Henry Morgan, Sr.

Henry Morgan, Sr

• Birth 10 Aug 1727 Christiana, New Castle County, Delaware, USA
• Death 1824 (aged 96–97) Spartanburg, Spartanburg County, South Carolina, USA
• Burial Friendship Presbyterian Church Cemetery Hickory Tavern, Laurens County, South Carolina, US

Family

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Morgan-3936

Henry Morgan[1] was born on August 10, 1727 in Christiana, New Castle, Delaware.[2] His parents were Morgan Morgan and Catherine Garretson.[3] He married Deborah Poole in 1747.[4]

She bore him five known children, two sons and three daughhters:

1. Mary Morgan
2. John Morgan
3. Ruth Morgan
4. Henry Morgan
5. Catherine Morgan.[5]

In April 1824, when he was in his later fifties, Henry died in Spartanburg, Spartanburg County, South Carolina,[6] of unknown causes.

Origins

Extracted from the from the family bible of Charles Stephen Morgan, Page 3 <link>

Col. Morgan Morgan was born in the Principality of Wales in England, and was educated in London, during the reighn of William 3d. - Came to the Province of Delaware a single man during the reign of George & Ann, or probably about the Commencement of the reign of George the 1st. He commenced business as a merchant at the place now known by the name of Christiania, and soon married Catherine Garretson, a respectable native of Delaware.

Issue of this marriage: …

Henry, is other brother in much favor with my grandfather and for whom my twin brother was willed, both of us being named his heir. Married (in Berkley) a sister to Charles' wife, and they all removed to the South together some short time before the Revolution.

According to this website Charles and Henry Morgan are the progenitors of the 'lost Morgan tribes.' (https://morganfamily2.tripod.com/part1.html)

"What is especially notable to the researchers of Morgan's life and family, is that two of his sons, Charles and Henry, are also generally paired with one another as they are the two male progenitors of what is commonly called 'the three lost Morgan tribes.' Charles and Henry were born consecutively, their wives were sisters, and additionally, the families of both are generally associated with Spartanburg, South Carolina. Also, frustratingly, with the exception of few tidbits of information, the two brothers essentially disappeared from the historical record, and their descendants are hence 'lost.' Therefore, typically, as there is so little known about these two brothers, they are generally addressed together, rather than as separate individuals."

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References

• Report of the Col. Morgan Morgan Monument (1924). Page 65-66. <Archive.Org>
• <“Origins & Early Life of Col. Morgan Morgan”>
• Uley T. Morgan, The Descendants of Col Morgan Morgan, 1993. <GoogleBooks>
• Charles Morgan, "Morgan Family Bible Record, 1721-1942," online images, Library of Virginia, Bible Records Collection (https://lva.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01LVA_INST/18mtacj/al... : accessed 9 November 2019), Local Call No. 22901, p. 3.
• https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/m/o/r/William-dallas-Morgan-PA/GENE1-...
• Find A Grave. Web. "Henry Morgan (1771 - 1824), Memorial# 8155739, Friendship Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Hickory Tavern, South Carolina." Tracker, 5 Dec 2003. (http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=8155739 : accessed 27 Dec 2014)
• https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/m/o/r/William-dallas-Morgan-PA/GENE1-...