♂ Samuel Morehouse

1642 - 1687

Samuel Morehouse
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Thomas Morehouse
Thomas Morehouse
???? - 1658
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1666


Age: 24y
1666 • The Russian Orthodox Church holds a sobor (church council) which deposes Patriarch Nikon, but accepts his liturgical reforms. Dissenters from his reforms, known as Old Believers, continue to this day.

1675


Age: 33y

occupation


Fairfield, Connecticut, USA ⇓
Lieutenant and County Marshall from 1675 to 1687.
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1675 12 – Commissioners of the Thirteen Colonies organize a united force to attack the Narragansett tribe.

1687


Dec 9
Age: 46y

will


Fairfield, Connecticut, USA ⇓
Mentions wife, sons Samuel, Thomas (Exec'r), John, Daniel (land in Concord field), James; daughters Rebecca, Elizabeth, Hannah, Mary, Ann, last three under eighteen.
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1687 Suleiman II (d. 1691) succeeds the deposed Mehmed IV as Ottoman Emperor.

burial


Fairfield, Connecticut, USA ⇓
At the Old Burying Ground in Fairfield. His is the oldest stone in the whole ground.
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