Joseph was born at Preston 6th of November, 1671. "His name stands on the catalogue of Yale College as one of the graduates in the class of 1702, but he was probably not a regular graduate ; and the degree of A. B. was doubtless conferred upon him as an honarary one -- for according to the " History of Greenwich," Conn., he was settled over the First Church, Greenwich, in 1697, and in 1700, dismissed and settled over Second Church, Greenwich. He was also a regular preacher in Bedford, Westchester County, N. Y., in 1699, and was ordained by the Fairfield County Association in i7oo,"c and soon after called to Eastchester. "From 1704 to 1708, he was again the minister at Greenwich, Conn. In 1709, he was settled as pastor of the Presbyterian Church at, Freehold, New Jersey, and in 1728 was charged before the Synod with "practising astrology, countenancing promiscuous dancing, and transgressing in drink." These charges were not sustained. He resigned, however, and took charge of the two churches at Hopewell and Maidenhead, N. J.; and in 1736, was

a Town Rec. vol. vti, p. 57.

b Vestry Books of Westchester Parish.

c Morgan Family, by N. U. Morgan, Hartford, 1S69.

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again charged with intemperance, and suspended from the ministry -- but was restored again in 1738, "on the intercession of many good people."" Romeyn, in his history of the First Reformed Dutch Church at Hackensack, says that "In 1709 the Dutch Church in Monmouth County obtained the services of the Rev. Joseph Morgan, who was there for twenty-two years."6 Mr. Morgan was a preacher of considerable note, and several of his discourses and sermons were published ; among them, one on the death of his eldest son, Joseph, a graduate of Yale College, 1723, and died the same year; a " Reply to a Railer against the Doctrine of Election," 1724; "Sin its own Punishment," 1728; and " Love to our Neighbors," third edition, 1749." In his letters dated at Freehold in 1721 and 1722, he speaks of his two sons, one aged 17 and the other 11, as "good scholars," and "one other son a little older;" this is evidently the Joseph whose death is above alluded to.d