Gideon Morgan 
Gideon was born on June 15th, 1751 in Springfield, Hampden, MA.1 Gideon's father was Samuel Morgan and his mother was Rachel Kibbe. His paternal grandparents were James Morgan and Mary Averill. He was an only child. He died at the age of 79 on November 15th, 1830 in Kingston, Roane, TN. He was buried in Old Kingston Cemetery.1 1 General Notes
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Gideon Morgan was a "Minuteman" with the rank of corporal in Captain Ebenezer Crouch's company, in Colonel Andrew Ward's regiment of Connecticut militia during the Revolutionary War.
As a civil engineer he went to western New York in course of his employment and remained some years in Saratoga Springs. He afterwards went to Petersburg, thence to Staunton, VA where his wife died. He subsequently moved to Kingston, TN,
where he married his second wife but had no issue.
Gideon Morgan is indexed by the DAR.
The Morgans migrated frequently, starting in Wethersfield, then in Washington, CT during the War and later New Preston, CT, then moving to Saratoga Springs, NY, thence to Petersburg and Staunton, VA in 1790, and finally to Kingston, TN around
1810 where Gideon became a tavernkeeper and a partner with his sons in a merchandising business on the Cherokee-Tennessee border; he is said to have become wealthy as an Indian trader. He died in Kingston on November 15, 1830, and is buried
with an imposing tombstone monument in the Old Kingston Cemetery. Patience Cogswell Morgan had been his first wife, and the mother of all his children; she had died in Staunton; Morgan then married, in Charlottesville (in Albemarle County,
Virginia), on December 15, 1797, Elizabeth ("Betsy") Hardin, the daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth Brown Hardin, who survived him. She sold their Kingston home in 1842.
"On May 18, Generals Washington and Henry Knox and the French engineer, Louis le Begue du Portail, left New Windsor for Wethersfield to confer with General Rochambeau and lodged the night of May 18-19 in the tavern of Gideon Morgan in New
Preston (now Washington). Patience Cogswell Morgan was Washington's hostess." [Charles Eugene Claghorn III, "Washington's Travels in New England" http://www.flssar.org/wash-tvl.html]
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- b.~ 1607 in , Llandaff, Glamorgan, Wales or Bristol England d.1685 in Groton, New London, CT
- b.30 Mar 1645 in Roxbury, Suffolk, MA d.12 FEB 1711/12 in Preston, New London, CT
- b.1607 in Great Burstead, Essex, England d.28 Apr 1690 in Wallingford, New Haven, CT
- b.~ 1680 in Preston, New London, CT d.1761 in Preston, New London, CT
- b.~ 1645
- b.24 Jun 1707
- b.May 1728 in Wethersfield, Hartford, CT d.26 Jan 1825 in Wyoming, Philadelphia, PA
- b.15 Jun 1751 in Springfield, Hampden, MA d.15 Nov 1830 in Kingston, Roane, TN
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Details of Gideon's family with Patience Cogswell
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