Mahitable (Fish) Morgan (1756 - 1837)

Born 18 Mar 1756 in Salem, New London County, Connecticut Colony

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Died 15 May 1837 at age 81 in Canaan, Wayne County, Pennsylvania, USA

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Biography

Matilda Fish was a daughter of Jonathan & Abigail (Fish) Fish. Her birth record provides evidence that her given name was Mahitable, and that she was born 18 March 1756 ^[1]. She probably preferred to be addressed as Matilda.

Matilda married Jesse Morgan Mar. 6, 1783.

They moved from Salem, Connecticut to Canaan, Wayne County, Pennsylvania.

Matilda (Fish) Morgan died 15 May 1837, age 80, in Wayne County, Pennsylvania. Her grave is in South Canaan Bible Protestant Cemetery, South Canaan, Wayne County, Pennsylvania, USA ^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ "Connecticut Marriages, 1640-1939," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BP-4949-B?cc=2448940 : 11 April 2017), > image 1 of 1; Connecticut State Library, Hartford.
2. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #20979480

• Morgan genealogy : A history of James Morgan, of New London, Conn., and his descendants; from 1607 to 1869 ... With an appendix containing the history of his brother, Miles Morgan, of Springfield, Mass.; and some of his descendants ...by Morgan, Nathaniel H. (Nathaniel Harris), 1805-1881 Published 1869 pg. 65

• The Fish Family in England and America (1948) p. 284, no. 1750: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89067390757;view=1up;seq=344;size=150

• Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com.