Morrison, Robert

Source: A Genealogical History of the Jennings Families in England and America, First to third generation, page 25

Robert Morrison (grandson of Robert Morrison and Elizabeth Culbertson, b. March 15, 1822, m. Flora Bomberger) in his auto-biography, published in "The Scroll" for April, 1897, page 411, says:

"Robert Morrison, my grandfather, was of Scotch-Irish parentage. He was born in County Derry, Ireland. The family was of the middle class, neither poor nor rich, and was connected in marriage with the Hamiltons in Scotland. In 1765, when Robert was sixteen years old, with his brothers older than himself, he came to America and settled in Delaware. Some of them emigrated to the Valley of Virginia; one kept on south; another wing went west to Vincennes, Kaskasia and St. Louis.

"After the Revolutionary War, in which Robert had a share as one of the 'blue hen's chickens,' as soldiers from Delaware were called, he concluded to take his young wife, Elizabeth Culbertson, an English woman, and two little children, as I believe, and go west. General Washington asked him to take his tract of 600 acres in the north western part of Fayette County, Pa., lying on the Youghiogheny river. He went and looked at the land, but thought it too much exposed to incursions from the Indians, and continued his journey about fifty miles southwest into Green county, and bought out the McClungs, who took their slaves and went to Kentucky, as Pennsylvania had in 1780 passed an ordinance of gradual emancipation. There my grandfather lived and reared a family of ten children and died at the age of eighty-two. There my father, Thomas Morrison (brother of William Morrison), was born and reared."