David Morgan

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Will of David Morgan, Fayette County, pa.

Vol.1, page 132

Dated: September 18, 1798 Probated: October 22, 1798

Witness: Philip Davis, Joseph Brown, William Wells

Executors: Zadock Springer, Thomas Bowell

Beneficiaries: wife Ann, two daughters Margaret and Lydea, when  my son Thomas comes of age, daugher Susannah when she comes  of age, son David, daughter Ann when she comes of age, three  sons Morris, John, Philimon

David Morgan, (born either 1733 or 1744.) who came to Fayette county in 1788 and took up land on Grassy Run. The Mor- gans are of Welsh extraction.Supposed to have arrived in Fayette County with 2-3 children who had been born in Wales, the others were born in Fayette County, Pa - 10 children born in all. [] http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/john-woolf-jordan/genealogica...[]

The Morgans of this narra- MORGAN tive are of Welsh descent.

The founder of the family in Fayette county, David Morgan, was the first of the line to come to America. He was born n Wales, where he grew to manhood, mar- ried, and had issue. He became one of the

earliest settlers in southwestern Fayette county, and there fought with the forest, the beast and the savage, for the right to exist. He won his fight, saw civilization follow, and ended his days on his cultivated farm surrounded by neighbors and within sound of the church bell. He was a religious man, and one of the founders of Mount Moriah Baptist Church. He died in 1798, aged fifty-four years. Seven or perhaps eight of his ten children were born in Fay- ette county.

Son listed in this narrative: (II) Colonel John Morgan, seventh child of David Morgan, the pioneer, was born in Springfield township, Fayette county, Penn- sylvania, August 8, 1790. He married, March 12, 1817, Elizabeth Lyons, of Spring- hill 'township.

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

During the Revolutionary War, David Morgan is listed a private in Major William Haymond’s Compay – Monongalia Militia along with other Morgans: It reads: James Morgan, Sr. (Private)

David Morgan (Private)

Even Morgan (Private) .

Revolutiony War

At the commencement of the Revolution he at once warmly advocated the call of the colonies and was appointed a captain of Militia, and was frequently in active service against the hostile Indians. His commission to Major on November 12, 1781 reads as follows:

To William Haymond, Gent., Greeting: Know you that from special trust and confidence, which is reposed in your fidelity, courage, activity and good conduct, our Govenor (Virginia), with the advice of the Council of Stat, and on the recommendation of the Worshipful County Court of the County of Monongalia, doth appoint you, the said William Haymond, Major of the Militia, of the said County of Monongalia. In testimony whereof, these our letters made patent. Witness, Benjamine Harrison, Esquire, Governor, at Richmond, this 12th day of November, 1781. Registered in the War Office. BENJAMINE HARRISON[3]

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In 1777 Haymond commanded Prickett's Fort[1] with a detachment at Scott's Mills. In 1781 he was promoted to Major and performed the duties of an officer of Militia during the whole of the Revolutionary War. The pay-roll of Major Haymond's Company (then Captain) of Monongahela County Militia in active service during the war of the Revolution in 1777 is as follows:

William Haymond (Captain)

M. Morgan Morgan (Lientenant)

James Johnston (Ensign)

Zarah Ozban (Sergeant)

Amos Ashcraft (Private)

Reuben Boner (Private)

Jarvis Brumagen (Private)

Robert Campbell (Private)

John Carter (Private)

Levy Carter (Private)

Edmond Chaney (Private)

Jeremiah Chaney (Private)

John Dohert (Private)

Thomas Haymond (Private)

Henry Hank (Private)

Frederick Huckleberry (Private)

John Ice (Private)

Frederick Ice (Private)

Valentine Kennett (Private)

John Lemasters (Private)

James Morgan, Sr. (Private)

David Morgan (Private)

Even Morgan (Private)

Amos Pettyjohn (Private)

Peter Propeno (Private)

William Pettyjohn (Private)

Jeremiah Simson (Private)

Haymond was making preparations to go east of the mountains and join the regular army at the request of General Washington was when he received news of peace.