Edgecombe County NcArchives Court.....Morgan, Henry September 1829 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: mary Sheffield-Hegi Msheffield2003@yahoo.com May 27, 2015, 4:17 am Source: Edgecombe Written: September 1829 James Morgan Jr. died interstate, was from Edgecombe, born 1757 in Perquimans of Edgecombe depending on boundry's at that time, and son of James Morgan Sr. James Jr. who served in Rev War 3 years under Gen George Washington. He died after Rev War. And before 1829 of Henry’s Edgecombe Court doc. Children: Henry Morgan, Zylphia, Lavinia Seth Morgan Monicah Sorrel (Note Monicah Morgan signed the will of Mizel (See this will under Monicah Morgan later in this book) all of the County of Hertford - Note: Other children not named in this Edgecombe Document, so they might have died so see Ava Margaret Morgan Bible records below for those names. EDGECOMBE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA COURT RECORD State of North Carolina Edgecomb County In Equity Sep 1829 To the Honorable the Judge of the Court of Equity for the County of Edgecomb - The Bill of Complaint of Henry Morgan of the County of Edgecomb & of Zylphia, Lavinia & Seth Morgan all of the County of Hertford - Humbly complaining shew unto your Honor Your Orators the said Henry, Zylphia, Lavinia & Seth Morgan, that James Morgan the father of your Orators & Oratrices was a private soldier in the War of the Revolution & served therein during the period for which he was enlisted which as your Orators & Oratrices believe was for three years, & until he was regularly discharged - that in consequence of his said services the said James Morgan became entitled to a military land warrant for 247 acres - for which said warrant he was entitled to have a grant issued wherein from the State of North Carolina, having enlisted & belonged to the North Carolina line during the Revolutionary War as will appear from the Muster Rolls & the Books of the Land Office of said State - & that a warrant did, as your Orators & Oratrices are informed & believe, accordingly issued in the name of the said James Morgan, which was numbered 3272 for 274 acres, & was deposited in the land office in Tennessee - that the said James Morgan departed this life some years past intestate & that in consequence of his death the said warrant was not located but remained in the said land office -that the said James Morgan left surviving him your Orators & Oratrices together with Monica Morgan a daughter who intermarried with one Isaac Sorrells, who removed from this State & whose residence is unknown to your Orators & Oratrices, his Heirs at Law - that your Orators & Oratrices being illiterate persons, did not know what course was to be pursued in order to procure the said warrant to issue & others, or to enable them to obtain the land thereby intended to be granted, & that your Orator Henry Morgan for the purpose of procuring information on this Subject applied to one Louis D Wilson of the County of Edgecomb who had been a Senator from said County at the time of the passage of the act of 1819, & File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/edgecombe/court/morgan854nwl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ncfiles/ File size: 3.4 Kb