George Morton, of the Plymouth Colony

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George Morton

• 1585 - 1624 (39 years)
• Name George MORTON [2, 3, 4]
• Born 1585 - England
• Gender Male
• Died 12 Aug 1624 Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States [2]
• Residence 1650–1884 Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA [3]
• Person ID I121 MortonFamily
• Last Modified 18 Jun 2013
• Spouse Juliana CARPENTER, b. 7 Mar 1584, Somerset, England , d. 19 Feb 1664, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States (Age 79 years) Married 23 Jul 1612 Leyden, Netherlands [2]

George was born by about 1585, based on date of marriage. He was probably from South Yorkshire, England.

George married Julianna Carpenter on 22 July 1612 [NS] in Leiden, Holland. They had children:

1. Nathaniel - about 1613
2. Patience - about 1614
3. John - about 1617
4. Sarah - about 1620
5. Ephraim - about 1623

In July, 1623, the family arrived at Plymouth Colony on the ship "ANNE".

George died in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony.

• GEORGE MORTON ORIGIN: Leiden MIGRATION: 1623 in Anne
• OCCUPATION: Merchant.
• ESTATE: In the 1623 Plymouth land division George Morton was paired with Experience Mitchell, as passengers in the Anne, in a grant of eight acres [PCR 12:6]. By the time of the 1627 Plymouth cattle division, George Morton's widow, Juliana, had married Manasseh Kempton, and she and four of her children, Nathaniel, John, Ephraim and Patience Morton, were included in the company of William Bradford [PCR 12:13]. A fifth child, Sarah Morton, was the eleventh person in the company of Francis Eaton [PCR 12:12].
  
• George Morton received one share in the Dartmouth lands [MD 4:187]; as he was long dead when this division was made, the grant was presumably to his heirs.
  
• BIRTH: By about 1587 based on date of marriage.
  
• DEATH: Plymouth June 1624 [Prince 310]
  
• MARRIAGE: Leiden 22 July 1612 [NS] Juliana Carpenter, daughter of Alexander Carpenter [MD 11:193].
  
• She married (2) by 1627 MANASSEH KEMPTON and died at Plymouth 19 February 1664 aged fourscore and one year [PCR 8:25].

CHILDREN

1. NATHANIEL, b. say 1613; in the Plymouth tax lists of 25 March 1633 and 27 March 1634 assessed 9s. [PCR 1:11, 28]; m. Plymouth 25 December 1635 Lydia Cooper [PCR 1:35].
2. PATIENCE, b. about 1615 (d. Plymouth 16 August 1691 "being entered into the 77 year of her age" [MD 16:62; PVR 135]); m. by 1633 JOHN FAUNCE.
3. JOHN, b. say 1617; m. by 1649 Lettice _____ (eldest child b. Plymouth 11 December 1649 [PCR 8:8]). She m. (2) about 1674 Andrew Ring, son of MARY RING [TAG 42:203].
4. SARAH, b. say 1620; m. Plymouth 20 December 1644 George Bonham [PCR 2:79].
5. EPHRAIM, by 1623; m. Plymouth 18 November 1644 Ann Cooper [PCR 2:79].

ASSOCIATIONS

Through his marriage to Juliana Carpenter, George Morton was brother-in-law to SAMUEL FULLER, WILLIAM BRADFORD and WILLIAM WRIGHT, and was uncle to CONSTANT SOUTHWORTH and EDWARD SOUTHWORTH (see PRISCILLA CARPENTER).
In 1957 John G. Hunt published a speculative piece suggesting a distant collateral connection between WILLIAM BRADFORD and George Morton [NEHGR 111:68].

COMMENTS

George Morton's son Nathaniel wrote a history of Plymouth Colony called New England's Memorial and says about the Anne:</p><p>Two of the principal passengers that came in this ship were Mr. Timothy Hatherly and Mr. George Morton.... The latter of the two forenamed, namely Mr. George Morton, was a pious, gracious, servant of God, and very faithful in whatsoever public employment he was betrusted withal, and an unfeigned well willer, and according to his sphere and condition, a suitable promoter of the common good and growth of the plantation of New Plimouth; laboring to still the discontents that sometimes would arise amongst some spirits by reason of the difficulties of these new beginnings but it pleased God to put a period to his days soon after his arrival in New England, not surviving a full year after his coming ashore. With much comfort and peace he fell asleep in the Lord, in the month of June, anno 1624 [Morton 63-64]

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must read reference

STRANGERS AND PILGRIMS, TRAVELLERS AND SOJOURNERS - Leiden and the Foundations of Plymouth Plantation Hardcover – 2009 by Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs

Source: From Charles Edward Banks, The English Ancestry and Homes of the Pilgrim Fathers: who came to Plymouth on the Mayflower in 1620, the Fortune in 1621, and the Anne and the Little James in 1623 (Baltimore, MD.:Genealogical Publishing Co., 2006) p. 173

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References

1. https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr01/rr01_236.html#P6769
2. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/34764976/george_morton
3. [S12] Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s, Place: America; Year: 1623; Pagept
4. [S4] History of Plymouth County, Massachusetts : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and p. Residence date: 1650-1884 Residence place: Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA
5. [S14] U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, Source number: 9877.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: BFO.. Birth date: 1553 Birth place: Marriage date: Marriage place: En
6. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Morton-165