From George to Siias

This will be my third and final post about Sue's Morton pedigree.

Recap

So far, we have seen that Sue's pedigree goes a long way back, possibly to 1200 CE. Dates get iffy back in the early days, but the data seem fairly solid for viable connection between present Mortons and the early De Martons.

We also learned that a George Morton (more below) immigrated to Massachusetts very early on and that the links from him to Sue are strong.

The third point of solid record, with regards to movement and geographical location, is that Silas Morton emigrated from the USA to Canada, sometime before 1850.

Now for more about George, the ancestor who came to the New World.

George Morton (1585 - 1624) 

I am using this Wikipedia entry for this information. The basic information about George such as dates, wife, and children is consistent with P's version of the family tree.

According to Wiki, George was an English Puritan Separatist who very likely assisted in the writing and/or publishing of Mourt's Relation in 1662: a book about the founding of the Plymouth Colony.

Once the book was published and his various affairs were set in order, he emigrated to Massachusetts on the Anne in 1623 to join his fellow pilgrim Puritans. This was just three years after the Mayflower.

He had a son named George who married Phoebe Cooper. This George II is the person who continues the line to Sue. A caveat is that there is no firm record of the birth of this second George. Obviously, he existed and both Wikipedia and P tie him back to George I and on to Sue's pedigree.

I am not sure where George II was born, and he's a bit of a mystery. If P is correct, he would have been born in England in 1609. If Wikipedia is correct, he would have been born in Massachusetts in 1624.  But then I don't see him on the passenger list of the Anne. Maybe he arrived earlier or later? 

The same Wikipedia source links some of the more noteworthy descendants of George I.

• Marcus Morton was, twice, a governor of Massachusetts.
• Julius Sterling Morton was the third Secretary of Agriculture and the founder of Arbor Day.
• Joy Morton, a male despite the name, was the founder of the Morton Salt Company
• Henry Cotton Morton built the Morton House Museum in Benton Harbor, Michigan

That's a wrap, and as best we can tell, it is Sue's long and fairly well substantiated pedigree on her father's side. Although I have only concentrated on Sue's line, P did the whole family Morton, with all sorts of children and branches. It is a very thorough and impressive document.