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From - Early Friends Families of Upper Bucks
JOHN MORGAN, the founder of the Morgan family of Richland and the ancestor, through his daughters and granddaughters, of branches of many of the other prominent families connected with the Friends' Colony in and around Quakertown, was probably a native of Wales and a brother of Joseph, William and Morgan Morgan, all of whom settled in the vicinity of Gwynedd. John Morgan was a member of Abington Monthly Meeting in 1716, and his name appears on the records of that meeting several times prior to 7 mo. 26, 1720, when he is reported as having married out of unity and his apology therefor was rejected "whereby he remains out of unity." This marriage was with Deborah Woodruff; subsequent records, including his will, show that he had been previously married. He was a tailor by trade, but seems to have been more of a farmer than anything else. He purchased a tract of land in Abington Township, now Montgomery County, in 1699, and other land in the same locality in 1706.
He removed to Richland soon after his second marriage, purchasing 400 acres of the Peter Lester tract in 1724 of Thomas Greasley. He continued to reside on a plantation of 200 acres, part of this purchase, until his death in 1743. His widow Deborah made application for membership at Richland in 1745, and their children seem to have been recognized as members when they came to adult age, but there is no record of their birth at Richland. The will of John Morgan dated January 11, 1741, was probated March 9, 1743, and is of record at Doylestown. He described himself as "aged and infirm." To "Deborah my present wife late Deborah Woodruff" he gives all his real and personal estate for life or widowhood. At her death or marriage the 200 acres upon which he lived is to go to his son James, and the other 200 acres to be divided equally between his other two sons Isaac and John. He also devises to his wife Deborah 25 acres of land at Abington for life, at her death to pass to his daughters Sarah, Susanna and Deborah. Some of his children were still minors and William Nixon and Morris Morris were named as guardians for them and his wife Deborah was named as sole Executrix. Deborah Morgan, the widow, continued to reside on the plantation in Richland until her death in 3 mo. 1750. Her will made 9 mo. 11, 1749, devises to her son-in-law, Jonathan Heacock, all her estate, real and personal, to be sold to pay her just debts and distribute the residue, and he is named executor. She, however, devises to her son John Morgan, 100 acres of the land that is within the 200 acres that his father left to him and Isaac, but "which I purchased of Joseph Jones, after my husband's death." She also gives legacies to her three daughters Sarah Dennis, Susanna Heacock, and Deborah Morgan, and to her grandchildren Rachel, Ann and Sarah Heacock.
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