Morgan, Roderick B (b. ABT 1798, d. BEF 1860)

Census: Date: 1850
Place: Butternuts, Ostego, New York

Immigration: Date: 1850

Census: Date: 1900
Place: Baldwin, Allegheny, Pennsylvania

Note: The Lima Times Democrat, November 20, 1901

At his residence on south Elizabeth street last week, Rev. W. E. Hagerman of Grace M. E. church united in wedlock, Miss Ora Moore from Beaver Dam to Charles Kilgore. The minister was bound to a period of secrecy being at Liberty only yesterday to give information of the event. The bride is highly esteemed by a large acquaintance; Mr. Kilgore is a prominent public school instructor now pursuing special studies at the Lima College. Their legions of friends wish for them a long life of bliss and prosperity.

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Title: 1910 United States Federal Census
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Page: Database online. Year: 1910; Census Place: Ischua, Cattaraugus, New York; Roll: T624_926; Page: 8A; Enumeration District: 65; Image: 1197.
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Text: Record for Orlando C Learn

Census: Date: 1860
Place: Hamilton, McKean, Pennsylvania

Note: Warren Ledger, December 31, 1874

We find the following in the Mail of this week:

Mr. Abel Morrison, of Corydon, died on the 25th of dec. at the ripe age of 79 years. Mr. Morrison was one of the early settlers of Warren County and a man highly respected by all who knew him. He belonged to that hardy class of men who came into the wilderness, did his work quietly and faithfully till he sees improvements and comforts around him which were hardly dreamed of by that class of men now nearly all gone from among us.

Census: Date: 1860
Place: Hamilton, McKean, Pennsylvania

Note: The Clearfield Progress, Clearfield, Pennsylvania

September 30, 1941

Harry E. Morrison

Harry E. Morrison, local resident, died at the Clearfield Memorial Hospital at 6:10 p.m. Tuesday, September 9. He had been in ill health for the past several years.

Born in Chest Township, Clearfield County, August 27, 1887, he was 54 years, 13 days old at the time of death, which was attributed to uremia poisoning.

He was the third of a family o six children and a son of the late Adaline Killian Morrison and Samuel Morrison, of Irvona.

On February 22, 1910, he was united in marriage to Stella Agnes Braniff, daughter of the late Elizabeth (Bratton) and Michael Braniff of Irvona, and made his home in Irvona for a number of years.

He came to Clearfield in 1924 where he was employed by the Nw York Central Railroad, later transferring to the Barnett brick works and at the time of his death, he was employed by the North American Refractories at Lumber City.

He was, for many years, a member of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and the L.O.O.M. of Coalport, but dropped his membership sometime ago. He more recently was a member of the Clearfield F.O.E. Lodge.

Surviving are his widow and the following children: Floyd, Paul, Chester, Ray, Myra and Glenn at Home; and Mrs. Lance Shaw of Clearfield; Edwin and Clarence of Irvona.

Brothers John and Vincent and an infant child preceeded him in death.

Funeral services were held from the Baptist Church at McPherron Friday afternoon, September 12 with Rev. Russell m. Shepherd of the Clearfield Presbyterian Church officiating. Interment was made in the family plot in the Baptist Cemetery at McPherron.

Note: James Morrison Sr. was a Revolutionary war soldier as a Private. His pension file is s23816. He enlisted Sept 1775 for two months under Capt. John Elliot, Pennsylvania state troops. October 10, 1776 he enlisted for four months under Capt Thomas Askey. Two months in 1777 under Capt Robert Samuels and Col. Buchanan. In 1778 he enlisted for three months under Colonel James Armstrong. He took part in the battles of Trenton, Princton and Morristown. He was sent out twice from Patch Valley against indians. For three months in the spring of 1778 he was stationed at Ft. Carmichael.

James went to Loudon Co. VA when he was 26 and married Margaret Rice about 1770/71.

Children of Margaret Rice and James Morrison are:
i. Elijah Morrison was born WFT Est. 1766-1788, and died WFT Est. 1771-1870.

ii. Mercy Morrison was born WFT Est. 1766-1788, and died WFT Est. 1771-1873.

iii. Samuel Morrison was born 5 JAN 1772 in Va., and died 9 DEC 1857 in Warren Co., Pa. He married Eleanor Stage 3 NOV 1803 in Warren Co., Pa. She was born 26 JUN 1786 in Pa., and died WFT Est. 1832-1881 in Warren Co., Pa.

iv. John Morrison was born 28 APR 1775 in Bucks Co., Pa., and died 7 SEP 1846 in Dearborn County, Indiana. He married Margaret Cosper 10 JAN 1797 in Lycoming Co, Pa. She was born 14 JAN 1778 in Canagowinning Creek, Northumberland Co, Pa., and died 14 NOV 1840 in Dearborn County, Indiana.

1. v. James Morrison was born 14 JUL 1778 in Virginia, and died 25 OCT 1854 in Warren Co., Pa. He married Abigail Meddick 23 FEB 1797 in Lycoming Co, Pa. She was born 12 FEB 1780 in Pa., and died 21 JUN 1855 in Warren Co., Pa.

vi. William Morrison was born 28 MAY 1781, and died 29 APR 1850. He married Hannah More 26 NOV 1807 in Warren Co., Pa. She was born 25 DEC 1785, and died WFT Est. 1828-1880.

vii. Ephraim Morrison was born 14 JAN 1784 in Pennsylvania, and died 11 AUG 1845 in Washington Co., Iowa. He married Phebe Owens 20 MAY 1815 in Fentonville, Chautauque Co. New York. She was born 20 AUG 1784 in New York, and died WFT Est. 1843-1880.

Children with Margaret Rice:

Samuel b. 5 Jan 1772;
John b. 28 Apr 1775;
** James Jr. b. 14 Jul 1778;
William b. 28 May 1781;
Ephriam b. 14 Jan 1784.

"In 1800 James Morrison Sr., a soldier of the Revolutionary WAr, his brothr Jeremiah and several others of the family, eight or ten men in all, besides women and children, came up from Lycoming County over this route (as descibed in entry of James Jr.) and settled in and around Warrne. In 1804 James Morrison Jr. built a house of hewn timbers on the site now occupied by the house of Edward Morrison."

" About 1800 James Morrison, then living in the borough on the site of Morrison homestead, being a millwright, came up the Allegeny in a canoe with Cornplanter and some of his indians to build a mill on the state line."

"Not being able to make the trip in one day, they camped on the island of Kinzua. James Morrison, wandering about discovered it to be one of the broadest and most fertile islands of the river, containing a boiling spring of great coolness and purity. Two years later he made an application at Harrisburg for patents, purchasing the island for twenty-six cents per acre. Dale, then surveyed, laid out the island and James Morrison Sr. came there to live."

"For building the mill for Cornplanter, Mr. Morrison was paid in silver. Carrying the silver in two bags of some size, he was taken home by some of Cornplanters indians. Camping on the island as he returned."

"The first settler of Kinzua was James Morrison, who settled on the island purchased as above mentioned. This island is now known as Leonard Island and is still owned and tilled by one of the descendants of James Morrison Sr.

James and his family were among the first settlers of Warren County, PA. There were only three log huts in Warren when they arrived. He built a log house near the fort and lived there until about 1801 when he and his family moved to Kinzau Township living on Morrison Island in the Allegheny River.

He married Martha Griffon Bacon (b. 22 Apr 1758) in 1790. Children with Martha:
Elijah 31 Jul 1791;
Levi 121 Mar 1793;
Abel 3 Aug 1795;
Lucretia 12 Jul 1797;
twins: Priscilla and Rachel 29 Sep 1799.

Morrison, James Sr. 1744-1839
Posted by: Glenn Morrison Strong (IP Logged)
Date: April 06, 2003 03:36PM

James Morrison was born near the Durham Iron Works and lived there until 26 years of age . He then moved to Loudon Co. Virginia and married 1770-1771 Margaret Rice. He remained there until 1774 when he brought his family to Pennsylvania and settled in what was then Cumberland Co.

In Sept. 1776 he enlisted in the service at Path Valley in Cumberland Co. under Capt. John Elliot and Leut. James Lawther. Shortly after they marched to Amboy New Jersey. Quoting his own words in his pension application; While at Amboy I went with about five hundred other volunteers on Staten Island where the British and Hessians were building a fort. We attracted them and after a smart skirmish succeeded in driving them off". This refers with little doubt to the first hostile demonstration by the patriots against the British and Hessians encamped on Station Island. It occurred 16 Sept. 1776. A force was sent over to the Island under Colonel Griffin to make an attack upon the British entrenchments at Richmond. They succeeded in reaching the point of attack before daybreak, but the islanders being intensely loyal to their King they found the enemy had been informed of their approach. A skirmish followed which resulted in two Americans being killed, the retreat of the British leaving two or three dead and some wounded, with seventeen prisoners in the hands of the Americans besides a standard of the British Light Horse and 45 muskets. He remained at Amboy about two months, when his time having expired, he returned home.

Later in the year, probably early in Dec. he again enlisted in the Pennsylvania Line under Capt. Thomas Askey Liet. John Campbell. His company joined the forces of The commander in chief. On Christmas Eve 1776, he was in the troops under the personal care of Gen .Washinton which succeeded in crossing the ice filled Delaware River at McConkey's Ferry , and marched on Trenton where they scored a brilliant victory over the British and Hessians. Stores , ammunition, and 1000 prisoners were captured. During the night of Jan 2-3 1777, quoting his own words; we started after night and all from Trenton to march to Princeton where the Collage was. The Americans at daylight placed their cannon in the streets of Princeton and began the attack on the British. We came on them by surprise and took about 300 Hessians including a few British officers." The engagements at Trenton and Princeton occurred when the American cause was at its lowest ebb. They definitely secured the allegiance of the people of New Jersey to the patriot cause. After the victory at Princeton he was sent to Morristown New Jersey which had been selected for the winter encampment of the Army. Shortly after his company was detached from the main body and sent out towards the British lines as an advance outpost-- at one time they were kept posted within 30 rods of the British pickets. On the last Sunday in Feb. they had a skirmish with the enemy in which seven of their men were killed and several more wounded. On the 10th of March 1777 he was discharged after an enlistment of 4 months. He returned home to Path Valley. This home site is now located in Fannett and Metal Twp. Franklin Co. Pa. it was originally know as Tuscarua Path Valley

The old soldier describes the situation in the Juniata Valley on his return from the army in 1777 thus: " the Indians were then swarming about the settlements and destroying everything they could lay there hands on. The British having offered them 50 shillings for each American scalp and the same for each prisoner."

Many of the settlers were in favor of abandoning Thier farms and retiring to some of the eastern settlements, especially after it was discovered that so many of the King's subjects were likely to remain loyal. In 1777 the upper end of the Juniata Valley contained almost as many loyalists as Patriots. The more daring would not agree to abandon their homes and accordingly in the fall of 1777 and the spring of 1778 a number of fortifications were commenced and the farms partially abandoner. These frontier forts were generally stockades built of logs and heavy wooden slabs with loop holes made to flare on the outside in order to bring rifles to bear in any direction. The first was built about a mile above present day Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania and was know as Fort Fetter. An old barn belonging to one Peter Titus, and a mile below this same town , was converted into a rude defensive structure and called Holliday's Fort. These Forts served for the family's in what was then termed the Frankstown district.
In the year 1778, soon after planting he was stationed at Fort Carmichael on the Juniata to defend against the Indians. He remained there three months or upwards The Fort at this time was under the command of Col. James Armstrong.

The years 1778-81 were periods of constant bloodshed in the Juniata Valley. The settlers were forced to rely entirely on there own efforts for defense . The incursions of the Indians were so bold and frequent that a state of siege existed almost continually for the settlers. They could only with the greatest difficulty get their sowing done in the fall and spring. In order to get in the crops it was necessary to have the reapers guarded and sentinels posted at each corner of the field, while half grown boys trudged in the footsteps of the laborers, carrying their rifles loaded and primed for action. By such means they managed to get a scant supply of grain. the cattle were suffered to graze at large for seldom if ever .were they molested. Hogs too were allowed to roam in the woods feeding upon roots and acorns. When meat was wanted an armed party ran down a hog or heifer, butchered it and carried the carcass to the fort. During these years most of the children were born in forts, and many rocked in sugar- troughs.

It was not until the spring of 1781 that the harassed settlers received aid from the eastern settlements. Seventy odd militia men from Cumberland Co. were then sent into the valley where they formed a garrison at Frankstown. They were under the command of Col. Albright and Capt. Young, and had been sent for the purpose of closing the gaps in the Allegheny mountains through which the Indians were entering the valley. Instead of proceeding immediately with this task they remained quartered at Frankstown despite the fact that depredations were occurring regularly within the valley. The settlers became exasperated after a few weeks of this inactivity and resolved to form their own scouting party and range through the county for two months. They were encouraged in this project by Lieut. Ashman of Bedford Co. who promised to add a company of rangers to their force. James Morrison was one of twenty-five volunteers who enrolled for this scout under Capt. Moore and Lieut. Smith. He states in his pension application that they marched from Juniata to Standing Stone and from there marched to Fort Lytle and from there to Fort Holliday. They were joined at Fort Holliday by the Rangers promised by Lieut. Ashman, but instead of a company found it to be only 8 men . On Saturday June 2 1781 they marched to Fort Fetter where it was proposed to pass the following day. Their general plans were to march through the Kittaning Gap to Pittsburgh and home by way of Bedford. Later in the day spies came in reporting a recent Indian encampment in the vicinity and evidence of 25-30 in the band. Word of this was immediately sent to the commander of the militia with and invitation for him to assume command of the expedition. Colonel Albright refused the offer and also refused to allow any of his troops to accompany them. Unabashed, the rangers and volunteers arose at daybreak Sunday 3 June 1781, put their rifles in condition, ate their breakfast, and with five days provisions in their knapsacks started for the mountains 33 men all told. The trail led close along the river and as the path was narrow, the men marched single file. After proceeding but a short distance, and yet within gunshot hearing of the garrison, they were surprised by a body of Indians who arose from the bushes on the left side of the road, and poured a withering fire into their exposed line. Fifteen were killed outright and the remainder fled in every direction. Aman named Jones being one of the fleetest runners reached the fort first, and to screen the scout from the odium of running, he reported the number of the enemy so large that Colonel Albright refused to allow any of his men to go th their aid. As another of the survivors was making his way back to the fort, he found one of his comrades lying behind a log for the purpose of resting as he said. He was advised to push on. Captain Young at length started with a party to bring in the wounded. The tired ranger was found still resting behind his log----killed, and the meager accounts of the affair seem to indicate that they were too demoralized to make any stand whatever.

This brilliant victory won by the Indians was their most successful sortie into the Juniata valley during the Revolution. It became Known as the Bedford Scout massacre. his last service as a ranger was on tour from the Juniata river to Big Island (now Great Island) on the west branch of the Susquehanna in present day Clinton county, and from there up the Bald Eagle creek to the Sinking Valley Lead Mines in northern Blair county, and thence home. The enemy were not encountered on this tour. It probably occurred lasted in 1781.

Quoting again from his pension papers: "he never served in any other capacity than as private and a volunteer, being blind with one eye was not subject by lay to military duty."
About 1778 he moved near Kishacoquillas creek on the Juniata river in Mifflin county, and lived there until 1785, when he removed to the west branch of the Susquehanna river in Lycoming county. Godcharles' Pennsylvania-Political, Governmental, Military, and Civil, 1933, Political and Civil History volume, p 417 says "Warren county was first permanently settled by James Morrison, in 1795." The above author was perhaps unaware that his name appears on the list of taxable, dated January 1796, for Muncy township in the newly formed county of Lycoming. As early as 1800 he is definitely known to have moved with his own family, relatives and friends, up the west branch of the Susquehanna, the Sinnemahoning, and Driftwood branch by keel-boat and canoe, and thence across by portage to the Allegheny river. The headwaters of the river were reached on the present site of Port Allegany. They camped there for several weeks. The trunks of a conviently arranged group of trees were cut off six or eight feet from the ground and on the Stumps they built a platform. On this raised structure the nights were passed, and the women and children remained there when the men were hunting. It was necessary to keep large fires burning at night to keep away wild animals, more especially the wolves. After completing rude canoes and a raft for transporting their belongings, they embarked on the river, leaving behind on the camp site a marker inscribed "Canoe Place." He settled on what was then called the east branch of Oil creek ( now Pine creek) in Southwest township Warren county Pennsylvania. In 1802 he acted as "viewer" with Jeremiah Morrison in laying out the county's first regular road from Warren to Brokenstraw. It may have been as late as 1803 or 1804 that he or his son James built a house at Warren near the fort of pine timbers hewn square. This pioneer home stood on Pennsylvania Avenue West. Some authorities say that it was the third building erected there upon the in lots, counting the Holland Land Company's storehouse as first and John Gilson's home as second. He was living on the large island near the mouth of Kinzua creek Kinzua Twp. in the spring of 1805, when Aaron Burr Journeyed down the river to Blennerhassett Island. Burr stopped over a day and night on " Morrison Island " landing on the upper western end. The family home at this time was a log structure. Burr's gracious intimation that one or more of James Morrison's stalwart sons would be Welcome to accompany him was ignored. The remaining years of his life were passed in Kinzua Twp. He owned the entire island and kept a large portion of it under cultivation. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The tax rolls of Warren Co. record him in 1806; from 1808-21 in Conewango Twp. and 1822-39 in Kinzua Twp.

His second and last marriage occurred to Martha Griffin Bacon { her second } widow of Philip Bacon. The second Mrs. Morrison was the mother of three children by her first marriage but one of whom was reared in the home of her step father. Mrs Morrison who survived her husband was a woman of " Latin extraction " { there is no proof of this as some think because of her dark complexion she may have been part Indian}

Census: Date: 1910
Place: Ischua, Cattaraugus, New York

Census: Date: 1920
Place: Ischua, Cattaraugus, New York

Census: Date: 1850
Place: Derry, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania

Census: Date: 1860
Place: Derry, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania

Census: Date: 1870
Place: Derry, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania

Census: Date: 1860
Place: Hamilton, McKean, Pennsylvania

Note: Warren Ledger, March 28, 1884

Death of Rice Morrison

Died at Corydon, March 20th, 1884. Rice Morrison, in the 86th year of his age. Deceased was born in Lycoming county, Pa., the 11th of December, 1798. In 1801 his parents removed to Warren and remained there until about 1817 when they came to Corydon. September 18, 1822 he was married to Miss Dolly Richards in whose loving companionship his joys were doubled and his sorrows divided for 61 years. Of their six children only three are living, one son and two daughters. Deceased united with the M. E. church in 1837 of which at the time, J. Gilmore was pastor. He was the eldest of eleven children, and only two survive him, his sister Mrs. Ann Leonard, of Kinzua, and his brother Henry Morrison of Warren. ?Uncle Rice? was an enthusiastic adherent to the Democratic party all his life, and a subscriber to the Ledger for over thirty years. An Honorable man, an affectionate husband, a loving father, a just and kind neighbor and a faithful friend has departed, and what can we do but weep, in the deep shadow of the separation which has fallen upon us. The memory of very kind word and gentle smile makes our hearts ache anew as we realize that from him we receive them, never again, but
?We trust our friend awaits us yonder at the gate,
Then let us all be ready, for we know its getting late.
Let our lamps be brightly burning: let?s raise out voice and sing;
Sure we?d meet to part no more in the palace of the King.?

Census: Date: 1860
Place: Corydon, Warren, Pennsylvania

Note: In the spring of 1778 an expedition was fitted out under command of Maj.-Gen. Sullivan, to march by way of the North Branch of the Susquehanna into the country of the Cayuga and Seneca Indians, for the purpose of destroying the villages and crops of those tribes in retaliation for their bloody participation in the massacre at Wyoming in July of the previous year. One of the regiments in Sullivan's expedition was the "New Eleventh" Pennsylvania, under "Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant" Adam Hubley, Jr., of Lancaster, who was commissioned to that office June 8, 1779, to rank from the preceding 13th of February. Of the "New Eleventh," the third company (of which the commissioned officers were Capt. George Bush, Lieut. William Lemmon, and Ensign Jacob Weitzel) contained a considerable number of Lancaster County men, and in the other companies there were a number of privates and officers from this county,--among the latter being Lieuts. Samuel Morrison (quartermaster), William Huston (adjutant), and Samuel Reed.

The regiment, with other commands, rendezvoused at Sunbury, Pa., from which place it marched in the latter part of June, 1779, to Wyoming. The force there concentrated consisted of the brigades of Gens. Maxwell, Poor, and Hand, the "New Eleventh" Regiment being a part of the last-named brigade, which was termed the "Light Corps." The forces left Wyoming July 31st, and reached Tioga Point August 11th. Here two regiments were left to erect defensive works, and the main body proceeded by way of Newtown (Elmira) and the head of Seneca Lake to the "Genesee country,"--the home of the Senecas,--through which the avenging columns of Gen. Sullivan swept like the angel of destruction, doing all that in them lay to cripple and distress the treacherous butchers of Wyoming and Cherry Valley. "The axe and the torch soon transformed the beautiful region from the character of a garden to a scene of sickening desolation. Forty Indian towns, the largest containing one hundred and twenty-eight houses, were destroyed; corn, gathered and ungathered, to the amount of one hundred and sixty thousand bushels, shared the same fate. Mere fruit-trees were cut down, and the Indians were hunted like wild beasts, and neither house nor fruit-tree remained in the country."2[2 Stone's "Life of Brant."]

The objects of the expedition being accomplished, the army set out on the return march from Genesee September 15th, and reached Fort Sullivan (at Tioga) on the 30th. On Sunday, October 3d, the fort was demolished, the two regiments which had been left behind to build and garrison it rejoined the main body, and on the 4th the army marched from Tioga for Wyoming, and reached that place in the afternoon of Thursday, the 7th of October. Thus closed Sullivan's famous campaign of 1779, having fully accomplished the mission on which it was sent, viz., "The total ruin of the Indian settlements and the destruction of their crops, which were designed for the support of these inhuman barbarians while they were desolating the American frontiers."3[3 Extract from Sullivan's General Orders, Sept. 15, 1778.]

Note: Among the first settlers of Warren County, Pennsyvania were the Morrisons who had migrated from Bucks County, PA through Lycoming County and then to Warren and Kinzua. The patriarch of the clan was Samuel Morrison who with his wife Marcy Mayse had left their former home in N. Ireland and settled in Tinicum, Bucks County,PA after arriving in Phila. in 1740 as part of the great Scots-Irish migration. It was there they raised a large family. Five of the sons served and survived the Revolutionary War. In about 1780 Samuel sold his holdings in Bucks and joined his family in Pine Creek Valley near Williamsport where he and Marcy died at old age. She at 82 in 1798 and he at 100 in 1801. They were typical of the Scots-Irish who settled the Appalacians from PA to GA during the mid-1700s. From Lycoming County these Morrisons migrated out to Ohio and Indiana. James and his Nephew Jeremiah and their kin were among the original residents of Warren County. James, a veteran of the crossing of the Delaware on Christmas 1776 and the Battle of Princeton, died in 1839 at the age of 95 on his land on Morrison's Island in the Allegheny River at Kinzua. Jeremiah died in 1847 at the age of 86 near Tidioute in a canoe accident.

Originally submitted by frazierar to Alan Frazier on 8 Mar 2008

Born Tyrone County, Ireland, January 5th 1701. Married Merce Mayse. Came to America in 1740 on sailing ship "Sally of Coleraine" Located in Bucks County, PA Died in Lycoming County May 5, 1801. Buried in Pine County Cemetery.

Samuel and his wife emigrated to America in 1740 on the ship "Sally of Coleraine." From the "History of the Morrison Family" by J.P. Sage found in the Ohio State Library, Columbus, Ohio the following information is given: Samuel, son of John Morrison and his brother Ephraim, with Samuel's seven sons and three daughters came to Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Later, Samuel and all of his family, several of whom were Mariners, moved to the west bank of the Susquehanna River, near the mouth of Pine Creek. Samuel was over 6 feet tall, weighed over 250 pounds, stout, dark hair (not black) blue eyes, fair skin. Samuel managed his own farm until he was over 90 years old and kept house for himself after his wife's death until he passed on.

His will made about1801 five days before he was one hundred years old, devising as follows:
To Margaret young, Five Pounds or (13.33)
To James Morrison, Ten Pounds or (26.66)
To Heirs of John Morrison Eight Pounds or (21.33)
To Wiliam Morrison, the farm on which I now live and the farm adjoining the bove (about 200 acres and worth at the time about $25 per acre)
To Samuel Morrison, One Dollar
To my son Ephraim Morrison, One Dollar.
To my son Jonah Morrison, the interest of one hundred pounds yearly, during his natural life. (Of the above none of the heirs got one cent except William)

Children of Mercy Mace and Samuel Morrison are:

i. Anna Morrison was born 1739 in Ireland, and died 1740 aboard the "Sally of Coleraine" Buried at Sea.

ii. Margaret Morrison was born 1743 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and died 1833 in Cincinnati, Oh. She married George Morrison 1760 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He was born WFT Est. 1713-1743, and died 1770 in Susquehanna River, Pa.. She married Abel Dady 1775. He was born WFT Est. 1726-1746, and died 1778. She married Robert Young 1780. He was born WFT Est. 1731-1764, and died WFT Est. 1790-1848.

2. iii. James Morrison was born 3 JAN 1744/45 in Bucks Co., Pa., and died 4 SEP 1839 in Warren Co., Pa. He married Margaret Rice 1771. She was born WFT Est. 1734-1759 in Louden County, VA, and died 1789 in Pa.. He married Martha Griffin 1790 in Lycoming Co, Pa. She was born 23 MAY 1757 in Scotland, U.K., and died 3 SEP 1844 in Verango Co., Pa..

iv. William Morrison was born 1748 in Bucks Co., Pa., and died AUG 1810 in Jersey Shore, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. He married Sarah Walker 1778 in Northumberland Co., Pa. She was born WFT Est. 1742-1767, and died 1820 in Jersey Shore, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania.

v. John Morrison was born 1753 in Bucks County, PA, and died WFT Est. 1793-1844 in ?. He married Miriam Suell 1788 in ?. She was born WFT Est. 1740-1764 in ?, and died WFT Est. 1792-1852 in ?.

vi. Samuel Morrison was born 7 JAN 1756 in Bucks Co., Pa., and died 7 MAY 1811 in Miami Co., Ohio. He married Charlotte Crawford 8 FEB 1785 in Lycoming Co, Pa. She was born 11 JUN 1766 in Pennsylvania, and died 17 AUG 1841 in Clark Co., Ohio.

vii. Ephraim Morrison was born 5 JUN 1759 in Bucks Co., Pa., and died 2 FEB 1806 in Clark Co., Ohio. He married Nancy Hettick 1786 in ?. She was born WFT Est. 1749-1774 in ?, and died 18 DEC 1803 in Dearborn County, Indiana. He married Leticia Gilson 1804 in ?. She was born WFT Est. 1758-1786 in ?, and died WFT Est. 1809-1874 in ?.

viii. Jonah Morrison was born 5 JUN 1759 in Lycoming Co, Pa, and died 7 JUN 1813 in Warren Co., Pa.

Children with Marce Mayse.

Ann b. 1739 buried at sea 1740

Margaret b. was born 1743 in Bucks, Co, PA, and died 1833 in Cincinnati, OH. She married George MORRISON 1760 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He was born ABT. 1738 in Bucks, Co, PA, and died ABT. 1775 in Pa. She married Abel DADY 1775. She married Robert YOUNG 1833. Lived in Lycoming

Rachel MORRISON was born 1743 in Buck, PA, and died ABT. 1751

* James was born 4 JAN 1744 in Durham, Bucks County, PA, and died 4 SEP 1839 in Kinzua, Warren County, PA.

William b. 1747 in Buck ,PA died 1810 in Pine Creek, Lycoming Co, PA.

Ephraim b. 1749 Died in infancy Bucks, Co, PA,

Rachel b. 1751.

John b. 1753 in Buck, PA, and died 1786 in Pine Creek, Lycoming, PA

Samuel David MORRISON was born 4 JAN 1756 in Buck, PA, and died 7 MAY 1811 in Miami Co, OH.

Ephraim b. 5 JUN 1759 in Buck, PA, and died 2 FEB 1806 in In

Jonah MORRISON was born 5 JUN 1759 in Buck, PA.

Census: Date: 1860
Place: Hamilton, McKean, Pennsylvania

Note: William Morrison son of James Morrison Jr. William was a carpenter by trade according to Federal census records (June 1870)denoting his death as a result of pneumonia in December 1869. It had been passed down by family he was killed in a lumbering accident.

William was apparently married prior to his marriage to Almira P. Gray. Apprears they were married in 1849 when Almira was about 18. However, William had a son Wesley Graham Morrison born in 1844.

Note: Warren Ledger, March 11, 1875

Died
Morrison ? In Hamliton, McKean Co. PA. Feb 27, 1875, Zephaniah Morrison, in the 61st year of his age.

In a once fond and endeared home, but now a gloomy desolate, death has appeared, and mourning usurps the place of contentment, joy and love. The parent stem is broken and Zephaniah Morrison?s spirit hath taken its immortal departure to that happier, holier land, promised to the just beyond the confirmed of the grave. We all knew him but to respect him, and with a vivid remembrance of him in other days, long gone past, and as a fitting tribute to his memory, these few thoughts are gratefully contributed.

He was the fifth son of James Morrison, Esq., one of the oldest and respected settlers of now Warren, but then Lycoming county was little else than a vast and unbroken forest, almost unknown to civilized man. ?Twas here amid privations and toil and the extreme hardships of border life, he raised his family of eleven children, all of whom, together with their ancestors, have passé away save the oldest and youngest of the male portion and two of the female.

Mr. Morrison was born on the 23d day of Nov. 1814, in the immediate vicinity of the ?Old Morrison Homestead? situate in the westerly portion of the Borough of Warren. He was married at the age of 22 years and soon located himself and family in Hamilton, McKean Co., Pa., on the Kinzua creek, about 8 miles above where it empties itself into the Allegheny river, and continued to reside there principally until the day of his death. He possessed the full confidence of his friends and acquaintances and by his urbanity of manner and general bearing towards them; he was the recipient of their universal esteem. He was well known as a liberal patron of churches and schools, so far as his means would allow and although he never united with any church organization as a regular admitted member, yet from early youth to the time of his death, he deeply sympathized with and for the most part practiced the tenets, and yielded to the influence of the doctrines as pronounced and promnigated by the m. E. Church. He was kind and genial in his nature, generous, and liberal to all, even to a fault. In his death the poor have lost a friend, and society an upright and honest man. May his memory never be forgotten by those who knew and loved him.

Warren Ledger, February 24, 1876

Administrator?s Sale

Pursuant to an order of the Orphan?s court of Warren county, Pa., made on the 4th day of February A.D. 176, I shall expose to public sale upon the premises on the 8th day of March next, at 2 o?clock p.m. of said day, the following described real estate, late the property of Zephaniah Morrison, Deceased, to-wit:

At the certain piece or parcel of land situate in the Borough of Warren, county of Warren and State of Pennsylvania, described as follows: Being what is known as outlot number twenty-two of said borough, running thence from a strip of seven rods in width extending across the north end of said lot number twenty-two, and along the south line of outlot number thirty-seven.

Also, that other piece or parcel of land as follows, viz: Being one more acre from the south east corner of outlot number twenty-three of said Borough, on which is a two story frame house, a frame barn and a number of apple trees. The two pieces above adjoining and really constituting one property.

Terms of Sale ? One-third of purchase money in hand on confirmation of sale and the balance in two equal annual payments from that date, with legal interest payable annually on the whole sum, to be secured by judgment, bond and mortgage on the premises.

Census: Date: 1860
Place: Hamilton, McKean, Pennsylvania

Note: Will: Wills: Index to Will Abstracts, A-Z Surnames: 1750 - 1825:Cumberland Co, PA KILGORE, JANE. August 23, 1811. H. 86. willbkh.txt

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Note: Will: Samuel Morrow - Will 1800
Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
Will number 181 1/2 - Samuel Morrow
In the name of God amen I Samuel Murrey of the Township of Mifflin County of Cumberland and State of Pennsylvania Being old and very frail in Body though Blessed be God possesed of a sound Disposing judgement and memory; now calling to mind the mortality of my body And knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die Do this twenty first Day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred make and ordain this my last Will and testament as follows to witt that is to say firstly do commit and Recommend My Soul at Death to God who gave it and My Body to be Buried in a Decent manner at the discretion of my Executors and as touching what worldly Goods it has pleased God to Bless me with I do dispose of them as follows to witt of what I am possesed of at my Death I Do allow My Executors to put all into cash after my decease and that to be Equally Divided Amongst my three Daughters Elizabeth Sarah and Jean Excepting my Books which I bequeath in Manner following to witt
Item to my grandson Samuel Maxwell I Bequeath Mr. Edwards on Redemption
Item to my grandson Samuel Kilgore I Bequeath Mr. Ambrose Looking to Jesus
Item to my grandson Samuel Ackman I Bequeath ______ Heyward on Cases of Consience
Item to my son Willm I give and Bequeath my Large Bible
To my Beloved wife Jean I do give and Bequeath Mr. Willisons Sacramental Meditations her bed and _____ and her apperal
And the Remains of my Books to be equally divided amongst my three daughters above named
And further I impower my trusty friends Robert Lusk and James Woodburn to Execute this my last will and testament and I Do Declare this to be my last will and testament by me made in witness thereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year first above written. Samuel Murrey
Signed sealed and Declared in the presence of us Willm Montgomery John hisOmark Galbreath

DEED: William Morrow/Murray & Samuel Murray/Morrow Deeds
Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
Deeds Volume 1 Book N page 223
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Deed Samuel Murrey to William Murrey}
To all to whome these Presents shall come I Samuel Morrow of Newton Township in the County of Cumberland and State of Pennsylvania Sends Greetings Whereas in pursuance of an order of survey from the honorable the late proprietors of Pennsylvania bearing date the twenty first day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty seven & numbered 3705 there was surveyed & laid out to the Samuel Morrow, the following described tract of land situate formerly in Newton Township but now in Mifflin Beginning at a post thence by lands of Robert Carnahan South sixty four degrees East eighteen perches to a post thence by the same South eighty four degrees East fourty four perches to a white oak thence by the same South seventy four degrees East thirty five & 1/2 perches to a white oak thence by the same South fifty six East fourty four perches to w hite oak thence by the same sixty six degrees East fourty two perches to a Button Wood thence down the Connedoquinet Creek sixty perches to a Hickory thence by lands of Joseph Michelwane North twenty degrees West fourty four perches to a Hickery thence by the same North thorty seven & 1/2 degrees West fifty perches to a Spanish oak thence North sixty eight & 1/2 degrees East twenty six perches to a Black oak thence by lands of the heirs of Cgrustuan Geese North twenty seven degrees West seventy two perches to a white oak thence South sixty one degrees West nine pewrches to a white oak thence by the same North thirty three West nineteen perches to a post then South fifty two degrees West sixty perches to a white oak thence by the manner line North fourty degr West one hundred and fifteen perches to a post thence by the lands of David Williamson South fourty nine degrees West fourty three & a 1/2 perches to a post thence by thes same South one hundred and thirty perches & 3/4 of a perch to a post the place of Beginning Containing one and fifty three and the usual allowance of six acres per cent for roads etc as by the said order and survey remaining in the Surveyor Generals Office may appear. Now Know Ye that I the affsd Samuel Morrow as well in consideration of the natural love and affection which I bear to my son William Morrow as of the sum of three hundred pounds lawful money of Pennsylvania to me in hand paid by my said son William Morrow and of the reservations herein after mentioned and reserved Have given granted bargained sold released and confirmed unto my son William Morrow affsd and by these presents do give grant bargain sell release and confirm unto my sd son William Morrow and to his heirs & assigns all that the above recited Tract of Land, as the same is above set forth and described bounded and limited as affsd with all and singular the buildings gardens orchards fields fences woods underwoods timber trees waters water-courses meadows priviledges liberties commodities advantages priviledges improvements hereditaments and appurtenances to the same belonging or in any wise appertaining & lying & being within the bounds and limits thereof and the Reversions & Remainders Rents Issues and profits thereof and of every part and parcel thereof, and all warrants receipts draughts and writings whatsoever touching and concerning the same or any part or parcel thereof (Excepting always and hereby reserving unto the said Samuel Morrow the one full equal half of all hay, corn, wheat, Rye, potatoes, apples, Buckwheat apples or any other produce which shall or may grow or be raised and produced out of the same Land and plantation paid yearly sd Samuel Morrow finding all his own seed & said William Morrow is to deliver said Samuels part at his own house or barn in as good order as the fruits of the Earth and the seasons will admit of by the said William Morrow & his heirs to the affsd Samuel Morrow for his support during the natural life of the same Samuel Morrow and also the House he the said Samuel Morrow now occupies and to haul his fire wood to the door, and the barn he the said Samuel reserves to himself durein his natural life and in case the sd Samuel should die before his wife Jean Morrow that she still keeps possession of the House she now lives during her natural life though she is to get but one fourth of what the plantation affords during her natural life Sd Samuel Morrow is not to keep above six head of Horned Cattle nor above two head of Horse Creatures except he might incline to rais a foal and Samuels Creatures is to run at pasture with the said Williams Creatures except where he puts his Creatures when working and the said William Morrow nor his devisee nor heirs under his will shall not sell the same land nor any part thereof during the natural life of the said Samuel Morrow without his consent in writing under his hand and seal obtained and witnessed by some Justice of the peace for said County. To have and to hold the affsd Tract of land and premises and every part and parcel thereof with the appurtenances excepting as is herein before excepted unto the aforesaid William Morrow his heirs and assigns to the only use and behoof of him the affsd William Morrow his heirs and assigns forever subject to the payment of the residue of the purchase money and intrest due and to become due on the same to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania In witness whereof the said Samuel Morrow has hereunto set his hand and affixed his seal the second day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety nine. Samuel Murrey
Sealed & delivered in presence of Jno Geddis Joseph Shannon
Received the day of the date of the within Instrument of writing from my son William Morrow within named the sum of three hundred pounds in full of the consideration within mentioned to be paid to me. Samuel Murrey
witness present Jno Geddis
Cumberland County ss
Before me one of the Justices of the peace for the afforesaid County came Samuel Morrow mentioned in the within deed poll and acknowledged the same to be his act and deed to the intent the same may be recorded Witness my hand and seal this fourth day of March Anno Domini MDCCXCIX Jno Geddis
Entered 24th June 1799 & compared Willm Lyon recdr

DEED: Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
Deeds Volume 1 Book G page 307
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Saml & Wm Murry et ux deed to John Bell}
This Indenture made the seventeenth day of December in the Year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty three Between Samuel Murrey of the Township of Newton in the County of Cumberland farmer and William Morrow of the same Place & Elizabeth his wife of the one part and John Bell of the County aforesaid and township of Letterkenny farmer of the other part Witnesseth that the said Samuel Murrey and William Morrow and Elizabeth his iwfe for & in consideration of the sum of one hundred & seventeen Pound ten Shillings lawful money of Pennsylvania in Gold & Silver to them in hand paid by the said John Bell at & before the sealing and Delivery of these Presents the Receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged have granted Bargained Sold Aliened enfeoffed released confirmed And by the Presents Do grant, Bargain, Sell Alien enfeoff release and confirm to the said John Bell & to his Heirs & Assignes forever a certain Messuage or Tenement Plantation and Tract of Land situat in the Township and County aforesaid bouned by the following lines (to wit) Beginning at a marked white oak standing in a line of a Survey made for the late Proprietaries thence by the land of Daniel McLoughlin Suth forty nine dgress West ninety five perches to a white oak Grubb thence by Land of David Williamson Suth three Degrees East fifty five perches & a Quarter to a post South Six Degrees West thirty nine Perches to apost and South three Degrees East seven perches to a white Oak thence by Land of William Carnahan South Eighty Eight Degrees & a half East twenty two perches and an half to a Black Oak and South fifty five Degrees East thirty eight perches to apost thence by Lands of the said Samuel Murrey formily a part of the saim Tract North one hundred & thirty perches and three quarters to a post and North forty nine Degrees East three perches & an half to a post in a line of the aforesaid Proprietary Survey thence by the Saim North forty one Degrees West twenty Six perches to the Place of Beginning Containing fifty acres of Land [ It being a part of a Tract of two hundred Acres of Land and Allowance etc Surveyed to the said Samuel Murrey in Pursuance of an Order of Survey from the aforesaid proprietaries bearing date the 21st Day of May 1767 No. 3705 ] Together with all and Singular the Buildings Inprovements Ways Woods Waters Water Courses Rights liberties Previledges Hereditaments and Appurtenances whatsoever thereunto belonging or in any wise appertaining and the Reversions and Remainder Rents Issues and Profits thereof and all the Estate Right Title Intrist property Claim and Demand watsoever of him the said Samuel Murrey and William Morrow and Elizabeth his wife of in to or out of the Same To Have and To Hold the aforesaid messuage or Teniment Plantation and Tract of Land Hereditaments and Premisses hearby granted or mentioned or intended so to be with the Apputenances unto the said John Bell his Heirs & Assigns for ever Subject to the payment Money and Intrist thereof due and payable for the saim to the State of Pennsylvania and the said Samuel Murrey and William Morrow for themselves and their Heirs Respectively the aforesaid Messuage Plantation and tract of Land and every part thereof with the appurtenances against them their Heirs Respectively and against all and every other Persons Watsoever lawfully Claiming or to claim by from or under them or any of them to the said John Bell his Heirs & Assigns Shall & Will Warrant and forever Defend by these Presents In Witness whereof the said PArties to these Presents heave hereunto interchangeably Set their Hands and Seals Dated the Day and Year first above written. Samuel Murrey William Murrey Elizabeth herXmark Murrey
Sealed & Delivered Samuel Bell Alex Loughlin
Cumberland County ss
Be it remembered that seventeenth day of December in the Year of our Lord 1783 Before me the subscriber one of the Justices the peace for said County caim the above naimed Samuel Murrey William Morrow & Elisabeth his wife and acknowledged the above Instrument of Writing to be thair act and Deed to the Intent the saime may be Recorded the said Elisabeth thereunto voluntarily consenting she being of full age apart by me Examined and the Contents of the saime being folly maid known to her. Witness my Hand & Seal the Day & Year above written. Alexr Loughlin
Received the Day of the within written Indenture of & from the within naimed John Bell the Sume of one hundred and seventeen pound ten shillings lawful money of Pennsylvania in Gold and Silver It being the full Consideration Money within mentioned. Samuel Murrey William Murray Elisabeth herXmark Murray
Witness present at signing Alexr Loughlin Samuel Bell
Recorded November 23d anno Domini 1784 & Compared Willm Lyon recdr

DEED: Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
Deeds Volume 1 Book E page 297
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Deed Samuel Murray to William Murray}
This indenture made the twenty fifth day of September in the year of our lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy eight between Samuel Murray of the township of Newton in the County of Cumberland and Comman Wealth of Pennsylvania farmer of the one part and William Murray son of the said Samuel Murray of the saim place Farmer of the other part Witnesseth that the said Samuel Murrey for and in consideration of the Natural Love and afection which he heath and Doth bear unto the said William Murray and for the better support maintenance livlihood and prefirment of the said William Murray heath give garnted aliened enfeoffed and confirmed and by these presents doth give grant alien enfeoff and confirm unto the said William Murrey and to his heirs and assigns for ever one hundred acres of the plantation that he now lives on joyning the land of John McGufage on the north Isabella McGlachlin on the north Samuel McElheney Junor on the Weast David Williamson on the South Weast Together with all and singular the Rights Members and Appurtenances Whatsoever or thereunto belonging or in any wise appertaining And all the Estate Right title Intrist Property Claim and Demand Whatsoever of him the said Samuel Murrey his heirs Executors and Administrators of in and to the saim To have and to hold tha said one hundred acres of land with the usel alowance for Roads etc hereditaments and Premises hereby given and granted unto the said William Murrey his Heirs and Assigns to the only proper use and behoof of the said William Murrey his Heirs and Assigns for ever under and Subject to the Residue of the Purchase Money Intrist and Quit Rents now due and to become due and payable to the Honarable the Propriators of Pennsylvania for the saim In Witness whereof the said parties to these presents have hereunto interchengbly sete there Hands and seals the day and year first above written. Samuel Murrey
Sealed & Delivered in Preasance of William Stevenson William Maxwell
Cumberland County ss
Be it remembered that on the twenty fifthe Day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy eight before me the Subscriber one of the Justices for county aforesaid Caim the above named Samule Murray and acknowledged the above instrument of Writing to be his act and Deed to the intent that the saim May be recorded In testimony whearof I heave hearunto set my hand and sele the day and year last above written. Alex Laughlin
Recorded March 2d 1779 and compared with the original Willm Lyon recdr