Robert Morrison

Abt 1754 - Yes, date unknown

• Name	Robert Morrison  [1]
  Birth	Abt 1754	County Derry, Ireland   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Yes, date unknown
  Notes	From Robert Morrison's grandson's (Robert Morrison) autobiography, published in "The Scroll" for April 1897, p. 411: "Robert Morrison, my grandfather, was of Scotch-Irish parentage. He was born in County Derry, Ireland. The family was of the middle class, neither poor nor rich, and was connected in marriage with the Hamiltons in Scotland. In 1765, when Robert was sixteen years old, with his brothers older than himself, he came to America and settled in Delaware. Some of them emigrated to the Valley of Virginia; one kept on south; another wing went west to Vincennes, Kaskasia and St. Louis. "After the Revolutionary War, in which Robert had a share as one of the 'blue hen's chickens,' as soldiers from Delaware were called, he concluded to take his young wife, Elizabeth Culbertson, an English woman, and two little children, as I believe, and go west. General Washington asked him to take his tract of 600 acres in the north western part of Fayette County, Pa., lying on the Youghiogheny river. He went and looked at the land, but thought it too much exposed to incursions from the Indians, and continued his journey about fifty miles southwest into Green county, and bought out the McClungs, who took their slaves and went to Kentucky, as Pennsylvania had in 1780 passed an ordinance of gradual emancipation. There my grandfather lived and reared a family of ten children and died at the age of eighty-two. There my father, Thomas Morrison, was born and reared."
  Person ID	I1088	Rumsey/Ballou Family Tree
  Last Modified	15 Aug 2002

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Culbertson   d. Yes, date unknown
  Children	+ 1. Thomas Morrison,   b. 4 Jun 1792, Greene Co., Pennsylvania, USA d. 5 Feb 1893 (Age 100 years)
  Family ID	F404	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	15 Aug 2002

  
  

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• Sources

  [S610] William Henry Jennings, A Genealogical History of the Jennings Families, (Mann & Adair), 25. [S610] William Henry Jennings, A Genealogical History of the Jennings Families, (Mann & Adair), 26.