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Departed May the 9th 1761
The youth John Morgan was born at Kensington near London
May the 26th 1743. He came to the Childns Oeconomy at Bullermeer
when he was about 3 years old, and came from thence with the
whole Oeconomy to Smith house in 1749. During his childhood he
had a promising genius and capacity for learning, and in his
disposition had something pretty and taking, but with regard to
his heart there always appears a tendency to being close, and re-
serv'd, which often made his Brn sigh, least in futurity the same
should continue and consequently prove detrimental to his Boys and
youths course in the congn
About the time of the Oeconomies removing from Smith house
to Lambshell in1733 there often appeared something of the dear Mo-
thers Labour upon his Heart, particularly when his curiosity of which
he had a great share led him upon searching into things which he was
afterwards shy in speaking about. In this course he went on, and
his Brn were often very mich distressed on his Account, and full of