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MORGAN, Daniel, a Representative from Virginia; born near Junction, Hunterdon County, N.J., in
1736; moved to Charles Town, Va. (now West Virginia), in 1754; served with the Colonial forces
during the French and Indian War; during the Revolution was commissioned captain of a company of
Virginia riflemen in July 1775; was taken prisoner at Quebec December 31, 1775; became colonel of
the Eleventh Virginia Regiment November 12, 1776 (designated the Seventh Virginia Regiment
September 14, 1778); brigadier general in the Continental Army October 30, 1780; at the close of the
war retired to his estate, known as Saratoga, near Winchester, Va.; commanded the Virginia Militia
ordered out by President Washington in 1794 to suppress the Whisky Insurrection in Pennsylvania;
was an unsuccessful Federalist candidate for election to the Fourth Congress; elected as a Federalist to
the Fifth Congress (March 4, 1797-March 3, 1799); declined to be a candidate for renomination in
1798 on account of ill health; died in Winchester, Va., on July 6, 1802; interment in Mount Hebron
Cemetery.
BibliographyHigginbotham, Don. Daniel Morgan:
Revolutionary Rifleman. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1961.
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