George Morton was born before 1584 in York, Yorkshire, England and died June 1624 Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts of unspecified causes. He married Juliana Carpenter (1584-1664) 1612 in Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands.
Biography
1623 Voyage on Little James
He was a passenger on the English ship Little James, which sailed from London in April, 1623, bound for Plymouth Colony. The ship was one of two to arrive safely that year and would remain in local waters to help with fishing and other chores. The Little James had two young men in charge – Master John Bridges, master mariner, and a novice Captain, Emmanuel Altham, a Merchant Adventurer.
Mort's Relations History of Plymouth
George Morton is historically famous to Plymouth Colony by being revealed as the author (possibly with William Bradford (1590-1657) and Edward Winslow (1595-1655)) of Mourt’s Relations, a manuscript of life and times from the earliest colony days, published in England in 1622.
Marriage and Family
Morton was of York or Nottinghamshire in the north of England. He married Juliann Carpenter, then about twenty-five, in Leiden on July 22, 1612. She was the eldest of the five daughters of Alexander Carpenter of Wrington, co. Somerset in England and of Leiden in Holland. Juliann’s sister Alice Carpenter (1583-1670) was on the ship accompanying the Anne, the little James. She came as a widow but soon married Governor Bradford.
The Thomas Morton who came over on the Fortune in 1621 may have been his brother with the Thomas Morton Jr. who came on the Ann possibly being Thomas’s son and George’s nephew. Morton died in June 1624, about a year after arriving in Plymouth. In the 1627 Division of the Cattle, the Morton children are listed with his wife Juliann now listed under her second husband’s surname as “Julian Kempton” (Stratton).
Children
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Nathaniel Morton (1613-1685) | 1613 Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands | 28 June 1685 Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States | Lydia Cooper (1615-1673) Ann Pritchard (1621-1691) |
| Patience Morton (1614-1691) | 1614 Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands | 16 August 1691 Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States | John Faunce (1600-1653) |
| John Morton (1616-1673) | 1 July 1616 Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands | 3 October 1673 Middleborough, Massachusetts, United States | Lettice Kempton (1620-1691) |
| Sarah Morton (1620-1694) | |||
| Ephraim Morton (1623-1693) | October 1623 the ship Little James (Atlantic Ocean) | 7 November 1693 Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States | Ann Cooper (1625-1691) |
Siblings