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==Early years== Daniel Morgan is believed to have been born in the community of [[New Hampton, New Jersey|New Hampton]] in [[Lebanon Township, New Jersey]].<ref name="hmdb.org">{{Cite web|url=https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=17920|title=Major General Daniel Morgan Historical Marker|website=www.hmdb.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.revolutionarywarnewjersey.com/new_jersey_revolutionary_war_sites/towns/lebanon_township_nj_revolutionary_war_sites.htm|title=Lebanon Township, New Jersey Revolutionary War Sites | Lebanon Township Historic Sites|website=www.revolutionarywarnewjersey.com}}</ref> All four of his [[Edward Morgan Log House|grandparents]] were [[Welsh people|Welsh]] immigrants who lived in Pennsylvania.<ref>[http://www.morganloghouse.org/genealogy/morgan_family_chart.pdf Edward Morgan Log House] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727094643/http://www.morganloghouse.org/genealogy/morgan_family_chart.pdf |date=July 27, 2011 }}, Genealogy, accessed November 12, 2011.</ref> Morgan's parents were born in Pennsylvania and then later moved to New Jersey together. Morgan was the fifth of seven children of James Morgan (1702β1782) and Eleanor Lloyd (1706β1748). When Morgan was 17, he left home following a fight with his father. After working at odd jobs in [[Pennsylvania]], he moved to the [[Shenandoah Valley]]. He finally settled on the Virginia frontier, near what is now [[Winchester, Virginia]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Daniel Morgan : an inexplicable hero|last=Swisher, James Kenneth|isbn=978-1-63393-750-5|location=[Virginia Beach, Virginia]|oclc=1083137885|date = 2019}}</ref> He worked clearing land, running a sawmill, and as a [[teamster]].<ref name=":0" /> In a little more than two years, he saved enough to buy his own team.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/gendanielmorgan00grahrich|title=The life of General Daniel Morgan : of the Virginia line of the Army of the United States, with portions of his correspondence|last=Graham|first=James|date=1859|publisher=New York : Derby & Jackson|others=University of California Libraries}}</ref> With multiple extra wagons, this operation quickly expanded into a thriving business.<ref name=":0" /> Morgan served as a civilian teamster during the [[French and Indian War]]<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2" /><ref name=":1">{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/generaldanielmor00morg|title=General Daniel Morgan: Reconsidered Hero|last=Morgan|first=Richard L.|date=2001|publisher=Morganton (N.C.): Burke County Historical Society|others=North Carolina Humanities Council}}</ref> with [[Daniel Boone]], sometimes said to be his cousin.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hiXwK-_8DRkC&q=%22daniel+morgan%22+cousin+%22daniel+boone%22&pg=PA17|title=Daniel Boone in Pennsylvania|first=Paul A. W.|last=Wallace|date=2007|publisher=Diane Publishing Inc.|isbn=9781422314975|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>Robert Morgan says although Boone reportedly claimed Morgan as a cousin, historians have been unable to confirm it.{{cite book|last= Morgan |first= Robert |author-link= Robert Morgan (poet) |date= 2007 |title= Boone: A Biography |page= 43 |location= Chapel Hill, N.C. |publisher= Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill |isbn= 978-1-56512-455-4}}</ref> During the retreat from [[Fort Duquesne]] ([[Pittsburgh]]), he was punished with 500 lashes (a usually fatal sentence) for attacking an officer.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> Morgan thus acquired a disdain for British authorities and their treatment of provincials.<ref name=":0" /> Later, when he led troops, he banned flogging.<ref name=":0" /> He continued as a wagoner, which much of the profits initially being spent on alcohol, gambling, and female company, and resulted in several appearances before a Virginia magistrate, for charges from assault, through the burning down of a neighbours tobacco shed, to horse theft. Though he earned enough to purchase a house, between Winchester and [[Berryville, Virginia|Battletown]], with 225 acres of land, and ten slaves, by 1774.<ref>Higginbotham pp. 13β15</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Frontiersman Daniel Morgan |url=https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/frontiersman-daniel-morgan/ |access-date=2024-10-11 |website=Warfare History Network |language=en-US}}</ref> He would meet Abigail Curry, who would teach him to read and write, and by who he would have two daughters, Nancy and Betsy, and later marry.<ref name=":0" /> Morgan later served as a [[rifleman]] in the provincial forces assigned to protect the western settlements from French-backed Indian raids. He led a force that relieved Fort Edwards during its siege and successfully directed the defence afterward.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2" /> He served in [[Dunmore's War]], taking part in raids on [[Shawnee]] villages in the [[Ohio Country]].
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