Ancestry of
John Motley Morehead

29th Governor of North Carolina

Joseph Motley

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• • Grandfather of John Motley Morehead — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 6 
  • Father:
  • Joseph Motley 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Forrest   
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  • Death Date:
  • from 8 Nov 1804 to 15 Dec 1806 
  • Death Location:
  • prob. Pittsylvania County, Virginia 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Martha Ellington
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  • Child:

  Obedience Motley (Ahnentafel No:3 )

  • Notes: 

  • Joseph Motley is said to have been a captain under Col. George Washington durng the French and Indian Wars, and was a witness to Braddock's defeat.

• Additional marriages for Joseph Motley

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  • Spouse:
  • Elizabeth - - - - - -

• Sources for Joseph Motley

  • ¹ Konkle, Burton Alva, John Motley Morehead and the Development of North Carolina, 1796-1866, Philadelphia: William J. Campbell (1922), 2-7.
  • ² Morehead, John Motley (III), The Morehead Family of North Carolina and Virginia, New York: Privately printed (1921), 45. 102-105.