Ruth
EDWARDS
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ca1645
- 1714
Father: John EDWARDS
Mother: Dorothy MOULTON
Family 1 : Richard MORTON
1. Thomas MORTON
2. Richard MORTON
3. John MORTON
4. Joseph MORTON
5. John MORTON
6. Abraham MORTON
7. Elizabeth MORTON
9. Jonathan MORTON
___John EDWARDS___
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- Ruth EDWARDS
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|__Dorothy MOULTON___
TIMELINE
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1645
1646
1647
1648
1649
1650
1651
1652
1653
1654
1655
1656
1657
1658
1659
1660
1661
1662
1663
1664
1665
1666 - Thomas is born
1667
1668 - Richard is born
1669
1670 - John is born and dies the same year
1671 - Richard (the son) dies
1672 - Joseph is born
1673
1674 - John (2) is born and dies young
1675
1676 - Abraham is born
1677
1678
1679
1680
1681
1682 - Ebenezer is born
1683
1684 - Jonathan is born
1685
1686
1687
1688
1689
1690
1691
1692
1693
1694
1695
1696
1697
1698
1699
1700
1701
1702
1703
1704
1705
1706
1707
1708
1709
1710 - DEATH of Richard
1711
1712
1713
1714
INDEX
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Winthrop's journal entries below are a rather reliable indication of who Ruth Edwards's parents were.
Gale Ion Harris, "John Edwards of Wethersfield, Connecticut," New England Historical Genealogical Society Register (October 1991) : 317:
"Little is known about Richard Morton; his affiliation with the Edwards
family raises more questions than it answers. As discussed above, John Edwards's
wife Dorothy was a Moulton, and her nephew Samuel Molton [sic] of Salem,
Massachusetts died in Thomas Edwards's home at Hockanum in 1667. Jabez Colt (No.
3 v above) married Mary Morton, daughter of William Morton of Hartford and
Windsor, a creditor of Thomas Edwards's stepson John Loveland at Hockanum. It
has been reasonably suggested by other authors that William and Richard Morton
were brothers. Thomas Morton of Wethersfield, eldest son of Richard and Ruth
Morton, signed his name on a petition in 1712 as Thomas Molton (Stiles,
Wethersfield, 2:513). However, no specific evidence has been found to show that
the Mortons, possibly brothers, were related to Dorothy Moulton and her nephew
Samuel Molton except the circumstances encountered here which seem to imply
some familial connection preceding Richard and Ruth's marriage.
"In any case, Winthrop's notes prove that Ruth Edwards married Richard
Morton, by several entries beginning with one dated 26 February 1665/6: 'Morten
[blank] his wife formerly Ruth Edwards paine in head . . . ' (JWJ Med. Rec.,
629). The only available Ruth Edwards appearing in that locality and time was
John Edwards's daughter. Winthrop soon supplied Morton's given name when he
saw, on 1 December 1666, 'Richard, Mr. Willis his man,' and on 29 March 1667, 'Morton
Richard at Hartford who lives near Mr. Willis.' Moreover, on 15 April 1667, he
saw 'Morton Tho: 1/2 yr, son of Rich: Morton at Hartford' (ibid., 691, 715,
717). The boy Thomas, Winthrop's patient at Hartford five more times between
1667 and 6 April 1669, was obviously Richard and Ruth Morton's known first
child, Thomas, who died at Wethersfield 1 May 1740 in his 75th year, having
named his first daughter Ruth (Stiles, Wethersfield, 2 513). 'Mr. Willis' was
Gov. Wyllys's son Samuel whose affiliations with the Edwards family frequently
appear in this article .
"Winthrop treated Richard Morton's 'wife at Hartford' on 14 May 1667, and
he saw Richard and his son Thomas, then '2 1/2 y,' on 6 April 1669 (JWJ Med.
Rec., 724,895). In October, 1669, Richard was among the freemen on Hartford's
south side, nearest Wethersfield and Hockanum and he was listed with a family
of four persons at Hartford on 9 March 1669/7Q (Wyllys Papers, 196; Public
Records, 2:518). However, they apparently were in Hatfield before 21 January
1670 [sic] presumed 1670/1 but see the death record of child No. iii below],
where the birth of their third child was recorded. Richard Morton's houselot,
20 rods wide granted to him by the town sometime between 1670 and 1672 (Judd,
History of Hadley, 31).
same, The American Genealogist (January 1992) :
"[William] Morton was in Hartford by 05 June 1656 when he, George Graves,
John Colt and John Adams were fined 5s. each 'for playing at cards and that at
an unseasonable time of the night' (Part. Court Recs. p. 169). About three
years later, in March 1658/9, Winthrop referred to him as 'Morton William: at
Mrs. Fitch,' apparently Joseph Fitch's wife Mary Stone at Hartford (Winthrop
Med. Recs. p. 152; Stiles' Windsor 2:261). His origins seem to be unknown (see
Ulysses G. and Addie L. Morton, William Morton of Windsor, Connecticut and some
of his Descendents who are also descendents of Thomas Burnham, Fenton, Mich.
1950). However, he surely was closely related to Richard Morton who appeared
about the same time at Hartford as servant to Mr. Samuel Wyllys and soon
married (early 1665/6) Ruth Edwards, daughter of Wetherfield's John and Dorothy
(Moulton) (Finch) Edwards (Winthrop Med. Recs. pp 629, 691, 715, 717).
Richard's descendents appear in Lucius M. Boltwood, 'Genealogies of Hadley
Families.' "
LINKS: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Museum/3731/morton, http://www.alden.org/documents/otherships.htm