Capt. John Morgan b. 30 Mar 1645 Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts d. 12 Feb 1711 Groton, New London CO, CT (2024)

And so it seems that it is from Elizabeth's family that the name "Theophilus" originates and was carried down for nearly two hundred years.

From the Morgan genealogy book:

"He (John Morgan), also like his father and his brother James, was a prominent public man, Indian commissioner and adviser. deputy to the General Court in 1690 from New London, and in 1693-94 from Preston (Connecticut).

The military titles of these early days, even down to that of ensign or seargeant, were esteemed as marks of high distinction..........These infant plantations were surrounded by hostile tribes of Indians........their very existence as well as peace and safety depended much upon the personal character, wise sagacity, prudent counsel and cool intrepidity of these chosen military gentlemen."

Military Service Rank: CaptainResource: http://www.gencircles.com/users/nana44w/2/data/ Title: Morgans, Wm andSons.FBK.FBK.FTW

John Morgan moved to New Preston, Connecticut in 1692 where he died in 1712.He was a prominent man and served as Indian commissioner or adviser. He was deputy to the general court from New London in1689-90, and from Preston, CT, in 1693-94. He removed to Preston about 1692. The probate of the will was appealed from,as he made no mention of his son Joseph, who appeared as a party in the proceedings.

Nathaniel H. Morgan, Morgan Genealogy: A History of James Morgan of New London, Conn.: and His Descendants from 1607 to 1869 ... (1869; reprint Salem, Mass.: Higginson Book Company), Page 25.
Nathaniel H. Morgan, Morgan Genealogy, Page 22.
Charles Almon Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1985), 518.
Gary L. Starr and etal, "James Morgan - Margery Hill Family Group Record"

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Captain John Morgan, son of James and Margery (Hill) Morgan, was born at Roxbury, Massachusetts, March 30, 1645, died at Preston, 1712. He removed to Preston about 1692, where he continued to reside the last twenty years of his life. In the affairs of both places he took an active and prominent part; was Indian commissioner and advisor; deputy to the general court, in 1690, from New London, and in 1694, from Preston. His will was signed August 23, 1711, and it was probated February 12, 1712. In it he mentions his wife, Elizabeth, and thirteen of his children as living at the time. Captain John Morgan married (first) November 16, 1665, Rachel Dymond, by whom he had seven children, and after her death he married (secondJ the widow, Elizabeth Williams, daughter of Lieutenant-Governor William Jones, of New Haven, granddaughter of Governor Theophilus Eaton, by whom he had eight children, making fifteen in all. Children: 1. John, mentioned below. 2. Samuel, born September 9, 1669; married, December 30, 1709, Hannah Avery. 3. Isaac, born October 24, 1670; married, 1715, Abigail Skiffe. 4. Hannah, born January 8. 1674; married, May 4, 1704, Rev. Ephraim Woodbridge, the first minister of Groton. 5. Mercy, born May, 1675, died in
1754; married Williams. 6. Sarah, born
April 13, 1678; married, April, 1694, John Amos, of Groton. 7. James, born 1680; married Bridget . 8. Elizabeth, born about
1690; died young. 9. William, mentioned below. 10. Rachel, baptized April 19, 1697; married, March 17, 1715, Thomas Curtis. 11. Audrea, baptized April 19, 1697; married, November 10, 1719, Benjamin Fowler. 12. Margery, baptized July 9, 1699; married, August 2, 1727, Nathaniel Johnson. 13. Joseph, baptized April 27, 1701; married, May 8, 1735, Ruth Brewster. 14. Theopliilus, baptized May 16, 1703; married Widow Lydia Pierpont. 15. Mary, married, November 14, 1729, John Norton.
(lll) John (2) Morgan, eldest son of Captain John (1) and Rachel (Dymond) Morgan, was born June 10, 1667, in Groton. where he made his home; died between May 30, 1744. and March 16, 1746. He was chosen lieutenant of the Groton Militia Company, April 22, 1692, at the same time his uncle, James Morgan, was made captain. He succeeded the latter, October 8, 1714, and continued as captain to October 12, 1730. He left a large estate in land and chattels, the former being entailed, and the latter going to his daughters. He married Ruth Shapley, born December 12, 1672, daughter of Benjamin and Mary Shapley, of Groton. She died before the making of his will in 1744. Children: Ruth, born August 29, 1697; John, mentioned below; Sarah, February 24, 1702; Experience, March 24, 1704; Hannah, December 17, 1706; Rachel, July 5, 1709; Martha, December 12, 1711; Elizabeth, June 12, 1713; Jemima, May 5. 1/15
(I\\ ) Captain John (3) Morgan, only son of John (2) and Ruth (Shapley) Morgan.
was born January 4, 1700, in Groton, and lived in that part of the town which is now Ledyard, where he died in February, 1771. His will was dated on the 15th of that month. He was chosen ensign of the Northeast Company of Groton, October 11, 1736, and lieutenant, September 26, 1738. He became captain, September 27, 1744, and the company was then known as the Fourth Company of Groton. When he was chosen ensign in 1736, eight prominent citizens of Groton, including his father, remonstrated against commissioning any of the officers of the company because the captain and lieutenant were Episcopalians. The general court refused to sanction the remonstrance, and the several officers were commissioned. Captain John Morgan married, April 17, 1728, Sarah Cobb, and they had children: John, born July 28, 1729; Ruth, April 9, 1733; Phebe, April 9, 1736; Elkanah, June 8, 1738; Shapley, February 7, 1740; Thomas, mentioned below; Eunice, July 22, 1744; Isaac, January 5, 1750.
(V) Thomas Morgan, fourth son of Captain John (3) and Sarah (Cobb) Morgan, was born June 30, 1742, in Groton, and resided in New London until 1769, when he removed to Preston, Connecticut. About 1774 he moved to North Groton, now Ledyard, and about 1792 to Scipio, Cayuga county, New York. His farm was in what is now Ledyard, in that county, and there he died, September 15, 1815. He was led to move to the west because of the liking of his sons for the sea. Two of them, however, followed the sea, one dying on the water, and the other at a West Indian port. He married, about 1764, Sarah Leeds, born 1744, died June 15. 1832. Children: Phebe, born June 10, 1765; Thomas, about 1767; Elizabeth, September 15, 1770; Ephraim, March 14, 1773; Jedediah, mentioned below; William, 1776; Sarah, June 25, 1777; Deborah. Prudence and Temperance (triplets), 1780, all died young; Polly, 1782.
(VI) Jedediah Morgan, third son of Thomas and Sarah (Leeds) Morgan, was born March 14, 1774, in Preston, and resided for many years in Ledyard, New York. About 1823 he removed to Aurora, in the same county, and died there, December 18, 1826. He was elected a member of the New York state senate in 1823, and was re-elected, dying before the expiration of his second term. He married (first) about 1798, Amanda Stanton, born about 1776, died July 8, 1811, in her thirty-fifth year. He married (second) January 26, 1812, Harriet Smith, widow of George Smith, and daughter of Lemuel Steele, of Hartford, Connecticut, born February 12, 1785, died April 4, 1854, in Aurora. Children of first marriage: Jedediah Stanton, born January 26, 1799; Emily. January 1, 1801; Sally, 1802, died 1805; William Leeds, December 6, 1804; Amos, mentioned below. Children of second marriage: Harry, born December 25, 1812; Ledyard, October 13, 1814; Alfred Gray, November 19, 1816; Lewis Henry, November 21, 1818; Charles Douglas, December 21, 1820; Hamilton, July 21, 1823; Harriet Steele, and Amanda Stanton, February 6, 1826. The last two were born in Aurora.
(VII) Amos Morgan, third son of Jedediah and Amanda (Stanton) Morgan, was born November 10, 1806, in Ledyard, New York, and resided at Tec*mseh, Michigan, later in Elyria, Illinois. He married (first) June 27, 1830, Betsey Jennings, of Venice, born February 17, 1809, died in Fleming, January 15, 1852. He married (second) January 27, 1864, Cornelia Nichols. There were two sons of the first marriage: David Pierce, mentioned below; Jedediah Bradford, born March 29, 1834, died 1837.
(VIII) David Pierce Morgan, son of Amos and Betsey (Jennings) Morgan, was born at Tec*mseh, Michigan, August 4, 1831, died at Washington. D. C., January 25, 1886. After receiving his education at Aurora, Cayuga county. New York, where his parents were living when he was a youth, he left there and came to New York City. Here he became an eminent banker, and in his connection with the large interests was unusually successful in a number of the important operations of his day. His office at which he conducted his brokerage business was located at No. 1 Exchange place, New York, corner of Broadway, and his home was at No. 634 Fifth avenue, until he moved to Paris, in 1879, where he lived until he returned to this country, in 1883, when he made his home at Scott Circle, in Washington. D. C. David Pierce Morgan married, New York City, September 30, 1858, Caroline Fellowes, born at Louisville, Kentucky, September 12, 1832, and is still living, residing in New York City. 70 Park avenue. Her parents were William and Caroline (Davis) Fellowes, of Clifton, Staten Island.
Children: 1. Clara Hewitt, born, New York City, August 15, 1859; unmarried; died, Tunbridge Wells, England, May 25, 1880. 2. William Fellowes, see forward. 3. David Pierce, born, Paris, France, September 29, 1862. 4. Caroline, born, Clifton, Staten Island, New York, August 14, 1864; married, Washington, D. C., February 10, 1887, Rudolph H. Kissell, of Inamere Farm, Morristown, New Jersey; issue: Gladys Godfrey Kissell, born January 24, 1888; Ina Alice Kissell, June 22, 1889; Leonora Morgan Kissell, October 23, 1891; Gustav Hermann Kissell, March 3,1895; Rudolph Hermann Kissell, April 13, 1897; Barbara Kissell, died at Morristown, New Jersey, July 17, 1908. 5. Alice, born, Staten Island, December 5, 1865. 6. Lewis Henry, born, Staten Island, June 12, 1867, died, New York City, October 31, 1901; married, Mount Kisco, New York, June 4, 1890, Camilla Leonard; issue: Henry Carey Morgan, born October 24, 1891; Camilla Leonard Morgan, February 6, 1893. 7. James Hewitt, born, Morristown, New Jersey, September 23, 1871, died, Grindstone Island, Jefferson county. New York, June 11, 1909.
(IX) William Fellowes Morgan, son of David Pierce and Caroline (Fellowes) Morgan, was born at Clifton, Staten Island, New York, September 24, 1860, and resides in New York City. After completing his preparatory studies, he entered Columbia University, from which institution he was graduated in the class of 1880. He is president of the Brooklyn Bridge Freezing and Cold Storage Company, located at Arch No. 11, Brooklyn Bridge; a director of the Merchants Refrigerating Company; director of the Tri-State Land Company; director of the Citizens' Central National Bank of New York, and a trustee of Columbia University in the City of New York. In politics Mr. Morgan is a Progressive, and attends St. George's Episcopal Church. He is a member of the Knickerbocker, Racquet & Tennis, St. Anthony, City, Merchants and Baltusrol Golf clubs; of the Society of Colonial Wars and other social organizations. His country residence is at Short Hills, New Jersey. William Fellowes Morgan married, St. Thomas' Church, New York, January 22, 1885, Emma Leavitt, born, Great Barrington, Massachusetts, May 22, 1865, daughter of Henry Sheldon and Martha Ann (Young) Leavitt. Children: 1. Beatrice, see forward.

2. William Fellowes, born at Short Hills, New Jersey, March 13, 1889. 3. Pauline, born at Short Hills, New Jersey, February 16, 1893.
(X) Beatrice Morgan, eldest child of William Fellowes and Emma (Leavitt) Morgan, was born. New York City, June 26, 1886. She was educated at Short Hills, New Jersey, and at the Briery School in New York City. She married, St. George's Episcopal Church, Stuyvesant Square, New York City, February 5, 1907, Frederic Pruyn, born in Albany, New York, July 5, 1881, son of Robert Clarence Pruyn, president of the National Commercial Bank of Albany, and connected with financial institutions in New York. Robert C. Pruyn, son of Hon. Robert Hewson Pruyn, United States Minister to Japan at the time of Lincoln's administration, and his wife, Jane Ann (Lansing) Pruyn, was born in Albany, October 23, 1847; resides in that city, and married, Albany, October 22, 1873, Anna Martha Williams, born, Albany, May 7, 1853, daughter of Chauncey Pratt and Martha Andrews (Hough) Williams, of Albany, New York. Children of Frederic and Beatrice (Morgan) Pruyn: 1. Frederic Pruyn, born, Short Hills, New Jersey, February 25, 1908. 2. Fellowes Morgan Pruyn, born. Short Hills, New Jersey, December 2, 1909. 3. Milton Lee Pruyn, born, Pasadena, California February 27,
1913
(III) William Morgan, son MORGAN of Captain John (q. v.) and
Rachel (Dymond) Morgan, was born at Preston, Connecticut, 1693, died there, October, 1729. A tradition in his family was that he was wont to say that his father had a very old little book in which was written the name "William Morgan, of Llandaff," in Wales, and dated some time before 1600. William owned a pair of gold sleeve buttons of antique production, bearing the initials "W. M.," but although he had received them as heirlooms from his grandfather, they were stolen and melted a hundred years later. William Morgan married, Groton, Connecticut, July 3, 1716, Mary, daughter of Captain James Avery. She was born 1696, died April, 1780. Children: Mary, born May 9, 1717, married Joseph Allen; Elizabeth, February 1, 1719; Margaret, February 26, 1721; William, see forward; Deborah, June 26, 1726, married,
April 2, 1748, Samuel Killum; Prudence, February 29, 1728, married, February 1, 1750, John Morgan.
(IV) Captain William (2) Morgan, son of William (1) and Mary (Avery) Morgan, was born at Groton, Connecticut, June 17, 1723, died there, April 11, 1777. He resided at that place his entire life. He left no will, but his estate inventoried 4.133 pounds, on April 29, 1777, which estate his widow and his son, Christopher, settled as administrators, in Stonington probate court. Captain William Morgan married, Groton, July 4, 1744, Temperance, daughter of Colonel Christopher Avery, great-granddaughter of Captain James Avery, the first, of Groton. Children: William, born September 28, 1745, died September 29, 1753; Christopher, October 27, 1747, married (first) Deborah Ledyard, (second) Margaret Gates; Temperance, May 4, 1752, married, 1770, Ephraim Allyn; William Avery, see forward; Israel, July 22, 1757, married Elizabeth Brewster; Mary, January 8, 1760, married Peter Williams; Simeon, April 1, 1762, married, May 19, 1785, Roby Allyn; Prudence, October 27, 1764, married Increase Stoddard.
(V) Captain William Avery Morgan, son of Captain William (2) and Temperance (Aver') Morgan, was born at Groton, Connecticut, November 24, 1754, died at Lebanon, Connecticut, March 22, 1842. He resided at Groton until his eleventh child was born, and in March, 1796, settled in Colchester, now Salem, where he resided until March, 1814, when he removed to Lebanon, Connecticut. He was a sergeant in the revolution, and was present at the battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775, then being in his twenty-first year. He was a man of good, natural ability, and of some reading; social and companionable in his intercourse; was fond of anecdote and repartee: kind and genial in his sympathies, loved his friends and made them feel his warm affection. Captain William A. Morgan married (first) Groton, May 4, 1776, Lydia Smith, daughter of Nathan Smith, of that place, by whom he had thirteen children; she died, January 4, 1804. He married (second) Colchester (Salem), June 10, 1804, Sarah, daughter of Captain Nathaniel Harris, by whom he had four children. His widow died at Hartford, Connecticut, November 24, 1855, aged eighty-three years. It was his common remark that he had "reared a family of seventeen children, and had never had occasion to blush for the conduct of either of them." All of them, excepting two, Griswold, who died at sea, in his twenty-first year, and Sarah, who died in her fifteenth year, lived to be mature and the heads of large families. Children: 1. William, born November 22, 1777; married, March 11, 1802, Orra Pellet. 2. Griswold, born March 3, 1779, died at sea, November 29, 1799. 3. Avery, born May 20, 1781; married, October 12, 1802, Jerusha Gardiner. 4. Jasper, see forward. 5. Lydia, born October 8, 1784; married, in 1801, Henry Waterman. 6. Nathan, born October 10, 1786; married, January 6, 1808, Lydia Brewster. 7. Betsey, born December 18, 1788, died December 17, 1837; married, March 13, 1816, Archippus, son of Hobert McCall, of Lebanon, Connecticut. 8. Denison, born October 29, 1790; married, October 10, 1815. Ursula Brainard. 9. Nancy, born July 16, 1792; married, February 7, 1811, Captain Gurdon Waterman, of Salem, Connecticut; a successful merchant and sea captain, son of Zebulon Waterman, born February 26, 1786, died August 31, 1826, his widow remaining at Hart ford. 10. Phebe, born March 12, 1794; resided at Hartford; married (first) September 22, 1816, Lyman Bacon, of Woodstock, who died at Hartford, December 11, 1850; she married (second) October 28, 1851, Noah L. Phelps, of Farmington, who died May 25, 1861. 11. Lucy, born February 3, 1796, died at Lebanon, February 10, 1818-; married, November 28, 1816, William, son of Greene McCall. 12. Rebecca, born April 1, 1798; married, September 3, 1822, Hezekiah, son of John Brainard, of Haddam, Connecticut, who died there, March 29, 1862. 13. Charlotte, born December 28, 1801; married. February 28, 1821, Stephen G. Johnson, of Lebanon. 14. Nathaniel Harris, born June 8, 1805; married, May 4, 1830, Harriet E. Saxton. 15. Sarah M., born February 13, 1807, died August 1, 1821. 16. Griswold Edwin, born January 30, 1811; married, November 27, 1834, Eliza J. Saxton. 17. Harriet N., born February 24, 1815; married, May 20, 1837, George W. Kimball, merchant of Hartford; she and her husband lost in a hurricane off Key West, in the brig "Cuba," September 5, 1842.
(VI) Jasper Morgan, son of Captain William Avery and Lydia (Smith) Morgan, was
born January 3, 1783. He was commonly known as "Deacon" Morgan, although he was a merchant of some opulence as well as conducting his own farm at Washington, Massachusetts, whither he removed after residing a time at Bozrah, or in 1809; his first child being born at Bozrah and the next two at Washington. Jasper Morgan married (first) Groton, Connecticut, July 8, 1805, Catherine Copp, widow of Jasper Avery, of that place, who died July 7, 1822; married (second) Windsor, Connecticut, March 10, 1823, Abigail Chaffee, he having removed to that place about 1820, by whom one child; she died January 31, 1832; married (third) Windsor, Connecticut, September 12, 1832, Sarah McCauley Gillett. Children: 1. Griswold Copp, born May
22, 1806, died August 3, 1837, at Windsor, Connecticut; married, at that place, June 3, 1831, Amelia, daughter of Fitzjohn Allen, who married (second) September 13, 1840, Jacob Reynolds Sherwin, of Batavia, New York. 2. Edwin Denison, see forward. 3. Catherine A., born October 26, 1815; married (first) Rev. James E. Rowland; (second) Charles Dresback. 4. Abigail T., born March 17, 1824; married, February 9, 1842, James T. Sherman. 5. Sarah G., born July 3, 1833; married, April 16, 1856, William F. A. Sill. 6. Jasper, born May 9, 1836; married, April 29, 1861, Louisa L. Lovell, and settled in Windsor, Connecticut; by whom: Emma Louisa, born April 1, 1863; Alice Eliza, June
23, 1865; Frederick William, May 15, 1867. (VII) Governor Edwin Denison Morgan,
son of Jasper and Catherine (Copp) Morgan, was born at Washington, Berkshire county, Massachusetts, February 8, 1811, died at his home in New York City, February 14, 1883. He spent his early days as a boy on his father's farm at Windsor, Connecticut, and attended the academy there, later going to the Bacon Academy at Colchester for a short time in the winter of 1826. In 1828, when seventeen years of age he entered the wholesale grocery store of his uncle, Nathan Morgan, at Hartford, and in 1831, when twenty years of age, was made a partner. Shortly after reaching his majority, he was made a councilman of the Hartford civic government. In 1836 he removed to New York City and established himself in business, ultimately becoming one of the most successful merchants of the metropolis. During the terrible epidemic of cholera he never left the city, but remained to aid all in his power. In 1849 he was elected an alderman of New York, and the same year was chosen a state senator for a term of two years. He was re-elected in 1851, and served at one time as president pro tempore. In 1855 ne was appointed a commissioner of emigration, which office he held until 1858. The Republican party chose him the vice-president of the convention which assembled at Pittsburgh, February 22, 1856, and from that time until 1864 he was chairman of the Republican national committee. In the latter year he was chosen chairman of the Union congressional committee. He was elected governor of New York in 1858, and held office two years, when he was re-elected for another two years because his administration had been both popular and a success in every respect. During his terms the state debt was reduced and an increase made in the canal revenue. It was an example of the only re-election to that office which had occurred in twenty years. President Lincoln appointed him a majorgeneral of volunteers, September 30, 1861,and the state of New York was created a military department under his charge. He declined to accept any remuneration for his service. It was during this period that New York sent 223,000 troops into the field, and he has ever since been known in history as "New York's War Governor." He was highly regarded for his sound judgment, sagacity and eminent business capacity, hence he was sent to the United States senate, and held office from March 4, 1863, until March 4, 1869. He was a member of the grand national inquest which tried President Andrew Johnson on the grave question of impeachment. He opened the proceedings of the Baltimore convention of 1864, and was a delegate to the Philadelphia Loyalists' convention of 1866, but took no part in its action. He declined the office of secretary of the United States treasury, offered to him in 1865 by President Lincoln. He was chairman of the national Republican convention in 1872, and conducted the campaign resulting in the election of General U. S. Grant. He was Republican candidate for United States senator in 1875, and in 1876 for governor. In 1881, President Chester A. Arthur offered him the portfolio of secretary of the treasury, but he declined because of advanced age. He made a gift of $200,000
to the New York Union Theological Seminary and $100,000 for a dormitory at Williams College, which gave him the degre of LL.D., in 1867, and the charitable bequests in his will reached about $800,000.
Governor Edwin D. Morgan married, Hartford, Connecticut, August 19, 1833, Eliza Matilda Waterman, daughter of Captain Henry and Lydia (Morgan) Waterman, both of Hartford. Their children were born in that city, and all were buried in Spring Grove Cemetery there. Children: 1. Edwin Denison, see forward. 2. Frederick Avery, born July 17, 1838, died July 13, 1841. 3. Gilbert Henry, born January 12, 1843, died September 1, 1843. 4- Caroline Matilda, born July 28, 1846, died July 2, 1847. 5- Alfred Waterman, born December 14, 1847, died July 12, 1848.
(VIII) Edwin Denison (2) Morgan, son of Governor Edwin D. (1) and Eliza Matilda (Waterman) Morgan, was born in New York City, September 8, 1834. He resided in New York City, having his residence at No. 411 Fifth avenue, and made a reputation as a banker. He was a man of steadfast purpose, respected as one of strictest integrity; possessed a handsome physique, and was greatly beloved by his friends. He was connected with a number of the most important institutions in the city. Edwin D. Morgan married, Suffield, Connecticut, January 5, 1853, Sarah Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas and Lucy Archer, of that place. Child, Edwin Denison, see forward.
(IX) Edwin Denison (3) Morgan, son of Edwin Denison (2) and Sarah Elizabeth (Archer) Morgan, was born October 19, 1854. After completing his preparatory education, he entered Harvard University, from which he was graduated in the class of 1877. He resides with his family at Westbury, Long Island, where his estate is known as "Wheatly," and in it he takes considerable pride. In politics he is a Republican, and he attends the Episcopal church. He is the president of the Nassau Light and Power Company, president of the Corralitos Company, a director of the Metropolitan Trust Company of the City of New York, and a director of the Philipsburg Coal and Land Company. His private offices are at No. 100 Broadway, New York City. He is a member of the Sons of the Revolution, of the Union, Knickerbocker, the Brook, New York Yacht, Automobile, Racquet and Tennis, Turf and Field, University, Union League, Meadowbrook, Westminster Kennel and Country clubs, the Down Town Association and of the Society of Mayflower Descendants, while his wife belongs to the Society of Colonial Dames and the Colony Club.
Edwin D. Morgan married, April 11, 1886, Elizabeth Mary Moran. Children: Elizabeth Sarah, born January 18, 1889; Edwin Denison, May 17, 1890; Theodore Moran, April 3, 1893; Thomas Archer, July 3, 1894; Katharine Avery, October 29, 1898; Jasper, January 28, 1900.