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John Morton (1725 – April 1, 1777) was an American farmer, surveyor, and jurist from the Province of Pennsylvania and a Founding Father of the United States. As a delegate to the Continental Congress during the American Revolution , he was a signatory to the Continental Association and Declaration of Independence .
"Dedicated to the memory of John Morton, A member of the First American Congress from the State of Pennsylvania, Assembled in New York in 1765, and of the next Congress, assembled in Philadelphia in 1774. Born A.D., 1724 – Died April 1777." [2]: 340 The inscription of the east side of the memorial reads:
John Morton (c. 1716–1780), MP; William Newcome (1729–1800), Bishop and Archbishop of Armagh; John Nourse (1705–1780), bookseller; John Ratcliffe (1700–1775), clergyman and Master of Pembroke College, Oxford; George Rowley (1782–1836), Master of University College, Oxford; Clement Saxton (1724–1810), High Sheriff of Berkshire
Sholto Charles Douglas, 15th Earl of Morton (c. 1732–25 September 1774) was the son of James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton. He was Colonel of a regiment of light dragoons, the 17th Regiment of Light Dragoons, raised in Scotland in 1759 and disbanded in 1763. [1] In February 1754 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society [2]
John Morton (c. 1716 – 25 July 1780) was an English lawyer and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1747 and 1780. Early life.
Pleydell was the fourth but eldest surviving son of Edmund Pleydell of Midgehall, Wiltshire and his wife Anne Morton, daughter of Sir John Morton, 2nd Baronet, MP of Milborne St. Andrew. He matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford on 10 April 1712, aged 18. [1] He married by 1724, Deborah Kyffyn, daughter of William Kyffyn of Denbighshire.
Robert W. Mattson, Sr. (1924–1982), Minnesota State Attorney General, 1964–1967 John Morton; John Morton (1724–1777), signer of the Declaration of Independence; delegate who cast the deciding vote in favor of Pennsylvania's support for United States Declaration of Independence [33] William A. Niskanen, chairman of the Cato Institute
John Morton, The Natural History of Northamptonshire, with some account of the antiquities; to which is annexed a transcript of Domesday Book (1712) Peter Whalley, The History and Antiquities of Northamptonshire. Compiled from the manuscript collections of the late learned antiquary, John Bridges, Esq. (1762–1791)