James is among the many children of Jonathan Morgan Jr and Zipporah Strickland. His grave on Findagrave shows his age as 70, (as do the cemetery readings of record), indicating he is the man who married Jerusha and not the man born in 1750 much farther away in Milford..
Born'
05 JUN 1746.
Kent, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
Sources
White, Lorraine Cook, ed, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994-2002
Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 06 February 2019), memorial page for James Morgan (unknown–28 Mar 1816), Find A Grave Memorial no. 46805716, citing Center Cemetery, New Milford, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA ; Maintained by Gary Boughton (contributor 46892198)
*Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records. Vol. 1-55. Baltimore, MD, USA, "Connecticut, Town Marriage Records, pre-1870," database, Ancestry, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 1 Sep 2019), entry for James Morgan and Jerusha Beecher, married 1766; citing New Milford Vital Records, p 149, image 140 of 225.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with James by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with James: