Joseph MORSE was a native of Medfield, Mass. and a great-grandson of one of the Puritan fathers, Samuel MORSE who was born in England in 1585, settled in Massachusetts in 1635. Joseph was the son of Hon. Joshua MORSE of Medfield who it is said was a large real estate owner, representing his town in the General Court. Joseph MORSE who settled in Cumberland was an enterprising man of business. He was the proprietor of the celebrated George Tavern, Roxbury, said to have been a popular resort at the time and headquarters for military men. He formed an acquaintance with Lord AMHERST and the latter induced him to undertake to furnish the commissariat dept. at Oswego then threatened by the French. The capture of that place with 1400 prisoners by Montcalm in 1756 was only one of a year of defeats to British arms. Morse was captured, carried to Quebec where he was imprisoned and finally sent a prisoner of war to France. The ship in which he was sent was captured by an English man of war and he was happily released from confinement and horrible brutality which he suffered in a crowded hold, nearly devoured by vermin. His condition was so shocking that a special report of his case was made to Geo. II who sent for him and granted him large tracts of land at Fort Lawrence. Contemporaneous with this grant 30,000 acres of land were granted to Joseph Morse in the Mississippi valley, some miles distant from New Orleans which passed into the possession of Miss Morse who married a Mr. YOUNG. This domain made her immencely wealthy. When visited before the outbreak of the late civil war by one of the Cumberland Morses, this lady possessed on her own right forty slaves besides cottomn and sugar plantations of large extent.