[Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris]
State of Kentucky } Sc.
Fleming County }
On this 5 day of January eighteen and thirty nine personally appeared before me a Justice of the
peace in the county aforesaid, Elizabeth Morgan a resident of said County aged seventy three years, who
being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the
benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress, passed July 7 1838 entitled An act granting half
pay and pensions to certain widdows” That she is the widow of Simon Morgan who was a capt of
Infantry and served from the beginning to the close of the Revolutionary war he was wounded at the
Battle of the Eutaw Springs [8 Sep 1781] and was an invalid pensioner at the day of his death. She further
declares that she was married to the said Simon Morgan on the twenty eighth day of March seventeen
hundred and eighty six in Fauquier County Virginia, that her husband the aforesaid Simon Morgan died
on the sixth day of July eighteen hundred and ten. That she was not married to him prior to his leaveing
the service, but the mariage took place previous to the first day of January seventeen hundred and ninety
four Viz, at the time above stated [signed] elizabeth Morgan
NOTE: In a pension application under a later act made on 28 June 1843 before Daniel Morgan, a Justice of
the Peace, Elizabeth Morgan’s age is given as 79. The file includes a copy of a bond signed on 14 Mar 1786
by Simon Morgan and Joseph Blackwell for the marriage of Morgan to Elizabeth Pickett. John Kemper
deposed to William Helm, Justice of the Peace, that Capt. William Pickett was the father of Elizabeth
Morgan. Helm stated that Elizabeth Morgan was the sister of his mother, and that Capt. Charles W. Morgan of the US Navy was the son of Simon and Elizabeth Morgan.
