Ancestry of
Jodie Foster

Movie Actress

Anna Morton

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• • 5th Great-grandmother of Jodie Foster — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 153 
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  • Birth Date:
  • 3 May 1742 
  • Birth Location:
  • Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 16 Jan 1814 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Marion Cemetery, Marion, Wayne, New York 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Samuel Eddy
  • Marriage Date:
  • 10 Mar 1763 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  David Eddy (Ahnentafel No:76 )

  • Notes: 

  • Claims that Anna Morton is the daughter of David Morton and Rebecca Finney are unproven. More research is needed to try and identify Anna's parentage.

• Sources for Anna Morton

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A035940.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 05/06/2019).
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Plymouth, Vol. 1, p. 351, Marriage record for Samuel Eddy and Anna Morton.
  • ⁴ Eddy, Ruth Story Devereux, The Eddy Family in America, Boston: T. O. Metcalf Company (1930), 162-163.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 333.
  • ⁶ Williams, Alicia Crane, ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 16, Part 1, Family of John Alden, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1999), 375.
  • ⁷ Williams, Alicia Crane, ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 16, Part 3, John Alden, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2004), 236-237.

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