Person:Lewis Morgan (7)

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Lewis Morgan
b.Abt 1728 Brunswick, Virginia, United States
d.Aft 1810 prob Pulaski, Kentucky, United States
Parents and Siblings
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m. Bef 1728
  1. Letitia "Leatice" MorganAbt 1723 - Bef 1829
  2. Lewis MorganAbt 1728 - Aft 1810
  3. Thomas MorganAbt 1730 - Aft 1774
  4. Ann MorganAbt 1732 - Aft 1774
  5. Elizabeth MorganAbt 1734 - Abt 1827
  6. John MorganAbt 1738 - Aft 1774
  7. William MorganAbt 1740 - Aft 1774
  8. Suana MorganAbt 1742 - Aft 1774
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  Lewis MorganAbt 1728 - Aft 1810
  • W.  Christian WhiteAbt 1726 - Abt 1816
m. Abt 1752
  1. Thomas MorganAbt 1752 -
  2. Amaziah MorganAbt 1753 - Abt 1791
  3. Adonijah Morgan1755 - 1827
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Facts and Events
Name Lewis Morgan
Alt Name[3] Luis Morgin
Gender Male
Birth[2] Abt 1728 Brunswick, Virginia, United States
Other? 1745 COUNTY CHANGE: Brunswick County is divided to create Lunenburg County.
Other[3] 1750 Lunenburg, Virginia, United States"Luis Morgin" appears on List of Tithes with 1 Tithe appears next to Thomas Morgin with 4 Tithes
Marriage Abt 1752 prob Bedford County, Virginiato Christian White
Other? 1752 COUNTY CHANGE: Lunenburg and Albemarle Counties are divided creating Bedford County.
Other? 1752 COUNTY CHANGE: Lunenburg County is divided creating Halifax County.
Property? 8 May 1755 Halifax, Virginia, United Statesproof pending - recorded survey of 150ac on Chestnut Creek
Other? 1766 COUNTY CHANGE: Halifax County is divided creating Pittsylvania County.
Other[4][2] 14 Jul 1769 Pittsylvania, Virginia, United StatesAt a Vestry held for Camden Parish at Pittsylvania Courthouse Lewis Morgan is ordered to tend at Snow Creek Chappell when the Revd M. Stevenson preaches there and that he read Prayers the other Sundays at Wm. Hirds and at Potters Creek Schoolhouse.
Other? 1776 COUNTY CHANGE: Pittsylvania County is divided creating Henry County.
Other[1] 13 Sep 1777 Henry, Virginia, United States"Lewis Morgan, age 50" appears on a list of inhabitants of Henry County who, renouncing their fealty to Great Britain, swore allegiance to the Commonwealth of Virginia
Residence[5][2] Bef 3 Nov 1781 Washington (old) County, North Carolina, United Statesas per Henry County, VA deed
Property[5][2] 3 Nov 1781 Henry, Virginia, United States"Lewis Morgan and his wife Christian and Thomas Morgan and his wife" sell 150 ac on Chestnut Creek in Henry County, VA to Samuel Patterson.
Military? 20 Sep 1782 Lookout Mountain, Hamilton, Tennessee, United StatesBattle near Lookout Mountain against the Chickamauga Tribe during the Chickamauga Wars (1776-1794), a series of battles over land settlement between native inhabitants and encroaching frontiersmen.
Other? 1783 COUNTY CHANGE: Washington (old) County, NC is divided creating Green County, NC.
Other[6] 1783 Greene, Tennessee, United StatesPOSSIBLE MATCH - "Morgan Levi" appears on Tax List with "Morgan Adonijah" and "Morgan Thomas"
Other? 1796 STATE CHANGE: Land that was in Green County, NC becomes part of Tennessee.
Census[7] 1810 Somerset, Pulaski, Kentucky, United StatesLIKELY MATCH - "Morgin, Lewis S[r]" listed next to "Morgan, Adonijah" and "Morgan, Lewis J[r]"
Military? North Carolina, United Statesproof pending - served three years in the North Carolina Centennial Line and received 640 acres of bounty land #2492
Death[7] Aft 1810 prob Pulaski, Kentucky, United States[based on likely match in 1810 census]
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Research Notes

References
  1. ↑ Record of Oath, in Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. (Richmond, Virginia: Virginia Historical Society)
    Vol 9, No 2, Oct 1901.

    p 138 - HENRY COUNTY
    From its Formation in 1776 to the End of the Eighteenth Century, et seq.
    From the records of the clerks office, by C.B. Bryant, Martinsville, Va. (continued)
    List of persons renouncing allegiance to Great Britain and swearing allegiance to the Commonwealth of Virginia.

    p 139 -
    A memorandum of the Inhabitants of Henry County of those that hath taken the oath of allegiance. Sept 13th, 1777. FREDK RIVES.

    ... Lewis Morgan, 50 [author states, "These figures evidently show the age of the person.]

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "LEWIS MORGAN (1728 -- ca. 1800) OF BEDFORD COUNTY, VIRGINIA" by Elizabeth Pearson White, C.Gp., F.A.S.G., in National Genealogical Society quarterly. (Washington, District of Columbia: National Genealogical Society)
    Vol 65, No 3, Sep 1977.

    [see Transcript ]

  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Morgins in 1750 Tithables Record in Lunenburg County.

    [Note: this is a Transcription by Thomas Walter Duda of a Transcription by Landon C. Bell in "Sunlight On the Southside" (Phila., 1931), pp. 135, 136.]

    p 136 - [For 1750. List taken by Nicholas Haile]
    Thomas Morgin
    Thos. Morgin, Junr.
    Headly Smith ............................................. 4
    Luis Morgin ................................................ 1

  4. ↑ Lewis Morgan, in Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. (Richmond, Virginia: Virginia Historical Society)
    Vol 22.

    [COLONIAL CHURCHES IN PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY. (Contributed by Mrs. N.E. Clement, Chatham, Va.) FROM THE VESTRY BOOK OF CAMDEN PARISH.]

    p 174 -
    [At a Vestry held for Camden Parish at Pittsylvania Courthouse the 14th day of July 1769.]
    ... ORDERED that Lewis Morgan tend at Snow Creek Chappell when the Revd M. Stevenson preaches there and that he read Prayers the other Sundays at Wm. Hirds and at Potters Creek Schoolhouse. ...
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    [cos1776 Note: per White 2, in Feb 1768, Lewis Morgan was allowed 50 lbs. of tobacco for six months' service as a lay reader. She cites the source above, but as can be seen here, the date and the information does not exactly match. White also cites Source:Clement, Maud Carter. History of Pittsylvania County, Virginia (1062676), p 116. - which I have yet to investigate.]

  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Deed Abstract, in Adams, Lela C. Abstracts of Henry County, Virginia, deed books. (Bassett, Virginia: L.C. Adams, c1975-1979)
    pp 70-71.

    Book 2 pgs 200-201.
    3 November 1781. Lewis Morgan and his wife Christian and Thomas Morgan and his wife (?) both of the state of North Carolina and county of Washington, for the sum of two hundred and fifty pounds, sell and convey unto Samuel Patterson a certain parcel or tract of land being the plantation the said Lewis Morgan formerly lived on near the ford and mouth of Chestnut Creek bounded by Isham Hodges on the upper and a survey
    the said Morgan made himself on the said Chestnut Creek containing 150 acres more or less.
    Signed: Lewis Morgain, Christian Morgain, Thomas Morgain, Sarey Morgain.
    Witnessed by, Tully Choice, Samuel Bolling, Jesse Kirby, William Choice.
    Note 26 March 1782 -- Sarey Morgain listed as Mary Morgain in the Clerk's recording.
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    [cos1776 Note: this text is cited by many researchers and appears to differ depending on the researcher. Some do and some don't include the survey phrase. It would be best to verify and/or scan the original document if possible.]

  6. ↑ Morgans in 1783 Tax List for Greene County, Tennessee, in Daughters of The American Revolution Magazine
    Vol LIII, Jan-Dec, 1919.

    Vol LIII (Jan - Dec, 1919), p 202 -
    [THE FIRST TAX LIST FOR THE COUNTY OF GREEN, STATE OF TENNESSEE, FOR THE YEAR 1783 by Louise Wilson Reynolds who wrote, "The following tax list is perhaps the oldest county tax assessment of the state in existence. The original, like many court records of value to genealogists, has been carelessly misplaced or destroyed and is no longer accessible. With few exceptions the men whose names appear on the list were Revolutionary soldiers and patriots. ... classed as those residing in Washington County during the Revolutionary War, and those who emigrated to the settlements at the close of hostilities.]

    ... Morgan Adonijah
    Morgan Levi [ <-- POSSIBLE MATCH for "Lewis Morgan"]
    Morgan Thomas ...

  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 LIKELY MATCH for Lewis Morgan, in Pulaski County, Kentucky. 1810 U.S. Census Population Schedule.

    Year: 1810; Census Place: Somerset, Pulaski, Kentucky; Roll: 8; Page: 150; Image: 0181353; Family History Library Film: 00142.
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    Name: Morgin, Lewis S
    Home in 1810 (City, County, State): Somerset, Pulaski, Kentucky

    Free White Persons - Males - 45 and over: 1
    Free White Persons - Females - 45 and over : 1
    Number of All Other Free Persons: 3
    Number of Household Members Over 25: 2
    Number of Household Members: 5
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    [Note: listed below "Morgan, Adonijah" and "Morgin, Lewis J". The "S" in his name likely means "Lewis, Senior".]

  8.   Lewis Morgan, in Morgan, Appleton. A history of the family of Morgan, from the year 1089 to present times. (New York: Published for subscribers only, 1902).

    p 33 - BRANCH IN AMERICA FROM THOMAS MAUD MORGAN.
    ... II. DANIEL, married, 1. _____. Issue : ... 9. Lewis. ...

    p 92 - LINE OF LEWIS MORGAN.
    I. LEWIS MORGAN (see II. 9 of page 33), born in Virginia, 1728 ; had two sisters. Elizabeth m. John Vordman, and Lettes m. A. Richardson ; (by a second marriage of the father there were several children). Lewis m., 1750, Elizabeth White, of Bedford County, Virginia. Issue : 1. Thomas. 2. Amaziah, (b. 1753, d. 1791). 3. Adonijah. ...
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    [cos1776 Note: Sources are unknown, but researchers generally agree that Elizabeth was NOT the name of his wife - it was Christian or Christina - and it is not proven that Daniel Morgan was Lewis' father.]

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