Biographical Sketch of the Rebecca Taylor MORTON (1877); Chester County, PA

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According to"CHESTER AND ITS VICINITY, DELAWARE COUNTY IN PENNSYLVANIA WITH 
GENEALOGICAL SKETCHES OF SOME OLD FAMILIES, by John Martin.  1877

 Rebecca, dau of John and Mary Niedermark Taylor, of Tinicum, married Sketchley 
Morton...she was born June 19, 1757.  They had children, Charles, Rebecca, Ann, 
Aaron Taylor and John S Morton.....she died march 28, 1819, at 
77.   After the death of the Major, she married a Mr Miller, and after his 
death lived with her son John S. in Springfield, at a place now called Morton.

"Rebecca Taylor Morton, b May 31, 1807, m John D Pearce, a plumber of 
Philadelphia, a widower with 4 children; ;they had issue, Emma, who married 
James Young, of Chester County; they have Morton, Harry, Laura and Thomas Young.  
Rebecca m Thomas H Maddock, Esq, of Ridley and has 3 sons, Harry, Charlton and 
Edgar.  Susanna Crosby, unmarried.  Eliza Crosby, m Harry Valentine, of Chester 
Co and have a daughter Susan.  Ellen Elizabeth, b Oct 10, 1834, d Oct 3, 1853;  
Sketchily Morton Pearce, a minister of the Presbyterian Church, who married 
Susan McNeal, dau of John, of Chester Co, of Scotch-Irish descent; they have a 
son named after his father.  Annie Crosby Pearce, m Dec 17, 1874, George W. 
Jones of Altoona, Pa.  Kate Morton Pearce, m Wesley Miles of Chester."