Elizabeth Barber

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 11 Feb 1651, Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts

Elizabeth married Dr. Daniel Morse on 21 Jun 1669 in Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts. Daniel (son of Daniel Morse and Lydia Fisher) was born on 31 Jan 1641 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts; died on 29 Sep 1702 in Sherborn, Middlesex, Massachusetts; was buried in Farm Cemetery, Sherborn, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Richard Sanger. Richard (son of Richard Sanger and Mary Rannals) was born on 22 Feb 1667; died on 1 Apr 1731 in Sherborn, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"Richard was a remarkable man. He inherited the combative, mirthful, acquisitive, and persevering characteristics of his mother's race, and excelled them in enterprise. He was brought up to the business of his father, and continued to be styled blacksmith until thirty years of age. […] In 1737, he opened a store, which he seems to have left in the hands of another in 1747, when he removed to Boston, and for a short time did a large and lucrative business. The climate disagreeing with the health of his lady, he returned the next year to Sherborn, and here traded extensively in merchandise and real estate. He was at that day concerned in land speculations in Maine. He accumulated a large fortune, which he divided among seven children, without reserving enough for protracted old age. Between 1740 and '67, he served the town ten years as selectman, and often acted as moderator at town meetings. He was a good whig, served on committees to provide for the poor of Boston, in the time of the war, and to report on the services of soldiers employed by Sherborn. In 1776, he was the first man placed on the committee of safety with President Locke." [Abner Morse, citation details below]

Richard married Deborah Rider on 19 Feb 1730 in Sherborn, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Deborah (daughter of William Rider and Deborah Morse) was born on 22 Jun 1710; died on 15 Aug 1789 in Sherborn, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"Capt. Samuel Sanger, senr., was distinguished for his athletic frame, personal dignity, moral integrity, courage, independence, and energy. During a long period of active life, he bore a conspicuous part in the civil transactions of Sherborn, and was eminently serviceable during the great conflicts for our liberties and the maintenance of the constitution against the rebellion of '87. Then it was, that his appeals, from the moderator's chair, were wont to rouse his townsmen to enthusiasm in their country's cause; so that no town of its size in this patriotic commonwealth, went before Sherborn in the number of volunteers for the public service, or in promptness in furnishing supplies. To him Pomologists owe the discovery and first cultivation of the incomparable Porter apple. He inherited the ancient Sanger house, kept a small store and tavern, and once entertained Gen. Washington. As a landlord he did much to discourage idleness and excess. No man dared roll at his ninepins between one holiday and another. Gross offenders against decency and good order would hide from his presence, and feel more terror at his rebuke, than at any fulminations from the Sherborn pulpit. On the sabbath his bar was locked, and a key of gold could not open it; yet his rooms were open and fires free during the interim of divine service, while a solemnity befitting the day, reigned throughout the house, and no discourse was entered upon which could interrupt him in his uniform practice of reading the Bible." [Abner Morse, citation details below]

Samuel married Abigail Whiting on 7 Apr 1762 in Dover, Norfolk, Massachusetts. Abigail (daughter of Jonathan Whiting and Anna Bullard) was born on 9 Jul 1737 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts; died on 3 Oct 1788 in Sherborn, Middlesex, Massachusetts; was buried in Sherborn Center Cemetery, Sherborn, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]