Ancestry of
Fleet Folsom Field

(1881–1948)

Ralph Morden

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Fleet Folsom Field — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 34 
  • Father:
  • George Morden 
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1742 
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  • Death Date:
  • 26 Nov 1780 
  • Death Location:
  • Easton, Northampton, Pennsylvania 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Ann Durham
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1765 
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  • Child:

  Eleanor Morden (Ahnentafel No:17 )

  • Notes: 

  • Ralph Morden was hanged as a traitor to Pennsylvania during the American Revolution. His widow Anne and several of their children were given two hundred acres of land by the British government after they moved to Canada with other loyalists.

    The only contemporary account of Ralph Morden's execution appears to be by a British POW named Thomas Hughes. Hughes wrote the following in his journal, "A man was hanged this morning for piloting some people through the back woods, to the Indians. He was very old and left a wife and 9 children. His death was chiefly owing to his being noted a friend of Government."

• Sources for Ralph Morden

  • ¹ American Ancestors Magazine, 2014, Vol. 15.4, p. 28.
  • ² The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Philadelphia: The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1955, Vol. 79, No. 4, pp. 439-451.
  • ³ Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., Finding Your Roots, Season 2: The Official Companion to the PBS Series, Chapel Hill, North Carolina: The University of North Carolina Press (2016), 329-330.