Jesse Morgan (abt. 1758 - bef. 1819)

Husband of Sarah Morgan — married about 1784 in Fayette, Virginia now Kentucky [uncertain]

Died before 19 Jan 1819 before about age 61 in Feliciana, Louisiana, United States [uncertain]

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Biography

Jesse was born about 1758. He passed away before 1819.

Sources

• *1790-1792 tax list Fayette,Ky
• 1793-1800 tax list Clark,Ky
• 1808/1809 court case feliciana,Louisiana involving Jesse Morgan, “Spanish West Florida, U.S., Archives of the Spanish Government, 1782-1816 results for Amos Smith“”https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2454/?name=Amos_Smith&count=50&name_x=1_1” These pages Abstracted from Source: Spanish West Florida, Archives of the Spanish Government, pages 556-599 in Ancestry.com St. Helena Parish, Louisiana:

This article is in regards to John Morgan, ET AL vs Ephraim Smith, ET AL, a law suit, dated February 17, 1808, which can be found in WEST FLORIDA PAPERS, pp 456-536, in the Office of the Clerk in Opelousas Courthouse, LA. The litigants were residents of St. Helena [LA] who were John Morgan, Jesse Morgan, Morgan Morgan, and Amos Smith, gentlemen who were suing Ephraim Smith, Absalom Williams, Jesse Williams and Rhoda Williams for slander. The plantifs won the case. Note: St. Helena Parish is one of the eight parishes of West Florida. The area was annexed to the Florida Parishes, a region which was once part of colonial Territory of Orleans United States in 1810, after the short-lived Replubic of West Florida, capitulated to the USA His Excellency: We, John Morgan, Jesse Morgan, Morgan Morgan, and Amos Smith, residents of the Amite River, appear before Your Excellency in the best form of law and say, that the said Ephraim Smith, Alsolom Williams, Jesse Williams, a young man about eighteen years old, and Rhoda Williams, mother of the last, have accused us publicly of having stolen and killed some hogs, every day slandering our character with infamous accusations, all of which is causing us great damage, especially n the mind of those who do not know us. as we are anxious to have this mater cleared, we pray to Your Excellency to order this usual investigations on the aforementioned events so that after Your Excellency shall have the proofs from both parties you shall determine whatever is according to law, which grace we pray of Your Excellency, swearing to all necessary facts, etc. JOHN MORGAN For himself and as attorney in fact of Jesse Morgan, Morgan Morgan, and Amos Smith Statement as to the good character of John Morgan We the undersigned do hereby certify that we have been acquainted with the bearer John Morgan St. Hellena Feb 9th 1808 . West Florida Republic of West Florida

Esq about six years: or during his residence in this Government; and do believe him to be an honest Peacible good neighbour and a just and impartial officer; and think it our duty to recommend him as such to whom it may concern. Reubin Curtis, Wm Bell, B. Curtis, Michael Jones, Nimrod Glasscock, John Glasscock, Ephraim Bates In the deponents’s testimonies the incident took place about July 1805 or March 1806, in the Morgans settlement on the River Amite. The Morgans and Amos Smith were seen on the high road coming out of the woods by David Felps’ Blacksmith Shop. In broad daylight, Absolom Williams and John Reeves met Morgan Morgan, John Morgan, Jesse Morgan and Amos Smith together. They had just killed two hogs which they divided and each man was carrying half a hog on his back with his gun. The two men examined the hogs and were perfectly convinced that the hogs were unmarked and could not be claimed by any person. Williams asked them what they did with the hogs’s ears. The reply was they were cut off and fed to the dogs. The Governor heard all parties and condemned the brothers Absolom and Thomas Williams to prison for 8 days for spreading untruthful accusations and paying the cost for John Morgan’s traveling expenses to Baton Rouge for this case. Ephraim Smith was accused of the same, was ordered to pay one-fifth the cost.

• Source: "The Boone Family; a Genealogical History" by Hazel Atterbury Spraker, Rutland, VT, 1922 (Reprinted, Genealogical Publishing, Baltimore, MD. 1974) p72: "Jane Boone, married Morgan Morgan, and settled a few miles east of Baton Rouge, LA, where they were living about 1807."

• 1819 West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana Probate Record: 19 Jan 1819,Sarah Morgan, widow and relict of Jesse Morgan [Sr.], deceased, late of this parish, petitions for inventory to be made and under tutor to be appointed for minors Mary and Jane Morgan. Hugh Barfield ordered to make inventory and appraisal. John Morgan appointed under tutor.

• 1832 court case advertisement, Clark County, KY