The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
It is considered a research aid and is intended to assist in locating sources that can be used as proof.
State of Service: VA
Qualifying Service: Colonel / Patriotic Service
Birth: 1750 / Spotsylvania / VA Death: 1820 / Berkeley / VA
Qualifying Service Description:
First Battalion, Berkeley County VA Militia
Paid Specific Tax, Berkeley Co, 1781
Additional References:
Tombstone Inscriptions: Jefferson County, WV, 1687–1980, by Bee Line Chapter, NSDAR (Marceline, Missouri, 1981)
Auditor of Public Accounts, APA 640, Provision Law and Specific Tax Accounts, Bonds, and Correspondence, 1779-1790; 1797, Berkeley County, Virginia Folder, Library of Virginia, Archives Division
Spouse: Mary Rutherford Peyton Children: Susannah; Samuel; Elizabeth; Margaret P; James; Charles;
John Morrow was born at Spotsylvania County, Virginia, in 1750. He was Colonel of a Virginia Regiment in the Revolutionary War. He was friends with prominent families in the Martinsville and Shepherdsville area of present-day West Virginia. He was a merchant of Shepherdstown, a ruling elder of the Presbyterian Church, and Justice of Berkeley County. Morrow married Mary Rutherford Peyton, widow of Colonel Henry Peyton, 6 July 1781. In 1805, Colonel Morrow was elected to the U.S. Congress from the Berkeley District and served in the Ninth and Tenth Congress. Morrow died in 1820.
Sources:
Bee Line Chapter, NSDAR (1981). Tombstone Inscriptions: Jefferson County, West Virginia, 1687–1980. Marceline, Missouri: Walsworth Publishing Company.
Loeser, Rudolph: Biography of Robert Rutherford by Rudolf Loeser. Bedinger Family History and Genealogy, 21 May 2014, http://www.bedinger.org/biography-of-robert-rutherford-by-rudolf-loeser.html.
Ray, W. S.: Tennessee Cousins: A History of Tennessee People. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company. 2014.
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