George Morgan (1743 - 1810)

Born 14 Feb 1743 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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Died 10 Mar 1810 at age 67 in Morganza, North Strabane Township, Washington, Pennsylvania, United States

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From Wikipedia:

George Morgan (February 14, 1743 – March 10, 1810) was a merchant, land speculator, and United States Indian agent during the American Revolutionary War, when he was given the rank of colonel in the Continental Army

George Morgan was born in Philadelphia to Evan Morgan, an immigrant from Wales, and Joanna Biles. Like his older brother John Morgan, who became a physician and the co-founder of the University of Pennsylvania Medical College;

On October 24, 1764, George Morgan married Mary Baynton and they had eleven children; out of them six died in their childhood. Five surviving to adulthood siblings include John (1770-1817), Ann (1772-1812), George (1780-1829), Thomas (1784-1855), and Maria (1787-1869).

George Morgan died on March 10, 1810 in his Morganza home.

From History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania:

James and Maria (Morgan) Watson, latter a daughter of George Morgan and granddaughter of Col. George Morgan, of Princeton, N. J., whose name has become historic through his exposure of the treachery of Aaron Burr.

From Memoirs of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania:

WILLIAM MORGAN WATSON, of Pittsburg, Pa., a distinguished attorney-at-law, was born in Washington, Pa., April 3, 1855, son of James and Maria Woodbridge (Morgan) Watson. His mother was a daughter of George and Elizabeth (Aldrich) Morgan and her father a son of Col. George Morgan, who was Indian agent at Pittsburg at the beginning of the Revolutionary war and the builder of the first shingle-roof house in the city of Pittsburg, and who later removed to what is now Morganza, Washington Co., Pa., where he spent the remaining days of his life.

Sources

• Wikipedia: George Morgan
• Find A Grave: Memorial #14971978
• Cushing, Thomas. History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (A. Warner & Co., Chicago, 1889, Part 2: p. 489)
• Northwestern Historical Association. Memoirs of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (Northwest Historical Association., Madison, Wisconsin, 1904, Vol. 1, p. 475-476)