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| ~ Bio - Private Benjamin Morgan ~ | |||||||
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Joseph Morgan was born in 1748 at New Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut. He was the 1st of 7 children born of Caleb Morgan (1716-1775) and his wife Lydia Rogers (1726-1820). Joseph's siblings were: Benjamin (1750-1834), Caleb (b. 1753), Lydia (b. 1753), Nathan, Jonathan, and Levi (1762-1785).
On July 21, 1777, Joseph enlisted in Captain John Warner's Company, Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Herrick's Vermont Regiment of Rangers which fought in the Battle of Bennington, August 1777. Joseph served in Warner's Company until that unit was mustered out, December 3, 1777. On October 13, 1778, Joseph entered Lieutenant Jonathan Scott's Company in Colonel Samuel Herrick's Regiment of Vermont Militia in the service of the American United States raised for the purpose of guarding the public stores in Bennington, Bennington County, Vermont. Captain Scott's Company was raised by order of General John Stark to his Excellency Thomas Chittenden, Governor of Vermont. Joseph was dismissed from that service, January 4, 1779, after serving 83 days. On October 11, 1780, Joseph entered Captain Eli Noble's (Pownal) Company, Colonel Samuel Herrick's 2nd Vermont Militia Regiment called up in response to the alarm caused by the raid led by British Major Christopher Carleton into the Lake Champlain valley and beyond. Joseph served 20 days during that alarm. On July 1, 1781, Joseph entered Captain William Hutchin's Company, Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Fletcher's Vermont Battalion of Infantry in the service of the State of Vermont. Joseph was discharged from that service, November 20, 1781, after serving 140 days during the summer campaign. He did not re-enlist for winter service, 1781-2. Joseph resided in Pownal, Bennington County, Vermont until his death in 1785. He is buried in the Morgan-Towslee Cemetery in Pownal.
- Biographical information courtesy of Herman C. Brown
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Joseph came from Connecticut and settled in Pownal, on the New Hampshire Grants (now Bennington County, Vermont) before 1769. He married at Pownal, July 11, 1769, Anna Thorp (d. 1821) by whom he had at least 2 children (1 son and 1 daughter): Ezra (1770-1849) and Esther (1779-1849).