... His eldest son, Colonel William Morgan, from whom David E. Bane is a direct descendant, was born in 1737 and died in 1788. He married Drusilla Swearingen. He was a large property owner, owning twenty-five hundred (2500) acres of land, located in the Shenandoah Valley near Shepherdstown. He was an officer in the French and Indian and Revolutionary Wars.
The following is a copy of the commission issued to William Morgan:
Francis Fauquier, Esq., His Majesty's Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief of the Colony and Dominion of Virginia
To William Morgan, Gent.
By Virtue of His Majesty's Royal Commission and instructions appointing me Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief in and over his colony and dominion of Virginia with full Power and Authority to appoint all officers both Civil and Military within the same.
I, reposing especial Trust in your Loyalty, Courage, and good conduct do by these presents, appoint you, William Morgan, Lieutenant in a company of Militia of the County of Frederick Commanded by Van Swearingen Gent. You are therefore to act as your Cammand, taking particular care that they be provided with Arms and Ammunition as the Laws of the Colony direct.
And you are to observe and follow such Orders and directions from time and time, as you shall receive from me or any other of your superior officers, according to the rules and discipline of War in pursuance of the Trust reposed in you.
Given at Williamsburg, under may hand and the seal of the Colony, this ninth day of November, and in the thirty second year of his Majesty's Reign, Annoque Domini 1758.
Francis Fauquier
