Person Page 672

Joseph Morton¹

Facts and Notes

• Birth: 1709¹
• Marriage: About 1730; Agnes Woodson¹
• Residence: 1745; Little Roanoke Bridge, Charlotte County, Virginia, USABG¹
• Occupation: 1769; Charlotte County, Virginia, USABGO; justice of the peace¹
• Occupation: Before 1782; Surveyor¹
• Anecdote: Before 1782; See person note below¹
• Death: 28 June 1782¹

• Note: He was founder of Briery Presbyterian Church, was first ruling elder and first trustee. Was trustee visitor and manager of Hampden Sidney College; justice of the peace of Charlotte county 1769, and member of the committee of safety in Charlotte county, February, 1775. (See Foote's Sketches of Virginia, vols. I and II.) This Joseph Morton was a nephew of Thomas Morton who married Agnes' sister Elizabeth Woodson.

Citations

1. [S454] Woodson, Henry Morton, Historical Genealogy of the Woodsons and Their Connections, Page 36, A copy of this book is available on Ancestry.com and Google Books.