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entrenchments on the Orange side of Morton's Road. A nearby field would be nicknamed for the cannon balls later found there. General Lee climbed nearby Clark's
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However, Morton in 1866 opposed even church re-union. fearing "that we may reap infidelity and the flood of 'isms' from the north. If they destroy our social institutions & desolate our homes and confiscate our property, I pray God, our southern Zyon, may not be submerged." Although the colonial
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era brick Little Fork Church (1776) miraculously remained, its predecessor by several decades, Great Fork Church (built 1732) had been pulled down for firewood and St. Paul's
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according to the 1840 census, Jeremiah and Jane Morton had a teen-age daughter, but they lived alone in the 1850 and subsequent censuses, and his entry in the 1830 census appears misindexed
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