrave, Suffolk, England; died on 2 Oct 1643 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

With his wife, he migrated to New England in 1635.

Probably, but not absolutely proven as, a son of the Rev. Thomas Morse of Boxted, Essex; Hinderclay, Suffolk; and Foxearth, Essex.

Samuel Morse and Elizabeth Jasper are the most recent common ancestors of BAM and TWK. They are also ancestors of presidents William Howard Taft and Calvin Coolidge, and (probably, assuming that Nathaniel Butler, husband of Sarah Herrick, was a son of Benjamin Butler, 1727-1800, and Susanna Whiting, 1734-1775) also of the two Bush presidents.

Robert Charles Anderson, in The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume V, p. 174:

In 1929 G. Andrews Moriarty published an extensive collection of extracts from probate records and parish registers for the surname Morse in Suffolk and Essex and on that basis constructed a pedigree of the family in those counties [NEHGR 83:70-84, 278-94]. He discussed three Samuel Morses who might have been the immigrant, and concluded that the New England man was the son of the Rev. Thomas Morse of Boxted, Essex, Hinderclay, Suffolk, and Foxearth, Essex [NEHGR 83:286-89]. (This same identification had been made in 1865 by Abner Morse [NEHGR 19:264-66].)

In 1948, in the course of examining John Morse of Boston, Robert H. Montgomery analyzed Moriarty's arguments and concluded that Moriarty had not proved his case [TAG 24:147-56, at 148-49]. Less than a year later Moriarty defended his position vigorously [TAG 25:54-56]. We have accepted Moriarty’s identification as the most likely solution, with the caveat that additional evidence would be welcome.

Samuel married Elizabeth Jasper on 29 Jun 1602 in Redgrave, Suffolk, England. Elizabeth (daughter of Lancelot Jasper and Rose) was born before 30 Jan 1580; was christened on 30 Jan 1580 in Redgrave, Suffolk, England; died on 20 Jun 1655 in Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]