Gen. Daniel Morgan's Birthplace and Life (Folsom 1929) PDF

by Joseph Fulford Folsom | NJHS 1929 | 12pp | PDF 164K |

An excellent biography, which takes into consideration much of the previously written work, and summarizes their discrepancies. Within ten days of receiving his commission, Morgan had raised a company of 96 riflemen and marched directly to the aid of General Washington from Winchester, Virginia to Cambridge, Massachusetts. On a questionnaire circulated to veterans after the Revolution, he was asked for information regarding his services in the cause of freedom. He wrote only, "Fought everywhere, surrendered nowhere." The New Jersey Historical Society was the first to take the position that General Morgan's birthplace was at New Hampton, Lebanon Township, New Jersey.