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tired lo his estate known as "Saratoga/* near Winchester, Virginia; commanded the Virginia militia ordered out by President Washington in 1794 to suppress the whisky insurrection in Pennsylvania; presented credentials as a member-elect to the fifth congress as a Federalist, and the. election was unsuccessfully contested by Robert Rutherford; served from March 4, 1797, until March 3, 1799; declined reelection on account of ill health; died in Winchester, Virginia, July 6, 1802.

Morgan, William S., born in Monongalia county, Virginia, September 7, 1801 ; attend- ed the public schools; engaged in farming at White Day, Virginia; elected as a Demo- crat to the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth congresses (March 4, 1835-March 3, 1839) ; clerk of the house of representatives in 1840 ; declined a renomination for the twenty-sixth congress ; member of the state house of rep- resentatives. 1840-1841 ; Democratic presi- dential elector on the Polk-Dallas ticket in 1844: a naturalist in the employ of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C, until shortly before his death in 1876.

Morrow, John, elected to the ninth and tenth congresses (March 4, 1805-March 3, 1809).

Morton, Jeremiah, born in Fredericks- burg. Spotsylvania county, Virginia; attend- ed William and Mary College, Williams- burg. Virginia; studied law, was admitted to the bar, and practiced in Raccoon Ford, \'irginia; elected as a Democrat to the thirty-first congress (March 4, 185 1 -March 3- 1853) ; unsuccessful candidate for reelec- tion to the thirty-second congress; died in Lessland, Orange county, Virginia, Novem- ber 28, 1878.

Nelson, Hugh, born at Yorktown, Vir- ginia, September 30, I7^'>8. son of Governor 'J'homas and Lucy (Grymes) Nelson. He was graduated from \\'illiam and Mary Col- lege in 1780; was a member of the Virginia house of representatives and became speak- er: served for a time as judge of the general court. In 1809 he was a presidential elector on the Pinckney ticket, and two years later v.as elected to congress as a Republican, and by successive reflections served from 181 1 to 1823, when he resigned to accept the min- istry to Spain, in which he served to Novem- ber 23, 1824. He married Eliza, only child of Francis and Mildred (Walker) Kinloch, of Charleston, South Carolina. He died at Belvoir, Albemarle county. Virginia, March 18. 1836.

Nelson, Thomas Manduit, born in Oak Hill, Mecklenburg county, Virginia, Sep- tember 2";, 1782; attended the common schools ; captain of the Tenth Regiment In- fantry and major of the Thirtieth and Eighteenth infantries in the war of 1812: after the war reduced to captain, and re- signed his commission. May 15, 1815; elect- ed as a Republican to the fourteenth con- gress, to fill vacancy caused by the death of Thomas Gholson; reelected to the fifteenth congress, and served from December 4, 1816, to March 3. 1819; declined a reelection ; died near Columbus, Georgia. November 10, 1853.

Neville, Joseph, born in 1730; served in revolutionary army. In 1782 he was asso- ciated with Col. Alexander McLean, of Pennsylvania, in settling by survey the long- standing dispute over the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland, in 1782 com- pleting their work to the southwest corner of Pennsylvania; in 1784 their work was

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