From Alexander Morrow 1745-1817 of Brooke County, (W)Virginia and His Descendants, by Anne Morrow Nees (Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1993), pp. 83-94.
Alexander Morrow was born about 1745 in Northern Ireland … The tombstones in St. John's Cemetery had evidently been read at an earlier time. His stone, viewed on a trip there in 1982, was illegible.
According to documents and census records, Alexander and Susan had seven children, all born in Ireland:
A. John, b. c1766 m. Eleanor Welch Aug. 1803, d. Feb. 20, 1854
B. William, b. 1769, unm., d. August 1839. [Lived on his father's old homestead.]
C. Margaret, b. 1771, m. Robert Morehead, d. in August 1848 [in Keene, Coshocton, Ohio]
D. James, b. bef. 1775, m. (1) Ruth Davis 1809, (2) Nancy Elliott, d. before 1830
E. Alexander Jr. b. 1775, m. Susannah Welch 1820, d. 23 Aug. 1847
F. Nancy, m. [1] Samuel Logue [d. in the War of 1812], in father's will is Nancy "Mittoe" or "Mitten" [m. (2) a man named Tumberlick]
G. Elizabeth, m. David Pollock ("Poke" in father's will.)
When the family emigrated from Ireland, Margaret and Robert Morehead had been married and had one son. The other children, to our knowledge, were not married.
We don't know whether the family lived first in New Jersey … but Alexander arrived in Brooke County about 1798. He did not formally purchase land until 1803, but he could have been occupying the land earlier.
Evidently Alexander paid his taxes regularly and was not sued by his neighbors. His will appears in writing in Brooke county courthouse records. [His land is divided between his sons William and Alexander.]
Alexander and his wife were members of St. John's Episcopal Church … His reason for joining the Episcopal Church, some six air-miles south, rather than one of two Presbyterian churches closer to his home, is unclear … Future generations practiced the Presbyterian religion.
Alexander's legacy to his immediate family seems quite modest. But the imagination and courage which motivated him to leave Ireland at the age of 48 with his entire family to make a home in the wilderness of Virginia may be his true legacy to the over 2000 known descendants.
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From History of the Pan-Handle: Being Historical Collections of the Counties of Ohio, Brooke, Marshall and Hancock, West Virginia, compiled by J. H. Newton, G. G. Nichols, A. G. Sprankle (Heritage Books, 1879), p. 445:
Alexander Morrow was born in Ireland and was married to Susan Cassady. In 1793, he, accompanied with his wife and seven children, viz: John, William, Alexander, Margaret, Elizabeth and Nancy emigrated to America, landing at Philadelphia, where they remained a few days and then settled in the State of New Jersey, remaining there five years. In 1798 they all came west and located in now Hancock county. They purchased a 600 acre tract of land in 1800, a part of which is now [in 1879] owned by William Morrow. Mr. M. followed farming as his vocation. He died in about 1820, at a good old age.
Alexander Morrow was born about 1745 in Northern Ireland … The tombstones in St. John's Cemetery had evidently been read at an earlier time. His stone, viewed on a trip there in 1982, was illegible.
According to documents and census records, Alexander and Susan had seven children, all born in Ireland:
A. John, b. c1766 m. Eleanor Welch Aug. 1803, d. Feb. 20, 1854
B. William, b. 1769, unm., d. August 1839. [Lived on his father's old homestead.]
C. Margaret, b. 1771, m. Robert Morehead, d. in August 1848 [in Keene, Coshocton, Ohio]
D. James, b. bef. 1775, m. (1) Ruth Davis 1809, (2) Nancy Elliott, d. before 1830
E. Alexander Jr. b. 1775, m. Susannah Welch 1820, d. 23 Aug. 1847
F. Nancy, m. [1] Samuel Logue [d. in the War of 1812], in father's will is Nancy "Mittoe" or "Mitten" [m. (2) a man named Tumberlick]
G. Elizabeth, m. David Pollock ("Poke" in father's will.)
When the family emigrated from Ireland, Margaret and Robert Morehead had been married and had one son. The other children, to our knowledge, were not married.
We don't know whether the family lived first in New Jersey … but Alexander arrived in Brooke County about 1798. He did not formally purchase land until 1803, but he could have been occupying the land earlier.
Evidently Alexander paid his taxes regularly and was not sued by his neighbors. His will appears in writing in Brooke county courthouse records. [His land is divided between his sons William and Alexander.]
Alexander and his wife were members of St. John's Episcopal Church … His reason for joining the Episcopal Church, some six air-miles south, rather than one of two Presbyterian churches closer to his home, is unclear … Future generations practiced the Presbyterian religion.
Alexander's legacy to his immediate family seems quite modest. But the imagination and courage which motivated him to leave Ireland at the age of 48 with his entire family to make a home in the wilderness of Virginia may be his true legacy to the over 2000 known descendants.
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From History of the Pan-Handle: Being Historical Collections of the Counties of Ohio, Brooke, Marshall and Hancock, West Virginia, compiled by J. H. Newton, G. G. Nichols, A. G. Sprankle (Heritage Books, 1879), p. 445:
Alexander Morrow was born in Ireland and was married to Susan Cassady. In 1793, he, accompanied with his wife and seven children, viz: John, William, Alexander, Margaret, Elizabeth and Nancy emigrated to America, landing at Philadelphia, where they remained a few days and then settled in the State of New Jersey, remaining there five years. In 1798 they all came west and located in now Hancock county. They purchased a 600 acre tract of land in 1800, a part of which is now [in 1879] owned by William Morrow. Mr. M. followed farming as his vocation. He died in about 1820, at a good old age.
From Alexander Morrow 1745-1817 of Brooke County, (W)Virginia and His Descendants, by Anne Morrow Nees (Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1993), pp. 83-94.
Alexander Morrow was born about 1745 in Northern Ireland … The tombstones in St. John's Cemetery had evidently been read at an earlier time. His stone, viewed on a trip there in 1982, was illegible.
According to documents and census records, Alexander and Susan had seven children, all born in Ireland:
A. John, b. c1766 m. Eleanor Welch Aug. 1803, d. Feb. 20, 1854
B. William, b. 1769, unm., d. August 1839. [Lived on his father's old homestead.]
C. Margaret, b. 1771, m. Robert Morehead, d. in August 1848 [in Keene, Coshocton, Ohio]
D. James, b. bef. 1775, m. (1) Ruth Davis 1809, (2) Nancy Elliott, d. before 1830
E. Alexander Jr. b. 1775, m. Susannah Welch 1820, d. 23 Aug. 1847
F. Nancy, m. [1] Samuel Logue [d. in the War of 1812], in father's will is Nancy "Mittoe" or "Mitten" [m. (2) a man named Tumberlick]
G. Elizabeth, m. David Pollock ("Poke" in father's will.)
When the family emigrated from Ireland, Margaret and Robert Morehead had been married and had one son. The other children, to our knowledge, were not married.
We don't know whether the family lived first in New Jersey … but Alexander arrived in Brooke County about 1798. He did not formally purchase land until 1803, but he could have been occupying the land earlier.
Evidently Alexander paid his taxes regularly and was not sued by his neighbors. His will appears in writing in Brooke county courthouse records. [His land is divided between his sons William and Alexander.]
Alexander and his wife were members of St. John's Episcopal Church … His reason for joining the Episcopal Church, some six air-miles south, rather than one of two Presbyterian churches closer to his home, is unclear … Future generations practiced the Presbyterian religion.
Alexander's legacy to his immediate family seems quite modest. But the imagination and courage which motivated him to leave Ireland at the age of 48 with his entire family to make a home in the wilderness of Virginia may be his true legacy to the over 2000 known descendants.
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From History of the Pan-Handle: Being Historical Collections of the Counties of Ohio, Brooke, Marshall and Hancock, West Virginia, compiled by J. H. Newton, G. G. Nichols, A. G. Sprankle (Heritage Books, 1879), p. 445:
Alexander Morrow was born in Ireland and was married to Susan Cassady. In 1793, he, accompanied with his wife and seven children, viz: John, William, Alexander, Margaret, Elizabeth and Nancy emigrated to America, landing at Philadelphia, where they remained a few days and then settled in the State of New Jersey, remaining there five years. In 1798 they all came west and located in now Hancock county. They purchased a 600 acre tract of land in 1800, a part of which is now [in 1879] owned by William Morrow. Mr. M. followed farming as his vocation. He died in about 1820, at a good old age.
Alexander Morrow was born about 1745 in Northern Ireland … The tombstones in St. John's Cemetery had evidently been read at an earlier time. His stone, viewed on a trip there in 1982, was illegible.
According to documents and census records, Alexander and Susan had seven children, all born in Ireland:
A. John, b. c1766 m. Eleanor Welch Aug. 1803, d. Feb. 20, 1854
B. William, b. 1769, unm., d. August 1839. [Lived on his father's old homestead.]
C. Margaret, b. 1771, m. Robert Morehead, d. in August 1848 [in Keene, Coshocton, Ohio]
D. James, b. bef. 1775, m. (1) Ruth Davis 1809, (2) Nancy Elliott, d. before 1830
E. Alexander Jr. b. 1775, m. Susannah Welch 1820, d. 23 Aug. 1847
F. Nancy, m. [1] Samuel Logue [d. in the War of 1812], in father's will is Nancy "Mittoe" or "Mitten" [m. (2) a man named Tumberlick]
G. Elizabeth, m. David Pollock ("Poke" in father's will.)
When the family emigrated from Ireland, Margaret and Robert Morehead had been married and had one son. The other children, to our knowledge, were not married.
We don't know whether the family lived first in New Jersey … but Alexander arrived in Brooke County about 1798. He did not formally purchase land until 1803, but he could have been occupying the land earlier.
Evidently Alexander paid his taxes regularly and was not sued by his neighbors. His will appears in writing in Brooke county courthouse records. [His land is divided between his sons William and Alexander.]
Alexander and his wife were members of St. John's Episcopal Church … His reason for joining the Episcopal Church, some six air-miles south, rather than one of two Presbyterian churches closer to his home, is unclear … Future generations practiced the Presbyterian religion.
Alexander's legacy to his immediate family seems quite modest. But the imagination and courage which motivated him to leave Ireland at the age of 48 with his entire family to make a home in the wilderness of Virginia may be his true legacy to the over 2000 known descendants.
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From History of the Pan-Handle: Being Historical Collections of the Counties of Ohio, Brooke, Marshall and Hancock, West Virginia, compiled by J. H. Newton, G. G. Nichols, A. G. Sprankle (Heritage Books, 1879), p. 445:
Alexander Morrow was born in Ireland and was married to Susan Cassady. In 1793, he, accompanied with his wife and seven children, viz: John, William, Alexander, Margaret, Elizabeth and Nancy emigrated to America, landing at Philadelphia, where they remained a few days and then settled in the State of New Jersey, remaining there five years. In 1798 they all came west and located in now Hancock county. They purchased a 600 acre tract of land in 1800, a part of which is now [in 1879] owned by William Morrow. Mr. M. followed farming as his vocation. He died in about 1820, at a good old age.
