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BRYAN FAMILY HISTORY 8-431Edward County, Virginia.parents of five children:William Morrow and Jane (Parks) Morrow were the. . . William Morrow, Jr., b. April 15, 1767, Orange County, North Carolina. . . James Morrow, b. 1767, Fayetteville, North Carolina. . . John Morrow, b. 1756, Fayetteville, North Carolina. . . Elizabeth Morrow, b. January 27, 1752, Fayetteville, North Carolina. . . Jane Morrow, b. 1754, Fayetteville, North CarolinaThe Ancestral File and World Connect Project include siblings of WilliamMorrow (born 1739) as well as additional ancestors of William Morrow (born1739). Research of these siblings and ancestors is currently considered beyondthe scope of this publication (until the connection between Margaret Morrow andSamuel Bryan can be better verified and the family of William Morrow and Jane(Parks) Morrow can be more thoroughly verified. Obviously, there areconflicting dates in the above accounts and two children that are missing fromthe will of William Morrow. There are three birthdates in the 1750’s yetWilliam Morrow and Jane Parks were supposedly both born in 1739. Thiswould require that William and Jane Morrow to have children at age thirteen,fifteen and seventeen - a red flag from a genealogical point of view. A betterestimate would be that William Morrow and Jane Parks were born a few yearsearlier or that their first few children were born a few years later. According toRandy Tanner, William and Jane Morrow’s daughter, Jane Morrow, was marriedin 1792 and that Jane Morrow was born in 1774. This suggests that JaneMorrow was eighteen years of age when she married Alexander Pickard (nottwenty years earlier in 1754). The birthdates of the children of William and JaneMorrow’s daughter, Elizabeth Morrow, also appear to be inconsistent. TheAncestral File states that her first two children, Nancy Andrew and WilliamAndrew, were born in 1772 and 1774 respectively. The next two children wereborn in 1784 and 1786, five children born in the 1790s and two were born after1800. The last child, Elizabeth Andrew, was born in 1802 when Elizabethwould have been fifty years of age - a red flag from a genealogical point ofview. Again, the birthdate of Elizabeth Morrow appears to earlier than it shouldbe (even though there is an exact birthdate which suggests a family Bible ortombstrone inscription). John Morrow had one younger son, Arthur Morrow,that was born in 1789. John would been forty-three years of age - believable butstill at a more advanced age that most men were still fathering children.However, the 1800 census record of John Morrow in Rowan County, NorthCarolina support earlier birthdates (the 1800 census indicates that John Morrowwas born prior to 1755). Based on the above information, it is believed that thefirst three children of William and Jane Morrow were born much later thanshown in the Ancestral File and that the exact birthdate of Elizabeth Morrow isvery questionable. Based on this information, it is believed that William andJane Morrow were the parents of seven children (order of children and birthdatesare subject to change with additional research):. . . Elizabeth Morrow (51.1), b. ca. 1759, North Carolina. . . Margaret Morrow (52), b. ca. 1760, North Carolina. . . John Morrow (51.3), b. North Carolina. . . William Morrow, Jr. (51.4), b. April 15, 1767, North Carolina. . . James Morrow (51.5), b. ca. 1769, North Carolina