Mary Todd Morton

Brief Life History of Mary Todd

When Mary Todd Morton was born in 1766, in Bedford, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America, her father, John Morton, was 41 and her mother, Mary Todd Sketchley, was 37. She married John Blackburn on 17 September 1788, in York, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She died in 1844, in Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Family Time Line

John Blackburn
1765–1800
Mary Todd Morton
1766–1844
Marriage: 17 September 1788
Elizabeth Blackburn
1789–1867
Alice Blackburn
1791–1865
Thomas Grandison Blackburn
1792–1887
John A Blackburn
1794–1879
James Blackburn
1797–1869
Jesse Blackburn
1800–1872

Sources (2)

  • Mary Todd Morton, "Find a Grave Index"
  • Book: The History & Genealogy Of The Harlan Family; Page 211; Thomas Blackburn (1773-1813) M Rebecca Jones

World Events (8)

1771

Historical Boundaries 1771: Bedford, New Jersey Colony, British Colonial Amerida 1776: Bedford, New Jersey, United States

1776

Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.

1787 · The Making of the U.S. Constitution.

The Philadelphia Convention was intended to be the first meeting to establish the first system of government under the Articles of Confederation. From this Convention, the Constitution of the United States was made and then put into place making it one of the major events in all American History.

Name Meaning

English and Scottish: habitational name from any of the many places called Mor(e)ton, named with Old English mōr ‘moor’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’. There has probably been some confusion with Morten , and perhaps also with Murton . This English name has also been established in Ireland since the 13th century.

American shortened and altered form of Swedish Mårtensson or Mortensson (see Martenson and Mortenson ), which could also be substituted for the Finnish cognate Marttinen.

French: shortened form of Moreton 3.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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