When William Jordan Morton Jr. was born on 9 September 1786, in Louisa, Virginia, United States, his father, William Jordan Morton, was 32 and his mother, Martha Pryor, was 25. He married Rebecca or Rhoda Haden on 2 December 1805, in Fluvanna, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 16 March 1860, in Logan, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 73.
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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.
On June 25, 1788 Virginia became the 10th state.
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
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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