James Morgan

1607 - 1704  (97 years)

• Name	James Morgan
  Born	1607	Llanfabon, Glamorgan, Wales
  Gender	Male
  Died	5 Apr 1704	Groton, New London, Connecticut, USA
  Person ID	I4417	Ramage | Ramage Line
  Last Modified	16 Nov 2011

  
  

  Father	William Morgan,   b. 1582, Llanfabon, Glamorgan, Wales ,   d. 19 Jan 1629, Bristol, Gloucestershire, , England  (Age 47 years)
  Family ID	F1566	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Margery Hill,   b. 16 Jun 1611, Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts ,   d. 28 Apr 1690, Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut  (Age 78 years)
  Children	+ 1. Capt. John Morgan,   b. 30 Mar 1645, Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts ,   d. 12 Feb 1711, Groton, New London CO, CT  (Age 65 years)
  Last Modified	16 Nov 2011
  Family ID	F1565	Group Sheet

  
  

• Notes

  (I) James Morgan, son of William Morgan, of Llanvabon, Wales, sailed from Bristol, England, in the ship "Mary," accompanied by a kinsman, Robert Morgan, in the summer of 1636, and landed at Boston. He first settled at Sandy Bay, near Gloucester, but becoming dissatisfied with the bleak coast, and finding that the Indians were a great annoy ance as well as a pressing menace, removed to Roxbury, where he married, August 6, 1640, Margery Hill, of that place, and most of their children were born there. It was in that place that he was made a freeman, May 10, 1643, and he was a freeholder there as late as 1649-50, when he removed to Pequot, now New London, Connecticut, in company with many other families of Sandy Bay, headed by their pastor, Rev. Richard Bliman. On February 10, 1650, land was assigned to him "on the path to New street, being six acres of upland where the wigwams are, in the path that goes from his house toward Culvers, among the Rocky Hills." He was one of a committee, in 1661, "to lay out the bounds of N. London on the east side of the Great River." It is recorded that the following year that "James Morgan, Mr. Tinker and Obiadiah Brown are chosen to seat the people in the meeting-house, which they doing the inhabitants are to rest silent." That year, 1662, he was appointed one of a committee to contract to build a house for the ministry at New London, and he signed himself "James Morgan, Senior, of New London." That year he stood third highest in amount among the taxpayers, certifying to holding 250 pounds. He died in his own homestead, about three miles from Groton, in 1685, aged seventy-eight years. Children: 1. Hannah, born May 18, 1642; married, November 20, 1660, Nehemiah Royce. 2. James, born March 3, 1644; married, November, 1666, Mary Vine. 3. John, see forward. 4. Joseph, born November 29, 1646; married, April, 1670. Dorothy Park. 5. Abraham, born September 3, 1648, died August, 1649. 6. A daughter, born November 17, 1650, died an infant.