Mark Morgan

Life and Orange County connections

Dated events connected with this person, in date order. See these 7 dated events in the chronology →

1. 1747 Mark Morgan is granted land in the New Hope Creek section Morgan secured land in the New Hope Creek section of eastern Orange. By 1755 he held more enslaved people than anyone else in the county. Place: New Hope CreekSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 15
2. 1752 John Patterson is named one of the first vestrymen of St. Matthew's Parish The act of the 1752 Assembly that created Orange County and the Parish of St. Matthew named John Patterson among the twelve vestrymen who were to serve until the first vestry election. People: John Patterson, Alexander Mebane, James Watson, Mark Morgan, John Gray Place: Orange CountySearch the index · Documenting the American South: Colonial and State Records of North Carolina, vol. 23: Acts of the General Assembly, March 31-April 15, 1752, ch. VI
3. 1753-54 Mark Morgan sits in the General Assembly for Orange County Mark Morgan, a justice of the peace and militia officer who had settled on Morgan Creek near present Chapel Hill, was a member of the colonial General Assembly for Orange County for the 1753-54 session. Place: Orange CountySearch the index · MosaicNC (NC Office of Archives and History): Morgan, Mark
4. 1755 Eight percent of Orange families hold people in slavery In 1755 only 8 percent of the county's families held enslaved people, and the largest holder, Mark Morgan, held six. People: Mark Morgan Place: Orange CountyLefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 16
5. Spring 1755 Mark Morgan fails to qualify for his captaincy at the Orange regiment's general muster Reporting on the Orange regiment's general muster, Lieutenant Colonel Josias Dickson told Governor Arthur Dobbs that Mark Morgan had notice of his appointment as captain but did not attend to be qualified. Major Alexander Mebane listed Morgan among captains who refused to act and proposed Thomas Loyd in his place. People: Arthur Dobbs Place: Orange County · Also named: Josias Dickson, Alexander Mebane, Thomas LoydSearch the index · MosaicNC: Letter from Josias Dickson to Arthur Dobbs, 12 April 1755
6. December 5, 1792 Trustees fix the university at Chapel Hill and list its Orange County land donors Meeting on December 5, 1792, the trustees voted unanimously to place the university at New Hope Chapel Hill and recorded nine donors of Orange County land, among them Matthew McCauley (150 acres) and William McCauley (100 acres). Each donor could have one student educated free of tuition. People: Matthew McCauley, Mark Morgan, Christopher Barbee, Colonel John Hogan, William McCauley Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · UNC Libraries, History on the Hill: Original Donors to the University and the Myth of Free Tuition
7. by June 1885 A Memorial Hall tablet names the eleven donors of the university's land The trustees placed a tablet in Memorial Hall naming the eleven Orange County landowners whose gifts of land settled the university and the village at Chapel Hill. Cameron called them the sturdy Orange farmers who fixed the seat of the institution. People: Christopher Barbee, Edmund Jones, Matthew McCauley, William McCauley, Mark Morgan Place: Memorial Hall, UNC, Chapel HillUniversity of North Carolina, Memorial Hall Inaugural Proceedings, Wednesday, June 3, 1885 (1885), scan p. 15