Ancestry of
Joy Morton

Founder of Morton Salt Company

Richard Morton

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Joy Morton — 8th Generation
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  • 128 
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  • 5 Apr 1710 
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  • Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts 
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  • Ruth Edwards
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  • BEF 26 Feb 1665/1666 
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  Abraham Morton (Ahnentafel No:64 )

  Jonathan Morton

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  • Many sources try to link Richard Morton to George Morton who arrived in Plymouth in 1623, but there appears to be no evidence supporting this connection. Currently Richard Morton's origins are unknown.

• Sources for Richard Morton

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1991, Vol. 145, pp. 322, 333-335.
  • ² Hopkins, Timothy, The Kelloggs in the Old World and the New, Vol. 1, San Francisco, California: Sunset Press and Photo Engraving Co. (1903), 52.
  • ³ Lee, Helen Bourne Joy, The Joy Genealogy, Essex, Connecticut: The Pequot Press, Inc. (1968), 159.