Ancestry of
Julius Sterling Morton

Founder of Arbor Day

Richard Morton

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Julius Sterling Morton — 7th Generation
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  • 64 
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  • Death Date:
  • 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:32 )

  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.