http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_Morgan

Came to America in 1712, to Province of Pennsylvaia ;settled at Christiana, Delaware.

coroner of Christiana, New Castle Co., Delaware

"Reared first cabin home in West Virginia." 1726-7

1727, Sept; Ref, History of Delaware, pg 134. An address of allegiance and submission to the new monarch was drawn up and signed by Morgan ap Morgan of New Castle Co., Delaware] and others...

1730;New Castle Co., Delaware, Church Warden

1730/1734 REF: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~quakers/hopewell.htm

HOPEWELL was the first Quaker meeting established in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. It was originally known as Opeckan and was set off from the Concord Quarterly Meeting of Pennsylvania in 1734. The actual date of first settlement is thought to be around 1730. The meeting house is located about 6 miles north of Winchester, Frederick Co., Virginia.

Fathers of the First Quaker Colony

in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia

One of those listed was Morgan Morgan,1000 acres on Mills' Creek, now in Berkeley Co., WV.

1734/5;Ref, Carolina Cradle;Settlement of the Northwest Carolina Frontier;1747-1762;by Robert W. Ramsey. Pgs 141/2;Morgan Morgan received a Samuel Blunston License for land <Yellow Breeches> West of the Susquehanna in the Cumberland Valley. He possibly was there, early as 1724.

2ed REF: for this land patent; 1733/34; http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/cumberland/land/blunston01.txt

The Blunston Licenses, 1733/34: Lancaster (now Cumberland) County, PA

May 27th, Morgan Morgan, 200 acres. No survey.

On the Spring running into Yellow Britches creek about two miles above <pexton>>>note spelling

Manor line.

1734;Orange Co., VA: 21st day of January, took oath as Justice of the Peace: Ref: preface of Marriages of Orange Co., VA 1747-1810 by Catherine Lindsay Knorr.

1735; Orange Co., VA; Commissions, Major ;Morgan Morgan , Ref; A history of Orange Co., VA; by W.W. Scott. Appendix F; Pgs 258 & 259. [ 12 November,1735; Land Patent to Morgan ap Morgan for 1000ac on a branch of Opeckon between the land of John Mills and George Hobson. County not stated. ]

2ed Ref: pg 174, Pioneers of Old Frederick County Virginia; by Cecil O’Dell; Patent was signed by Gov Gooch; the doc is now in the possession of Berkeley Co., Hist Soc., Martinsburg, WVA. This land was surveyed by Robert Brooke on 12 Nov, 1734@. (Tract 57, Map 5) and is located now, in Berkeley Co., WVA on Torytown Run (a branch of Mill Ck) ca ¾ mile W. of Bunker Hill, Wva. Interstate Hwy81 is on the E. side of the tract, Berkeley Co., Hwy 26 runs through the center of the tract and Berkeley Hwy 24 crosses the Western part. He sold 200 ac to his son Zackquill Morgan on 1 May, 1761. This land was resold 5 Feb, 1768.

1738; Orange/Federick Co.,VA <depends on what time of this yr@>pg 344, Justice of the Peace Morgan Morgan presented two men before the February Court of 1738 Ref: Pioneers of Old Monocacy; the early settlement of Frederick Co., MD 1721-1743 by Grace L. Tracy & John P. Dern;Foot Note 49 pg 344, ; Land Recds of Orange Co., VA.

1740;Frederick Co., VA; founded the first Episcopal Church in Mill Ck/Bunker’s Hill, on the border of what became Berkeley Co., VA/WVA in 1772. Ref: Old Churches Ministers & Families of VA; by Meade Vol II, pg 302/3

1743; pg 221 of Now and Long Ago; A History of Marion County Area; by Glenn D. Lough: The name of Morgan ap Morgan appears on the Bond of James Wood for first sheriff of Frederick Co., VA. Wood was the proprietor of the emerging village of Winchester.

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In early history books of West Virginia, Col. Morgan Morgan was known as the first white settler in what is now West Virginia: at Berkley Springs WV.

http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=1169

http://www.hmdb.org/Marker.asp?Marker=12798 -------------------- Begins the American Line of Morgans:

Colonel Morgan Morgan was born in Wales, educated in London, England, and came to the province of Deleware a single man. He commenced business as a merchant in a place known as Christiana, and soon married Catherine Garretson, a native of Deleware. Morgan was also a tailor. -------------------- Colonel Morgan Morgan born in the principality of Wales, in England, and was educated in London during the reign of Queen Anne, or probably about the commencement of the reign of George I. He commenced business as a merchant at the place now known as Christiana. He was well educated for his time and distined to take an active part in the early life of Colonial America,left no record, official or otherwise, so far as is known, which has been preserved or remembered by any of his many descendants, of his connection in his native Wales with the old Glamorganshire family there of the same name, which reaches back of things Anglo-Saxon into the days of the Ancient Celts. "(Morgan/Ross/Birch History) Data recently (1998) found on the internet provides lineage of Col. Morgan's ancestors back 19 generations to a "Welsh Chieftan" of around the 9th century.

He was married to Catherine GARRETSON in 1713 or 1714 in Christiana, New Castle, Delaware, USA