Ruth (Brewster) Morgan (1711 - abt. 1807)

Born 9 Dec 1711 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Wife of Joseph Morgan — married 8 May 1735 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Province of Massachusetts

Descendants

Died about 1807 at about age 95 in Canaan, Litchfield, Connecticut [uncertain]

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Biography

Ruth, daughter of Nathaniel and Mary (Dwelley) Brewster, was born at Duxbury, MA on December 9, 1711. She married Joseph Morgan of Preston, CT on May 8, 1735 at Duxbury. It is reputed that she died at the home of her daughter, Mary (Morgan) Noble, in Canaan, CT.

Children

Joseph and Ruth (Brewster) Morgan had the following (8) children:^[1]

1. Olive, born 8 May 1737; married William Brewster
2. Isaac, born 29 March 1739; married Alice Spaulding
3. Consider, born 28 June 1740; married Ruth Mosely
4. Lydia, born 7 April 1742; died unmarried
5. Joseph, born 14 May 1745; presumably married Sarah Spaulding
6. Dwelle/Dwelley, born 12 April 1749
7. Mercy, born 8 April 1751
8. Mary, born 20 June 1753; married _____ Noble

Notes

Mayflower Families in Progress is disputing the claim by Brewster Genealogy, (1908), which may well have been copied from Morgan Gen., that the Joseph Morgan who married Ruth Brewster is not the son of John and Elizabeth (Jones) (Williams) Morgan. Neither Brewster Gen. nor Morgan Gen. provide any documentation to support that claim and none can be found to support any of the vitals provided.

MFIP feels, according to recorded vital records for Preston, CT and the naming of the children of John and Ruth, that it is more likely that Joseph is the son of Isaac and Mary (Spaulding) Morgan.

The 2019 Edition of the Brewster Silver Book indicates that Joseph, who was baptized on 27 April 1701 and died on 24 May 1764, was the son of John and Elizabeth (Jones) (Williams) Morgan.^[2]

• Emma C. (Brewster) Jones, The Brewster Genealogy, 1566-1907, two volumes, (New York: The Grafton Press, 1908), 1:83

• Morgan Genealogy. A History of James Morgan, of New London, Conn. and his Descendants, From 1607 to 1869, (Hartford: Press of Case, Lockwood & Brainard, 1869), p. 29

Sources

1. ↑ Mayflower Families Through Five Generations Descendants of the Pilgrims Who Landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts, in December 1620, Volume Twenty-Four, Part 3, The Descendants of Elder William Brewster Through His Children Patience, Fear, and Love, Generations 5 and 6, by Barbara Lambert Merrick, edited by John Bradley Arthaud, previewed by Peggy M. Baker, published in 2019 by the General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 4 Winslow Street, Plymouth, MA 02360, page 161
2. ↑ Mayflower Families Through Five Generations Descendants of the Pilgrims Who Landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts, in December 1620, Volume Twenty-Four, Part 3, The Descendants of Elder William Brewster Through His Children Patience, Fear, and Love, Generations 5 and 6, by Barbara Lambert Merrick, edited by John Bradley Arthaud, previewed by Peggy M. Baker, published in 2019 by the General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 4 Winslow Street, Plymouth, MA 02360, page 161

• Barbara Lambert Merrick, comp., Scott Andrew Bartley, ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Elder William Brewster, Volume 24, Part 1, 1st edition, (Plymouth: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2014), p. 357

• Barbara Lambert Merrick, comp., E. Virginia Hunt, ed., Mayflower Families In Progress, William Brewster and the Fifth Generation Descendants of his son Love, (Plymouth: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2003), pp. 40-42

• Vital Records of Duxbury Massachusetts to the year 1850, (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1911), p. 35 (birth); p. 226 (marriage)