The Morgan family moved from Virginia to Kentucky and were among the first white settlers of that territory in about the year 1775 or 1780 and remained in Kentucky until 1800, thence removed to the Spanish Territory known as Louisiana and settled on Bluff Creek, now the Parish of East Feliciana. The family that came from Kentucky to Louisiana are as follows:
Two brothers, Morgan Morgan and John Morgan and two sisters, Sarah Morgan and Nancy Morgan. [1]
Morgan Morgan was born September 10, 1760 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He married Jane Boone in 1783 at Boones Station, Clark, Kentucky. They had thirteen children:
JOHN MORGAN b. Jun 07, 1783, KY; d. Apr 03, 1803.
CHARITY MORGAN b. 1785, KY
SARAH MORGAN b. 1787, KY, d. 1797, LA,
ELIZABETH MORGAN, b. 1788, KY, d. Nov 01, 1833, LA
WILLIAM MORGAN b. 1790, KY, d. 1831, Oroville, Butte, CA
GEORGE MORGAN, b. 1792, KY, USA d. 1831
MARY POLLY MORGAN, b. Dec 13, 1794; d. Apr 02, 1821, East Feliciana Parish, LA.
HANNAH MORGAN, b. 1797
MARTHA MORGAN, b. 1797, KY d. 1833, LA
CYRUS MORGAN b. Jul 10, 1801, Feliciana Parish, LA.
JOSEPH MORGAN b. Jul 10, 1801, Feliciana Parish, LA; d. 1801, LA
DANIEL MORGAN b. 1803, LA d. 1857, LA
NANCY MORGAN, b. 1804, Feliciana, LA d. 1855, Hunt, TX[2]
Morgan died March 18, 1833 in Bluff Creek, East Feliciana, Louisiana,[3]
His death in 1833 is recorded in his family Bible , he is named in his father’s Will in 1782 and his sister Hannah Hazelrigg in 1830-1835 court case
Research Notes - Profile History
This profile, Morgan-2998, was started (2012) with birth 1760-9-10, Lancaster, Pennsylvania; death 1835-03-18, Bluff Creek, East Feliciana, Louisiana.
Morgan-9426 was merged into it in 2016. This had birth Virginia, death 1833 East Feliciana, Louisiana, parents Morgan-628 and Constant 1. First person knowledge, no sources.
Morgan-8979 was merged into it in 2016. Prior to the merge the birth and death were changed from: birth 1762, Hampshire, West Virginia; death 1835, Cumberland, Kentucky.
Sources
↑History of the Boone, Bryan, Morgan Families in America. Note: It was not a Nancy Morgan but sister Elizabeth Morgan and her husband Amos Smith, with sister Sarah Morgan and her husband Jesse Morgan ( see the court case and father’s Will images )
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