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MRS. FRANCES MORTON HUBARD
(1739?-1800?)
Frances Morton was the daughter of Joseph Morton (1715-1759) of Richmond County and James City County and Frances Colston Morton, daughter of William Colston of King George County (d. 1721) and Mary Meriwether Colston (d. 1752). Mrs. Hubard was kin and connected to the first families of Virginia: Gooch, Beale, Bathurst, Beckwith, Jennings, Belfield, Meriwether, Mountjoy, etc. (See genealogical chart.)
Mrs. Morton's father was a Burgess from James City County 1756-1758. He was the son of Captain John Morton of Richmond County and Mary Mountjoy Morton. Joseph Morton became a distributing agent for a group of Yorkshire horse breeders. Traveller, an imported stud and race horse, was owned by Morton from 1748-1757. "He was bred by Mr. Crofts at Raby in Yorkshire (who was the fortunate breeder and owner of some of the first horses in England) and was got by his famous horse, Partner, grandsire of King Herod. The dam of Traveller was by Bloody Buttocks (an Arabian) ... Traveller sired horses owned by Thomas Mann Randolph, Robert Skipwith, John Hartwell Cocke, Richard Lee, Littlebury Hardyman, Secretary Thomas Nelson, Lewis Burwell and James Southall."
Following his marriage to Frances Colston c. 1739 Morton continued to live in Richmond County or King George County. In 1742 he owned two lots, #25 and 26, at Leeds Town. Following the death of his mother-in-law, Mary Meriwether2