John M. Morton, Sr.

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"John M. Morton, Sr." in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00019693, (accessed May 4, 2024).

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Mason County, Kentucky, planter. Virginia native. Married to Lucy Baylor Morton Morton in Mason County, Kentucky, on October 3, 1816. Father of Hannah B. Morton Duke. Owned twenty-one enslaved persons in Mason County in 1840. Household owned five enslaved persons in Mason County in 1850. Owned two enslaved persons, including Alice [Unknown], in Mason County in 1859. Owned fourteen enslaved persons in Mason County in 1860. Household owned forty enslaved persons in Mason County in 1860.

Sixth Manuscript Census of the United States (1840), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, p. 27.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, p. 104B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, District 2, p. 755.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, District 2, p. 91.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, p. 15B-16A.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Lewisburg, p. 336A.
Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994048, Mason County Deaths.
Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994048, Mason County Births, p. 721
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Mason County Marriages, Film 000281841.
William M. Paxton, The Marshall Family; Or, a Genealogical Chart of the Descendants of John Marshall and Elizabeth Markham, His Wife, Sketches of Individuals and Notices of Families Connected with Them. (Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Company, 1885), p. 181.

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