|--------James MORGAN (1645, Great Britain - 1691, Maryland)
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|---------Lewis MORGAN ( - )
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| |--------Jane (Wales - 1691, crossing the sea)
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|------Thomas MORGAN (1702 - 1774, VA)
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| |---------Elizabeth ( - )
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Lewis MORGAN (1727, Pennsylvania - 1814, Kentucky)
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| |---------Rodger EVANS (Wales - 1738, Pennsylvania)
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|------Lettice EVANS ( - 1749)
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|---------Mary ( - )
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A little geographical orientation is useful here. At the time Lewis Morgan lived, the Virginia counties were still being formed and divided. Lunenburg County is in southern Virginia, it was formed from part of Brunswick County in 1746. Bedford County was formed out of Lunenburg in 1753. Halifax, to the south, was formed in 1752, also from Lunenburg. Pittsylvania was formed out of Halifax in 1766, and Henry County was split off from Pittsylvania in 1776. Franklin County was formed out of Bedford and Henry in 1785. So while Lewis' name is found in records of several counties, it is possible that Lewis and family really remained in only one or two places in this area.
In February, 1768, Lewis is allowed 50 lbs. of tobacco for six months' service as a lay reader in Pittsylvania County's Camden Parish. He was instructed to read at the chapels at Snow Creek and Potter's Creek and at the home of William Heard.
Lewis Morgan, age 50, is included in a list of inhabitants of Henry County who, renouncing their fealty to Great Britain, swore allegiance to the Commonwealth of Virginia September 13, 1777.
About 1779 Lewis and his sons Thomas and Adonijah moved to Washington County, North Carolina (now Greene County, TN)\footnote{ Lewis' son Thomas acquires land there in a deed Nov. 29, 1779}. In 1781, Lewis and his wife and son Thomas and his wife enter into an indenture to sell 150 acres of land in Henry County, Virginia for the sum of 250 pounds current money of Virginia. The land is located near the ford and mouth of Chestnut Creek\footnote{Chestnut Creek is mostly in what later became Franklin County}. In his deposition for this sale, Lewis states that he surveyed the land himself -- as recorded May 8, 1755, in the records of Halifax County\footnote{We haven't found records of the actual survey, yet.}.
Lewis is listed on the rolls of men who participated in the Revolutionary War Battle with the Chicamauga Indians in the area of Lookout Mountain, Tennessee.
On the 1797 Greene Co. tax lists, Adonijah Morgan is listed with 200 acres 1 white poll (adult male) and 1 black poll. Lewis Morgan and Thos. Morgan are listed with 1 white poll each. Adonijah Morgan is also listed as Executor for John Hoptin. In 1798, Adonijah has 200 acres on Camp C., 1 white poll, 1 black poll land 18 Squirrel Scalps. Lewis Morgan has no acres, 1 white poll and 2 Squirrel Scalps. Thomas isn't listed.
Lewis and his wife later move to Pulaski County, Kentucky with their son Adonijah and his family.
The National Genealogical Society Quarterly, Vol. 65, #3, Sept 1977 contains a nice summary of the life of Lewis Morgan. However this article doesn't identify his parents and its author apparently didn't know about the will of Thomas Morgan which mentions the son Lewis. A History of the Family of Morgan mentions Lewis and his descendents and mentions that Lewis was living with two sisters Lettes Richardson and Elizabeth Vordman. The author apparently completely screws up Lewis' ancestry, but his name and the names of those sisters matches up with three of the children named in Thomas Morgan's will: Lewis, Elizabeth Vardiman, and Leatice Richardson.
Sources for this individual: @S229@ @S230@ @S231@ @S151@ @S232@ @S233@ @S234@ @S235@ @S236@ @S199@
