GENERATION 9

GENERATION 8

Capt. ABRAHAM MOREHOUSE
bapt:12-22-1700     Stratfield, CT
marr:04-12-1722     Stratfield, CT
died:05-03-1761     Fairfield, CT
buried: Old Burying Ground, Fairfield, CT
father: DANIEL MOREHOUSE
mother: HANNAH ADAMS
 
ELIZABETH PATTERSON
born:01-28-1700/01Stratfield, CT
marr:04-12-1722     Stratfield, CT
died:11-21-1785     Fairfield, CT
buried:  
father: ANDREW PATTERSON
mother: ELIZABETH PEET



Biography

ABRAHAM MOREHOUSE was appointed ensign of the first company, or train band, in Fairfield, by the Assembly in May 1743, and was appointed lieutenant of the same by the Assembly in May 1745, and captain of the same in May 1748.

He seems to have been a man of strong character and integrity. His will is dated April 27, 1761. He died May 3, 1761, in his sixty-first year. ELIZABETH died before Nov. 21, 1785, administrator of her estate being appointed on that date.
 


Children

  born marr died
all children born in Fairfield, Fairfield, CT
Samuel
  wife Ruth Wilson
04-08-1724
05-01-1720
 
07-08-1744
04-05-1773
04-28-1775
Silvanus
  wife Mary Hall
12-14-1725
09-18-1726
 
11-03-1747
 
 
Sarah
  husband Zachariah Jennings
11-28-1727
01-    -1720
 
06-17-1743
 
 
Hannah
  husband Edmund Rowland
  husband Michael Dunning
11-18-1729
about-1729
 
 
11-23-1748
 
-1803
04-13-1769
 
Daniel
  wife Sarah Sturgis
04-27-1732
03-20-1733
 
04-15-1755
about-1780
 
SETH MOREHOUSE
  wife RUTH SUMMERS
  wife Hannah Maltby
07-08-1734
12-04-1741
10-05-1741
 
 
about-1789
03-    -1799
 
10-03-1820
Rebecca
  husband Matthew Jennings
02-20-1736
-1730
 
02-05-1756
07-17-1816
05-27-1797
Lois 03-27-1739   06-24-1739
Andrew
  wife Anna Knapp
07-21-1740
06-02-1744
 
01-27-1763
-1766
 


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