page_title: Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Charlotte Morton Dexter, daughter of Perez Morton and wife of Andrew Dexter, Jr.
context_page_description: Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton was an American poet.
context_section_description: In 1781, she was married to Boston lawyer Perez Morton (1751–1837) at Trinity Church, Boston. Morton served as the Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, from 1806 to 1808 and again from 1810 to 1811, and was the Massachusetts Attorney General from 1810 to 1832. The couple lived on a family mansion on State Street. From around 1796 to around 1803, the Mortons owned a house on Dudley Street in Dorchester; the house may have been designed by Charles Bulfinch.   Together, they were the parents of five children who lived to maturity, including:
  Sarah Apthorp Morton (1782–1844), who married Richard Cunningham, son of John Cunningham, in Nova Scotia.
  Anna Louisa Morton (1783–1843), who did not marry.
  Frances Wentworth Morton (1785–1831), who did not marry.
  Charles Ward Apthorp Morton (1786–1809), who did not marry.
  Charlotte Morton (1787–1819), who married Andrew Dexter, Jr. (1779–1837), a lawyer, financier, and speculator.
  Sarah died on May 14, 1846 in Braintree, Massachusetts. She was buried at King's Chapel Burying Ground in Boston.
caption: Portrait of Sarah's daughter, Charlotte Morton Dexter, by Gilbert Stuart (1808)
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