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Joseph Morton

Joseph Morton is a Virginia historical marker in Charlotte County, dedicated 1999.

Charlotte County · dedicated 1999 · Rte. 15, northbound, at Charlotte/Prince Edward County line

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Seven miles west stood Roanoke Bridge, the colonial homestead of Joseph Morton, who patented land nearby in the 1740s. He was an elder of Briery Presbyterian Church on its founding in Prince Edward County in 1755, and later a trustee. He served as a justice from the formation of Charlotte County on 4 March 1765 until his death in 1784. In 1775, at the beginning of the American Revolution, he became a member of the county's committee of correspondence. About that time, he built Roanoke Bridge, a frame dwelling later called Hillandale. The house served as a post office from 1885 to 1904, and burned in the mid-20th century.
Department of Historic Resources, 1999 Department of Historic Resources, 1999

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