Joseph Morton (c. 1630 – 9 September 1721) was an early colonist and governor of the Province of Carolina.
Although he was not one of Carolina's Lords Proprietors, Morton was influential in the recruitment of religious dissenters to migrate to the new colony.
In 1680 he led a group of dissenters to what is now South Carolina, settling Edisto Island.
Morton had been in the process of organizing an expedition against Spanish Florida, which the colonists believed was harboring pirates operating against the colony's coastal settlements.
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