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Perez Morton (November 13, 1751 - October 14, 1837) was a lawyer and revolutionary patriot in Boston, Massachusetts. ==Biography== Morton was born in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1751, and raised in Boston. His father, Joseph Morton, worked as a tavern-keeper at the White Horse Tavern. Perez attended the Boston Latin School starting around 1760, and Harvard College, graduating in 1771.〔James Spear Loring. The Hundred Boston Orators Appointed by the Municipal Authorities and Other Public Bodies, from 1770 to 1852: Comprising Historical Gleanings, Illustrating the Principles and Progress of Our Republican Institutions. 2nd ed. J.P. Jewett and company, 1852; p.129.〕 He was admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1774. He participated in the Committee of Safety, and the Committee of Correspondence; he was also a Mason, serving as Deputy Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts in 1789-1790.〔Proceedings of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1900.〕 In 1775-1776, he was Deputy Secretary of the Council of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay.〔Noble, John. "Some Massachusetts Tories." Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Transactions 5 (1897–98);p.284.〕 On April 8, 1776, Morton spoke at the memorial service held for Joseph Warren, at King's Chapel.〔Text of speech can be found in: Loring; p.127+〕 In 1778, he married Sarah Wentworth Apthorp. Together they had 5 children: Sarah Apthorp Morton (1782–1844); Anna Louisa Morton (1783–1843); Frances Wentworth Morton (1785–1831); Charles Ward Apthorp Morton (1786–1809); and Charlotte Morton (1787–1819)〔Oliver, Andrew and James Bishop Peabody, eds. The Records of Trinity Church, Boston, 1728–1830. Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts. Collections 56 (1982).〕〔Worcester Art Museum. (Gilbert Stuart. Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton (Mrs. Perez Morton), 1802–20 ). Retrieved 2011-09-07〕 From ca.1796 to ca.1803, the Mortons owned a house on Dudley Street in Dorchester; the house may have been designed by Charles Bulfinch.〔Dorchester Atheneum. (Perez Morton, 1750-1837 ). Retrieved 2011-09-07〕 Friends and associates of Morton included James Bowdoin, John Adams, and James Swan. In 1788, the Mortons were the subject of a public scandal regarding an illegitimate child of Sarah Morton's sister, Fanny Apthorp, rumored to have had an affair with Perez. The scandal was amplified in the press, notably the ''Massachusetts Centinel'' and the ''Herald of Freedom and the Federal Advertiser''. A novel published in 1789, ''The Power of Sympathy'', written by a neighbor of the Mortons, William Hill Brown, depicted an adulterous affair between a man and his sister-in-law; at the time, many suspected the novel to be based on the real-life Morton/Apthorp affair.〔Cathy Davidson. Revolution and the word: the rise of the novel in America. Oxford Univ. Press, 1986; p.83-109.〕 Morton served as Massachusetts Speaker of the House, 1806–1808, and 1810–1811; and as Massachusetts Attorney General, 1810-1832.〔Loring, p.130.〕 He died in Dorchester in 1837. Portraits of Morton have been made by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, and others.〔Eleanor Pearson DeLorme. The Swan Commissions: Four Portraits by Gilbert Stuart. Winterthur Portfolio, Vol. 14, No. 4 (Winter, 1979), pp. 361395.〕〔(MFA collections )〕 Some items owned by Perez Morton are now in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, including a silver ladle made by Paul Revere.〔 Morton's daughter Charlotte was the wife of Andrew Dexter, Jr.〔Mary Caroline Crawford, (Famous families of Massachusetts ), Volume 2, 1930, pages 146 to 147〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Perez Morton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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