When Jacob Morton was born in September 1791, in Prince Edward, Virginia, United States, his father, Samuel M Morton, was 36 and his mother, Levicy Watson, was 34. He married Elizabeth Dunn Burge on 16 December 1811, in Williamson, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 27 October 1854, in Williamson, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Morton Cemetery, Williamson, Tennessee, United States.
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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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