1. Richard Morton was a s. of George Morton and grandson of George Morton who came to Plymouth and d. there in 1624. George Morton, grandfather of Richard, was bap. Feb. 18, 1598, at Austerfield, England, and m. Juliana Carpenter, a sister of Governor Bradford. With his s. George and other ch. he drifted to Dorchester. Richard Morton came to Hat. from Hart, sometime between 1663 and 1670. He was a blacksmith by trade. He m. Ruth _____, who d. Dec. 31, 1714. He d. Apr. 5, 1710."
"Ruth2 Edwards (John1), … married, by 26 February 1665/6, Richard Morton, a blacksmith who died at Hatfield, Massachusetts 5 April 1710. … His widow Ruth died there 31 December 1714 (Sylvester Judd, History of Hadley, 100; Daniel White Welles and Reuben Field Welles, A History of Hatfield, Massachusetts [Springfield, 1910], 426). Presenting no evidence, the latter authors presumed an ancestry for Richard Morton which has not been confirmed."
Division of Estate: Ruth Morton, Relict Children: Thomas Morton, Joseph Morton, Abraham Morton, Ebenezer Morton, Jonathan Morton, John Warner in Right of Elizabeth Warner his wife alias Morton
