Marion-Knox-White County TN Archives Military Records.....Morgan, James 
Revwar - Pension 
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JAMES MORGAN



  James Morgan applied for revolutionary pension while living in Marion County,

N. C. He enlisted in the spring of 1777 or 1778 in North Carolina troops under

Captains William Polk, Charles Polk, Vestal, Walker and Colonels Thomas Polk,

Rhodes, Crump, Ledbetter and Locke. He was in the battles of Ramsour's Mill,

where he received a slight wound on the right wrist, Shallow Ford, Siege of

Ninety-six, and Lindley's Mill, where he was again wounded on the wrist and on

the head. He was taken to the garrison on Hickory Mountain to recover from his

wounds and remained there six or eight months. He rejoined the army and was

again wounded in a skirmish near Cross Creek. He returned to Hickory Mountain.

When he recovered he returned to the service and served until the declaration of

Peace.



   He moved from Mecklenburg County to Caswell County, N. C., to Washington

County, Va., to Lee County, Va., to Knoxville, Tenn., to Pulaski County, Ky., to

White County, Tenn., and then to Marion County. After he secured his pension he

applied for a transfer to Coffee County, Tenn., where he was living in 1844, and

Oct. 12, 1851 he died in Tippah County, Miss. He married in the year 1806, near

Monticello, Wayne County, Ky., Naomi. The widow, Naomi Morgan, applied for

pension while living in Tippaih County, Miss., June 21, 1858, when she was about

sixty seven years of age. She died December 31, 1865 in Tippah County. She was

probably a second wife. In 1836 James Morgan referred to a large family of girls

and boys and to a son-in-law who had died leaving a large family, but gave no

names. In 1844 he stated that his children lived in Middle Tennessee and in 1844

he stated that his oldest son was killed in the Florida War, leaving no family

and said that he himself had another son and some daughters living. The widow

Naomi died at the home of her daughter, Nancy, wife of William Kincaid, who

stated that in 1774 she was the only legal heir of her mother, Naomi Morgan. The

soldier had two brothers, John and Mark Morgan.



Additional Comments:
From:



SOME TENNESSEE HEROES

OF THE

REVOLUTION

Compiled From Pension Statements

PAMPHLET NO. II



by Zella Armstrong

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