This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/UN2.2ACIB/1231.1 Message Board Post: Re Washington State (1858) reference to a Morse. I am of Morse lineage but from Newbury, Essex, MA and then Bridgewater, MA and Bridgewater, ME. Purportedly my Morses 'settled' Washington State from Bridgewater, MA about the same time they came to Maine in the mid 19th Century. Do you have any verification of that fact and/or who the 'settlers' were from MA? Thanks. Donald W. Beattie in Winthrop, ME.