Zackquill Morgan Sr. (1735 - 1795)

Born 8 Sep 1735 in Bunker Hill, Orange County, Virginia

Ancestors

Husband of Nancy Ann (Paxton) Morgan — married about 1755 in Berkeley County, (West) Virginia

Husband of Drusilla (Springer) Morgan — married 5 Sep 1765 in Frederick County, Virginia [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 1 Jan 1795 at age 59 in Pricketts Fort, Monongalia County, Virginia, United States

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Biography

Zackquill Morgan Sr. is Notable.

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Zackquill Morgan was born on 8 September 1735 at Bunker Hill, Orange County, Virginia, now Berkeley County, West Virginia, the eighth of nine known children and the sixth of seven sons of Morgan and Catherine Garretson Morgan. (Morgan Morgan was born on 1 November 1688 in Glamorgan, Wales nd migrated to the American colonies; Catherine Garretson was born on 16 May 1692 in New Castle, Delaware.)

Zackquill's very unusual Christian name is spelled many different ways in old records: Zacuil, Zackwell, Zachal, Zackquell and Zackil, Zacwill, Sachqui but rarely "Zackquill."

In 1755, when he was about twenty, Zackquill married Nancy Paxton. She bore him three children, all daughters:

1. Nancy Morgan, born 1757.
2. Temperance Morgan, born 1760.
3. Catherine Morgan, born 1762.
4. Evan Morgan, born 1762

On 5 September 1765, when he was about thirty, he married Drusilla Springer in Frederick County, Virginia. She bore him twelve children, eight sons and four daughters:

1. Levi Morgan, born 26 June 1766
2. Morgan Morgan, born 7 November 1767
3. Charles Morgan, born 1769
4. James Morgan, born 25 November 1771
5. Uriah Morgan, born 22 July 1774
6. Zadock Morgan, born 24 July 1776
7. Horatio Morgan, born 9 April 1778
8. Zackquill Morgan, born 8 August 1782
9. Sarah Morgan, born 11 February 1784
10. Hannah Morgan, born 9 September 1786
11. Drusilla Morgan, born 9 October 1788
12. Rachel Morgan, born 29 June 1790

On 1 January 1795, when he was about sixty, Zackquill died in Monongalia County and is buried at Prickett Cemetery near Pricketts Fort State Park, Monongalia County.

Most historians believe that David Morgan and his younger brother Zackquill Morgan were among the first people of European descent to succeed in establishing a permanent settlement in Monongalia County. There had been earlier attempts to establish settlements, but they had failed. In 1753, three German pacifist brothers, the Eckerlys or Eckerlins, were driven off the Cheat River area by Indians. In 1758, four years after the outbreak of the French and Indian War, one Thomas Decker with a small colony came to the site of later Morgantown, but again Indians swooped down and only one person escaped to tell the sad tale.

Map of northwestern Virginia and southwestern Pennsylvania before the Revolution

Then in 1763 the King of England issued a proclamation forbidding settlements on waters that flowed into the Mississippi, and troops were sent from Fort Pitt to remove any settlers. Col William Crawford stated in a 17__ deposition "Zachal Morgan, James Chew and Jacob Prickett came out in that year (1766) and I was informed by them that they had settled up the Monongahela" (when settlement was still illegal) and Alexander Withers says that David Morgan arrived on the Monongahela in 1768. ^[1]

Zackquill served in both the French and Indian War and as a captain in Dunmore's War (1774). He appears on the payrolls at Pittsburgh (records at Virginia State Library Archives and in the Draper Manuscripts (State Historical Society).^[2]

Morgan family tradition has David and his younger brother Zackquill on Decker's Creek and David leaving the vicinity to go south up the Monongahela, settling near present-day Rivesville, Marion County. leaving Zackquill in possession of his settlement at what became Morgantown. Neither brother entered an extant settlement right that early; the first extant settlement record for Zackquill is a certificate he received for 400 acres at the mouth of Decker’s Creek, as assignee of Isaac Lemasters, who had made improvements on the property in 1772. Morgan also, as assignee of James Stockwell, received 400 acres more. Zackquill Morgan took up no land in right of his own settlement that can be found on the land book of the Commissioners appointed to adjust claims to unpatented lands.

In the meantime, the Treaty of Fort Stanwix], signed in November 1768, opened much of what are now West Virginia and Kentucky to settlement.

Recently erected statue of Col. Zackquill Morgan

In the American Revolution Zackquil rose to the rank of Colonel. He received a legal certificate for 400 acres of land in the Morgantown area in 1781. In October 1785, at his request, the Virginia General Assembly specified that 50 acres of his land was to be laid out in lots of a half acre each, and a town, named Morgans-Town, established on the site. The lots were to be auctioned off and the proceeds given to Colonel Morgan. Initially, the land deeds required purchasers to build a house of at least 18 square feet on the lot within four years, but because of Indian hostilities the four-year time limit was extended an additional five years by the Virginia General Assembly in 1789.

The Monongalia County government's first organizational meeting took place at Jonathan Coburn's home on December 8, 1776. His home was located about two miles east of present-day Morgantown. Captain John Dent was named the county's sheriff. Because the new county's population was concentrated in the county's northern portion, it was decided to hold the county court meetings at Theophilus Phillips' plantation, Phillips' Choice, a few miles from New Geneva, in present-day Springhill Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania.

In 1782, after the extension of the Mason-Dixon line made Phillips's house a part of Pennsylvania, the county seat was moved south, first to Colonel John Evans's home and ultimately to Zackquill Morgan's home in present-day Morgantown. The county court was held in Morgan's home while a courthouse was constructed in the public square in what was then called Morgan's Town. The wooden court house was completed sometime between 1782 and 1785 at a cost of $250. It was at about this time (1784) that George Washington visited the area.

Zackquill Morgan Jr., 1782-1814

The West Virginia Encyclopedia shows this as a portrait of Zackquill Morgan, Sr., 1735-1795, but the Monongalia County Historcal Society identifies this portrait as that of Zackquill's son Zacquill Morgan, Jr., 1782-1814.

Gravestone for Zackquill Morgan, Sr., 1735-1795

From Findagrave.com

Col Zackquill Morgan

Birth: Sep. 8, 1735, Berkeley County, . . . Virginia; Death: Jan. 1, 1795, Marion County, . . . Virginia, USA.

Zackquill Morgan, husband of Nancy Paxton Morgan and the son of Morgan and Catherine Garretson Morgan. 

Family links: Parents: Morgan Morgan (1688 - 1766), Catherine Garretson Morgan (1692 - 1773); Spouses: Nancy Paxton Morgan (1736 - 1763), Drusilla Springer Morgan (1745 - 1796); Children: Nancy Ann Morgan Pierpont (1757 - 1816), Temperance Morgan Cochran (1760 - 1849), Morgan Morgan (1767 - 1852), James Morgan (1769 - 1855), Levi Morgan (1776 - 1825), Zackquill Morgan (1782 - 1814); Sibling: David Morgan (1721 - 1813).

Burial: Prickett Cemetery, Marion County, West Virginia, USA^[3]

Acknowledgments

• Kathy (Taber) Fetters created Zackquill Morgan Sr. (1735-1795) on 15 Dec 2011.

• Thank you to Glenn Smith for creating WikiTree profile Morgan-4740 through the import of Appleyard Family Tree.ged on May 2, 2013.

Sources

1. ↑ Crawford's deposition may be found in Volume I of the Calendar of Virginia State Papers, issued in 1875 by William Palmer, under authority of the Legislature of Virginia.
2. ↑ Kenneth Kinman, email to Patricia Prickett Hickin, 24 Jan 2018.
3. ↑ Ken Childers, "Zackquill Morgan," Findagrave.com. Record added: Jan 09, 2003. URL: https://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=morgan&GSfn=z&GSby=1735&GSbyrel=in&GSdyrel=all&GSst=52&GScnty=3088&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=7067073&df=all&. Accessed Apr. 2017 by Patricia Prickett Hickin.

See Also:

• Zackquill Morgan
• Wikidata: Item Q8064113, en:Wikipedia

• Memorial: Find a Grave (has image)
  Find A Grave: Memorial #7067073 (accessed 8 March 2024)
  Memorial page for COL Zackquill Morgan (8 Sep 1735-1 Jan 1795), citing Prickett Cemetery, Marion County, West Virginia, USA; Maintained by Ken Childers (contributor 46560872).

• Allen, Thomas (Tom) comp., Wilcox and Rowlands Family Site URL: http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/w/i/l/Tom-Wilcox/index.html Accessed on 13 June 2019.

• Dianna Bourke "Edward Paxton and Margaret Collins Privette," Paxton Family GenForum #170 URL: https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/paxton/170/ Accessed 13 June 2019.

• Centennial Celebration of the Founding of Morgantown, 1785-1845 (1902)

• Genealogical and Personal History of the Upper Monongahela Valley, West Virginia, Genealogical Publishing Com; ISBN 0806348496, 9780806348490

• List of the Revolutionary Soldiers of Virginia: Special Report of the Department of Archives and History for 1911, Part 1

• William Dallas Morgan comp., "Washington Morgan of West Virginia." Updated January 19, 2010. Genealogy.com. URL:http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/m/o/r/William-dallas-Morgan-PA/index.html Accessed 13 June 2019.

• Don Norman, comp. Descendants of Morgan Morgan URL: http://hackerscreek.com/norman/MORGAN/MORGAN.htm

• Payne, George S. Payne, George S. FamilyUpdated March 05.2006 18 May 2014;. URL: http://www.gencircles.com/users/gspayne

• Payne, George, comp., "Payne, George S. Family," Rootsweb.com.: Updated 8/25/2001.

• “Rivesville, Marion County WV (history),” Marion County WVGenWeb. URL: http://www.wvgenweb.org/marion/towns/rivesvillehis.html Accessed 13 June 2019.

• "United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGK1-1XV4 : 18 March 2018), Zaquell Morgan, 1777; citing Military Service, , Citing various published state rosters, United States; FHL microfilm 101711079.

• Vercoe, Josephine McCord. A genealogical history of the Scott family descendants of Alexander Scott, who came to Augusta County, Virginia, circa 1750 with a history of the families with which they intermarried (Westminster MD: Heritage Books, 2005. 190 pp 27 Nov 2007.