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Facts and Events
Refuted Lineage
He was not the son of James Morgan of Llantarnam, 4th Baronet[3], who is assumed to have died without male issue, since the Baronetcy appears to have become extinct on his death[4].
Additional Notes
- He arrived in Pennsylvania abt 1683 and lived near Radnor. Source needed.
- In 1695, they moved to Towamencin Township and built a house on 500 acres of land. Source needed.
- He joined the Society of Friends and was known as Edward Morgan, the taylor. Source needed.
- He also build, in 1695, the famous Morgan Log House, located near Lansdale in Towamencin Twp. Source needed.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Edward Morgan of Towamencin Township, in Scroggins, William G. Leaves of a Stunted Shrub: a genealogy of the Scrogin-Scroggin-Scroggins family. (Cockeysville, Maryland: Nativa, LLC, 2009).
- ↑ Morgan, Appleton. A history of the family of Morgan, from the year 1089 to present times. (New York: Published for subscribers only, 1902).
p 165 - Presents the supposed ancestry of Edward, which has been discredited. Note that Stewart Baldwin (writing in The Genealogist in 2001), called this "a poorly documented and carelessly written book", and, specifically in reference to its description of the Morgans of Llantarnam, "error-ridden".
p 169 -
...VI. EDWARD MORGAN (4 of V. above), joined the Society of Friends of Haverford, Radnor and Merion monthly meetings and lived near Gwynedd, then in Philadelphia Co. (now Montgomery Co.), Penna. The marriage of his children appear on the records of Radnor, Haverford, Gwynedd and Merion monthly meetings, copies of portions of which records are in the Philadelphia Historical Society's collections, Philadelphia.
He m. Margaret _____. Issue:
1. Morgan, m. Dorothy _____.
2. Sarah, m 23rd day, 7th month, 1720, Squire Boone, son of George Boone...
3. Joseph, m. Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Lloyd, ...
4. William, m Elizabeth, dau. of Robert Roberts, of Montgomery Co. ...
5. John ... m. Sarah Lloyd ...
6. George.
7. Edward. ...
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Baldwin, Stewart. The Family of Edward1 Morgan of Pennsylvania: Daniel Boone's Maternal Kin, in American Society of Genealogists. The Genealogist. (New York: Association for the Promotion of Scholarship in Genealogy)
15(2001):106-7.
In a section titled The False Royal Descent, Baldwin points out that both the Complete Baronetage (2:171) and Bradney's History of Monmouthshire (vol. 1, part 2:465-67) state that James Morgan, husband of Alice (Hopton) Jones, died without male issue. He goes on to discredit the assertion by James Appleton Morgan that James had two wives, pointing out that his only known wife Alice (widow of Nicholas Jones) was accidentally called Anne (and identified as the widow of Nicholas Jones) in at least one manuscript, which likely led to the error that James had a wife named Anne. While Baldwin doesn't state outright that there is no evidence for James' supposed children Edward (who died in infancy), Sarah, and William (who died young) (as attributed by James Appleton Morgan), he implies that there is none. He concludes this section with the statement "The parentage of Edward Morgan [immigrant to Pennsylvania] remains unknown."
- ↑ Cokayne, George Edward. Complete baronetage, 1611-1800. (Exeter [England]: W. Pollard, 1900-1906)
2:171.
- ↑ Baldwin, Stewart. The Family of Edward1 Morgan of Pennsylvania: Daniel Boone's Maternal Kin, in American Society of Genealogists. The Genealogist. (New York: Association for the Promotion of Scholarship in Genealogy)
15(2001):115-16.
'Edward1 Morgan, of Philadelphia, later of near Gwynedd, in what is now Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, born say 1660, possibly in Wales, still living on 27 8m [October] 1732 [footnote: The date of his last appearance in the minutes of the Gwynedd Monthly Meeting, Pa.] ...'
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