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Morton was
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264:The Genealogy of the Existing British Peerage
36:(1582 – 7 August 1648) was a grandson of the
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178:Margaret Douglas (1610–1678), married
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299:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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278:"Douglas, William (1582-1650)"
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78:with Henry Erskine, the son of the
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