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Bobby Riggs

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Josiah Morton

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Bobby Riggs — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 124 
  • Father:
  • Joseph Morton 
  • Mother:
  • Agnes Woodson   
  • Birth Date:
  • 14 Nov 1737 
  • Birth Location:
  • Lunenburg County, Virginia 
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  • Death Date:
  • 27 or 28 NOV 1785 
  • Death Location:
  • Charlotte County, Virginia 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Venable
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1757 
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  • Child:

  Joseph Morton (Ahnentafel No:62 )

• Sources for Josiah Morton

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A081861.
  • ² The Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society, Frankfort, Kentucky: The Frankfort Printing Co., 1911, Vol. 9, No. 26, pp. 87-89.
  • ³ The William and Mary Quarterly, 1907, Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 246-247.
  • ⁴ William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, 1931, Vol. 11, No. 2, p. 212.
  • ⁵ Dorman, John Frederick, Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia, 1607-1624/5, 4th ed., Vol. 1, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2004), 731.
  • ⁶ Woodson, Henry Morton, comp., Historical Genealogy of the Woodsons and their Connections, Memphis, Tennessee: Henry Morton Woodson (1915), 57.