Ancestry of
Joy Morton

Founder of Morton Salt Company

Ruth -----

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• • 6th Great-grandmother of Joy Morton — 9th Generation
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  • William Sawyer
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  John Sawyer

  Samuel Sawyer (Ahnentafel No:196 )

  Ruth Sawyer

  Mary Sawyer

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  • Ruth may have been a daughter of Francis Plummer. However it seems more likely that the connection is further than that of father and daughter. Other sources have also suggested that her maiden name may have been Binford.

• Sources for Ruth -----

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Newbury, Vol. 2, p. 716, Death record for son Samuel Sawyer.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Newbury, Vol. 1, pp. 465-466, Birth records for her children.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1874, Vol. 28, p. 194.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 3, P-W, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1485.
  • ⁵ Appleton, W. S., Some Descendants of William Sawyer of Newbury, Mass., Boston: Press of David Clapp and Son (1891), 1.
  • ⁶ Emery, Rev. Rufus, Genealogical Records of Descendants of John and Anthony Emery, of Newbury, Mass. 15901890, Salem, Massachusetts: Emery Cleaves (1890), 3-4.
  • ⁷ Emery, Rev. Rufus, et. al., Emery: Four Generations of the Descendants of John Emery, Sen., of Newbury, Mass., and Anthony Emery of Kittery, Maine, Salem, Massachusetts: Emery Cleaves (1889), 5-6.
  • ⁸ Holman, Mary Lovering, Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury and John Sargent Pillsbury, n.p.: n.p. (1938), 59.
  • ⁹ Morse, J. Howard and Miss Emily W. Leavitt, comp., Morse Genealogy Comprising the Descendants of Samuel, Anthony, William and Joseph Morse and John Moss, Springfield, Massachusetts: Springfield Printing and Binding Company (1903), 12.
  • ¹⁰ Stearns, Ezra S., comp., Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire: A Record of the Achievements of Her People . . ., Vol. 1, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company (1908), 258.