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Terry Mason's Family History Site

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Rev. James Spencer MORGAN

Manuscript & Bible Records of Rev. James Spencer Morgan, 1869. FHL #0176628.
RESEARCHER: E-mail to T.Mason from Dale Morgan; 5Aug1997; ;data from Walter Cunyus book from Barron Flanary; ; Extract: this Spencer was Major Spencer Morgan of Union Co., SC, and Benjamin was also a Major, in the Amer. Rev..  Benjamin had a son named Rev. James Spencer Morgan, b. 1796 in VA, who eventually wounld up in Americus, GA.  In 1869, he wrote a manuscript that gave a detailed history of his family, linking back to James Morgan.  He says that James Morgan was m. #1 to Elizabeth Taylor, a dau. of Benjamin Taylor & Ann Vesey, #2 to a Mazy.  Their son, Benjamin Morgan b. 1762 in Fauquier Co., VA. m. Elizabeth Kemper, a dau. of John Peter Kemper & Elizabeth FISHBACK.  Spencer Morgan d. 1806 in Union Co., SC, and I have a copy of his will.
Interesting side piece of data, it seems a dau. of Rev. James Spencer Morgan m. a Primitive Baptist Elder.  My Morgan family that came from York Co. SC to St. Clair Co., AL were also Primitive Baptist, and my gr.gd father, Jiles, son. of Spencer G., was a Primitive Baptist Minister.


Thomas King PURSLEY

Manuscript & Bible records of Rev. James Spencer Morgan.  FHL#0176628.


Harwood MORGAN

RESEARCHER: Information sent to T.Mason on 27Feb2002 by Robert Ferrell. "Prior to 1830 Harwood settled near "Old Stone Fort" at what is now Manchester, TN. He was one of the earliest settlers of this section and owned more than one thousand acres, a part of which is now Manchester. Robert Rayburn Ferrell (my grandfather) was the genealogist in 1950s. His sources of information:  Mrs James Morgan, Raleigh N.C.; Anna Belle Tourner, LA, Calif; Myrtle Morgan of Fairfield TN; DAR Lineage Book Vol 48 page 258; Va Mag of Hist & Biology Vol 2,page 257, also Vol 14 page 90; Wm & Mary 1926, page 331.


Sarah GRIMER

Had two children.


Harwood MORGAN

RESEARCHER: Information sent to T.Mason on 27Feb2002 by Robert Ferrell. "Prior to 1830 Harwood settled near "Old Stone Fort" at what is now Manchester, TN. He was one of the earliest settlers of this section and owned more than one thousand acres, a part of which is now Manchester. Robert Rayburn Ferrell (my grandfather) was the genealogist in 1950s. His sources of information:  Mrs James Morgan, Raleigh N.C.; Anna Belle Tourner, LA, Calif; Myrtle Morgan of Fairfield TN; DAR Lineage Book Vol 48 page 258; Va Mag of Hist & Biology Vol 2,page 257, also Vol 14 page 90; Wm & Mary 1926, page 331.


Angelina DAVIDSON

Had four children by each husband.


Major Benjamin John MORGAN

RESEARCHER: Dale Morgan
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Manuscript & Bible Records of Rev. James Spencer Morgan. FHL #0176628.
Morgan family by Walter Cunyus.
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MILITARY: E-mail to T.Mason from researcher; 5Aug1997; ; data from Walter Cunyus book from Barron Flanary; ; Extract: this Spencer was Major Spencer Morgan of Union Co., SC, and Benjamin was also a Major, in the Amer. Rev..  Benjamin had a son named Rev. James Spencer Morgan, b. 1796 in VA, who eventually wound up in Americus, GA.  In 1869, he wrote a manuscript that gave a detailed history of his family, linking back to James Morgan.  He says that James Morgan was m. #1 to Elizabeth Taylor, a dau. of Benjamin Taylor & Ann Vesey, #2 to a Mazy.  Their son, Benjamin Morgan b. 1762 in Fauquier Co., VA. m. Elizabeth Kemper, a dau. of John Peter Kemper & Elizabeth FISHBACK.  Spencer Morgan d. 1806 in Union Co., SC, and Dale Morgan have a copy of his will.

William & Mary Quarterly (2), Vol. 11, p 17, among Revolutionary Soldiers buried in Davidson Co, Tenn. is listed Benjamin Morgan.  He and his wife moved to South Carolina in 1805, after his wife's death he moved in 1825 to Tenn.
Virginia Magazine, Vol. 14, p 89-90.
Fauquier Co., VA Marriage bonds show that wife Elizabeth was daughter of Peter Kemper. Also is a deed conveying land formerly owned by John Peter Kemper, decd.


Elizabeth KEMPER

Manuscript & Bible records of Rev. James Spencer Morgan.  FHL#0176628.
Morgan family by Walter Cunyus.