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Leonard Wood

Leader of the Rough Riders

John Morton Jr.

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Leonard Wood — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 170 
  • Father:
  • John Morton 
  • Mother:
  • Lettice -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • 21 Dec 1650 
  • Birth Location:
  • Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 20 Mar 1717/1718 
  • Death Location:
  • Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Cemetery at The Green, Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Ring
  • Marriage Date:
  • 4 Mar 1687/1688 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Mary Morton (Ahnentafel No:85 )

  John Morton

  Hannah Morton

  Ebenezer Morton

  Deborah Morton

  Persis Morton

• Additional marriages for John Morton Jr.

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  • Spouse:
  • Phebe Shaw

• Sources for John Morton Jr.

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 12/01/2015).
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Plymouth, Vol. 1, pp. 10-11, Birth records for the children of John and Mary Morton.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1997, Vol. 151, p. 282.
  • ⁴ New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1921, Vol. 52, p. 197.
  • ⁵ Austin, John D., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 6, 3rd ed., Stephen Hopkins, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2001), 31-32.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 28, 65, 479.
  • ⁷ Roser, Susan E., Mayflower Increasings, 2nd Edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (1997), 65.
  • ⁸ Weeks, Lyman Horace, ed., Prominent Families of New York: Being an Account in Biographical Form of Individuals and Families Distinguished as . . ., New York: The Historical Company (1898), 416.
  • ⁹ Wood, Ralph V., Jr., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 12, Francis Cooke, Revised Edition, Rockland, Maine: Picton Press (2011, revised edition 3rd printing), 99.