Thomas Solley and his descendants, the story of a hunt for an ancestor . s in Connecticut, his aimbeing to establish his credentials for joining the Sons of theAmerican Revolution. Although many deeds and recordsof the Morgan family had been preserved from the days ofthe Revolutionary War, he had found it impossible to estab-lish his descent from a Revolutionary soldier. His hunt for an ancestor almost parallels that of thewriter. Both knew, in a vague way, that an ancestor namedThomas Solley had been a soldier in Washingtons the Genealogy of the Morgan Family gave him noclew to the f
Thomas Solley and his descendants, the story of a hunt for an ancestor . s in Connecticut, his aimbeing to establish his credentials for joining the Sons of theAmerican Revolution. Although many deeds and recordsof the Morgan family had been preserved from the days ofthe Revolutionary War, he had found it impossible to estab-lish his descent from a Revolutionary soldier. His hunt for an ancestor almost parallels that of thewriter. Both knew, in a vague way, that an ancestor namedThomas Solley had been a soldier in Washingtons the Genealogy of the Morgan Family gave him noclew to the finding of Thomas Solley. On Labor Day, 1908, he visited the Morgan homestead atMorgan Heights for the first time, and found the two veryintelligent ladies, Miss Laura Fairchild and Flora Drew Mor-gan, who now live at the old Caleb Morgan place. The rejoicing was mutual over this coming together ofdirect descendants of the first Abijah Morgan, and the visitwas followed by many delightful returns to the beautifulspot. The view from the Morgan homestead is one of the 122. CALEB MORGAN PLACE, D. AND LAURA F. MORGAN. HIS DESCENDANTS finest in the state of Connecticut, and several prominentfamilies from New York city have recently bought up mostof the surrounding country, and built magnificent residencesthere. Through the Morgan girls, Edward was referred toDavid Treat Solley of Bethel as a descendant of the Revolu-tionary War soldier with whom the Morgan family was con-nected. From that he was put in communication with hisson. Reverend George W. Solley of Fitchburg, Massachusetts,who had already started out on his hunt for an ancestor,and had found Thomas Solley. The copies of the two following deeds relating to theMorgan property holdings at Wolfpits will be of interest toPolly Solleys descendants. Bethel was then a part of thetown of Danbury, which was bounded on the south byRedding. To all People to Whom These Presents Shall Come: Greeting. Know ye that I John Benn
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