John Morgan Jr. (1721 - 1792)

Born 25 Apr 1721 in Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Died 7 Sep 1792 at age 71 in Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Corporal John Morgan Jr. served with Essex County, Massachusetts Militia during the American Revolution.

John Morgan Jr. is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A080463.

John Morgan Jr. is an NSSAR Patriot Ancestor.
NSSAR Ancestor #: P-252245
Rank: Corporal

John Morgan was born in 1721 in Beverly, Massachusetts. He married Margaret Larcum on Christmas Day, 1745. They had one child, Cornelius, in 1747. Margaret died about sixteen months later.

John remarried to Rebecca Coming in 1750, when he was 29 and she was about 22. They had nine more children in Beverly: Hannah (1752), John (1754), Ebenezer (1756), Margaret (1759), William (1761), Sarah (1763), Ephriam (1765), Zachariah (1768), Rebecca (1768), and Joseph (1772).

John was a "Minuteman" during the brief period of that citizen-soldier organization's existence. When the alarm went out on the eighteenth of April in 1775 there were many more horsemen than Paul Revere spreading the word to every Middlesex, village and farm. Beverly was one of the villages, and it sent 122 Minutemen, including John Morgan, to battle the British as they retreated to Boston from Lexington and Concord. The Minutemen introduced a new tactic in warfare that day, firing from behind stone fences and trees rather than massing in the open and firing in volleys or charging with bayonets as the Europeans were accustomed to doing.

John Morgan was 54 years old then. He had marched more than 25 miles to reach the site of the battle. He may have concluded that he had done his part, for there is no record of his further military service. His son Ebenezer, however, served in the revolutionary army and perished at age 19. John Morgan, Jr., died of cancer in 1792 at the age of 71.

DOB estimated, based on age of spouse.

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25 DEC 1746^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Source: #S468

• Dr. William Kump, The Morgans
• Thanks to Elizabeth Hargrave for starting this profile.
• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/184101257/john-morgan: accessed March 9, 2024), memorial page for John Morgan Jr. (25 Apr 1721–7 Sep 1792), Find a Grave Memorial ID 184101257, citing Central Cemetery, Beverly, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA; Maintained by CJeanealogy (contributor 47474846).
• Source: S468 Author: Larcom, Jen Title: Larcom Family Tree Larcomfamilytree.com / 2006 Note: Author has researched the Larcom family tree for many years.jen larcomfamilytree.com Italicized: Y Paranthetical: Y

• Thank you to Bob Nichol for creating WikiTree profile Morgan-4425 through the import of Nichol Ancestry.GED on Feb 14, 2013.