Section ABF: Descendants of Thomas Morehouse

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Generation One

1. THOMAS1 MOREHOUSE was born between 1572 and 1633, and died between 8 Aug. 1658 and 31 Dec. 1658[8]. He married ISABEL. [9, 12, 1]
Morehouse, Thomas, at Fairfield, in 1654. He first settled at Stamford in 1641. [6]
Children:
2i.HANNAH2 MOREHOUSE.
+3ii.LT. SAMUEL MOREHOUSE, b. about 1637; d. in 1687 in Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Connecticut, United States; m. (ACT-4) REBECCA ODELL, b. in Concord, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, United States on 17 July 1642[4], daughter of (ACT-1) William and Rebecca ODELL.
4iii.THOMAS MOREHOUSE, m. (1) before 1672 _____ KEELER; m. (2) between 1672 and 1707 MARTHA HOBBY.
5iv.MARY MOREHOUSE.
6v.JOHN MOREHOUSE.
7vi.JONATHAN MOREHOUSE, m. (1) MARY WILSON; m. (2) on 16 April 1690 in Fairfield REBECCA KNOWLES, d. on 21 Aug. 1727.


Generation Two

3. LT. SAMUEL2 MOREHOUSE (Thomas1), son of (1) Thomas1 and Isabel MOREHOUSE, was born about 1637[8], died between 9 Dec. 1687 and 31 Dec. 1687 in Fairfield[8, 1] and was buried in Fairfield[8]. He married (ACT-4) REBECCA ODELL, daughter of (ACT-1) William and Rebecca ODELL, who was born on 17 July 1642 in Concord[4]. [10, 12]
Children:
8i.SAMUEL3 MOREHOUSE, d. in 1732 in Stratfield, Fairfield Co.
9ii.REBECCA MOREHOUSE, d. on 2 April 1692; m. on 5 Nov. 1685 RICHARD HUBBELL.
+10iii.THOMAS MOREHOUSE, m. on 3 April 1690 in Boston, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts (SX-2) MARY HILL, b. in Boston on 1 April 1670[2], d. in Fairfield on 9 July 1746[2], daughter of (SX-1) Eliphalet and Ann HILL.
11iv.ELIZABETH MOREHOUSE, m. (1) MATTHEW SHERWOOD JR.; m. (2) on 4 March 1710 REV. CHARLES CHAUNCEY; m. (3) on 10 April 1716 in Stratfield LT. RICHARD MILES.
12v.JOHN MOREHOUSE, m. (DA-14) RUTH BARLOW of Fairfield, b. about 1680, daughter of (DA-4) John and (XK-12) Abigail (LOCKWOOD) BARLOW.
13vi.HANNAH MOREHOUSE, m. BENJAMIN RUMSEY.
14vii.MARY MOREHOUSE, m. about 1693 ISRAEL CURTIS.
15viii.DANIEL MOREHOUSE, b. about 1679; d. on 24 May 1739 in Fairfield; m. HANNAH ADAMS.
16ix.JAMES MOREHOUSE.
17x.ANN MOREHOUSE.


Generation Three

10. THOMAS3 MOREHOUSE (Samuel2, Thomas1), son of (3) Lt. Samuel2 and (ACT-4) Rebecca (ODELL), was born between 1656 and 1676, and died between 1 Jan. 1706 and 12 March 1706. He married in Boston, on 3 April 1690, (SX-2) MARY HILL[2], daughter of (SX-1) Eliphalet and Ann HILL, who was born on 1 April 1670 in Boston[2], and died on 9 July 1746 in Fairfield[2]. [11, 14, 2]
Children:
18i.CATHERINE4 MOREHOUSE, b. on 22 June 1691 in Fairfield; m. SAMUEL ALLEN.
+19ii.REBECCA MOREHOUSE, b. on 26 April 1693 in Fairfield; m. before 7 Feb. 1722/3 (FD-13) JOSEPH BOOTH, DEACON, b. in Stratford, Fairfield Co. about 1689[15], d. in Stratfield on 2 May 1763[13, 5], son of (FD-7) Joseph and (APE-16) Hannah (WILCOXSON) BOOTH.
20iii.THOMAS MOREHOUSE, b. on 18 Nov. 1695 in Fairfield.
21iv.MARY MOREHOUSE, b. on 30 June 1696 in Fairfield; m. DAVID TILLISON.
22v.JOHN MOREHOUSE, b. on 20 Sept. 1698 in Fairfield; d. in 1724 in Stratfield; m. EUNICE.


Generation Four

19. REBECCA4 MOREHOUSE (Thomas3, Samuel2, Thomas1), daughter of (10) Thomas3 and (SX-2) Mary (HILL) MOREHOUSE, was born on 26 April 1693 in Fairfield[14, 3], and was christened on 5 June 1698 in Fairfield[3], and died between 20 April 1735 and 1803. She married before 7 Feb. 1722/3, (FD-13) JOSEPH BOOTH, DEACON[14], son of (FD-7) Joseph and (APE-16) Hannah (WILCOXSON) BOOTH, who was born about 1689 in Stratford[15], and died on 2 May 1763 in Stratfield[13, 5]. [7, 14, 3]
Children: See (FD-13) Joseph BOOTH, Deacon



1. Donald Lines Jacobus, "History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, Vol. I" (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1976), 419.
2. Ibid., 422.
3. Ibid., 423.
4. Ibid., 445.
5. Ibid., 90.
6. R. R. Hinman,"First Puritan Settlers"(Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1968), 222.
7. George K. Ward,"Andrew Warde and His Descendants, 1597-1910"(New York: A.T. de la Mare Printing and Publishing Co., 1910), 69.
8. Cornelius Starr Morehouse,"[Ancestry and Descendants] of Gershom Morehouse, Jr., of Redding, Connecticut"(New Haven, Connecticut: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1991).
9. Ibid., 5.
10. Ibid., 8.
11. Ibid., 9.
12. Elizabeth Hubbell Schenck,"The History of Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, Vol. I"(New York: the author, 1889), 395.
13. Donald L. Jacobus, "The Genealogy of the Booth Family" (Pleasant Hill, Missouri: Eden C. Booth, 1952), 12.
14. Ibid., 13.
15. Ibid., 6, 12.