King George II also volunterred to indemnify Joseph MORSE for his losses in the Oswego disaster by a Parliamentary grant. Mr. Morse then returned to America; the King soon died and nothing more was ever done. Mr. Morse gathered up his shattered fortunes at Medfield and sailed for Nova Scotia. He settled at his grant at Fort Lawrence where he is said to have erected a fine residence and lived in some style, in Government employ there and received while in this position a pension obtained for him through the influence of Lord AMHERST. His friend, Major ALLAN often told his grandson, the late Mr. Morse, that he had read letters of Lord Amherst to him suggesting if he would come to England, his services to the Crown in the French and Indian campaigns were such the King and Parliament would amply reward him; but his broken health prevented him from adopting this course and forced him to confine himself to his house as an invalid. The township of Amherst was named by him after his patron and saint, Lord Amherst. He built at his own expense a school house, probably the first ever built at the head of the Bay for the education of all. ... His widow married William HOW, who was Major in the Eddy rebellion and Col. William EDDY, a revolutionist who was killed by the British in an attack at Passamaquoddy, had married his daughter, Olive MORSE. When that ill fated expedition retreated through the wilderness to the borders of Maine, it was followed by Mrs. How and Mrs. Eddy and the Fort Lawrence grant was declared confiscated to the Crown. The Amherst grant in the meantime had been settled by one of Joseph's sons, Alpheus, whose loyalty was unimpeached. Alpheus MORSE's house was on the site of Willow Bank, the residence of his grand nephew, Col. STEWART and most of the Grant of 1763, remains in the Morse family to this day. Alpheus Morse married Theodore CRANE, a sister of Col. CRANE of Horton and entertained with a somewhat lavish hospitality at his home. His son, the late Hon. John S. MORSE was born in 1783 and died 98 years after. Mr. Morse's eldest brother, Alpheus, who married the daughter of Judge GAY, one of the grantees, died at the age of 95. His second brother, John MORSE, died at the age of 99. Joseph, another brother, waxed exceedingly old. The latter married a daughter of Col. PURDY of Fort Lawrence, a Revolutionary hero, who received to the day of his death from the British Government, a pension for his services in the rebellion of 1776. He represented the town of Cumberland as member for years. Silas MORSE, another brother is a hale nonegenarian. One sister, the wife of Wm END, Irish gentleman and leading politician, died at an advanced age. Sarah MORSE, widow of Alexander STEWART, C.B., Master of the Rolls and Judge of the Court of Vice Admiralty, retains at 83 years the vigor of middle age. In 1791, J.S. MORSE was sent by his father to Partridge Island, Parrsboro to be educated by his uncle, James Noble SHANNON son Richard Cutts SHANNON, Attorney General of Connecticut and was the grandfather of Hon. S.L. SHANNON of Halifax. (see original)