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Pennsylvania from 1680 to 1752 the year by statute
was counted as beginning on March 1st. This simple
fact seems to have been overlooked by the several
writers.
John Morton was elected a member of the
general assembly of the province as early as 1756—in
some biographies of Morton the year by a.
transpositional error is given as 1765—and continued to
represent his district till 1766 and again from 1772 to
his death. He was during several terms speaker.
Besides this proof of the esteem in which he was
held by his neighbors, he was Justice of the Court of
General Sessions of the Peace for several years,
served as sheriff three one-year terms and was
presiding’ judge in the County Court for Civil Cases till
1774, when lie was named for associate judge of the
Supreme Court of the province.
He took active part in the early protests of the
colonies to England, was a member of the Stamp Act
Congress and also of the Continental Congress from
1774 to 1776. He was one of the Pennsylvania
delegates that voted for Lee’s resolution from the first.
Morton lost many friends by the part he took in
bringing Pennsylvania into the revolutionary fold,
and this seems to have embittered his last days.
While serving as chairman of the committee that
first drafted the Articles of Confederation, he was
suddenly taken sick and died in April, 1777. His
last words were: “Tell them that they will live to
see the hour when they will acknowledge it to have
been the most glorious service I have rendered to my
country.” They were true.and prophetic words.
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