Person:Elizabeth Pickett (9)

Watchers
  • F.  William Pickett (add)
  • M.  Lucy Blackwell (add)
m.
  1. Elizabeth PickettAbt 1766 -
  2. George Pickett - Bef 1853
  3. William Pickett - Bef 1817
  4. Lucy Pickett - Aft 1789
  5. Agnes Pickett - Aft 1789
  6. Charles Pickett
m. 28 Mar 1786
  1. Com. Charles William Morgan, U.S.N.Abt 1790 - 1853
  2. Daniel MorganAbt 1795 -
Facts and Events
Name Elizabeth Pickett
Baptismal Name Elizabeth Pickett
Married Name Mrs. Elizabeth Morgan
Gender Female
Birth? Abt 1766 Fauquier, Virginia, United States
Marriage 28 Mar 1786 Virginia, United Statesto Capt. Simon Morgan
Death? prob Fleming, Kentucky
Other[1] 5 Jan 1839 Fleming, Kentucky, United Statesage 73 - widow Elizabeth applies for a pension
References
  1. Pension Application of Simon Morgan W8475, in Southern Campaign American Revolution Pension Statements & Rosters.

    [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.