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 and successor in the Chair of the University, paid his services, and the brief mention of him furnished by Thacher, mostly drawn from it.

His wife, Mary, one of the daughters of Thomas Hopkinson, Esq., to whom he was married on his return from Europe in 1765, preceded him to the tomb, having died in 1785. She was a sprightly, agreeable woman, and they lived most happily together. He left no issue, and his property, which was considerable, he bequeathed to his brother, Col. Morgan, whose descendants now reside in the city of Pittsburgh. In person, Dr. Morgan was under the medium height, was delicately made, with an expressive and handsome face. He was polite and gentlemanly in his manners and address, but prolix in conversation.

A fine collection of paintings and engravings which he had made in Europe, together with a choice and valuable library, and his manuscripts, the labour of ten years, were all either destroyed by the enemy at Bordentown, New Jersey, whither he had removed them from Philadelphia for safety, or were consumed by fire at Danbury, Connecticut, in the destruction of that place by the troops under Governor Tryon.

His literary productions, besides his Thesis and his