{"id":1343,"date":"2016-06-12T05:45:19","date_gmt":"2016-06-12T05:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/?page_id=1343"},"modified":"2020-07-02T06:10:59","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T06:10:59","slug":"death-of-lieutenant-nicholas-morgan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/sample-page\/morgan-family\/death-of-lieutenant-nicholas-morgan\/","title":{"rendered":"Death of Lieutenant Nicholas Morgan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Morgan Moment \u2013 Death of Lieutenant Nicholas Morgan<\/h3>\n
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Grave Markers for Lieutenant Nicholas Morgan.<\/p><\/div>\n

Many thanks to Larry Kidder from Crossroads of the American Revolution<\/a> for helping me finally find\u00a0the below article from the December 25, 1782 New Jersey Gazette about the sad and untimely death of Lieutenant Nicholas Morgan<\/a>. Lt. Morgan is buried just a few hundred feet away from my childhood bedroom. While all the neighborhood kids in my time had traveled through the Morgan Family Cemetery a bazillion times (its fenced now), it wasn\u2019t until I was significantly older that I started to think about the people buried there.\u00a0 Because it was so familiar, I never gave thought to the fact that there were, for the United States, some very, very old graves there.<\/p>\n

Lieutenant Nicholas Morgan is in one of the oldest graves in the Morgan Family Cemetery, perhaps the oldest.\u00a0 He was killed \u2013 in Morgan \u2013 during the Revolutionary War.\u00a0 Think about that for a moment.\u00a0 A number of skirmishes of the Revolutionary War actually took place in Morgan. That still blows my mind. There has been peace so long in Morgan that it is nearly impossible to fathom that there was ever a time in New Jersey when people couldn\u2019t image anything other than the war they were somehow living though.\u00a0 While this concept is reassuring, i.e., that one time war zones can someday become so peaceful for so long that people lose the knowledge that there was ever a conflict there.\u00a0 Unfortunately, its corollary is the complete opposite of reassuring, i.e., that any long time peaceful place can at any time become a war zone.\u00a0 Think Syria, Vietnam, France, England, Germany \u2026 the list is endless in both directions.<\/p>\n

Watch for Larry\u2019s upcoming short write-up about Captain James Morgan, Sr. (Nicholas\u2019 father) in the \u201cMeet Your Revolutionary Neighbors Project<\/a>\u201d section of the Crossroads of the American Revolution web site.<\/p>\n

The below article is available on GenealogyBank.com, a source for thousands of newspaper archives, obituaries, genealogy records, military records, and more.\u00a0 You\u2019ll note that due to the time period in which it was written, you will often see an \u2018f\u2019 character which, in present days, would be written as an \u2018s\u2019.<\/p>\n

You will also read \u201chis piece flashed\u2026\u201d\u00a0 This means that Lt. Morgan\u2019s musket (predecessor of the rifle) did not fire correctly, i.e., the flint used to ignite the gunpowder sparked but the spark did not set off the gunpowder, which in turn, did not shoot out the musket ball.\u00a0 This is the origin of the phrase \u201ca flash in the pan\u201d.<\/p>\n

TRENTON, December 25.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cOn Monday the ninth inst. About 11 o\u2019clock at night, Lieutenant Nicholas Morgan, of the state regiment, was mortally wounded by a party of refugees from New-York, of which wound he died about four hours after.\u2013The circumstances are related as follow :<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cHe was on guard on the shore of South-Amboy, and seeing a party coming toward him, supposed they were his own men until they came pretty near, which, on challenging them, he found his mistake and attempted to fire, but his piece flashed, upon which they instantly fired, wounded him, and, running into an adjacent swamp, made their escape.\u2013Thus fell Lieutenant Morgan, in the 28th<\/sup> year of his age.\u2013His corpse was carried to his father\u2019s house, from whence it was buried on the 11th<\/sup> with the honours of war, attended by a great number of friends and acquaintances.\u2013A sermon was preached by the Revd. Di. Du-Bois, from the Matt. xxiv, 44.\u2013Therefore be ye also ready : for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cLieut. Morgan possesses the spirit of patriotism and the virtues of hospitality in an eminent degree.\u2013He felt warmly attached to the cause of his country, and therefore took a particular pleasure in rendering it any services in his power.\u2013In his last moments he displayed the utmost composure and resignation of mind, which proceeded from a consciousness of a life well spent, and from a grounded hope of the divine acceptance.\u2013The general sorrow of the numerous assembly which attended the funeral, was striking testimony of the sense they had of his merit and of their loss.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Originally posted on June 11, 2016.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Morgan Moment \u2013 Death of Lieutenant Nicholas Morgan Many thanks to Larry Kidder from Crossroads of the American Revolution for helping me finally find\u00a0the below article from the December 25, 1782 New Jersey Gazette about the sad and untimely death of Lieutenant Nicholas Morgan. Lt. Morgan is buried just a few hundred feet away from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":19,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1343","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1343"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2084,"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1343\/revisions\/2084"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}