Zackquill Morgan
American
Zackquill was the Revolutionary War colonel responsible for uncovering and ending the Tory conspiracy involving the seizure of Fort Pitt, site of the powder magazine which supplied most of the western region of the country. Zackquill served with General Horatio Lloyd Gates at the Battle of Saratoga, commanding 600 troops of which nearly half were lost, served earlier with Braddock and Forbes. He was elected to several terms as sheriff of Monongalia County, and established two towns in the county: The first, Pleasantville (later Rivesville), established 1776, was the earliest legally authorized town in what is now West Virginia; the second, Morgantown, is one of the oldest West Virginia towns and the site of West Virginia University. Zackquill is said to have counted among his personal friends such men as Patrick Henry, James Madison, George Rogers Clark, and George Washington. Morgan's home in Morgantown, where Washington visited in 1784, was demolished some years ago. - NRHP Registration, 13 March 2003
Lineage
- Father Col Morgan Morgan
- Brother: David Morgan
- Brother: Morgan Morgan II