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Thomas Morgan, of Sleepy Creek
Facts and Events
Early Land Acquisition in Virginia
Acquisition of Land from Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants:
- N-163: Thomas Morgan of Frederick County, 191 acres on Sleepy Creek in said County. Surv. Thomas Rutherford. On Warm Spring Road, adj. Robert Rose. 29 Aug. 1766. [Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1742-1775, Vol. 2, Gertrude E. Gray, pg. 177].
Records of Thomas Morgan
In 1735, Jost Hite had surveyed 450 acres on Arnold’s Branch (later called Wheat Springs) that he sold to Abel Pearson. Pearson was a Quaker from Chester County, PA. This land, located off present route 7 a few miles east of Berryville. The 450 acres was sold to Thomas Morgan in 1741, as verified in the following record:.
- Orange County, KNOW ALL MEN by these presents that I, Thomas Morgan of County aforesaid and Colony of Virginia am held and firmly bound and doth stand justly indebted unto Jost Hite of the same place in the full and just Sum of twenty four pounds sixteen Shillings current lawful money of Virginia to the which paiment …I bind me my heirs Executors Administrators jointly and severally for the whole and in the whole firmly by these presents. Sealed with my Seal dated this ninth day of October 1741. The condition of the above obligation is such that if the above Thomas Morgan… should pay or well and trully cause to be paid to the above mentioned Jost Hite… the full and just Sum of four pounds current money of Virginia to be paided at such time as the Land Office in this Colony be opened for to receive the Rights of Land for the lower parts of Shenahdore and Opeckon as also the full and just Sum of eight pounds eight Shillings Current money as aforeaid at such times as the above named Jost Hite …shall make the above bound Thomas Morgan his heirs and assigns a good and lawful right and title to a certain tract of Land lying on a branch of Shenahdore containing four hundred and fifty acres which tract the said Morgan bought from Abel Pearson and that to be paid without fraud or further delay…then the above Obligation to be void or also to stand abide and remain in full force power and virtue in the Law.
- (signed) Tho. Morgan.
- Signed Sealed and delivered in presence of John Smith, Lewis Thomas.
- Pages 324-25. 29 Sept. 1741. Thomas Morgain of Orange County to Isaac Smith of same. For 3,800 pounds of tobacco to be paid before 13 October next.
- Mortgage of all my crop of corn and robacco and one cow and one heifer markt with a crop and a slit in the right ear, the left with a single crop, and three sows and piggs, and three barrows and one gun and four sides of leather and one calf skin, one small pott and one tubb and one piggin and one table.
- (signed) Thomas (T) Morgain.
- Wit: John Garth, Minus (X) Griggs, Jean (X) Griggs.
- 26 Nov. 1741. Proved by John Garth and Minus Griggs.
Notes
Thomas Morgan of Sleepy Creek, Berkeley County, was the father of John Morgan (who said he was born in 1748), and grandfather of Sarah and Evan Morgan. John Morgan married Martha Constant, the daughter of John Constant who lived on the Great Cacapon River in Hampshire County. Peter Popeno went from Salem County, NJ to Monongalia County WV around 1772. Around 1781, he went on to KY and was followed by his stepson, Harry Martin who married John Morgan’s daughter Sarah Morgan in 1789, and later by the rest of his family. Peter Popeno’s daughter, Nancy Popeno, married Sarah’s brother, Evan Morgan, in 1792.
[Source: http://www.popenoe.com/Shenandoah.htm (accessed through wayback archives)].
Citations
- http://www.popenoe.com/Shenandoah.htm
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