1Cuyler Reynolds, Genealogical and Family History of Southern New York and the Hudson River Valley, Vol. 3, p. 1213 (1914).
"(IV) Captain William (2) Morgan, son of William (1) and Mary (Avery) Morgan, was born at Groton, Connecticut, June 17, 1723, died there, April 11, 1777. He resided at that place his entire life. He left no will, but his estate inventoried 4,133 pounds, on April 29, 1777, which estate his widow and his son, Christopher, settled as administrators, in Stonington probate court. Captain William Morgan married, Groton, July 4, 1744, Temperance, daughter of Colonel Christopher Avery, great-granddaughter of Captain James Avery, the first, of Groton. Children: William, born September 28, 1745, died September 29, 1753; Christopher, October 27, 1747, married (first) Deborah Ledyard, (second) Margaret Gates; Temperance, May 4, 1752, married, 1770, Ephraim Allyn; William Avery, see forward; Israel, July 22, 1757, married Elizabeth Brewster; Mary, Jamuary 8, 1760, married Peter Williams; Simeon, April 1, 1762, married, May 19, 1785, Roby Allyn; Prudence, October 27, 1764, married Increase Stoddard.
(V) Captain William Avery Morgan, son of Captain William (2) and Temperance (Avery) Morgan, was born at Groton, Connecticut, November 24, 1754, died at Lebanon, Connecticut, March 22, 1842.
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