From The Settlement of Prince Edward County by Nick and Helma Mika. Transcribed here by Linda Herman

Pioneers of Prince Edward County 
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

THE MORDEN FAMILY

Granted 100 acres at Ameliasburgh. 

The members of the Morden family who settled in Prince Edward County, following the American Revolution, were United Empire Loyalists. John Morden was a Loyalist who was granted one hundred acres of land in Ameliasburgh. He and his wife , Eve Bowman, raised five children: Joseph, John Howell, James, Richard and Julia. The couple had three other children who died at young ages.

John Howell Morden married Mary Mason of Massassaga. They had ten children: Mahala, Caroline, Lucy, Benson, Lucretia, Marshall, Lenora, Samuel, Billy, and Walter. The family first lived in a log cabin in Ameliasburgh, but they built a frame dwelling in the 1800's.

Mahala and her husband George Henry Herrington, of Picton, had three children: Willet, Irvine and Mary Lucretia. Mary Lucretia married Marcus Werden of Sophiasburgh. Their offspring were Ralph, Nellie, Stanley, Albert and Allene.

Stanley Werden married Eva Pooley of Bloomfield and then Stanley's sister Allene married Ross Edison Burr of Ameliasburgh.

Many of the descendants of the pioneer Mordens moved to other parts of Canada and to the United States.