Nathaniel Morton

Morton's son Nathaniel was born in Leiden, Holland, during the time the Separatists lived there between their flight from England and their eventual migration to Plymouth Colony.

They had nine children: Remember, Mercy, Hannah, Eleazer, Lydia, Nathaniel, a stillborn daughter, Elizabeth and Joanna.

[2] Their descendant Lydia Jackson became the second wife of philosopher, poet and Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Bradford, a manuscript which was lost for many years following the American Revolutionary War, when it was likely appropriated by an English soldier.

Annually since 1961, The Wall Street Journal publishes an excerpt from Morton's history of Plymouth Colony as an op-ed the Wednesday before Thanksgiving Day.

Stamps on tercentenary of signing of Mayflower Compact , 1920. List of signers first printed by Nathaniel Morton of Plymouth Colony in 1669
Title page , New England's Memorial , by Nathaniel Morton. Published at Cambridge, Massachusetts , 1669