ANNE

The ship FORTUNE arrived at Plymouth on November 9, 1621, just a few weeks after the First Thanksgiving. SHERMAN ancestors who arrived on the FORTUNE include: 1- JOHN WINSLOW, and 2- PHILIPE DE LA NOYE

The ship ANNE and the supply vessel LITTLE JAMES left England together but parted company at sea. The ANNE arrived the latter part of June, 1623 bringing 90 new settlers along including many of the wives and children that had been left behind by the MAYFLOWER in 1620. Sixty of them were sponsored by the joint stock company, and therefore were obligated to work for the "common good" of the colony. But thirty others were under no such obligation, having paid their own expenses. They were referred to as "the particulars," having come "on their particular." The LITTLE JAMES arrived a week or ten days later. Bradford commented that of the sixty settlers who came to join the general body of settlers as distinct from those who came on their own particular, some were "very useful persons and became good members to the body; and some were the wives and children of such as were here already. And some were so bad as they were fain to be at charge to send them home again the next year"

SHERMAN ancestors who arrived on the ANNE include:
3- Mrs.HESTER MAHIEU COOKE , daughters: 4- JANE COOKE and 5- HESTER COOKE, and son: 6- JACOB COOKE.
7- GEORGE MORTON, wife 7- JULIANA MORTON and son 8- EPHRIAM MORTON. Sons: Nathanial Morton, John Morton and daughters: Patience Morton and Sarah Morton also came.
9- EXPERIENCE MITCHELL
10- Mrs. ELIZABETH WARREN and daughters: Mary Warren, Elizabeth Warren, Anna Warren, Sarah Warren, Abigail Warren.

1- JOHN WINSLOW was born at Droitwich, England, in 1597. He was a passenger on the Fortune, arriving at Plymouth in 1621. His brothers, Gov. Edward WINSLOW Pilgrim and Gilbert Winslow, had already arrived at Plymouth on the Mayflower, in 1620. Two other Winslow brothers, Kenelm and Josiah, also settled in New England, arriving before 1632.

Gilbert Winslow was the only person under the age of 21 who signed the Mayflower Compact. According to William Bradford, writing in 1651, Gilbert Winslow lived in Plymouth for "divers years", before he "returned into England and died there." In 1663, the Plymouth Court acknowledged Gilbert Winslow, deceased, was a first-comer and his heirs could seek out and purpose a plot of land to the Court. The estate inventory of Kenelm Winslow, mentions that he and his brother JOHN WINSLOW were granted Gilbert Winslow's land. This grant of their brothers land no doubt helped in their future financial success.

JOHN and MARY WINSLOW had ten children : John, SUSANNA, Mary, Edward, Sarah, Samuel, Joseph, Isaac, an unnamed child who died young, and Benjamin. The youngest of these, Benjamin, is the only child whose birth is listed in the Records of Plymouth Colony.

JOHN WINSLOW was a leading landowner and merchant in the early decades of the colony. According to colony records, He was a Purchaser and was on the1633 Freemans List. On July 31 1633, the Court noted that John Beaven had covenanted to serve John Winslow for six years. On July 23 1634, Mr Timothy Hathery turned over his servant Ephraim Tinkham to JOHN WINSLOW for the rest of his term. On March 3 1634-5 he was on the Committee to assess colonists for the cost of the watch and other charges. He served on various committees and juries as a Deputy for Plymouth. In 1652, JOHN WINSLOW was one of the original purchasers of Dartmouth from Massasoit, including: Mr. William Bradford, Captain Standish, Thomas Southworth, JOHN COOKE, and their associates, the purchasers or old comers. In 1653, he was appointed to the Council of War.

Around -1655, Sometime after the birth of Benjamin, John and Mary Winslow moved to Boston. JOHN WINSLOW was a neighbor and surely a close associate of John Winthrop, the prominent Puritan and first Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, who arrived in Massachusetts in 1630. "The land along Washington Street, between Milk Street and Spring Lane, belonged originally to John Winthrop, who built his house there in order to be conveniently near the spring of clear water from which Spring Lane derives its name. In the winter of 1775 Winthrop’s house was pulled down by the British troops, to be burnt at their camp-fires. Under its thatched roof the governor often entertained the envoys and chiefs of the adjacent Indian tribes, and conciliated them by diplomatic feasts."

The place of their first residence is not known, though they did live for some time at Marshfield on the Careswell Estate of his brother Edward. He became a wealthy Merchant and ship owner, though he still retained his lands in Plymouth. In 1662, he was on the list of 'first born' men of Plymouth to share in land distribution.

On the 16th of June, 1671, John and Mary transferred their church membership from Plymouth to the Third Church in Boston (Third Church is now called Old South Church; the present Old South Meeting House was built about 50 years after Mary Chilton's death).

On the 19th of September, 1671, John Winslow bought, for the sum of 500 pounds in New England silver money, "the Mansion or dwelling-house of the Late Antipas Voice with the gardens wood-yard and Backside as it is scituate lying and being in Boston aforesaid as it is nowe fenced in And is fronting & Facing to the Lane going to mr John Jolliffes." The Winslows lived in this house until the death of John Winslow in 1674 and Mary Chilton Winslow in 1679. The house (which would have been on Spring Lane) no longer exists. Across Washington Street from School Street there is a short pedestrian lane, marked “Spring Lane.” This marks the old path to Boston’s source of fresh water in the seventeenth century. At the end of the lane where it meets Devonshire Street there is now a tablet in the wall to Mary Chilton Winslow, the only Mayflower passenger who ever lived in Boston. Spring Lane is located in Boston's Downtown Historic District.

At the time of his death in 1674, John Winslow was one of the wealthiest merchants in Boston. See: his will and the inventory of his estate, which was valued at 2,946 pounds.

John's daughter SUSANNA WINSLOW was born between 1625 and 1630 in Boston, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts. She died on 14 Nov 1685 in Bridgewater, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts. She was married to ROBERT LATHAM in 1649 in Plymouth. ROBERT was born about 1613 in England (Prob). Father?: William LATHAM, Pilgrim.

He was appointed constable in 1653 in Marshfield (Civil, Military & Professional Lists of Plymouth Colony.) He lived first in Cambridge, later moved to Plymouth and then to Marshfield before he and his wife moved to East Bridgewater. (all in MA)

Savage: He notes that "Mitchell" thinks him son of William of the Mayflower." According to Banks in "The English Ancestry and Homes of the Pilgrim Fathers" William came as a servant in 1620, was taxed in Plymouth in 1632, and later resided in Duxbury. William returned to England after 1641. Savage adds that he was a boy under Carver's charges, and for the division of lands in 1624, was of Duxbury between 1637-9 and Marshfield from 1643-1648, and that (quoting Bradford) "after so long residing here, he went home to England thence to the Bahamas, where he died of starvation." We give Robert to William Latham only as a matter of study. There is no proof to date.

On March 4,1654/55 ROBERT LATHAM was indicted for felonious cruelty to his servant John Walker, age about fourteen, by unreasonable correction, by withholding necessary food and clothing, and by exposing Walker to extremities of the seasons, whereby he died.(Stratton, Eugene Aubrey, FASG. Plymouth Colony: Its History and People 1620-1691.) " On 31 January 1654/55 a coroner's jury was called to view the body of Latham's servant boy, John Walker." The jury found: that the body of John Walker was blackish and blew, and the skine broken in divers places from the middle to the haire of his head, viz, all his backe with stripes given him by his master, Robert Latham, as Robert himselfe did testify; and also wee found a bruise of his left arme, and one of his left hipp, and one great bruise of his brest; and there was the knuckles of one hand and one of his fingers frozen, and alsoe both his heeles frozen, and one of the heeles the flesh was much broken, and alsoe one of his little toes frozen and very much perished, and one of his great toes frozen, and alsoe the side of his foot frozen; and alsoe, upon the reviewing the body, wee found three gaules like holes in the hames, which wee formerly, the body being frozen, thought they had been holes; and alsoe wee find that the said John was forced to carry a logg which was beyond his strength, which hee indeavoring to doe, the logg fell upon him, and hee, being downe, had a stripe or two, as Joseph Beedle doth testify; and wee find that it was some few daies before his death; and wee find, by the testimony of John Howland and John Adams, that heard Robert Latham say that hee gave John Walker som stripes that morning before his death; and alsoe wee find the flesh much broken of the knees of John Walker, and that he did want sufficient food and clothing and lodging, and that the said John did constantly wett his bedd and his cloathes, lying in them, and so suffered by it, his clothes being frozen about him; and that the said John was put forth in the extremity of cold, though thuse unabled by lamenes and sorenes to performe what was required; and therefore in respect of crewelty and hard usage he died.

The trial jury found him guilty of "manslaughter by chaunce medley," and he was sentenced to be burned in the hand and, having no lands, to have all his personal property confiscated. Latham's wife, Susanna, was presented by the grand jury for being in great measure guilty with her husband in exercising extreme cruelty toward their late servant John Walker. In her case, however, the presentment continued without trial for three years, until the court on 1 June 1658 ordered that she would be held for trial if anyone wished to prosecute her for the offense, but no one came forth, and the court ordered the presentment erased from the records.22"

The focus of Plymouth law seemed to be deterrence, not vengeance. This is shown by the number of killings in which the jury found "misadventure," and the defendant was freed.

1657 Robert Latham takes the Oath of Fidelity, Marshfield, MA (History of the Early Settlement of Bridgewater) 1667 Robert Latham settles in East Bridgewater (History of the Early Settlement of Bridgewater) 1670 Robert Latham is appointed Surveyor of Highways (Civil,Military and Professional Lists of Plymouth Colony) 1672 He is appointed Constable in Bridgewater (Civil, Military and Professional Lists of Plymouth Colony) Robert Latham died before Feb 1688/89 in East Bridgewater, MA and is buried there.

3- HESTER MAHIEU COOKE: Hester's parents were French Waloon refugees, that had fled to Canterbury, England where Hester was probably born between 1582 and 1588. On July 20, 1803 in Leyden, Neherlands, at the Waloon church called the Vrouwekerk. Francis Cooke and Hester Mahieu were married. Their Intentions were published June 30 1603, Leyden. Their nephew Philipe de la Noye (Philip Delano) was baptized here the same year. These Pilgrims became ancestors of United States presidents Ulysses S. Grant, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and George H. W. Bush.

He went to Holland to espace religious persecution and was residing in Leyden long before the other Pilgrims. In the Mayflower Web Pages, Caleb Johnson says: “Francis Cooke’s ancestry is unproven.” When in Leyden, from 1603 until the arrival of the Pilgrims, Francis and Hester were members of the French Waloon (or Huegnot) church. However, in 1606 Francis and his wife left for a trip to Norwich, and they returned—Probably because of religious persecution— in 1607 to have their son baptized in the Church, and in 1608, they rejoined communion with the Walloon Church in Leyden. Sometime between 1611 and 1618, the Cookes switched and began communion with the Pilgrims’ Separatist church in Leyden. (The Cooke Silver Book says he may have been in Leyden by 1602, but did not appear in Leyden records until 1603.)

Hester was born between 1582 and 1588 probably in Canterbury, Kent, England. She followed her husband Francis to Plymouth Colony, via “ANNE” between July and August 1623. William Bradford recorded in his list of passengers that came over in the Mayflower: “Francis Cooke and his son John, but his wife and other children came afterwards”

Their 7 children were: JANE COOKE b: ABT 1604 in probably Leyden, South Holland, Netherlands; JOHN COOKE born about Jan. 1, 1607 probably in Leiden, Zuid Holland, Netherlands; In 1608 there is a burial record for an unnamed child, the record states that the father lived on the Levendaal, a canal on the Southeast side of Leiden. Elizabeth COOKE born before Dec. 26, 1611 in Leiden, Zuid Holland, Netherlands. JACOB COOKE, was born 1618 in Leiden, Zuid Holland, Netherlands.

HESTER COOKE, was born about? 27 1623 probably in Plymouth, Massachusetts and Mary COOKE was born between March 22, 1626 and March 26, 1627 in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

He is included in the first division of land in 1623, among the first seven men who arrived, of the mearsteads and garden plots laid out in 1620. His land was adjacent to Mr. Isaac Allerton to the east and Edward Winslow to the west. Also, an additional 29 acres on the south side of the brook to baywards was divided among 11 men. The falls of their grounds which came first over in the Mayflower according as their lots were cast. Francis Cooke received 2 acres. He received an additional 4 acres beyond the brook to Strawberry hill during the 1623 division of land, which included passengers from the Anne.

On Dec. 17, 1623, Cooke helped write "Orders agreed on at several times for the General good of the Colony and the better government and preferration of the fame.” He appears frequently in Plymouth records on grand and trial juries, on various ad hoc committees and in a number of land transactions. Though his major occupation in Plymouth is unknown, He had an apprentice, John Harmon, for seven years starting in 1636. Francis Cooke was also on the 1643 Plymouth list of those who were able to bear arms.

His major service to the community, however, seemed to come in the highway realm. In January 1628, He helped write "About division of lands" that was agreed in a full court. In 1637, he was appointed to the Committee to lay out highways. He followed this appointment with the job of surveyor of the highways for Plymouth in 1641, 1642 and again in 1645. He served on a committee to find the best route for a new road. He was often appointed by the Court to survey properties in dispute.

He died on April 7, 1663 in Plymouth. His will was dated: Dec. 7, 1659 Plymouth. The inventory of his estate was taken May 1, 1663. The inventory was exhibited at Court in Plymouth on June 5,1663 and attested unto upon oath by Hester Cooke widow.

FMSIII has seven lines of decent from FRANCIS COOKE Pilgrim.

Three lines are through JACOB COOKE. Jacob married DAMARIS HOPKINS II (daughter of Stephen and Elizabeth) after June 10, 1646 (probably “latter part of 1646 or early in 1647” as this date is the date of a marriage gift.) in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

8th. FRANCIS COOKE Pilgrim => JACOB COOKE, ELIZABETH COOKE, JOHN DOTEN, JOHN DOTEN, EBENEZER DOTEN, LYDIA DOTEN,

EBENEZER DOTEN SHERMAN, MARCUS MORTON SHERMAN, FRANK MORTON SHERMAN MD.

9th. FRANCIS COOKE Pilgrim => JACOB COOKE, MARY COOKE, JOHN RICKARD IIII, MARGARET RICKARD, NOAH PRATT, EPHRAIM PRATT,
DAVID PRATT, SARAH BARROWS PRATT, FRANK MORTON SHERMAN MD.

10th. FRANCIS COOKE Pilgrim => JACOB COOKE, MARY COOKE, MARY RICKARD, CHARLES MORTON, JOB MORTON,

ABIGAIL MORTON, MARCUS MORTON SHERMAN, FRANK MORTON SHERMAN MD.

one line is through HESTER COOKE,

^11th FRANCIS COOKE Pilgrim => HESTER COOKE, ADAM WRIGHT, MARY WRIGHT, JONATHAN GIFFORD, DELE GIFFORD,

GIDEON CORNELL, PARDON CORNELL, JOSEPH WING CORNELL, LYDIA ALMY CORNELL, ANNIE ELMA SISSON.

one line is through JANE COOKE:

12th

FRANCIS COOKE Pilgrim\

JANE COOKE, ELIZABETH MITCHELL, JOSEPH WASHBURN, EPHRAIM WASHBURN, WILLIAM WASHBURN, MARY 'Polly' WASHBURN,

EXPERIENCE MITCHELL/ SARAH BARROWS, SARAH BARROWS PRATT, FRANK MORTON SHERMAN MD.

George Morton and Experience Mitchell received 8 acres in the 1623 Division of land as passengers on the "Anne". Experience was probably a teenager living with the Mortons. He was unmarried in the 22 May 1627 Division of Cattle.

Two lines are through:

6. JOHN COOKE born about Jan.1, 1607 probably in Leiden, Zuid Holland, Netherlands. He is called Jean in the record of his baptism,.

William Bradford recorded on his list of passengers that came over in the Mayflower: “Francis Cooke and his son John, but his wife and other children came afterwards” He became a deacon of the Plymouth Church in the 1630s, but he was excommunicated from the church about 1657. Probably around the time he was excommunicated, he became a Baptist. He served on juries and on various special assignments, and was a long-time Plymouth deputy.
He appears in the records as John Cooke Junior or John Cooke the younger [sic] because there was another John Cooke in the vicinity who came in 1633 and was unrelated.

Later in 1651 Bradford writes “Francis Cooke is still living, a very old man, and hath seen his children’s children have children. After his wife came over with other of his children, he hath three still living by her; all married and have five children, so their increase is eight. And his son John which came over with him is married, and hath four children living.” He had five children born in Plymouth between 1635 and 1657.

John Cooke was the leading original proprietor of Dartmouth. John Cooke was authorized by the Plymouth Court as Magistrate, His Majesties representative, in Dartmouth to make contracts…administer oaths…commence a suite…issue warrants…and give subpoenas. The Proprietors Records of 1684 indicate John Cooke was among the 14 Dartmouth men who took the oath of fidelity.

He died Nov. 23, 1695 in Dartmouth and was buried there. His wife Sarah Warren died after July 15, 1696, probably in Dartmouth.

JOHN COOKE married SARAH WARREN, born about 1614, probably in England, On March 28, 1634 in Plymouth. Their children: SARAH COOKE born: About 1635, Elizabeth COOKE born: About 1641, Hester COOKE born: Aug. 13, 1650, MARY COOKE born: About 1652 and Mercy COOKE born: July 25, 1657 were all born in Plymouth. Sarah, Hester, Mary and Mercy all lived in Dartmouth.

/SARAH COOKE

ANNIE ELMA SISSON has two lines of decent from: FRANCIS COOKE Pilgrim => JOHN COOKE

\MARY COOKE

ANNIE ELMA SISSON is an eighth generation descendant of their first child, SARAH

^13thFRANCIS COOKE Pilgrim =>JOHN COOKE\

SARAH COOKE, LYDIA HATHAWAY, JONATHAN SISSON, JONATHAN SISSON II, DAVID SISSON\

SARAH WARREN/

ARTHUR HATHAWAYII, ISAAC SISSON, CHRISTOPHER GIFFORD SISSON, ANNIE ELMA SISSON

ANNIE ELMA SISSON is an eighth generation descendant of their fourth child: MARY

^14th. FRANCIS COOKE Pilgrim => JOHN COOKE\

MARY COOKE, BETHIA TABER, PHILIP MACOMBER, CONSTANT MACOMBER\

SARAH WARREN/ TABITHA MACOMBER, MIRIAM GIFFORD, CHRISTOPHER GIFFORD SISSON, ANNIE ELMA SISSON

END COOKES

6. JOHN COOKE born about Jan.1, 1607 probably in Leiden, Zuid Holland, Netherlands. He is called Jean in the record of his baptism,.

He died Nov. 23, 1695 in Dartmouth and was buried there. His wife Sarah Warren died after July 15, 1696, probably in Dartmouth.

1. GEORGE MORTON (1),145 a merchant, came to Plymouth on the Anne in 1623. His name survives in the Sherman family. He played an important role he played in the early Plymouth colony and his decendants had an interesting role in Massachusetts’s history. Some of his descendants married into families of Mayflower passengers. FRANK MORTON SHERMAN MD is descended separately through each of his parents from two children of GEORGE MORTON (1)

George Morton (1) was born Aug. 1583 in Austerfield, Yorkshire, England Note: or Bantry, Nottinghamshire, England. He was baptized March 17, 1584 in St. James Church, Bath, Somerset, England. His father was ANTHONY MORTON, a wealthy Catholic gentleman born 1521 in Bawtry, Yorkshire, England. His mother was ANNE or ISOLD PLUMPTON born before 1539 in Waterton, Yorkshire, England. William BREWSTER Pilgrim converted him to Puritanism when he was very young. He was a member of the Scrooby congregation before their emigration and either went to Holland with them or followed them after a residence at York. He is one of the three emigrants to America who can be traced to the Scrooby district, the others being Brewster and William Bradford. Before that, he was said to be a merchant of Harworth, Notts, and to have come to Austerfield, Yorks. A Thomas Morton, Jr., came over in the Ann the same year and his father; Thomas Morton came over in the Fortune in 1621.

He married JULIANA CARPENTER born about 1584 in Bath, Somerset, England, on July 23, 1612 in Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands. An entry in his marriage record says George Morton was possessed of considerable means.

George Morton (1) “served as an agent in London for the Mayflower. He reportedly published the first news of the Pilgrim’s settlement in New England in 1622 "Mourt's Relation: A Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth" He came to Plymouth in the ‘Ann’ in 1623, traveling with Manasseh Kempton, and perhaps a brother, Thomas. Juliana (his wife) was perhaps the sister-in-law of Gov. William Bradford, William taking for his second wife Alice (Carpenter) Southworth, widow of Edward and reportedly sister to Juliana. The division of land in 1624 shows George and his family counted with Experience Mitchell to make a total of eight.

“George died less than ten months after his arrival, leaving a wife and five children.” His passing was noted in NEW ENGLAND MEMORIAL, written by his son Nathaniel. “(Mr. George Morton) was a pious gracious Servant of God, and very faithful in whatsoever public employment he was entrusted withal. He was an unfeigned well-willer, & according to his Sphere and Condition, a suitable promoter of the Common Good and Growth of the Plantation of New-Plimouth. He labored to still the Discontents that sometimes would arise amongst some spirits, by occasion of the difficulties of these new beginnings; but it pleased God to put a period to his days soon after his arrival in New-England, not surviving a full year after his coming ashore. With much comfort and peace he fell asleep in the Lord in the Month of June, 1624.” in Plympton.

He is on a March 1999 list of “Some Plymouth Families with connections to Scituate”.

Information from another source (Internet) said he came to Plymouth in the “Little James” in 1623 along with Mrs. Juliana (Carpenter) Morton. “Hotten’s Lists” pp 29-30 and “The Planters of the Commonwealth”, p.55. has him, his wife, sons Nathaniel, John, Ephraim and possibly George, Jr. and daughters Patience and Sarah on the Anne. “The Planters lists George and Juliana on the Little James. The children are not mentioned in Planters.”

Nathaniel, born about 1613. To him is due the good preservation of the archives of the Plymouth Colony. He was clerk of the colony court from 1645 to his death, June 29, 1685. He wrote the "First Beginnings and After Progress of the Church of Christ at Plymouth," which has preserved the early history of the first church established in New England. But the greatest work upon which his fame securely rests is "New England's Memorial," published at Cambridge, in 1669, frequently referred to as "the corner stone of New England history." It is a time-honored book, has passed through seven editions, and is an impartial history of the Pilgrim Fathers.

LT. EPHRAIM MORTON Deacon born 1623 at sea on the “Anne” was the youngest of their six children. He was first married to ANN COOPER born about 1627 on Nov. 18, 1644 in Plymouth.The Kempton Book gives her name as “Lydia Cooper” He was a prominent man, and served in the council of war, was prominent in the militia, appointed lieutenant in 1664,

served in King Phillip’s War as Colonel of his regiment; was deputy to the general court for twenty-eight years, from 1657, and again under the new charter in 1692. He was deacon of the First Plymouth Church, “The church having not then a Deacon, the Elders called upon them to choose some to that office; Accordingly, after a church-meeting in Private some being Nominated, every brother speaking his mind man by man. On August 1, 1669 Robert Finney & Ephraim Morton were chosen Deacons in the public Assembly on the Sabbath, & then ordained by the Elders.”

He remarried to Mary SHELLEY on Oct. 18, 1692 in Plymouth and had no children by her. He died Oct. 7, 1693 in Plympton. “Plymouth Church Records”, “1693 Lieutenant Ephraim Morton, the Deacon died, October, 7; about 70 years of age. He was not only serviceable to the church in that office, but usually a Selectman & principally employed in the civil & military services of the town for many years. He was on a List of those able to bear Arms in New Plymouth. Some references call him Lt..” Also “Lieutenant Ephraim Morton, a Deacon, October, 7: in his 70^th year or 71^st” (for 1693) Plymouth VR 135 “September 5, 1693 or 1691 Aug.1, 1669 Plympton.

GEORGE MORTON Deacon, (104)born 1645, was the fourth child of Ephraim and Anne Morton. He is one of the 34 first purchasers of Dartmouth in 1652, though he was only a child at the time. He succeeded his father Ephriam as Deacon of First Plymouth Church, ordained March 25, 1694. He married on Dec 22, 1664, to JOANNA KEMPTON born Sept. 29, 1646 in Scituate. He and his wife were recorded as members of the church in 1703 and in 1724.

He died on Aug.2, 1727.Buried in Burial Hill, Plymouth. Epitaph: 'Here lyes ye Body of Deacon George Morton, who Decd August ye 2nd, 1727, in ye 82d year of his Age.'145
"Just at the summit of Burial Hill, and at a point to which the long flight of steps going up from the town naturally leads the visitor, is a row of four stones, made of slate, marking the graves of Deacon George Morton, his youngest son Thomas, his wife Joanna, and his brother Ephraim. That of George Morton has been bound in metal to preserve it from the effects of the weather, and to prevent its being broken by thoughtless persons who desire relics of this interesting spot."145
See: Morton Chest with Drawer.