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(V) Joshua, son of Samuel Pomeroy, was born at Easthampton, September 9. 1717, died April 21, 1779. He married Lois Phelps, born in 1722, died March 14, 1795, daughter of Captain William and Thankful (Edwards) Phelps. Children: I. Lois, born 1749. 2. Joshua, baptized October 15, 1752. 3. Gideon, baptized January 26, 1756, died March, 1765. 4. Lydia, baptized February 29, 1756, mar- ried Ichabod Howe. 5. Miriam, baptized March 25, 1759, married Isaac Lobdell. 6. Grace, baptized May 26, 1761, married Simeon Lobdell. 7. Gideon, baptized June 12, 1765. married Irene Brown. 8. Justise or Justus, baptized February 22, 1767, mentioned be- low. 9. Princess, married, November 7, 1793. Solomon Wolcott Jr.
(VI) Deacon Justus, son of Joshua Pome- roy, was baptized February 22, 1767. He set- tled in the western part of Easthampton near the place formerly called Pogue's Hole. By a subsequent change of town lines, the farm came within the bounds of Southampton. He died April 15, 1842. He married, Septem- ber 16, 1790, Silence Brown, born May 26, 1769, died July 19, 1848, great-granddaugh- ter of Abigail ( Pomeroy) Searle, daugh- ter of Caleb Pomeroy (3), mentioned above. Abigail, born October 26, 1671, mar- ried, April 5, 1694, John Searle, son of John Searle Jr. and Ruth (Janes), daughter of William Janes. The Searle family settled at Pascommuck, a hamlet at the foot of Mount Nonotnick, Northampton, destroyed in 1704 in an Indian massacre, in which John Searle was slain and Abigail, his wife, left for dead, but she recovered and married (second) De- cember 3, 1707, Nathaniel Alexander John (3): George (2) ; John (1). Silence was daughter of Rufus Brown (3): John (2) ; James (1). Children of Justus Pomeroy : 1. Tryphena, born April 18, 1792, died Febru-
ary 6, 1880, unmarried. 2. Spencer, March 14, 1795, died July 29, 1880; married Cynthia Spencer, born 1797, died 1885. 3. Jerusha, December 3, 1798, died September 24, 1864; married Joseph Haskins and lived at North- ampton, at York, New York, and died at Atchison, Kansas. 4. Julius, May 6, 1802, mentioned below. 5. Jefferson, February II, 1805, died October 20, 1806. 6. Thomas Jef- ferson, April 12, 1808. 7. Justus, December 17. 1810, died April 21, 1860, unmarried.
(VII) Julius, son of Justus Pomeroy, was born May 6, 1802, died January 5, 1886. He was a farmer and carpenter and three of his sons learned his trade. He married (first) May 16, 1827, Maria Clark, born April 2, 1805, daughter of Julius Clark (6) (Sergeant Oliver (5) ; Thamar (4) ; Deacon John Jr. (3) : Deacon John (2) ; Lieutenant William Clark (I).) The descendants of Lieutenant William Clark have erected a fine monument to his memory in the Bridge Street Cemetery, Northampton, near the grave of Deacon Medad Pomeroy, mentioned above, ancestor of General Seth Pomeroy, of the revolution. Maria (Clark) Pomeroy died July 20, 1842. He married (second) May 10, 1843, Lucena White. Leve (7) was son of Nathaniel White, born 1814, died December 2, 1858, daughter of Leve and Miriam (Alvord) White (6) Nathaniel (5) (4) (3) (2) of Middletown, Connecticut, Elder John White (I) of Hartford and Hadley. Miriam Al- vord was daughter of Samuel (5) ; Gad (4) ; John (3) : Thomas (2) ; Alexander (I). He married (third) in 1859, Sarah Loomis, born 1818, died June 12, 1883. Children of Julius and Maria (Clark) Pomeroy: 1. Francis Henry, born July 2, 1829, mentioned below. 2. Frederick Alphonse, August 28, 1831, died January 12, 1902. 3. Julius Clark May 29, 1833, died October 19, 1867. 4. Marie An- toinette, July 23, 1835, died April, 1904. 5. Melissa Isabel, April 28, 1838, died Novem- ber 19, 1907. Children of second wife, Lu- cena : 6. Herbert White, August 27, 1844, died January 28, 1863; enlisted in Company K, Fifty-second Massachusetts Regiment and died of disease at Slaquemine, Louisiana. 7. Ella Lecena, December 15, 1849, married, No- vember 6, 1879, William Fisher Bement, who (lied May 27, 1893; she compiled the genea- logical data for this sketch. 8. Miriam White, October 6, 1852, unmarried. 9. Tanthe Es- telle, born and died November 24, 1858.
(VIII) Francis Henry, son of Julius. Pomeroy, was born in Easthampton, July 2 ..
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1829, died there May 1, 1893. He married, April 29, 1857, Maria Smith, of Granby, Mas- sachusetts, born April 9, 1836, daughter of Elisha Smith (7); Jared (6); Nathan (5) ; John (4) ; Ebenezer (3) ; Chileab (2) ; Lieu- tenant Samuel (1). Children, born at East- hampton : I. Fred Lyman, died in child- hood. 2. Alfred Lyman, mentioned below.
(IX) Alfred Lyman, son of Francis Hen- ry Pomeroy, was born at Easthampton, Au- gust 19, 1861. He was educated there in the public schools and graduated from the East- hampton high school. He became a clerk in the postoffice of his native town and for four years was assistant postmaster. He had a similar position at Chicopee for four years and a half and during the interim between the death of one postmaster and the appointment of his successor he was for three months act- ing postmaster. In 1887 he established him- self in the business of undertaker and em- balmer at Chicopee and he has continued with much success in this business. Since 1888 he has also carried on an extensive coal and wood business in addition to his other occu- pation. He is on the board of civil service examiners for Chicopee; is a member of Chicopee Lodge of Free Masons; of Unity Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; of Springfield Council, Royal and Select Masters; Spring- field Commandery, Knights Templar, and Melha Temple, Mystic Shrine. He is an ac- tive and prominent member of the Unitarian church, and was treasurer of the society for fifteen years. In politics he is a Republican, but he has never sought public office. He mar- ried, April 2, 1889, Nellie A. Taylor (see Taylor family). They have one son, Harold Luther, born June 22, 1894.
Thomas Philbrook or Phil- brick was born in Eng- PHILBROOK land and came to America about 1630. He was a proprietor of Water- town in 1636, and his homestead was on the northwest corner of the present Belmont and Lexington streets. He is said to have been a mariner in early life and to have been mas- ter of a vessel before he emigrated from Lincolnshire, England. He deposed April II, 1667, that he was about forty-two years old. In 1645-46 he was a grantee of eight lots in Hampton New Hampshire, and sold his Wa- tertown estate to Isaac Stearns, and in 1650 or 1651 he had removed to Hampton, where his elder sons lived. In 1661 he bought of John Moulton land adjoining the farms of his
son James and his son-in-law, John Cass. He made his will in March, 1663-64, in which he calls himself "very aged." He died in 1667 and his will was proved October 8, of that year. His wife Elizabeth lied February 19, 1663. Children, born in England: I. James, mentioned below. 2. John, married Ann Palmer; drowned with his wife and daughter October 20, 1657. going from Hamp- ton to Boston. 3. Thomas, born 1624, mar- ried (first) 1647, Anne Knapp: (second) Sep- tember 22, 1669, Hannah White, widow. 4. Elizabeth, married (first) 1642, Thomas Chase ; (second) October 26, 1654, E. P. Garland. 5. Hannah. 6. Mary, married Ed- ward Tuck. 7. Martha, married John Cass. (II) James, son of Thomas Philbrook, was born in England about 1622 and settled in Hampton, New Hampshire, where he inherit- ed his father's homestead. He was a mariner. In 1670 he was chosen with others to run the Exeter line. In 1671 he had a grant of forty acres in the south of Hampton called the New Plantation, now Seabrook. He was drowned in the Hampton river near the mouth of Cole's creek, November 16, 1674. He married (first) probably Jane Roberts, daugh- ter of Thomas Roberts, of Dover. He mar- ried (second) Ann Roberts, her sister, who married (second) July 8, 1678, William I. Marston. Children, all by second wife: Bethia, married April 24, 1677, Caleb Perkins of Hampton. 2. Captain James, born July 13, 1651, mentioned below. 3. Apphia, March 19, 1655, married, December 3, 1674, Timothy Hilliard. 4. Hester, March 1, 1657, married (first) Joseph Beard ; (second) November 12, 1705, Sylvanus Nock. 5. Thomas, March 14, 1659, married April 14, 1681. Mehitable Ayres ; died January 1, 1712. 6. Sarah, Feb- ruary 14, 1660-61. 7. Joseph, October I, 1663. 8. Elizabeth, July 24. 1666. 9. Mehita- ble, July 19, 1668, married Timothy Hilliard.
(III) Captain James (2), son of James (I) Philbrook, was born July 13, 1651, and was a mariner at Hampton. He lived on the homestead. His will is dated July 14, 1722. He married, at Hampton, December 4, 1674, Hannah Perkins , born February 14. 1656. died May 13, 1739, daughter of Isaac Perkins. Children, born in Hampton: I. Hannah, April 30, 1676, married. July 26, 1693, Ste- phen Sanborn. 2. Daniel, February 19. 1678. 3. Jonathan, November 10, 1680, married Mary -. 4. Sarah, June II, 1682, mar- ried (first) August 8, 1701, Ensign John San- born: (second) Lieutenant Thomas Rawlins ;
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died May 30, 1761. 5. Ebenezer, October 29, 1683, married Bethia Moulton. 6. Apphia, April 8, 1685, died unmarried 1759. 7. Isaac, August 5, 1688, married, October 20, 1719, Mary Palmer. 8. James, married Sarah -. 9. Abigail, June 25, 1692, married, January 7, 1712, Thomas Haines, died Janu- ary 26, 1716. 10. Deacon Joseph, February 5, 1694, married (first) December 4, 1717, Ann Dearborn ; (second) November 26, 1719, Elizabeth Perkins. II. Nathan, August 19. 1697, mentioned below. 12. Mary, 1701, died 1721.
(IV) Nathan, son of Captain James (2) Philbrook, was born in Hampton, August 19, 1697, died April 23, 1794. He was a black- smith, and resided in Hampton and Rye, New Hampshire. He married, October 30, 1721, Dorcas Johnson, daughter of James Johnson. Children : I. Mary, born January 25, 1723. 2. Jonathan, October 13, 1725, mariner, taken by the French. 3. Benjamin, about 1727, mentioned below.
(V) Benjamin, son of Nathan Philbrook, was born about 1727 and settled at Little Riv- er, Hampton, where his children were born. He removed to Sanbornton, New Hampshire, where his sons had settled, and died there January 23, 1808. He married, December 15, 1751, Sarah Page, born April 12, 1734, died July 19, 1831, daughter of Shubael Page, of Hampton. Children, born at Hampton : I. Hannah. 2. Huldah, June 4, 1754, married, June 13, 1775, Eben Sanborn : died Decem- ber 14, 1841. 3. Nathan, December 25, 1756, died aged twenty-three. 4. Benjamin, 1759, died young. 5. David, May 14, 1760. 6. Shubael Page, October 28, 1762, married Lucy Haines, widow ; died September 29, 1855. 7. Reuben, April 12, 1765, mentioned below. 8. Deacon Benjamin, February 21, 1767, mar- ried Abigail Brown; died January 25, 1862. 9. Sarah, April 21, 1770, married Benjamin Brown. 10. Simeon, October 14, 1773, mar- ried Mary Page. 11. Betsey, October 9, 1775, married Deacon Simeon Moulton ; died 1859. 12. Josiah, March 12, 1777, married Mary Elkins ; died January 18, 1868.
(VT) Reuben, son of Benjamin Philbrook, was born April 12, 1765, and was a black- smith by trade. He married (first) April 8, 1788, Elizabeth Thomas, who died in May, 1790, daughter of Jonathan Thomas. Hc married (second) February 24, 1701, Eliza- beth Brown, who died February 2, 1849, aged eighty-one. He died August 17, 1837. He lived in Sanbornton, New Hampshire, where
his children were born. Children: I. Sarah, February 24, 1789, married, August 27, 1809, Nathan Philbrook; died August 18, 1836. 2. Benjamin, April 28, 1790, mentioned below. 3. Hannah, July 12, 1792, married, Novem- ber 22, 1810, Josiah H. Sanborn; died June 19, 1878. 4. Elizabeth, April 5, 1794, died June, 1814. 5. Jacob, died June, 1796, aged one month. 6. Sally Brown, born April 15, 1797, married August, 1842, Nathanial Gil- man ; died 1865. 7. Nancy, January 26, 1799, married. 1818, John Hunkins. 8. Abigail, April 22, 1801, married John Hill. 9. John, April 4, 1803. 10. Rebecca, March 24, 1805, married Rev. Joseph Lane. II. Ruth, April 13, 1807, married Andrew Philbrook. I2. Jacob, June 20, 1809. 13. Huldah S., August 27, 18II, died aged three years.
(VII) Benjamin, son of Reuben Phil- brook, was born in Sanbornton, New Hamp- shire, April 28, 1790, and died there Novem- ber 2, 1858. He was a farmer in Sanborn- ton. He married, June 20, 1816, Charlotte Palmer, who died October 18, 1875, aged seventy-eight, daughter of Joseph Palmer. Children, born in Sanbornton : I. Huldah S., January 6, 1818, married, August 25, 1842, Samuel K. Gove. 2. Lydia, April II, 1819, married, 1840, John C. Gil- man. 3. Ebenezer Sanborn, March 9, 1821, married (first) Abigail Batchelder; (second) May 22, 1850, Julia Batchelder. 4. Ann Dearborn, June 7, 1822, married, November 26, 1848, John William Johnson. 5. Sarah, January 19, 1824, married Benjamin B. Breed. 6. Josiah S., October 28, 1826, died June 26, 1837. 7. Cynthia C., June, 1827, died September 12, 1830. 8. Alonzo B., July 3, 1829, married, November 18, 1847, De -. borah Cram. 9. William H. Harrison, May 3, 1831, married Ellen Dinsmore. TO. Al- mira, April 12, died May 8, 1833. 11.Cynthia Jane, May 16, 1834, married Levi A. Taylor (see Taylor family). 12. Syrene Frances, January 20, 1836, married James H. Crombie. 13. Otis Freeman, June 30, 1838, married Lucebia Libbey ; died March, 1863. 14. El- dora Lavon, April 18, 1844, married, Febru- ary 27, 1865, Solomon E. Bickford.
This surname is undoubtedly a
TAYLOR trade name and is sometimes spelled Tailor. It is of ancient English origin. (I) Robert Taylor, ancestor of this branch of the family in America, set- tled first in Scitnate, Massachusetts. He was a ropemaker. He removed to Newport,
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Rhode Island, and was admitted a freeman in 1655. On October 22, 1673, he served on the jury and October 29 of the same year he was appointed prison keeper by the assembly. He married, in November, 1646, Mary Hedges. He died January 13, 1688. Children : 1. Mary, born November, 1647, married, 1664, George Hulate. 2. Ann, February 12, 1650. 3. Mar- garet, January 30, 1652. 4. Robert, October, 1653, died June 12, 1707; married Deborah Peckham. 5. John, June 1657, died June 9, 1747; married (first) Abigail --; (second) Sarah 6. Peter, July, 1661, mentioned below. 7. James, married, October 7, 1690 Catherine
(II) Peter, son of Robert Taylor, was born in July, 1661, died in 1736. He lived in New- port, Rhode Island, and on December 26, 1688, he bought one hundred acres of land in Little Compton, Rhode Island, of Benjamin Church and his wife. His will was dated May 13, 1730, and proved October 13, 1736. He mar- ried (first) Elizabeth Peckham, who died May 24, 1714, daughter of John Peckham. He married (second) in November, 1715, Han- nah Wood. Children: I. Peter, born October 20, 1697. 2. Elizabeth, January 4, 1701, mar- ried John Davenport. 3. Mary, December 20, 1703. 4. Mercy. 5. Hannah. 6. Anne. 7. William, mentioned below. 8. Daughter.
(III) William, son of Peter Taylor, was born in Newport, Rhode Island, probably 1710. He was living at the time of his father's death. He lived at Cranston or Scituate, perhaps in both places. The records are defective and very little is found of the family at this per- iod. Believed to be his children: I. William, married, at Scituate, November 10, 1763, Phebe Franklin. 2. John, married, 1761, Eliz- abeth Baker, at Scituate. 3. Rachel. 4. Rich- ard, mentioned below. Doubtless there were others.
(IV) Richard, son or nephew of William Taylor, was born about 1740. He was doubt- less a Quaker for the death of his wife Susan- nah is recorded in the Friends records. She was born November 16, 1751, died March 20, 1830. Children, according to the best evidence at hand: I. Richard, mentioned below. 2. William, of Scituate, born November 4, 1784, died February 14, 1808, at Scituate. 3. Elip- halet (?). Doubtless other children. The Taylor family was numerous in the same sec- tion and some of the records may be confused poor spelling on the part of town clerks being the rule rather than the exception.
(V) Richard (2), son of Richard (I) Tay-
lor, was born about 1775 at Scituate, Rhode Island, or vicinity. He served in the war of 1812. He married, November 17, 1799, Pa- tience Eddy, daughter of Elkanah Eddy, at Scituate. The only child recorded as born at Scituate was Manchester B., born October 9, 1804, mentioned below.
(VI) Rev. Manchester Baise Taylor, son of Richard (2) Taylor, was born at Scituate, Rhode Island, October 9, 1804. He was edu- cated in the public schools. He became a Bap- tist minister, and had charges at Putnam and at Scituate, Rhode Island. He married, March 4, 1827, Ann Fuller, born at Foster, Rhode Island, March 13, 1808, daughter of Obed and Rachel ( Preston) Fuller. Children: I. Su- san A., born in Scituate, Rhode Island, May 14, 1830. 2. Levi A., born in Foster, Rhode Island, August 7, 1834. Susan A., married Daniel Mowry, September 26, 1848; one child, Latilla A., who married December 8, 1876, Robert Brown Hawkins; three children : Fen- ner M., Emeline B. and Roy O.
(VII) Levi A., son of Rev. Manchester Boyse Taylor, was born August 7, 1834, at Foster, Rhode Island, died April 30, 1888. He married Cynthia J. Philbrook, born May 16, 1834, daughter of Benjamin and Charlotte (Palmer) Philbrook. (see Philbrook family ). Children : I. Mabel Cynthia, born August 26, 1858, married, December 24, 1880, Augustus Newton Wells ( deceased ) ; merchant at Ports- mouth, New Hampshire. 2. Nellie A., Jan- uary 2, 1862, married, April 2, 1889, Alfred Lyman Pomeroy (see Pomeroy family ).
Thomas Davee, emigrant ances-
DAVEE tor, was born in England and came to this country, settling in Albany, New York, removing later to North Carolina. He married Catherine Wendell, by whom he had Robert, 1708; John; Cath- erine, 1714, married John Creecy, of North Carolina ; Thomas, mentioned below ; David, 1724; Benjamin and Miles.
(II) Thomas (2), fourth child of Thomas (I) and Catherine (Wendell) Davee was born in Albany and came to Plymouth, Mas- sachusetts, in 1737, to be educated under the care of Elkanah Morton. He married, in 1753, Mercy, daughter of Barnabas Hedge, by whom he had Sarah, 1754, married Lebanon Bradford, of Bristol, Rhode Island ; Thomas, 1756; William, mentioned below : John, 1761 ; Samuel, 1765 ; Isaac P., 1771 ; Wendell, 1776.
(III) William, second son of Thomas (2) and Mercy (Hedge) Davee, was born in Ply-
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mouth in 1758. He married Rebecca, daugh- ter of Nathaniel (2) Morton of Freetown (see Morton, V). Children : William, born in 1783; Nathaniel Morton, 1785; Thomas, 1791; Elizabeth, 1803.
(IV) Captain Isaac was, it is believed, a son of William and Rebecca (Morton) Davee, and was born in Plymouth, February 15, 1789, died October 29, 1864. He was a sea captain. He married Rhoda, daughter of John and Rhoda (Barker) Perry, whose ancestry is traced herein. She died October 1I, 1881. Children : Isaac Lewis and Mary B. C.
(V) Captain Isaac Lewis, son of Captain Isaac and Rhoda (Perry) Davee, was born in Plymouth, November 29, 1821, died Oc- tober 17, 1884, killed on the B. & A. railroad. He first learned the carpenter's trade, and in 1853 came to Springfield, Massachusetts, and engaged in railroad work, first fireman, then engineer. He married Lydia A. Torrey and had two children : Thomas T. and Mary Elizabeth.
(VI) Thomas Torrey, son of Captain Isaac Lewis and Lydia A. (Torrey) Davee, was born in Plymouth, January 26, 1847. The family removed to Boston when he was five years old. In 1853 they came to Springfield, where he was educated. His first employment was with the Massasoit Fire Insurance Com- pany, and the next position was with Josiah Cummings, then of Springfield, trunk and harness manufacturer, for about three years; then went to Boston, employed for short time by Barnard Brothers, of Boston, who had the general agency of the Continental Life Insurance Company of New York, and for whom he acted as confidential bookkeeper. Returning to Springfield June 1, 1871, he went with the Massachusetts Mutual Life In- surance Company and is still in their em- ployment, having charge of their renewal de- partment, also agency auditor. He is one of the leading figures in the Springfield insur- ance world. A Republican in politics, a mein- ber of Hampden Lodge of Masons, master in 1898-99, a Knight Templar, of which he was commander 1886-87, a member of the Arabic Order of the Mystic Shrine, of the Winthrop Club, of which he was the first vice-president. Ile is a quiet, unassuming man, but withal a very agreeable gentleman to meet. He mar- ried Sarah W., daughter of Captain Sylvester Brown, of Kennebunkport, Maine. Children by this marriage: Edna and Grace, both of whom died young.
(The Perry Line).
(I) Thomas Perry was in Scituate, Mas- sachusetts in 1647. He married Sarah, daughter of Isaac Steadman, and had Moses, William, Henry, Joseph and John.
(2) William, second son of Thomas and Sarah (Steadman) Perry, was born in Scitu- ate. He married Elizabeth Lobdell in 1681, and had Amos and Benjamin.
(3) Benjamin, second son of William and Elizabeth (Lobdell) Perry, was born in Scituate; he married Ruth Bryant in 1711,. and had Samuel and Abner.
(4) Samuel, eldest son of Benjamin and Ruth (Bryant) Perry, was born in Scituate, and had a son mentioned below.
(5) Henry, son of Samuel Perry, lived in Pemberton, Massachusetts, and married Bethiah Baker, of Duxbury, Massachusetts, in 1760, and had Samuel B., Henry in 1764, married Content Barker; John and James. (twins).
(6) John, twin son of Henry and Bethiah (Baker) Perry, was born in Pembroke and lived in Plymouth. He married Rhoda Bark- er, and had Polly, John, Lewis, and Rhoda,. who married Isaac Davee, above mentioned.
The name of Morton, More- MORTON ton and Mortaigne is earliest found in old Dauphine, is still existent in France, where it is represented by the present Comtes and Marquises Morton de Chabrillon, and where the family has occupied many important positions, states the "Genealo- gy of the Morton Family," from which this sketch is taken. In the annals of the family there is a statement repeatedly met with, that as a result of a quarrel one of the name mni- grated from Dauphine, first to Brittany and then to Normandy, where he joined William the Conqueror. Certain it is that among the nanies of the followers of William painted on the chancel ceiling in the ancient church of Dives in old Normandy, is that of Robert Comte de Mortain. It also figures on Battle Abbey Roll, the Domesday Book, and the Nor- inan Rolls, and it is conjectured that this Count Robert, who was also half-brother of the Con- queror by his mother Harlotte, was the found- er of the English family of that name. In the Bayeux tapestry he is represented as of the Council of William, the result of which was the intrenchment of Hastings and the conquest of England. Count Robert held manors in nearly every county in England, in all about eight hundred, among which was Pevensea,.
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where the Conqueror landed, and where in 1087 Robert and his brother Odo, Bishop of Bayeux, were besieged six weeks by William Rufus. Here Camden ( 1551-1628) found "the most entire remains of a Roman building to be seen in Britain."
When William, Earl of Moriton and Corn- wall, son of Robert, rebelled against Henry I, that prince seized and razed his castles, but this one seems to have escaped demolition. In early Norman times this William built a castle at Tamerton, Cornwall, and founded a college of canons, as appeared by the Domesday Book, where it is called Lanstaveton. On the north side of the Gretna in Richmondshire, stands an old manor house, called Moreton Tower, from a lofty, square embattled tower at one end of it.
Of the family of Morton were the Earls of Dulcie and Cornwall; Robert Morton, Esquire, of Bawtry ; Thomas Morton, secretary to Ed- ward III; William Morton, bishop of Meath ; Robert Morton, bishop of Worcester in 1486; John Morton, the celebrated cardinal arch- bishop of Canterbury and lord chancellor of England, 1420-1500; Albert Morton, secretary of state to James I; Thomas Morton ( 1564- 1659), bishop of Durham and chaplain to James II. Prominent among the English Mor- tons who early came to America were Thomas Morton, Esquire, Rev. Charles Morton, Land- grave Joseph Morton, proprietary governor of South Carolina, and George Morton.
(I) George Morton, the first of the name to found a family in America, and the ancestor of former Vice-President Levi P. Morton, was born about 1585, at Austerfield, Yorkshire, England, and it is believed was of the ancient Mortons, who bore for arms: Quarterly, gules and ermine; in the dexter chief and sinister base, each a goat's head erased argent attired or. Crest; a goat's head, argent attired or. Hunter, in his "Founders of New Ply- mouth," suggests that he may have been the George Morton hitherto unaccounted for in the family of Anthony Morton, of Bawtry, one of the historical families of England, and that from Romanist lineage "he so far de- parted from the spirit and principles of his family as to have fallen into the ranks of the Protestant Puritans and Separatists." Of George Morton's early life no record has been preserved, and his religious environments and the causes which led him to unite with the Separatists are alike unknown. His home in Yorkshire was in the vicinage of Scrooby Manor, and possibly he was a member of
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