I have Jonathan Morse m. Mary Stow. They had daughter Abigail Morse b.5/12/1712 in Marlboro, MA m. to John Hapgood. That is all I have on the Morse line. At 08:02 PM 8/10/99 EDT, Dora Smith wrote: >It seems that William Morse and his wife, I think Elizabeth, possibly Mary >(I won't be zeroxing again until Thursday, either) were involved in an >earlier witchcraft case. I didn't learn any of this from any Morse or >McKinstry (a Morse line) source or resource. The entire Morse clan must be >the most excessively proper and silent family group I have yet dealt with, >and they don't share genealogical information much at all, even on the Morse >list. My brother in law belongs to them. The emigrant Morse, William, >thought his house was the scene of incidents of witchcraft. A sea captain >who lived nearby exposed these as the work of a youngster who lived in the >house. This much is in the Morse genealogies, as a sort of quixotic tale. >The fact that William Morse was so enraged by this diagnosis of the problem >that he filed very serious charges against the sea captain is not in Morse >family histories, and neither is the fact that his wife was charged with >witchcraft and William at the least wondered if the charge was true. I don't >even have the outcome of the charge, only the books and page numbers! But >clearly Morse family life was not calm, and Morse life could get lively. > >I wonder if any Morse descendants are on this list. I vant to know more >about these Morse's! > >Yours, >Dora > > >_______________________________________________________________ >Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com > > > Jim & Dianna Nagle Genealogy Page searching for Naugle/Nagle/Morgan/Thompson/Carlson/Yates http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/n/a/g/Edwin-J-Nagle/