This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/pBC.2ACE/1784.1788.1.1 Message Board Post: Great to hear from you so soon and of your project at hand. Miss Julia Morgan Harding (1854-1943) of Pittsburgh was a great-great-grand-daughter of Col. George Morgan. She was the daughter of Lavinia Maria Morgan who married Capt. Ebenezer Denny Harding of Pittsburgh. Lavinia Maria Morgan (1832-1909) was the daughter of Col. James Bunyan Morgan who married Susan Mountain. Col. James Bunyan Morgan (1796-1889) was the eldest son of Gen. John Morgan who married Margaret Bunyan. And Gen. John Morgan (1770-1817) was the eldest son of Col. George Morgan. Miss Julia Morgan Harding did indeed read her paper entitled "Col. George Morgan, His Family and His Times" before the Washington County Historical Society (in Washington, Pa.), on May 19th, 1904. A front-page full-text account appeared in the May 21st, 1904, edition of the Washington "Observer." Miss Harding's original annotated copy of that account is in the archives of the Washington County Historical Society, and I have a copy of it. Miss Harding had one brother, Maj. Edward Harding (1856-1913) who married Jane Elizabeth Cooper. Their son, James Bunyan Morgan Harding (1886-1963) who married Mildred Oberteuffer, was my grandfather, through my mother Mrs. Mildred Harding Craig. Miss Julia Morgan Harding's "Collection of letters, notes and other papers of and relating to Col. George Morgan and the Morgan family, especially a notebook of copies of Morgan letters now lost " and extractions from old family Bibles, hand-copied circa 1874-1905, as cited by Max Savelle in 1932, was left to her nephew, my grandfather, James Bunyan Morgan Harding, and in turn to my mother, and more recently, to me, her son. I would be happy to provide you with copies of several good accounts of the Col.'s New Madrid project, as well as Max Savelle's typewritten copy of his 1927 paper entitled "George Morgan, Esquire: Gentleman of the American Revolution" for presentation before the American History Conference of Columbia University, a precursor to his 1932 "Colony Builder." And some family tree schematics you might find helpful, Col. George Morgan's obituary, and of course the obit of dear Maria Woodbridge (Morgan) Watson. I'm in the midst of final edits of a long-in-the-works Morgan Family History, and would be happy to provide you with copies of anything you might find helpful. Jay Feldman's recent "When The Mississippi Ran Backwards" has some good detail of Col. Morgan's planned utopia at New Madrid. Enthusiastically at your service, a great-great-great-great-great-grandson of Col. George Morgan, John Alexander Craig