First of all let me preface this by explaining that the original source of the family history (always taken with a grain of salt) is my grandmother born in 1904 at 14 West Spring Ave., Ardmore, Montgomery Co PA outside Philadelphia, as well as her brother Sidney Francis Morgan who searched in NJ in 1954 and I have some notes he had. The other notes were in his cellar which got flooded after he died. My grandmother and he had old family letters and notes and a Bible. There was a letter in my grandmother's possession which related that our Morgan had been "sent sick to Albany" from Ticonderoga - perhaps written by a soldier friend, but the letter does not name the first name of this Morgan, and that he was "under Elias Dayton in the 3M? on the NJ line." Elias Dayton was appointed Feb. 9, 1776 colonel of the Third New Jersey Regiment of Foot, also known as the Third Battalion, New Jersey Line, in the Continental Army. He served in the defence of Ticonderoga. His unit was stationed at Albany in May 1776; in the fall of 1776 the unit built Fort Schuyler (Rome, N.Y.) and Fort Dayton (Herkimer, N.Y.) and fought off Indian raids from Johnstown and German Flats before returning to Morristown, New Jersey in March of 1777. There is also a note"Daniel Morgan's Sharpshooters." I don't know if I can take this seriously though. Daniel Morgan got his start in the Revolutionary War in 1776 as the captain of a small rifle unit set up by the state of Virginia, one of 10 such units commissioned by Congress. Morgan's had 82 men, and got the nickname Morgan's Sharpshooters. Morgan's most significant action in this period was support for the invasion of Canada which is what Col. Dayton was also doing.
Four of the companies, on being organized, were stationed at Staten Island, New York, and the other four at Amboy, New Jersey. They were joined at Elizabethtown, April 28th, and left that place for New York on the next day. On the 2d of May the battalion was reviewed by the Muster-master General, REVOLUTIONARY WAR. 23 -and on the 3d instant, with the First Battalion, sailed in sloops for Albany. Colonel Dayton reported there to Brigadier Gene- ral John Sullivan, of New Hampshire. During the remainder of the year, they were stationed at Johnstown, German Flats, Fort Dayton, Fort Schuyler, Ticonderoga, and Mount Independence. They were chiefly engaged in preventing incursions of the In- dians. The battalion left Albany March 7th, 1777, and was discharged at Morristown, New Jersey, on the 23d of the same month….
A committee of one from each House was appointed in accord- ance with the fourth resolution, and on the 25th day of October they reviewed, at Ticonderoga, New York, the battalions raised under the first establishment. Their report was presented to the Legislature November 22d, 1776 and is as follows: " The commissioners appointed by the Honorable Council and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, to inquire into the: 26 JERSEYMEN IN THE condition of the Jersey troops to the northward of Albany, and the disposition of the officers to engage in the Continental ser- vice during the war, beg leave to make the following report : "That your commissioners, having with all possible despatch repaired to Ticonderoga, did there, as far as they were able, inquire into the condition of the troops of this State. "Your commissioners found the soldiers destitute of many articles of dress ; supplies of every kind they want, but shoes and stockings they are in the last necessity for, many having neither to their feet…..
My Adam Morgan enlists in NJ as enlisting from Morris Co.. Jonathan and Samuel Morgan also enlist from Morris Co. Samuel b 1740-46 was wagon master for awhile, immigrated to Georgia and died 9 Oct 1833 in Homer, Franklin, Georgia.
In the spring of 1776 Col. Dayton and his troops were sent to support an invasion of Canada, but were diverted to New York's Mohawk Valley where Colonel Dayton was put in charge of constructing fortifications to protect the colonists from Loyalist and Indian insurrections. These fortifications included Fort Dayton in what is now Herkimer, New York and Fort Schuyler (Stanwix) in what is now Rome, NY..
My grandmother (back about 1950) writes that our Morgan got sick at Fort Ticonderoga and was sent to hospital at Albany NY (where he could have been shipped by boat back to NJ). Our Morgan was married to Sarah Flaningan whose parents were Sarah Jennings and "Michael" Flaningan. Keeping in mind that a John and Sarah (Flanigan?)Morgan sell their place in 1817, it could be that it was they and were retiring to Philadelphia or something. I find no trace of John and Sarah Morgan after 1817.
I think it should be noted with amusement that the female maiden names are much better remembered in my family than the male names: Hannah Leach, Hannah Griffith, Sarah Jennings, Sarah Flanigan and these names were spoken over and over again, says my mother, almost with devotion. The Morgan men, I can assume, were not very well thought of. Except they did mention we "go back to Morris Morgan" which I can believe because in every generation came a Morris- ruth had a brother Morris who died early and Ruths grandfather had a Morris Morgan brother who moved to Haddonfield NJ and worked in the lumber business and lived on a lane called Morgan Lane. References to early Morris Morgans in Philadlephia and NJ :
1. The name Maurice and Morris have been interchangeable. The name MORRIS MORGAN first appears at a Philadelphia 1690 city meeting where they are discussing the building of houses and those who are still living in the caves along the Delaware River on the NJ side. He also attends the Quaker wedding of Hannah Hardeman and Carpenter (Samuel?) I have a link which used to work but it doesnt anymore about Carpenter-http://www.usigs.org/library/books/pa/carpenter1912/capt001.txt Samuel Carpenter had Carpenter's Landing where he shipped lumber. That was on Mantua Creek where Chistian and Sarah Morgan lived and earlier Adam, John and Sarah Morgan lived.
2. “ Philadelphia , June 8, 1767. We hear that Maurice Morgan, Esq; Secretary of the Province of New-Jersey, has appointed Joseph Reed, Esq; of Trenton , Deputy Secretary of the Said Province . And that Jacob Kollock, jun. Esq., is appointed Collector of His Majesty's Customs at Lewistown, on Delaware .”--Supplement to the New York Journal or General Advertiser, No. 1275, June 11, 1767.
My grandmother said we are related to the founders of 1. Morristown or 2. Moorestown. If it is 1. we may be descended from Gov. Lewis Morris of New York who founded Morristown and governed that part of New Jersey. Morris/Maurice Morgan was the secretary of New Jersey in about 1750 and he may have descended from Lewis Morris. My great great uncle was also named Morris Morgan. From what I read, members of the Morris family were governing northern NJ for a long time as if it were "inherited." if it is 2. we are connected to the following people-
"Although there were property owners as early as 1680 in the present township location, (formerly known as Chester Township), the Village of Moorestown was founded in 1682 when the first owners built homes and actually lived here. Thomas Hooton and son acquired 600 acres in 1682 and a Roberts family also set up their farmstead in the area. In May of 1686, when Philadelphia was about 3 years old, John Rodman bought 500 acres on the west side of Chester Township, and Thomas Rodman bought 533 acres additional in the same area, where the area soon became known as the Village of Rodmantown. The growing area around the eastern spring was known as the Village of Chestertown.
This is Clayton village then known as Fislertown south of Mantua Creek and Moorestown-
"In 1700, the first Society of Friends’ Meeting House, built of logs, was erected on The King’s Highway. Originally known as Meeting House Lane, Chester Avenue was laid out in 1720. The Village at that time probably consisted of a few farmhouses along The King's Highway from Stanwick Road to Locust Street.
"Thomas Moore and his wife Elizabeth settled here in 1722 and in 1732, Moore purchased 33 acres of land on the north side of The King's Highway. The land ran from the west side of the Friends' graveyard on the northwest corner of The King’s Highway and Meeting House Lane on the east and west to Locust Street on the western boundary of his property and north to Second Street. Mr. Moore set up a hotel on the northwest corner of The King’s Highway and Union Streets (currently, the Shell gas station). With so much land eventually being owned by Thomas Moore, the name Moorestown gradually replaced Chester informally in what is now the center of town. Finally, Moorestown formerly split off from Chester and became a Township."
Adam and John Morgan enlisted in the Rev War at Morristown and are enlisted as from Monmouth Co. in 1776. That is the Adam Morgan who was born before 1760, not the one born later in 1798 in Gloucester County. The Jennings family was from Gloucester County and we are supposedly related to Sarah Jennings, as well as the Flaningham (also called Flaningan) family. My grandmother said that word of mouth ancestry was as follows:
Sarah Jennings m. Flanigan or Flaningham
Sarah Flanigan m. Morgan
Adam Morgan b 1798
Adam Morgan is placed in Gloucester Co. at Swedesboro in 1821 by the GLOUCESTER HISTORICAL SOCIETY. (By the way it is my sense that Adam Morgan who was older and who enlisted in Morris Co, came to Gloucester after the Rev-at least he appears -or someone with the same name- first in Greenwich tax lists in 1777-1797. My Adam Morgan b ca 1798 NJ is also placed at -Greenwich, Mantua (formerly called Carpenters Landing) area by the knowledge that his land was near Elisha Chew who lived there from 1819 to his death. The Morgan family said Adam operated a restaurant so I found out which one from Gloucester Historical Soc..The road from Swedesboro/Swedesborough where Adam Morgan ran a tavern called Sign if the Golden Sheaf (for which he may have been disowned from whatever MM he attended) goes thru Carpenters Landing-now Mantua- up to Moorestown (which is a Meeting my grandmother said the family belonged to - but who knows which generation- in old Burlington (now Camden?), but "Gloucester" Meeting was also mentioned She said "Benjamin R." belonged to it but must have meant another Benjamin of an older generation because Adam´s son Benjamin was born in NJ but gone by 1830 to Moreland Twp. Philadelphia (where the Tomlinsons lived- but do not know his wife Rebecca´s parents. They were also related to another Rebecca Tomlinson b 1805, a cousin, who married Joseph Hildt/Hilt who was a shoemaker). Residents did commute to Philadelphia and some did it everyday, on the ferry and in the winter on sleighs on the frozen ice.
I think our Morgans were originally involved in some lumber business (because members of this family are seen in the carpentry business) thru living originally at Carpenters Landing (Greenwich-Mantua-Gloucester Co) where the lumber from the Jersey Pine Woods was shipped out. So that made them involved in boats too (George W. and Philip Morgan and others- 1850 census). Aunt Laura says they did the boat thing till after the Civil War. After the Civil War I read that the methods of transport changed.
Going down a road which ends at Swedesboro/Swedesborough-
From my experience, the problem with wealth is that when they had 10 children and it was divided 10 ways for 10 children, then after a few generations, there was nothing left. So I dont know what happened to the money from the boot factory owned by Adam Morgan and Robert W. Burns.
All the family story I know may be incorrect in the details. The Morgans came from Wales . They were Quakers- either before or after they came. There is a connection to a Morris or Maurice Morgan because my great aunt Ann Franklin Morgan mentioned this name in our past. There is mention of a Morris Morgan in Philadlephia in 1690 whi was living in one of the caves along the river in New Jersey ( Gloucester ). He attended a meeting in Philadelphia to extend their permits to build houses. There is also a mention of a Maurice Morgan secretary of the province of New Jersey in a Philadelphia newspaper in 1767. Sometimes Morris was spelled Maurice, so I do not know which he is.
According to great Aunt Ann Franklin Morgan The family was disowned by Morrestown or Gloucester meeting and “moved on” ( to Philadelphia ?), according to Aunt Ann Franklin Morgan. She said we are “descended from Benjamin Rush Morgan.” Whether Aunt Frank meant even further back from her father Benjamin Rush Morgan, I do not know yet. Was it John and Sarah who moved on? Where did they go> Adam went to Philadelphia.
Aunt Laura hated her middle name. It may be that aunt Laura´s middle name was Bullock. She had 1 great aunts with middle name Bullock, 1 great aunt with a B. and a cousin Emma B. Who would like to have a middle name of Bullock?
Uncle Herbert had a B. as a middle initial till he changed it to Theodore. herbert probably got a birth certificate later and life and changed it then, as there are no Theodores in the family and the census has "B" for his middle initial. I spoke with herbert's son 2nd cousin Teddy and he says he was named Theodore Sidney Morgan partially after his grandfather Sidney George Morgan and father Theodore (named herbert B. by his parents) .
Thomas Morgan and Ann Waln had Thomas Waln Morgan who married Hannah Griffitts/Griffith.
They are not our direct ancestors. Grandma Ruth Taylor often spoke about hannah Griffiths as a relative to her daughter in law Millicent, so they may have been friends or cousins if the Thomas W. Morgan is the same person has Thomas W. Morgan who owned the cemetery plot at Mt Moriah where our Benjamin R. Morgan (adam Morgan´s son) was buried in 1869. Thomas Morgan and Ann Waln named everyone of their children with the middle name Waln, her maiden name.
Going down roads which end in no solution-
Thomas W. Morgan was disowned from Meeting in Phil.. That was the son of Thomas Morgan (lawyer born ca 1760 died 1804) and Ann Waln. The older Thomas Morgan came from the Jamaica Meeting (another old story is we are "related" somehow to Henry Morgan of Jamaica) to Philadelphia. She named all her children with a W. which stood for Waln. She even had a Waln Morgan which at first I thought may have been Benjamin W. (co-owner of one of our Morgan cemetery plots) but it does not match because Benjamin W. was born 1809 died age 83 on 18 Dec 1892 (burial records)(1810/11 census record). Since Thomas died 1804 it does not work. ttached is the cemetery plot where Benjamin R.E. Morgan 1821 was buried and which 2 men called Benjamin W. and Thomas W. own section 42 in the northern ring, the main center of the cemetery. They started using it shortly after it was opened. It overlooks the Scullkill River (I feel like an 1880 census enumerator who dies not know how to spell) River and is sort of near Germantown at the southern western end. A short ride from there to downtown.
Benjamin Rush E. Morgan d. 25 Mar 1869 and was buried. 29 Mar 1869 in Section 42, plot 98E-1/2, grave 3 Mt Moriah. He was later removed to Mt. peace where the wealthy brother in law Robert Burns had bought a plot. His monument is in the middle (I have a foto) and his relatives and beloved ones surround his obelisk.
We only have a portion of the burial records at Mt Moriah because my cousin james Morgan was in a hurry that day. Benjamin W. and Thomas W. Morgan are co-owners of the large plot at mt. Moriah. Thomas W. Morgan married Hannah griffiths/griffitt/griffitt. My grandmother always said we are related to Hannah Griffith. There are only 2 Hannah Griffiths in Philadelphia- one was active in the revolution and had no children and the other is the one who married Thomas Waln Morgan son of Thomas Morgan and Ann Waln.
Thomas Morgan -died BET 27 MAY AND 16 JUN 1804. Ann transferred October 1812 from Northern Division ,Phil. Meeting (ND) area where Moreland would have been where Adam Morgan lived 1830, and Byeberry MM where Ann Waln’s daughter Ann W. Morgan married 1819 and Ann´s brother Thomas W. was disowned 1819 and brother Charles W. transferred out to New Bedford Conn. where he became a shipping magnate, remaining a Quaker. In Northern devion of the Freiends is also Northern Liberties where the Walns lived and Bridesburg where Adam lived in 1860). Western Division (WD) is where Adam Morgan lived in 1840 and 1850 (west Philadelphia including BLOCKLEY) and where the Morgans felt very much at home because Adam’s grandchildren are seen in later census data there up thru 1900s. Some had been born there when it was farming land. However the boot factory was downtown near Mulberry Street Meeting (now called Race Street Meeting) where Hannah Griffith/Griffitts married Thomas Waln Morgan.
The Adam Morgan family used boy names jacob, Adam, John, Andrew, Griffith, Morris,William "Willis", Benjamin R., Sidney Francis and Herbert B.. In my father's papers Willis B. (William) was left out of his list. Herbert discarded the B. and became Herbert Theodore. he was probably Herbert Bullock Morgan before he applied for his birth certificate which in Ruth's case was in the form of a US naturalization certificate.
Rebecca Tomlinson (Adam Morgan´s wife) was born in PA and Jim and I think her mother was a Bullock. The Bullocks probably went back and forth between Haddonfield , NJ and Philadelphia. We are probably descendants of the Philadelphia or Haddonfield Meeting Bullocks since Adam Morgan named his children with middle "B.". His 4th daughter was named Maria Bullock Morgan. He named at least 2 of his children with the middle initial B. and Maria´s daughter Emma also had a B.. Emma B. Burns. Maria´s sister was Louisa B. Morgan (probably Louisa Bullock Morgan) who married Tubman Moore. They had a child Mary E. Moore who married mr. Jenkins and had a daughter Louisa Moore Jenkins. They are buried in the greener family plot at Mt Zion or Mt Laurel.
From cousin Jim Morgan
September 7, 1847 "Public Ledger"
"MARRIED On the 28th July last, by the Rev. John Chambers, Mr. T. S. Moore, of Philadelphia, to Miss Louisa B. Morgan, of Bridesburg, Pa. [Baltimore papers please copy]. On Sunday, 6th inst., by Rev. John Chambers, Mr. Robert W. Burns to Miss Maria B., daughter of Adam Morgan, Esq., of Bridesburg, Pa."
"MARRIED On the 28th July last, by the Rev. John Chambers, Mr. T. S. Moore, of Philadelphia, to Miss Louisa B. Morgan, of Bridesburg, Pa. [Baltimore papers please copy]. On Sunday, 6th inst., by Rev. John Chambers, Mr. Robert W. Burns to Miss Maria B., daughter of Adam Morgan, Esq., of Bridesburg, Pa."
Pennsylvania, PHILADELPHIA , Roll 824 Book 1, Page 79b 10th Sept 1850
Borough of Bridesburg (probably a ferry at that time to NJ)
Adam Morgan 52 born NJ
Rebecca Morgan 54 Pa
Bath Ann Morgan 33 PA short for BATHNAPTHLEATH orBATHSHEBA
Harriett Morgan 30 PA
Robert W. Burns 26 NY by 1870 his worth was $30,000
John Morgan 26 engineer PA
Maria Morgan 27 PA (forgot to give married name?) born on Sep 22, 1826
Andrew Morgan 17 PA (married mary Roberts)
Mary Burns 28 PA
William E. Burns 2 PA
1850 census next to Adam Morgan family
Tubman Moore is 34 says he has no job, born VA (I guess he was moneyed)
Louisa B. 22 PA
Mary E. is 6 months old, born PA
Maria Bullock Morgan, wife of Robert Burns, named her child Emma B. Burns. Maria Bullock Morgan Burns was our Benjamin R.´s sister. We are apparently also connected to the Ellis family because Benjamin was named Benjamin Rush Ellis Morgan in 1821 before he ever met his wife to be Hannah whose father was named Ellis Leach.
unknown Morgan possibly married Sarah Flaningan/Flaningham
they had Adam Morgan in 1798 NJ
unknown Tomlinson possibly married unknown Bullock
they had Rebecca/Rebekah Tomlinson 1796 PA
In Upper Freehold, Monmouth , NJ on 24 August 1817 Adam Morgan married Rebekah Tomlinson - a favorite place for young couples to go away and marry. This was told to James P. Morgan who went to Monmouth , NJ and held in his hands the marriage certificate which was protected by plastic. Adam Morgan’s son Benjamin is our direct relation: the Bullocks originally came from England to Upper Freehold, Monmouth , NJ and then moved to Haddonfield MM and Philadelphia MM.
Maria Bullock Morgan, wife of Robert Burns, named her child Emma B. Burns. Maria Bullock Morgan Burns was our Benjamin R.´s sister. We are apparently also connected to the Ellis family because Benjamin was named Benjamin Rush Ellis Morgan in 1821 before he ever met his wife to be Hannah whose father was named Ellis Leach.
unknown Morgan possibly married Sarah Flaningan/Flaningham
they had Adam Morgan in 1798 NJ
unknown Tomlinson possibly married unknown Bullock
they had Rebecca/Rebekah Tomlinson 1796 PA
In Upper Freehold, Monmouth , NJ on 24 August 1817 Adam Morgan married Rebekah Tomlinson - a favorite place for young couples to go away and marry. This was told to James P. Morgan who went to Monmouth , NJ and held in his hands the marriage certificate which was protected by plastic. Adam Morgan’s son Benjamin is our direct relation: the Bullocks originally came from England to Upper Freehold, Monmouth , NJ and then moved to Haddonfield MM and Philadelphia MM.
Adam Morgan owned land near John and Sarah Morgan in Carpenters Landing, Gloucester Co., NJ in 1819. Carpenters Landing is called Mantua now.
In 1821 our great great great grandfather Adam Morgan was operating the Sign of the Golden Sheaf Tavern in Swedesboro , NJ where my great great great grandfather Benjamin Rush Ellis Morgan was born to Rebekah Tomlinson.
[NJ] Extracts from Diary of Samuel MICKLE (1746~1830) ~ #23 + 1821 ~ Newspapers
This year the corner stone of the Presbyterian Church in Salem was laid,
largely through the efforts of Col. R. G. JOHNSON. Reverends JANVIER,
FREEMAN, SHEPPARD and BALLENTINE participated at the event.
This year the corner stone of the Presbyterian Church in Salem was laid,
largely through the efforts of Col. R. G. JOHNSON. Reverends JANVIER,
FREEMAN, SHEPPARD and BALLENTINE participated at the event.
Thomas CARPENTER proposed to rent his store and tavern at CARPENTER's Landing for a term of years. [This may have been known as EASLEY's Landing and SMITH's Landing in earlier days. It is now the town of Mantua .
Peter D. LOCK's inn at Repaupa was known as the "Sign of the Seven Stars Inn"
Peter D. LOCK's inn at Repaupa was known as the "Sign of the Seven Stars Inn"
The "Golden Sheaf Tavern" on the main road from Swedesboro to Salem , in
Swedesboro, and the tavern called the " Centre Square " attached to a small
farm, were for rent by Charles C. STRATTON.
Swedesboro, and the tavern called the " Centre Square " attached to a small
farm, were for rent by Charles C. STRATTON.
Benjamin was a twin to Jacob who died age 17 in Philadelphia and was buried in NJ. There was a Jacob Morgan who died in Woolwich Township, Gloucester Co near Swedesboro in 1776-he may be connected to us, directly or as a great uncle or something.. Since Adam´s son John P. Morgan is listed in census data as being born in 1824 NJ, Adam Morgan gave up the tavern after that date and before 1830.
In 1830 Adam appears in Moreland, Montgomery Co. with 8 children, a wife, and 2 others. In 1840 he is in Blockley, West Philadelphia, living next door to Ellis Leech, our other great great great grandfather who had arrived Christmas 1830 in Philadlephia, obtaining a house in Blockley, West Philadlephia which was farm land at that time.
Ellis Leach was born to James and Hannah Leach in Bury, Lancashire , England 23 OCT 1798. He may have been their first child. Ellis Leach was christened 23 OCT 1798 Saint Mary, Bury, Lancashire , England . He arrived on the clipper Algonquin from Liverpool , England with his wife and children and money from his father´s paper factories, and his document of entry is pictured below with his wife and 3 children.
I am pretty sure we actually have 2 Morgan lines who married each other at some point. There are also 2 Morgans who married in 1821 in Carpenters Landing and they are cousins to us. Sarah Morgan married Christian Morgan in 1821. They are the family who Aunt Laura said operated canal boats in Gloucester till the Civil War who were our relatives (cousins). But I am not sure if we are related to Sarah Morgan or to Christian Morgan, but I suspect Sarah Morgan is the daughter of Sarah and John Morgan. There is no census for NJ from 1790 till 1830. 40 years are missing so it is hard to tell anything without going to a courthouse in Gloucester .
Did you know Teddy had a clothing store at Ocean City ? and so did the twins? and many of Adam´s children ran clothing stores and shoe stores and hat shops. Mens clothing mostly. It runs in the family. I think it was typically Quaker to have a store in Philadelphia .
Willis had a business of furniture moving--Benjamin´s children were the only ones not to go into clothing. They did things with wood and engineering as in running lumber machines and so on. Benjamin was a paper maker in the factory his father in law had something to do with in Springville in Pottstown area where they bough a farm which they sold in 1869, nine days before Benjamin R. E. died after he sold the farm in Springville (now called Spring City) to go into shoe selling on Grays Ferry Rd in South Philadelphia. His friend Benjamin W. lived next door. They had worked at the Philadelphia Arsenal together during the Civil War. Apparently Benjamin R. did not like paper making and found the work at the Arsenal, and after the War store ownership was more in his family tradition.
The Morgans were not well off when my Mom met them, but they had come from a well off family I think the Morgans were well enough off originally--years before my father came along. They were part owners of a boot factory and they had property. Unfortunately Benjamin died early at age 47 and left Hannah with 11 children to raise ALONE. Even so, Hannah owned an organ and property-her own house, but it still must have set them back very far financially, so that most of the children did not inherit anything and had to make their own way.
Willis had a business of furniture moving--Benjamin´s children were the only ones not to go into clothing. They did things with wood and engineering as in running lumber machines and so on. Benjamin was a paper maker in the factory his father in law had something to do with in Springville in Pottstown area where they bough a farm which they sold in 1869, nine days before Benjamin R. E. died after he sold the farm in Springville (now called Spring City) to go into shoe selling on Grays Ferry Rd in South Philadelphia. His friend Benjamin W. lived next door. They had worked at the Philadelphia Arsenal together during the Civil War. Apparently Benjamin R. did not like paper making and found the work at the Arsenal, and after the War store ownership was more in his family tradition.
The Morgans were not well off when my Mom met them, but they had come from a well off family I think the Morgans were well enough off originally--years before my father came along. They were part owners of a boot factory and they had property. Unfortunately Benjamin died early at age 47 and left Hannah with 11 children to raise ALONE. Even so, Hannah owned an organ and property-her own house, but it still must have set them back very far financially, so that most of the children did not inherit anything and had to make their own way.
Adam Morgan was "Adam Morgan, Esq." He was invested in the $30,000 boot factory. But he did not have a will. After the Civil War the business may have gone down. Added to that, Hannah may not have taken over the boot shop they owned. Their financial circumstances went downward probably. Who can raise 11 children with no financial problems? She probably had capitol from the well to do Leaches which she used raising the children. Although Ruth Morgan considered their family poor, Sidney George Morgan wasworking his way upwards again. Aside from that, Sidney George Morgan had a bad personality for what ever reason. Maybe he was angry about his father dying and being so stupid not to open the flu on the chimney. But it does seem he was an angry person, unlike his brother Griffith Morgan whose Civil War letters are lovely-written to his mother Hannah. I know littleabout brother William "Willis" -Jim´s ancestor. I think he had a moving business near Hannah in West Philadlephia . Not that he was rich either.
I think all in all, their Benjamin R.E. Morgan´s early death set them back financially. However Irvin owned about 10 houses and do not know where he would have found time or interest to lok at property to buy himself, since he only cared about music and nothing about the real world, so he may have gotten them from his mother. However, my mother says he turned power of attorney over to Laura Morgan and sh must have sold them after Irvin died.
Their grandfather Adam died without a will-so who knows what happened to the family fortune, so to speak. It may have gone to those in possession of the factory at that time. Alice (Hannah´s daughter) was working there at that time, as well as her aunts Louisa B. and Maria B.. Alice went to Colorado and invested in a silver mine. She married there too but her twins died early. Where did she get the money to "invest" in a silver mine?
In 1857 according to tax lists, Benjamin Rush Morgan and Hannah Leach Morgan were living in East Vincent Township , Pottstown , PA. That was near a paper mill in Spring City and it was the year the North American Paper factory started up in Springville. Remembering that Ellis Leach brought money from his father´s paper factories in Belfast and Manchester , this makes sence that the moved there. Maybe he was ani ncestor or advisor.
History: The first people in this area were the Lenni-Lenape Indians, who inhabited the Schuylkill watershed long before European colonization. The first non-Native American, arriving in the late 1600s, was a French Canadian fur trapper named Pierre Bezallion. The Leni Leanpe, who hunted and fished in the area, traded with Bezallion. As a result, William Penn called upon him when needed to act as an arbitrator in Indian affairs. Bezallion used a natural cave that was in Spring City to store his furs and to stay over when he was trapping in this area. However neither he nor the Indians made this area their permanent home. Pierre Bezallion died in 1740 and is buried over in Compass (near Coatesville). As this area was settled it came to be referred to as “ Pump Town ,” so named due to a public pump frequented by citizens and visitors. The early residents had quite a battle over settling on an official name. There was a group who fought for the name “Pumptown” and others who liked Jamestown . Eventually the natural springs in the area proffered an obvious name and “Springville” was chartered on August 12th, 1867. Yet even this choice wouldn’t stand as it was discovered that Pennsylvania already had a “Springville ”. So, in 1872 the name was changed to Spring City . It was the opening of the Schuylkill Navigation Canal in 1824 that can be directly attributed to the early development of this small town. In 1840, the first bridge to connect Spring City to Royersford across the Schuylkill was completed. It was a covered wooden bridge. Canal born industries such as the American Paper Company (PA Archives records of state:
-July 20, 1857 North American Paper Bag and Envelope Manufacturing Company, certificate of incorporation - and the Spring City Stove Company were operating as early as the 1850’s and people were coming to live in Springville. As the people came, with them came the houses, churches, schools, and of course local government. Other industries such as glass making and knitting mills would soon follow..
cousin James P. Morgan says
”... on March 16, 1869, nine days before his death, Benjamin & Hannah sold property in East Vincent, Chester Co, PA for $1,950. ... Both of their signatures are on the deed. They purchased the property on September 22, 1865.” this was the property where some of the Benjamin and Hannah Morgan children were born. But they owned property at Honeybrook, PA called Tri-corner farm or at least their son Sidney george owned it.
Children (Specific birth days from James Morgan from PA death cert.- Details of descendants by writing me.)
Griffith Ellis MORGAN b: 8 NOV 1846 in Blockley ( University City ), Philadelphia , PA married Sarah Evans Woods Dad has his Civil War letter and picture which I would like to have in order to contribute them to the national Archives.
Harriet MORGAN b: ABT 1849 in Blockley, Philadelphia , PA married Isaac Supplee and Louis Coulson
- Willis Morgan, died in infancy, according to Laura Morgan, daughter of Sidney George
Irvin James MORGAN b: 26 OCT 1869 in West Philadelphia , PA after the death of his father , married Anna and Rose. He was a renowned organist, taught by his mother who owned an organ.
"DEATH FROM SUFFOCATION - Mr. Benjamin Morgan, of Chester County , rented a few days since the house 2542 Gray's Ferry road which had been recently finished, and on Wednesday came to the city, with his family, to take possession of it. His wife stopped at a friend's house, where she was to remain until all the household goods should arrive, and the deceased, after kindling a fire in the range of the new house, determined to sleep in the room, but unfortunately he turned off the damper in the range, thus forcing the coal gas into the apartment. A police officer entered the house yesterday morning, after being informed that Mr. Morgan had not made his appearance, and found the deceased lying with his faced turned towards the floor, his head resting upon his arms, quite dead. An inquest was held, and a verdict in accordance with above facts rendered." courtesy of James P. Morgan
"MORGAN - Suddenly on the 25th instant, BENJAMIN R. E. MORGAN (late of Springville, Chester county) in the 47th year of his age. The relatives and friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, from the residence of his brother-in-law, R. M. Burns, 216 North Eighth street , on Sunday afternoon, at 2 o'clock. To proceed to Mount Moriah Cemetery "
courtesy of James P. Morgan-
The following is from chronological Mt Moriah records on microfilm at
Historical Society of PA.
Ellis Leach, age 59, 3 Jun 1856, 42-98E1/2, Removed 5 May 1886 to 14-95.
Ellis Leach, age 59, 3 Jun 1856, 42-98E1/2, Removed 5 May 1886 to 14-95.
(Benjamin R.E. Morgan´s father in law and originally buried in the plot at Mt Moriah owned b Benjamin W. 1809 PA and Thomas W. Morgan b: 16 JUN 1791 in Philadelphia MM ND) Did Thomas W. have an early unrecorded marriage before he married Hannah Griffiths? Was Benjamin W. his unrecorded son or ward?
Also removed from Mt. Zion to Mt Peace was Adam Morgan
“Morgan Family Data furnished by Laura Morgan Button To Col. Sidney Morgan, Leghorn Italy March 4, 1956” The important fact in it was that we were related to the Morgans of Gloucester who operated Canal Boats from Philadelphia to Trenton up to Civil War. Great aunt Laura did not know to whom we were related.
1.In the 1850 census in Gloucester boat operators, sailors and workers are identified as "waterman" (at first I thought that meant they carried water during fire fighting 
) and they probably operated the Durham Boats which were first invented for transporting coal from Durham PA where James Morgan operated a Furnace up till before the Revolution. Not that he was necessarily related.
) and they probably operated the Durham Boats which were first invented for transporting coal from Durham PA where James Morgan operated a Furnace up till before the Revolution. Not that he was necessarily related.
2. Identifying which watermen they were in 1850 was easy because I had the abstract from GHS which they noted from a Deed, as well a deed abstract from the DOUGHTEN PAPERS at Gloucester Courthouse which stated that Adam Morgan´s land was next to John Morgan and wife Sarah´s land in 1817 Gloucester. John sold the land to Nathan Thomas and he sold it 2 years later in 1819 to Elisha Chew.
Deed Nathan Thomas, et ux., dtd 5 Aug 1819 Bk. EE p. 481 to Elisha Chew 5 Aug 1819. Land adjoining ADAM MORGAN's land; and which land Nathan Thomas purchased of JOHN MORGAN & SARAH, his wife by deed 26 March 1817 Bk. Z, p. 416- Doughten papers Glou. Co. Clerk's office.
So I looked for Elisha Chew died at Carpenters Landing (Mantua)in that time period 3/3/1864 of Civil War and in 1840 Greenwich-Mantua Elisha Chew was near Abigail Morgan a widow. Down the road. (Greenwich/Grenwich is where an older than mine Adam Morgan pays taxes from 1777 to 1797.)
3. The watermen were Morgans related to Abigail Morgan b 1776 widow, either because her son was Christian b ca 1795 or because Sarah b ca 1800 was her daughter.
CHRISTIAN MORGAN of Deptford married Sarah Morgan of Deptford January 24 1821 at Blackwood Town, but they were in Mantua (formerly Carpenter’s Landing) by 1850 where he is listed as 55 years old and a waterman. His son Christian Jr. lived next to Abigail Morgan 1776. She herself lived with John M. Morgan and his wife Hannah Ann Duffield (dau of George Duffield who was a farmer) and their daughter Susannah. Hannah Ann Duffield´s 2 sisters Maria and Elizabeth also married Morgans- probably all daughters of George Duffield.
4. Childrens names of the related parties who were related to the Watermen near Abigail Morgan 1776
Christian Morgan 55 waterman NJ
Sarah Morgan 50
David 28 waterman
Peter 26 waterman married Sarah H. Skinner of Carpenters Landing 12/28/1861
Abigail 18 married Chew
Josiah 17 waterman
Mary 15 stayed single lived with sister Sarah Ann
Sarah Ann 13 married Joseph Clark
Philip 9married Margaret Judge, 12/28/1864
+ Samuel b. abt.1827 living 2 doors away stayed single lived with sister Sarah Ann
+Christian jr. b. 1831 living next to Abigail Morgan
+Christian jr. b. 1831 living next to Abigail Morgan
up for grabs as to which Morgan family they belong to-
1. James Morgan b 1821 m. DUFFIELD, MARIA (b 1825) 10 Jun 1843 Gloucester NJ.
Their 3 known children are Christian b December 1846, David b abt 1845, Michael b. June 1853 (could not find 1860 and 1870)
2. Philip Morgan b 1813 married in Barnsboro, N. J. by Chew, Jesse C., Esq. 4/19/1838 married Woodbury Constitution 5/15/1838 DUFFIELD, ELIZABETH of Deptford, NJ Father :Duffield, George
Their children- -Susan 1840, Sarah Ann 1843, James 1848, Henry “Hank” 1850, William 1852, Thomas 1856, Anna -March 1860
3. John M. Morgan b 1821-1822 m. Hannah Ann Duffield
3. John M. Morgan b 1821-1822 m. Hannah Ann Duffield
9/7/1848 Certificates at Carpenters Landing
had children all in Mantua, Gloucester:
Susannah 1849,Samuel S. 1850, Mary A. 2 April 1856, Franklin 19 Jane 1861, Charles Henry 16 Jan 1863, Thomas K. 1871, John 1873 (could not find 1860 and 1870 census so some children are missing)
Below is Fislertown which was renamed Clayton , NJ . This is where cousin teddy went to high school and whereUncle herbert lived after his wife died. My mom says for a while Herbert lived on land owned by the Morgans, but uncle Teddy says not true. There must be a truth somewhere in between.-
Fisler Town prior to 1850
In 1858 because of the large growth in population and business the New Jersey Legislature passed an act to create a new township. It included Fislerville, Glassboro, Union (Aura) Hardingville and Fries Mills. The newly created township was named Clayton Township . In 1867, Fislerville was officially renamed Clayton. In October 1863 the glass works in Fislerville became ”Moore Brothers & Co.” also known as “The Clayton Glass Works” still it was referred to as Fislerville Glass Works by most until much later. Over the next 13 years the Moore family had bought and sold land gained and lost partners and by 1876 the glass works had grown covering an area of 15 acres. This included four large glass factories producing all sorts of bottles. Within this large area there was a gristmill, a sawmill, a machine shop, a carpenter shop, 5 immense warehouses for storing the manufactured stock, large elevated coal bins and a railroad track that ran entirely through the grounds. As well every necessary auxiliary to one of the most extensive and best arranged glass works in the Union., There was a large General store and attached office building. Moore Brothers employed 400 men in 1880 with 100 tenant houses. The Moore Brothers closed its doors just before World War 1.
In1880 Dr Charles Fisler, Henry and Walter Morgan formed another glass factory at the North end of Clayton. On a 10acre piece of land with its own steam mill, machine shop, packing house, office and a large store. Several years after Henry Morgan withdrew. Soon after the new glass works was renamed F.M.Pierce Company.
Susan,
Thank you for your post-em note/inquiry on Isaac Supplee. I must have picked up the second marriage and date to Harriet Morgan on your site in my search to find out more about Isasc. I think he may be somehow related to my gggrandmother Elizabeth Zibley b circa 1806 in PA. I think she may be a Supplee. I know there are many variations on the name including Sibley, Zubli, Suplee inc. This is kind of a complicated story..... but
In the 1850 census, Randolph Suplee who I later learned was Isaac Randolph Supplee is living with my some of my Lawrence relations.
1850 Phila. pg 195 Spring Garden Ward 5 m432_819 Image 255
530/594
Eugene Hight age 25 Occupation blank. b. Pa
Clara Hight age 24 b Pa
Levenia C. Hight age 4
Wm W. Hight, age 3
Edmond Hight age 3/12
same house family 595
Randolph Suplee age 23 stone cutter (also Supplee) in 1860 is prob. Isaac Supplee.
Elisabeth Suplee age 20 b. Pa
Sarah Larmmer age 54 b. Pa
Josephine Larmmer age 20 b. Pa
530/594
Eugene Hight age 25 Occupation blank. b. Pa
Clara Hight age 24 b Pa
Levenia C. Hight age 4
Wm W. Hight, age 3
Edmond Hight age 3/12
same house family 595
Randolph Suplee age 23 stone cutter (also Supplee) in 1860 is prob. Isaac Supplee.
Elisabeth Suplee age 20 b. Pa
Sarah Larmmer age 54 b. Pa
Josephine Larmmer age 20 b. Pa
Clara Hight is Clara Lawrence dau of William Lawrence and Sarah Geyer. William Lawrence is my gggrandfather. His second wife was Mrs. Elizabeth Zibley Smith. William and Sarah Lawrence left Philadelphia in circa 1835 for Cincinnati , Ohio and eventually settled in Vevay, Switzerland Co., Indiana . Sarah left William and moved back to Philadelphia bringing Clara and Josephine with her. She and Josephine are the women living with Randolph Suplee in 1850. The name is Larmmer in the index but it is really Lawrence . She claimed she was a widow in different records when, in fact, William was alive and well. He married Mrs. Elizabeth Zibley Smith in 1837 in Vevay. They moved to Wayne Co., Indiana for awhile and then back to Vevay. William was in the grocery business with William L. Smith in the 40's and early 1850's. I believe William L. Smith is Elizabeth Zibley's son by a previous marriage. William L. Smith was born in Philadelphia in 1827. I can't help but think that Elizabeth Zibley is a Supplee and met William Lawrence through the Hight or Randolph Suplee connection. A little confusing since Sarah Lawrence is the EX-wife and is living with this family.
Do you know anything about this Supplee/Suplee family? Do you know who Isaac Randolph Supplee's parents are?? You can check my site on these families for more info, dates etc. Search on Sarah Geyer who married William Lawrence. William Lawrence was born Wilhelm Lorenz in Philadelphia in 1799 son of Christian Lawrence b. 1764 and died 1811 Philadelphia who was son of John Lawrence of Germany who arrived in Philadelpha in the 1740's.
I was just in Philadelphia last week and met a fourth cousin Jim Lawrence who was b./ raised in Bucks county. He took me to all the places the Lawrence 's lived in Philadelphia .
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Sincerely,
Marcia Lawrence Ernst
In response to 'Marcia Ernst'
Isaac Supplee marrying Harriet Morgan-
I can only speak in general as I know nothing about Supplee but it sounds Quaker. These families sometimes turn out to have long time associations. They may have been all Quakers at one time. The Morgans went back and forth between NJ and Philadelphia and may have arrived at the time of William Penn 1690.
And I think a wagon train of Morgan related families of PA and NJ left in 1837 and went west. They went thru Ohio where I found one Morgan (NJ born) who stayed and others went on to Indiana and maybe even Wisconsin because I found a distant relation there by 1860. His mother a Tomlinson was staying with him but she came back to Philadelphia to stay with the Morgans in 1870 census. His father Joseph Hildt had been a shoe maker.
This group of people were pretty educated city folks. They had trades and businesses. They were not dirt poor. They were in the middle range. The only wealth I could uncover was the shoe and boot factory which Adam Morgan and his son in law Robert Burns had. Adam died in 1861. He had always lived with Robert Burns and his daughter and the real estate property was worth $30,000 by 1870 -they lived in a large house with 18 people. I do not know what happened to that wealth and boot factory after Robert Burns died. Most of the people in the shoe business he employed were family and family related. He organized the funerals and the burial plot. The family may have fallen apart after he died. If you ever notice anything with shoes then they may be working with Adam Morgan and Robert Burns. Adam was an engineer and lawyer and ran the Sign of the Golden Sheaf in Swedesboro NJ after he was married from 1821-1826.
The other Morgan related trade was Lumber and Carpentry. When I finally find out more about Adam Morgan and all those NJ people, we will probably figure out how they knew the Supplees. But I am stuck at 1798 NJ with Adam Morgan being born and his having land at Carpenters Landing-Mantua in 1817, according to the Doughten papers at Gloucester Co. Court House.
Sources for James Morgan of Durham:
https://books.google.com/books?id=7kgVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA153&lpg=PA153&dq=mordica+Morgan+1727&source=bl&ots=YeytVO58QF&sig=_rXLJAZQSy-euko_UCgOFo6dSfw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiEzd_5_9jJAhXITSYKHVjpBfkQ6AEIOzAE#v=onepage&q=mordica%20Morgan%201727&f=false
https://books.google.com/books?id=7kgVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA153&lpg=PA153&dq=mordica+Morgan+1727&source=bl&ots=YeytVO58QF&sig=_rXLJAZQSy-euko_UCgOFo6dSfw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiEzd_5_9jJAhXITSYKHVjpBfkQ6AEIOzAE#v=onepage&q=mordica%20Morgan%201727&f=false
They state that Daniel Boone's mother was a sister to James Morgan of Durham. This is wrong, but i think the statement was based on Daniel Boone and Daniel Morgan being cousins- but the cousinship must have come through another family member, not the James Morgan side but probably a desceased wife and James Morgan must have had at least 3, starting about 1727 the first wife, and when Daniel Morgan left home in 1752 a second wife probably Elinor d 1762 and then m. Sarah Heinlein 1766 who helped raise the last five Mordica, Abel, James, Samuel and Olivia.
