Person Info
- Name: James MORRISON
- Sex: M
- Birth: 1755 in Cumberland Co, Pennsylvania b
- Death: 23 Apr 1823 d
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Children:
- John MORRISON
- William MORRISON Death: Indianapolis, Indiana
- Elizabeth MORRISON
Bibliography
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Helm, Emily Todd, "TODD Family, based on the manuscript of Emily Todd Helm", series of magazine articles in Kittochtinny Magazine, vol 1ff, 1905, p69-383 (with gaps). LDS FILM#0176612#1 (installments 1-3). Available at https://familysearch.org/search/film/008703194 images 6-55. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Helm TODD p[0-9-]*].
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- [Ref: Helm TODD p253],
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- [Ref: Helm TODD p253]
Sources for death Information
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- [Ref: Helm TODD p253]
Sources with Information about marriage to Jane Thompson TODD
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- [Ref: Helm TODD p81],
- child:
- [Ref: Helm TODD p254]
Research Notes:
soldier of the Revolution. He enlisted in the Eighth Reg't Pa. Line, and was
promoted to be an ensign, Dec 21 1778. Previous to his promotion he was
detached with Captain Van Swearingen for the Northern campaign, in Morgan's
famous Rifle Battalion, with which he fought against Burgoyne at Saratoga and
Stillwater. When he became an ensign he rejoined his regiment under Colonel
Broadhead and served in Western Pennsylvania. How long he remained in the
service the records fail to show, but from a letter written by him to Gen.
Callender Irvine, dated at Lexington, KY, he was still in the service in 1781.
In the letter he says that "when Gen. Wm. Irvine took command of the Western
Department, in the fall of 1781, he there found the 8th Pa. and 7th Virginia,
or rather skeletons, for they both were unable to make the number requisite
for one efficient regiment. The old fort, particularly the picketing on three
sides, was in a complete state of decay. Gen. Irvine had new pickets
immediately prepared, and to encourage the completion of the work helped with
his own hands, this had the effect no doubt intended, as every officer
followed so good an example, and in a few days the fort was put in good order
and made capable of resisting an attack from the combined forces of the
British and Indians from the Lakes under the direction of Col. John Connelly,
who was well acquainted with the fort and country - and in the immediate
neighborhood were many persons attached to the British cause. Gen. Irvine had
information of this premeditated attack from Gen. Washington, and adopted the
means of making it too hazardous, as there remained no doubt that the
preparations were suspended by Connelly's correspondents informing him of the
arrangements adopted by the Commanding General to preclude retreat in case of
discomfiture." He removed to Kentucky in 1792, and was a judge in Fayette Co,
and extensively engaged in business at Lexington. In his letter concerning
General Irvine he complained that he was much afflicted with heart disease.
[Ref: Helm TODD p253-4]
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