In 2013, John Doe (real name withheld for reasons of confidentiality), a New Orleans area Attorney began blogging on his website, Awarenessofnothing.com. On that blog, he included material claiming William Morgan of the Caribbean, his great-great-grandfather, was the same man as William Morgan of Batavia, whom the Freemasons had kidnapped. Morgan disappeared after his kidnapping. Doe's essay corroborated letters which I. Dwight Hunter wrote to Morgan Smead, Grand Master of Michigan, in 1951. Those letters made the same claims about William Morgan of the Caribbean being the same man as Morgan of Batavia.
The new book about the Morgan affair, The Imperfect Storm, used Doe's comments on his blog as a reference, and cited the blog's URL.
Doe, who was not a Freemason, passed away in December 2024. Since that time his website has disappeared, probably owing to the lack of payment for the domain name. The Morgan material from that website, having now been lost, is reproduced below.
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Awareness of Nothing
http://www.awarenessofnothing.com/capt-william-morgan.html
John Doe, William Morgan’s great, great grandson
John Doe 1/22/13
New Orleans
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WILLIAM MORGAN
PREFACE
This is the story of one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in American history. It is the story of William Morgan who died about 150 years ago but the circumstances surrounding his life and death are still very controversial subjects today. Many people have advanced various theories about the type of man he was and how and when he met his demise. I will clear up much of that controversy here and tell the true story of his life. Obviously, because he lived so long ago and disappeared in what was, even then, a confusing manner makes the task now undertaken somewhat difficult. Nevertheless, I can and will finally solve the mystery.
Modern science has the capability to conclusively and unquestionably prove to any doubters whether or not my explanation here is correct. All that is needed is one more willing participant for a DNA test from one of the male to male ancestors of William Morgan and his first wife in the US or a little more hard evidence in the form of handwriting of William Morgan while he was living in Central America, but those things have, thus far, proved difficult to obtain. Not wanting to wait any longer for conclusive scientific proof, which may never be found, I now write this story. However, the search for confirming DNA and/or handwriting samples shall continue. ( see the UPDATE at the end of this story).
The History of His Early Life
William Morgan was born in Culpepper County, Virginia, on or about August 7, 1774. His parents appear to have been killed by Indians and he was then tied in to close family in the area. He was apprenticed as a mason in bricklaying and stone cutting in Hap Haphazard, Madison County, Virginia. He also worked as a mason in Richmond, Virginia and later in Lexington, Kentucky. He traveled to Europe several times and traveled with the military in Central America. He was about 5 feet 6 inches tall, weighed about 135 lbs and had brown hair and a high forehead. He was a Methodist. In those days there were several William Morgan's in Virginia .Some of whom were orphaned by Indian attacks. (John Morgan : killed by Indians 11 APR 1777 in Cheat River, Monongalia, Va, his children Hugh Morgan b: 1 JAN 1759 in Cheat River, Monongalia, VA, William Morgan b: ABT 1777, James MORGAN b: 1755-01-10 in Cheat River, Monongalia, Virginia ,http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/morgan/17215/ ) .
John Day, a Freemason, of Gordonsville, Kentucky, is quoted as saying that Morgan served his apprenticeship as a bricklayer with Day's brother at Hap Hazard Mills, Madison County, Virginia. Reaching his majority, Morgan is said to have left for Kentucky, returning to Virginia after four years. He worked on the Orange County Courthouse, Virginia, and subsequently moved to Richmond.
Morgan said that he traveled to Europe by sailing ship many times and read classical literature on the voyages during the down time. He also traveled in the Caribbean Sea with the US Military when he was young.
In April of 1814 the British had defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo and were free to focus their attention and military strength against the Americans in North America. The War of 1812 was not going well for the U.S. In August 1814, after defeating the Americans at the Battle of Bladensburg , the British marched on and occupied Washington D. C. They burned several governmental buildings including the White House and the Capitol building.
Many Americans were justifiably enraged and concerned. It appears that around this time William Morgan decided to join General Andrew Jackson’s forces traveling to New Orleans to face British Forces fresh from their defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo, and who were then intending to attack and occupy New Orleans in order to cut off US trade routes along the Mississippi River. If successful the British would have stricken a major blow to the US economy and possibly to the continued existence of the Republic itself as a free and independent nation.
Many thought that it was going to be a massacre for the Americans at New Orleans who had amassed a ragtag force of about 4,500 men including ordinary citizens, Militia (of which Morgan was one) , Regular Army and Pirates to face the 7,500 professional , battle hardened and experienced British Troupes acknowledged to be the best fighting force in the world at that time . On January 8, 1815 British forces led by General Edward Pakenham, the brother in law of the Duke of York, attacked the American position in Chalmette just down river from New Orleans. The Battle lasted about 30 minutes. The British suffered over 2000 casualties; the Americans suffered 8 killed and 13 wounded. It remains the greatest land victory in war by Americans to this day.
William Morgan later reported that he had been granted a Battlefield commission to the rank of Captain by General Jackson and that he had helped coordinate the troops of the Pirate Jean Lafitte with the American troops during the battle, most likely because he spoke some French.
William Morgan returned to Richmond ,Virginia after the War of 1812 ended. In October 1819, when he was 44, Morgan married the then 16-year old Lucinda Pendleton, eldest daughter of the Rev. Joseph Pendleton of Richmond Virginia, the Pastor of one of the largest Methodist Churches there . He reportedly attended Church services in his Captain’s uniform which impressed the young ladies of the Church . The couple had several children together including their surviving children, Lucinda Wesley Morgan and Thomas Jefferson Morgan. He referred to himself as Capt. Morgan.
In 1821 he briefly owned a brewery in York, Upper Canada but his business there was destroyed by a fire and he returned to work as the principal mason on the last home owned by Col. Nathaniel Rochester, founder of Rochester, NY. He left there in 1823 and moved to Batavia, NY to continue his work as a stone and brick mason.
William Morgan, claimed to have become a member of the Secret Society of Masons when he was young and given his lifelong occupation as a stone and brick mason it would be hard to imagine that he had not, at some point during his life, been introduced to the Free Masons by his fellow workers or family, who were also stone and brick masons. After moving to New York Morgan reportedly joined the LeRoy, NY, Masonic Lodge, but also sought admission to the newly formed lodge in Batavia, where he was then living, and he was able to gain admittance to the Lodge there as a visitor.
At that time Western New York was the frontier of the country and was filled with the type of diverse people one might expect to find in a frontier area. It was home to many traveling evangelist, self proclaimed prophets and a host of dreamers and pioneers. The Erie Canal was under construction nearby and the land was being converted from a wilderness area to farmland.
The decision on who was able to join the local Lodge in Batavia was made by Masonic leaders in Rochester, NY and they rejected Morgan's application. It was reported later that it was because of his heavy drinking, an odd charge because many Freemasons were then known for their heavy drinking. It seems more probable that he had experienced some type of disagreement with one or more members of the local Lodge there while living and working in Rochester. In any event, he was denied admission to the new Masonic Lodge in Batavia.
Morgan was, at that time, in financial difficulty. His brewery in Canada had been destroyed; at near 50 years of age he had to re-enter his old trade as a stone and brick mason. No doubt a difficult task. He had a wife and a young child to support and was a proud man who had been a hard worker in difficult trades all of his life. As his later life would reveal, he was a determined man who was not afraid of work, was extremely intelligent, industrious and resourceful. He had learned to be flexible and to roll with the punches rather than to be crushed by them.
He was later (and is still) defamed by disgruntled Masonic writers who portrayed him to be an uneducated and illiterate drunkard, a liar and a scoundrel. However, as the following letter written by Morgan to his wife shows he certainly did not appear to be as the disgruntled Masons described him:
“Batavia Sept 4th 1824
Dear wife,
How shall I begin? O! afflicting thought, ere this reaches you my daughter, my Harriett will be no more, (if I can depend on what I have heard) my Harriett did I say? My all I might have said, for I feel like there was nothing left to supply her place; with delightful anticipation I had looked forward to her for consolation & comfort in the wane of life. But alas! It has pleased the divine disposer of all human events to take her to himself. Grant me I pray O! God a spirit of Christian resignation to all Thy holy dispensations. My dear wife I pray God that you may be able to bear this loss better than I do, or can. It is a great loss to me – Let us take consolation from this consideration, none could have given her to us but the Lord, none could have taken her from us but the Lord – The Lord hath given her, and the Lord hath taken her, and blessed be the name of the Lord.
My health was (I thought) a little better, but I cannot tell what effect this shock may have on it. – I feel thankful and do rejoice with you on account of your safe deliverance and good health. I had not rec. your letter nor Mr. D.s when he passed here – All with whom I advised opposed my attempting to go to Rochester in my present feeble debilitated situation – My Doctors opinion was that it would inevitable produce a relapse that would probably terminate my existence – Those are the reasons together with some others (tho these are sufficient) which prevented my attempting to come – I trust they will be satisfactory. I shall expect a few lines from you next Sunday. Do not conceal my letters from Kessrs, Green & Wilson families lest some suspicious wicked spirit should propagate some falsehood to my injury and your peace of mind. –
O! for the exhilarating support & sweet consolations of religion I pray God.
My sorrows I then might asperage,
In the ways of religion & truth;
I might learn from the wisdom of age
And be cheerd by the sallies of youth.
Religion what treasure untold
Resides in that heavenly word
‘Tis more precious than silver or gold
Or all that this earth can afford.
Mr. Loring has a few little jobs to do about his House. I wish to do them for him if my strength will permit and asked Mr. D if he would try to send me some tools for that purpose – he told me he thought he could contrive them to Brook-Port, I only spoke to him about a Trowel, I find I shall want others, ask him if he will be good enough to send a bag that is in your room as far as Brock-Port, I can get them from there any day – I wish to make Loring some compensation for his great kindness if I possibly can. I do not recollect to have seen my Water-Pot after we left Dr. Strong, if it was left there please send for it.
It gives me great pleasure to hear that you are so pleased with the people where you live and that they are so very kind to you – every favour confered on you is honored confered on me.
Have you seen ‘Esq. Walker I believe is the name – I mean the gentleman who lived in the Country & made Brick. –
My attention is arrested by the Toling of the Bell – On inquiring the cause I am told that an infant 17 months old has just left this Tabernicle of clay. Who knows but she and Harriett are traveling companions to the Shores of eternity. As they wing their way through the vast unmeasured, and unmeasurable space me thinks I hear them praising their heavenly father for having taken them from this lower world, taken them from the tempter and from temptation, snatched them as a brand from the fire. Methinks I hear the sanctifyd millions who surround the throne of the great. I am with joyous acclamations waiting the approach of my little infant on the way thro’ the trackless expanse
Saying. –
Child of the summer, charming rose,
No longer in confinement lie,
Arise to light, thy form disclose
Rival the spangles of the sky.
Thy rains are gone the storm is over
Winter retired to make the way
Come then, thou sweetly blushing flower
Come, lovely stranger come away.
The sun is drip’d in beaming smiles
To give thy beauties to the day
Young zephyrs wait, with gentlest gales
To fan thy bosom as they play.
Since all the downward track of time
Gods watchful eye surveys
O! who so wise to choose our lot,
And regulate our ways?
Since none can doubt his great love
Immeasurably kind;
To his unwing, gracious will,
Be every wish resigned
Good when he gives, supremely good,
Nor less when he denies,
Ev’n crops from his sovereign hand
Are blessings in disguise
Then let us take consolation from considerations of this kind my dear wife, always taking care to discharge our duty towards all that is committed to our care, so that we escape self-condemnation and leave the rest with God. May I hope that Harriett yet lives. You will think me tedious, perhaps troublesome. I have the subject, but I shall not live to forget it.
Do excuse me for saying a word or two more on the subject of self-condemnation – Of all the afflictions on earth self-condemnation is the greatest and on the other hand a self approving conscience affards us the most perfect & lasting happiness.
We need not regard the oppressions and calumnies of mankind when we know that our God knows that we are innocent – The innocent are often censured and the guilty escape, but a steady perseverance in well doing will bring us at last to the full enjoyment of ceaseless and imperishable happiness.
I shall if able to be at Rochester on the 14th inst. as a witness at Hearts tryal. If you can send the tools please send my old hat for if I spoil this I shall not be able to purchase one shortly & 3 or 4 days work in the Mortar would comfortably do it.
Please send for Mr. Dyer when you receive this, you may let him read it, there are no secrets in my letters. – Mr. Bates is just starting, & I must close this as usual
Yours affectionately
W. Morgan
Mrs. Luccinda Morgan
Please give my gaugles to
Mr. D. & put my old blue
pantaloons in the Bag”
This was written by a man who was neither an uneducated nor an illiterate person . The original letter is in his own handwriting ,which was very poor- a fact that would later turn out to be highly significant.
Neither does it appear that he was a drunkard or scoundrel as he was accused of being by the same misguided and disgruntled Masonic writers. In fact when later questioned about Morgan this is what his neighbor, Samuel D. Greene , had to say about him:
“At the time I joined the Masons, Captain William Morgan was my neighbor, and I was in free and daily intercourse with him. He was a man of fine personal appearance, about fifty years of age, of remarkable conversational powers, so that he was everywhere known as a good talker. He was a native of Culpepper County, Virginia, and was, by trade, a bricklayer; but for several years before coming to Batavia, he had been otherwise employed. He was a soldier in the War of 1812, and brought his title of Captain from the army during that war. He had served under General Jackson, at New Orleans, and was a man of fine soldierly bearing.
He was gentlemanly and agreeable in his manners. In later years the Masons charged him with being a drunkard, but in my judgment, without reason. He was a convivial man, and at times would drink freely, according to the fashions of the day. I myself have seen him when he had been drinking, more than was good for him; but he was not what, in the general acceptation of the word at that time, or at any time, would be called a drunkard. It was the period of hard and general drinking, and certainly it ill becomes Freemasons to charge men on this score, for no body of men among us have done more, from generation to generation, to promote drinking habits than they."
The Disappearance of Morgan
Things in Morgan’s life were then difficult. Morgan lived in the home of John Davids, whom he had met in March 1826. His other associates at that time were David C. Miller, editor of the Batavia Advocate newspaper and Russell Dyer. Later associates were George W. Harris, a silversmith who lived with the Morgan’s for a time, and Edward Giddins, an innkeeper who also was the keeper of the abandoned Fort Niagara and its Magazine (where Morgan was later imprisoned by the local Mason’s). Giddins was additionally responsible for running the ferry at that point across the Niagara River to Canada.
A few days after July 5, 1826, Morgan reportedly told a local Mason in Batavia Lodge, that he planned to publish a book on certain Secrets of Masonry. This likely started the panic among the local rank and file Masons. Many of Morgan’s associates at that time reported that he was writing another book containing something about the story of Prince Madoc of Wales, an eleventh century seafarer who landed ships and personnel in Mobile Bay and established Forts and settlements along the Mississippi River and tried to bring Christianity to the native Indians.
Morgan had allegedly learned of a plot by the Rothschild family , acting through a group known as the Illuminati , to control the Federal government by taking control of American the Masonic Lodges of the Scottish Rite. The same as the Rothschild family had done in England after the Battle of Waterloo . Morgan was one of the first to try and warn the World of the Illuminati ,according to Fagan, and that is why he was kidnapped and supposedly killed by them. For an excellent explanation of that incredible story one can listen to the 1968 speech of Myron C. Fagan titled "History of the Illuminati" and the part about Morgan can be found at the 27:40 to 30:00 mark in the following:
The abduction and kidnapping of William Morgan by 69 local rank and file Masons from New York, led by one Richard Howard, ( an English Illuminist who had been ordered by the Illuminati to kill Morgan ) ,who participated in some way, the scheme has been well documented and will not be repeated here in detail. Suffice it to say that after his abduction by local Masons he was eventually taken to Canandaigua where he was briefly imprisoned on some trumped up charges, released and then carried by horse drawn carriage over 100 miles to Fort Niagara the point where the Niagara River flows into Lake Ontario. There the Niagara River forms the boundary between the USA and Canada. He was imprisoned for a few days in the Fort’s abandoned Powder Magazine (which was controlled by his old friend and innkeeper Edward Giddins) while local low-level and visiting higher level Masons supposedly decided what to do with him. From there the stories of what happened to him vary greatly. http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/texts/morgan_theory.html and http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/anti-masonry/morgan_notes.html#7
Some say that he was drowned in Lake Ontario or the Niagara River by the Masons, others that he was released in Canada after having been offered the option of a farm at Breede’s Hill or a horse and $500 in gold, Morgan took the gold in exchange for leaving the country forever. Colonel King, John Whitney, Richard Howard, Jared Darrow and Sammuel Chubbuck accompanied Morgan across the river. Given the horse and gold, Morgan was offered an escort which he declined. John Whitney’s deposition on these events can be found in Rob Morris' William Morgan; Or Political Anti-masonry, Its Rise, Growth and Decadence, p. 195. [3]
Sheriff Elli Bruce hired two trackers to find Morgan. They reported that Morgan had travelled to the settlement that would later become Hamilton, then to York where he visited Richmond Hill and finally to Point Hope where he sold his horse and embarked on a steamer bound for Boston, Massachusetts. [p. 137, supra] . Sheriff Bruce was later removed from office by Governor Clinton on September 26, 1827 and received a 28 months sentence. An appeal failed and he was jailed from May 20, 1829 to Sept 23, 1831. Loton Lawson received two years in the County jail; Nicholas G. Chesebro, one year , Edward Sawyer, one month; and John Sheldon, three months. Colonel William King died before trial. All of them made depositions prior to trial date; confessing their guilt in holding Morgan against his will for five days but denied that he had accompanied them against his will or that they had killed him. https://freemasonry.bcy.ca/anti-masonry/morgan_notes.html
The scheme which had started the whole incident was when Morgan and David C Miller (the local newspaper publisher) along with a few others, decided to publish one of the books Morgan was writing, a Book revealing some of the secrets of Freemasonry.Morgan, William (1827), Illustrations of Masonry by One of the Fraternity Who has Devoted Thirty Years to the Subject: "God said, Let There be Light, and There was light", Batavia, N.Y.: David C. Miller. Morgan (who was Welch) was reportedly writing another book based in part on Prince Madoc of Wales. Morgan may have been attempting to explain that Prince Madoc had found examples of even earlier, or Biblical, influences in America. http://www.sidneyrigdon.com/dbroadhu/IL/sain1872.htm#060181-162
http://www.truthandgrace.com/1877joememory.htm
It is interesting to note that when Lewis & Clark later were exploring the land included in the Louisiana Purchase they found a fair skinned tribe of Indians some with light hair and blue and green eyes living on the Missouri River in the Dakota Territory (now North Dakota). These were the only Indians known to organize their villages into “streets” and to build permanent residences. They spoke an Indian language which included many Welch words. They were called themselves the Mandan (possibly a mispronunciation over 600 years of their founder, Madoc). They believed that they were originally descended from a man who had been saved during a great flood which had killed most people in the world. He was spared by riding out the great flood in a big canoe. He landed on a mountain top and released a dove to look for dry land. When the dove returned with a willow branch in his beak the man knew the flood was receding.
Meriwether Lewis was later said to have been delivering information to President Thomas Jefferson when he was killed or committed suicide in on the Natchez Trace in Tennessee. Some accounts state that he was carrying information with him in the journals of his travels with Clark which proved ancient, pre-Columbian, possibly biblical influences in America. Lewis died in 1809, only 15 years prior to Morgan writing his books. Some of the men that took part in the expedition were undoubtedly still traveling around the frontier of the country at that later time when Morgan was in Batavia.
About one year after Morgan’s disappearance the body of a badly decomposed Canadian fisherman, a Timothy Monroe (sometimes spelled Munro or Monro), was found on the shores of Lake Ontario. At first the body was thought to be that of William Morgan, but was later established to be that of Monroe. Many believed that it was Monroe's, thought to be accidentally drowned body, that had been chained and sank by the Masons in Lake Ontario as a substitute for Morgan. One of the reasons some use to argue that the body pulled from the Lake was that of Morgan was that it had a double set of teeth, as did Morgan. What is an interesting speculation is that a double set of human teeth is today believed by some to be a distinguishing genetic characteristic of the descendants of the Nephilim. http://thenephilimchronicles.blogspot.com/2011/07/giants-with-double-row-of-teeth-flavius.html . Many believe that it was actually Timothy Monroe who was thrown overboard and killed by the Masons and in Lake Ontario , not William Morgan. As stated previously, some Masons envolved denied that Morgan was ever killed. Ellis, Edward Sylvester (1920). Low Twelve: "By Their Deeds Ye Shall Know Them". New York, NY: Macoy Publishing and Masonic Supply Co. p. 247.
In the meantime there was a terrible backlash from the general population against the Freemasons due to the kidnapping and disappearance of Morgan. The number of Masonic Lodges in New York dwindled from over 500 in 1826 to just 65 by 1846 with a resulting membership decrease from 30,000 to 300 in that state alone . Over 2,000 Masonic Lodges closed in the USA. A new Political Party was formed, the Anti-Masons, and it ran a candidate for President of the USA, William Wirt, and it even carried one State. It was the first 3rd Political Party in the Country. Some of the Masons that had participated in Morgan’s abduction were put on trial and some were convicted and served jail time.
After Morgan had been first abducted several local Masons went to his home in Batavia in an attempt to retrieve all of his remaining manuscripts but the manuscripts were missing. The newspaper publisher, David Miller, had hired a local man, Oliver Cowdery, to prepare a Printers Manuscript of Morgan’s book. Morgan’s handwriting was very poor, a fact which made it necessary for Morgan and Cowdery to work together to prepare the printers manuscript for publication.
The fact that Cowdery assisted Morgan is strengthened by something Morgan’s widow related in a statement made on September 22, 1826. She is quoted as saying: “that the papers (of Morgan)… were numerous and formed a very large bundle: they were written in the handwriting of (her husband), excepting a few, which were written by a person who sometimes assisted her husband in copying, or taking down as he dictated to him.” Samuel D. Greene’s 1870 book, “The Broken Seal”, pg 89-90.
Oliver Cowdery was second cousins to a man who lived in nearby Palmyra, NY, a Joe Smith, who had in March of 1826 been convicted in Court in New York of being a “money dancer” or “glass looker”. That was an outlawed practice in New York where a man would put “seer stones” in a hat and charge landowners a fee to look into the hat in order to find gold and buried treasure on their property.
After Morgan’s disappearance it is most likely that Cowdery was in possession of Morgan’s handwritten manuscripts. Cowdery was then reportedly living with his brother, Warren, in Batavia. It has been alleged that Morgan’s book on the expose of Masonic Rites and Rituals was eventually published by David Miller after Morgan’s disappearance. However, Miller may have published another book when he saw the opportunity of publishing a supposedly another book written by Morgan , but which was not.
http://www.hermetics.org/pdf/masonry/Captain_William_Morgan_-_The_Mysteries_of_Freemasonry.pdf
Around this time Cowdery’s cousin, the convicted money dancer Joe Smith from Palmyra, claimed that he had found some golden plates in a hill near his home which contained what he called "Reformed Egyptian Hieroglyphs". The cousin’s full name was Joseph Smith, Jr. He and Cowdery then wrote a book about the history of foreigners in the distant past coming to America who fought with and brought Christianity to the Indians. Supposedly, Smith would use a pair of magic stones (which he called the Urim and Thummin , similar to the magic stones he had used while money dancing ) which allowed him to interpret (what they called) the “Reformed Egyptian Hieroglyphs” on the golden plates (no true scholar of ancient Egypt had then ever heard of “Reformed Egyptian Hieroglyphs”) into English as Smith would dictate to Cowdery across a blanket on a rope stretched across the room so neither could see the other. Cowdery would then write down what Smith said in his dictation. The book would later be published and sold by Smith, Cowdery and Smith’s neighbor, Brigham Young (a former Indian and buffalo hunter) and others on a door to door basis. The book was called “THE BOOK OF MORMON”. Joe Smith is now known as Joseph Smith- the Mormon Prophet.
Smith claimed that the word “Mormon” was formed from the Egyptian word “mon’ (which he said meant “good”) and the English word “more” contracted to “mor” (together meaning “more good” ). That is highly unlikely as there is no Egyptian word “mon” which means good. Even if there were such an Egyptian word, how could it get combined with an English word on the American continent sometime before 400 AD? The English language was totally unknown in the ancient Middle East. However, the most reasonable explanation is what some who knew Smith and Cowdery said that what Smith actually did was to combine the first syllables of the names Morgan and Monroe (or Monro) to create the word Mor-Mon or Mormon.
Many names not found in the Bible seem to be made up in the Book of Mormon by re-arranging various syllables (sometimes by taking two names and using the first syllable from one and the last syllable of another) or changing the ending of Bible names. For example, the Bible speaks of Abinadab, the Book of Mormon mentions Abinadi and Abinadom.. Smith's book also uses the Biblical Aminadab and a modified Aminodi. The Bible mentions Kish, the Book of Mormon has Akish and Kishcumen. The Bible has Gimzo, the Book of Mormon speaks of Gimgimno. Besides using the Biblical name Helam, Smith's book expands it to Helaman. The Book of Mormon uses the Biblical name of Antipas and builds on it to form these Book of Mormon names: Anti-Nephi-Lehi, Antiomno, Antion, Antionah, Antionum, Antiparah and Antipus. Some seem to be simply different spellings. Melech in the Bible becomes Melek in the Book of Mormon.
More names are created by adding such endings as "hah." The Book of Mormon has the names Nephi and Nephihah; Moroni and Moronihah; Ammon and Ammonihah; Mathoni and Mathonihah. Some names seem to be just extensions of the same Book of Mormon word. For example, Antion seems to be the base for Antionah, Antionum and Antiomno. Book of Mormon Shim is expanded to Shimnilon. Corianton is slightly changed to make the additional names of Coriantor, Coriantum and Coriantumr. Smith's book uses the Biblical word Gideon and shortens it to Gid, then expands it to Giddianhi, Giddonah, Gidgiddonah and Gidgiddoni. Riplah seems to be the base for Riplakish and Ripliancum.
Joseph Smith, Jr., after Morgan was later declared legally dead, married Morgan’s (then believed to be) widow, Lucinda Morgan, as his first or second putative wife. Smith’s father, Joseph Smith, Sr. in 1841, baptized Morgan into the Mormon Religion as the first, or one of the first, persons to receive the “Baptism for the Dead”.
Cowdery ,who was one of the three original witnesses to the Golden Plates in the Book of Mormon and Morgan’s and Smith’s scribe, is known to have prepared two “publishers manuscripts”- one for Morgan’s book on the Masonic Secrets and one for the Book of Mormon. Cowdery later renounced his membership in the Mormon religion. Today the Mormon religion uses many Masonic rituals and symbols in their religion.
Joseph Smith said that the Angle Maroni was going to show him the location of the golden plates on September 22, 1827, but because he feared others were going to steal the Golden Plates before he could get them, he actually looked for, found and retrieved the Golden Plates on September 21, 1827 a fact that is displayed in some Mormon Temples. Coincidentally, Morgan was reportedly killed on September 20, 1826 one year and one day prior to Smith’s allegedly finding the Golden Plates on which the Book of Mormon was written. Oliver Cowdery, like his brother Warren, also later became a lawyer.
Morgan After His Disappearance
Morgan disappeared on September 20, 1826. This is the story is what actually happened to him after his disappearance:
Following his supposed murder ( where the body of a Canadian fisherman, Monroe, may have been thrown overboard), Morgan was taken to Canada from Fort Niagara by ferry boat and there was turned over to Canadian Masons. They received him and spirited him away to upper Canada where he was supposedly given his choice of a small farm or five hundred dollars on a promise not to return to the US. He chose the money, bought a horse, rode east down the St. Lawrence to Port Hope, sold his horse, boarded a sailing vessel, the Constance bound for the Caribbean, where he had earlier in life traveled with Andrew Jackson. The Masons in the meantime took care of his family and were to assist in their reunion at a later time once Morgan had established himself elsewhere. That day never came as a result of the unanticipated events that followed in the wake of his disappearance. Later, after Morgan had been missing for more than two years and was officially declared dead by the courts, his wife first remarried to the couple’s old friend, George Harris, the local silversmith who had lived with the Morgan’s for a time. She later divorced Harris and married Joseph Smith , Jr.
After leaving Canada for the Caribbean on the vessel Constance it was shipwrecked off the coast of Cuba in a storm (probably a hurricane). The survivors were picked up by a Cayman fishing schooner named the Star which transported them to the Cayman Islands. (For corroborating evidence ,see: http://newsarch.rootsweb.com/th/read/PAGE_UK/2006-03/1143479950 ). Two of the crew stayed in the Cayman Islands along with the ship's master, Dwight Hunter, William John Fitzgerald and William Morgan.
There Morgan met and married a local girl named Catherine Ann Page, her parents were from Scotland, and they raised a family, the first child was born on September 5, 1829 ,less than 3 years after Morgan’s disappearance and alleged murder in New York and a year after he was declared legally dead in NY. They ultimately had six children. Morgan would "go off" when an occasional American vessel landed at their island. His original excuse was to hunt turtle eggs. His new father-in-law ,William Page, became very suspicious over that activity and assumed that the only reason a man would hide from outsiders in such a manner was if he was a fugitive from justice and stated that "only a man who had killed his wife could be so afraid of meeting strangers." One of Morgan’s grandsons reported that his mother told him that the reason Morgan avoided strangers was not because of some homicide in his past but for his actions in "divulging Masonic secrets."
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At this point I must digress to tell the story of Edward Fitzgerald , William Morgan's best friend on the Island of Utila, Honduras. His story is as interesting as Morgan's and after reading it there can be no doubt as to why the two became lifetime best friends, and why they had the intelligence and contacts to start the banana trade with the Untied States and other countries.
Lord Edward Fitzgerald, the 5th son of his parents, was born at Carton House near Dublin, Ireland on October 15th 1763. His parents were Lord James Fitzgerald, the 1st Duke of Leinster ,and his wife, Emilia, daughter of Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond. He joined the English Army in 1779 and was stationed in America during the Revolutionary War, serving under Lord Rawdon, the Marquis of Hastings. Hunter was severely wounded in the Battle of Eutaw Springs and returned home to Ireland to recover. He became a member of the Irish Parliament from Athy , and served several terms there.
During that time ,he completed his Military education at Woolich . He then made a tour through Spain. He fell in love with his cousin , Georgina Lennox (later Lady Bathurst), but being unable to marry he became dejected and sailed for New Brunswick ,Canada , to serve in the 54th Regiment of the British Army with the rank of Major.
In February of 1789 he traveled the north American Continent aided only by a compass. He fell in with the local Indians, the Bear Tribe of Hurons, and was adopted as one of their Chiefs. He later made his way down the Mississippi River to New Orleans and took a boat back to Ireland. Upon his return to Ireland he was again elected to Irish Parliament, this time from Kildare. He refused a Military appointment to Cadiz, Spain and devoted himself to the work of the Irish Parliament.
In October of 1791 he visited Paris during the French Revolution and lodged with the English born Political Philosopher ,Thomas Paine, the publisher of the American and French Pamphlets "Common Sense". During that time Fitzgerald listened to the debates in the French Revolutionary Convention. He became caught up in the fever of the time and place and joined in a toast at a banquet that supported the abolition of all Heredity Titles. He then repudiated his own Heredity title and was promptly dismissed from the British Army.
He then married a girl named "Pamela" at Tournay ,France. One of the witnesses on the marriage certificate was Louis Phillippe (a friend of Thomas Paine), who was later to become the first and only King of France, following the execution of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. France then became a Republic , like to the United States.
Fitzgerald then returned to Ireland and joined the Irish resistance that sought to establish an Independent Irish Republic, similar to the United States and France. He was betrayed and a bounty was placed on his head for his apprehension. Eventually he was arrested in a struggle where one of his captors was mortally wounded and he himself was seriously injured.
All of his property was seized for treason by the government, and his wife fled the country . He was jailed at Newgate Jail ,and supposedly died there. However, he had two brothers that were Admirals in the British Navy and they allegedly helped him to escape from jail.
Here is where it really gets interesting. He took a vessel to America , but was caught in a storm (likely Hurricane) off the coast of Cuba ,and was shipwrecked. He was adrift at sea for sometime with another passenger on the sunken vessel, one William Morgan of New York State.
Both Morgan and Fitzgerald were rescued by the same ship , the STAR, and both were taken to the Cayman Islands where they both married local women. It was around this time that Edward Fitzgerald changed his name to Willian John Hunter, as numerous British ships and crew were landing in the Cayman Islands and he did not want his real name recognized. Hunter then married Elizabeth Rachael Wood and Morgan married Catherine Ann Paige.
Morgan remained in the Caymans until his vessel was de-masted during a sea-turtle fishing trip in a terrible storm and drifted near Utila Island, where he was rescued. Morgan returned to the Caymans and then moved to Utila to live there in peace with William John Hunter and their two families. The two families later intermarried (as well as inter-marrying members of the Joseph Coopers and the Samuel Warrens families who rescued Morgan on Utila) and branches of their families have as ancestors both William John Hunter and William Morgan as ascendants.
Together the two men ( with members of the Coopers and Warrens families) started Banana plantations in Central America and the banana trade with the United States , and other countries, beginning through New Orleans . Both men died of old age wealthy, happy and with large loving families on the island paradise of Utila, Honduras.
What is also very significant here is that in the history kept by the Hunter Family (see the attachments below) they knew that William Morgan was from "New York".
Now back to the William Morgan story.
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Things in the USA were heating up following Morgan’s kidnapping and alleged murder. Morgan knew that he would not be able to return to the States nor would he be reunited with his family. Below is reproduced a sample of what was being written about it at that time as an example of the backlash that was developing after his disappearance:
“CAPTAIN WILLIAM MORGAN, of New York, an intelligent man, and an inflexible republican, convinced of the dangers of Secret Societies, in a free Government, resolved to use his best endeavors for their suppression. Being a Royal Arch Mason, he had witnessed the corruption of the Institution. He saw it was an engine of personal advantage and political aggrandizement; that it gave to its members unfair advantages and extra privileges over the unsuspecting community; that its insidious influence extended to every transaction in society, raising as it were the Masonic combination unto a PRIVILEGED ORDER, who, under the Royal Names of GRAND KINGS, Grand Sovereigns, and Grand High Priests, in darkness and secrecy, ruled and plundered the people. CAPTAIN MORGAN was a soldier and a brave man. He saw this detestable conspiracy and he dared to risk his life by bursting its shackles and warning an injured people! He was seized by a gang of Masonic desperadoes, who came 60 miles after him, in the morning about sunrise, Sept. 11, 1826, under a pretended process of law, (in the manner Mr. Jacob Allen was taken by Masons at Reading) and carried 60 miles, and placed for safe keeping in a county jail, in the care of a Masonic jailer. Thence he was taken in stillness of the night, crying murder! murder! and transported one hundred miles further, and placed in a U.S. fortress, also in the keeping of a Mason. Here Mr. Giddin's account commences. Thus it appears that our county jails and our national fortresses are all at the service of the Masons, to carry their bloody schemes of kidnapping and murder into execution. Will a free and patriotic people submit to these things in silence! Fellow citizens! Read this pamphlet, and answer the question, ought a secret society to exist amongst us whose members can commit murder and yet escape punishment? MASONS HAVE done this, and their brethren, as may be seen by the oaths on our last page, are sworn to protect them….”
http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/savagetreatmentwilliammorgan.htm
After marrying Catherine Ann Page in the Cayman Islands Morgan obtained a boat and went turtle fishing in the Caribbean Sea. In about 1839 he was caught in a terrible storm (probably another hurricane). His boat lost its mast and he drifted at sea for several weeks. He lived off of turtle eggs and rainwater, until he was found by some Americans from New York, (members of the Joseph Coopers and the Samuel Warrens families) who were living on Utila , Bay Islands, Honduras and towed into Utila. There he there caught turtles and collected their eggs to later sell in British Honduras (now Belize ). He eventually refitted his boat on Utila with the help of his friends from New York and went back to the Cayman Islands to reunite with his wife and children and his good friend William Hunter . They all then moved to Utila where Morgan lived for the remainder of his life.
Morgan and his English speaking friends living on Utila started buying Copra (the inside of a coconut) in Belize and selling it in the US to be used for lamp oil. On one trip there while unloading the Copra at New Orleans a local buyer saw the ship's crew from Utila eating bananas. Having never seen a banana before the Buyer asked what they were and the crew let him try one. He loved it and told the crew to let their boss in Honduras know that he would buy all they could import. The crew went back and told Morgan and others on Utila who began to grow bananas and opened the first banana plantations . Their banana trade in the US flourished and spread from New Orleans to New York and other US ports. Morgan became wealthy from his venture into the banana business as the first, or one of the first, men to import bananas into the United States.
Morgan sent one of his daughters, Letitia, to school in Philadelphia to stay with an Aunt Rosa (supposedly Morgan’s sister). Some years later Letitia’s daughter said that her mother told her that when she was going to school in the States she asked her father why he didn’t want to have it known that she was his daughter and he said that he did not want his identity to be disclosed because he was suppose to be dead and it would not be any benefit to any one for him to try to resurrect himself, and let it stay at that. Not long before his death, Morgan told one of his daughters that he left a wife and three small children behind in the United States; that he had been a member of a secret society; that he had served in the War of 1812 and that he was present at a meeting of an American and British Generals in Virilla, Costa Rica. He then suggested that there was a connection between him and a man named Warren (possibly Warren Cowdery), this to prove that he was not a "wife slayer."
Morgan died around 1864. He was buried in an unmarked grave at his own request which was hidden by the underbrush at his home in Utila. In family letters, Morgan was described as an "educated person, resourceful, industrious and intelligent," and his daughter, Letitia, is quoted as saying, "No woman ever had a better husband than mother, or any children a better father than we had”. Morgan is described as not being much of a drinking man, but as a man who lived at peace near his old friend, William John Hunter, on Utila. Quite a difference from the descriptions of him as a "man of no repute, of idle and disreputable habits," and a “traitor and a drunkard” as later described by disgruntled Masonic writers who obviously had an agenda seeking to defame and discredit him.
William Morgan was related to Capt. Henry Morgan, the Pirate of the Caribbean- Governor of Jamaica, and one of his ancestors was Rowland Morgan- a/k/a Sir Thomas Mathew of Machen- Baron Morgan, Esquire to King Henry of England.
Morgan’s home on Utila reportedly had the all-seeing eye of Masonry painted on the ceiling of the dining room. The home was purchased and torn down by one of his great, great grandson’s a just a few years ago.
The truth is that Morgan was never murdered; but instead died a peaceful death from natural causes and old age at 89 on Utila. He had lived a very long and interesting life, had a large loving family, close loyal friends, outlived his enemies and died wealthy on a tropical paradise of an Island where he had lived for most the latter 30 years of his life of his life.
The Theory of Morgan
Britain had attempted to take over the USA in the Revolutionary War around the time Morgan was born in the 1770’s and again in the War of 1812 in which Morgan had fought. Both times the British were defeated, but the British continued to try and assert their influence on America. Morgan, and many others, believed that the British were trying to infiltrate American politics through the Scottish Rite Masons who were becoming much too influential, sometimes using clueless Americans in positions of power to achieve their ends. The following quote from Morgan’s writings is engraved on one side of Morgan’s Monument which stands in Batavia today:
“The bane of our civil institutions is to be found in Masonry, already powerful and daily becoming more so. I owe to my country an exposure of its dangers. - Captain William Morgan.”
http://www.padfield.com/1993/william-morgan/index.html
In Batavia, Morgan was up to something more than has ever been fully reported. It seems that someone(s) wanted to create an American Masonic organization. The Masonic rites, used by the Scottish Rite Masons, had to be published first in an attempt to turn public opinion against traditional Masons. It was to be a new American Masonry free of British influence, then and now sometimes referred to as the “Illuminati”. To those ends Morgan was writing two books, one on Masonic Secrets and another based on the story of ancient pre-Columbian inhabitants of America. The second book was partially based on what was found of those ancient civilizations in America by Prince Madoc and his decedents in America. The Scribe of Morgan on both books would have been Oliver Cowdery, who was likely in possession of Morgan’s handwritten manuscripts for both books when Morgan disappeared. These were the same manuscripts that local Masons had searched Morgan’s home for after his abduction and had failed to locate.
After Morgan’s disappearance Cowdery took the books to his cousin, Joseph Smith, Jr., in nearby Palmyra, NY. Together they came up with a scheme whereby Smith would claim that an angel appeared to him and led him to some golden plates hidden in a hill nearby which he could interpret through the use of some magic eye glasses or “seer stones”, to translate the writing on the golden plates from Reformed Egyptian Hieroglyphics into English. Cowdery would prepare the work into a “publishers manuscript” like he had done for Morgan and they would sell the books for profit. Once they had printed the books they enlisted the help of Smith’s neighbor, Brigham Young, to sell the books from door to door at a price of $2.00 each, an expensive book in those times. The books sold well and soon the Mormon Church under Smith was gaining financial and popular strength.
One must wonder if the so called “Golden Plates” Smith supposedly found on the Hill Cumorah were not actually copper lithographic printing plates for a book, perhaps Morgan’s book on Madoc, or Solomon Spaulding’s book ,“Manuscript Found”, or parts of both, the latter given to Smith and Cowdery by Sidney Rigdon . Also, Joseph Smith’s father, Joseph, Sr., had a Coopers Shop on his land where he did metalwork where the copper printing plates could have been trimmed and bound. Smith described the plates as being about 6 inches wide, 8 inches long 1/8 inch thick and the total of them bound together about 6 inches deep; the individual pages as described are, in fact, the approximate size of octavo offset copper lithographic printing plates then widely in use.
The plates were covered in engravings. Could it be that the so called Reformed Egyptian Hieroglyphics written on the plates were nothing more than the reversed lettering on the copper printing plates and the magic “Seer glasses” (the Urim and Thummin) used to interpret them were just a mirror to reverse the images on the plates so the wording could be understood? Smith said the Plates “…had the appearance of gold…” (so does shinny copper) and he never actually claimed that the plates were made of gold. Smith refused to allow anyone, including his family, to view the plates directly. Some people, however, were allowed to lift them or feel them through a cloth wrapped around them.
The above explanation certainly makes much more sense than magic glasses or stones to read a language that never existed which then translated them into English, a language that did not even exist until more than 600 years after the last Egyptian Hieroglyphics were used as a written language.
Smith claims that on the night September 21, 1827 , when he retrieved the plates from the Hill Cumorah, he placed them in a linen cloth, put them under his arm and proceeded home with them. On the way he was jumping over logs and running as fast as he could at times to avoid the three men who attacked him, sometimes hitting him with the butt of a gun all the while defeating his attackers while carrying and not dropping the plates on the three mile journey from the Hill to his home. If the plates were pure gold they would have weighed about 200 pounds, if copper about 90 pounds. In either case what Smith described as the 3 mile journey from the Hill Cumorah to his home would have been a task the best of athletes today would have a difficult time repeating.
The fact that Cowdery and Smith used the Book of Madoc and Masonic Rituals (as contained and described in Morgan's Book) to create part of the Mormon religion is beyond doubt. See the following as an examples:
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One of the books that Morgan was writing was based ,in part, on the story Madoc. It makes its appearance in the very opening Chapter of the Book of Mormon. The first verse of The Book of Mormon has a strong parallel with a 16th century book by John Dee called "The Book of Madoc".
In the opening lines of the Book of Mormon , Nephi writes:
"I Nephi, being born of goodly parents, therefore I was taught somewhat in all the learning of my father; and having seen many afflictions in the course of my days, nevertheless, having been highly favored of the Lord in all my days; yea, having had a great knowledge of the goodness and the mysteries of God, therefore I make a record of the proceeding of my days". (1 Nephi 1:1)
The Book of Madoc reads as follows:
"I, Madoc, born of goodly parents, was taught somewhat in the learning of my father, nevertheless having seen many afflictions, therefore I make a record in my day as a vagabond upon the face of the earth." (Madoc 3:1)
Whoever wrote The Book of Mormon obviously had access to The Book of Madoc.
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The penalty for revealing the First Token of the Aaronic Priesthood in the Mormon Religion was apparently copied by Smith from the penalty of disclosing the first degree (Entered Apprentice) of Freemasonry as described in Morgan's book:
Mormon text:
"We, and each of us, covenant and promise that we will not reveal any of the secrets of this, the first token of the Aaronic priesthood, with its accompanying name, sign or penalty. Should we do so, we agree that our throats be cut from ear to ear and our tongues torn out by their roots" (W. M. Paden, Temple Mormonism, 1931, p. 18).
Mason text:
"I will . . . never reveal any part or parts, art or arts, point or points of the secret arts and mysteries of ancient Freemasonry . . . binding myself under no less penalty than to have my throat cut across, my tongue torn out by the roots. . . ." (William Morgan, Freemasonry Exposed, 1827, pp. 21-22)
3.
Besides similar penalties, there are also similar signs, arm positions, ear whisperings, passwords and handgrips. For instance, compare the "First Token of the Aaronic Priesthood" grip with the "First Degree" Masonic grip:
Mormon text:
Peter - "What is that?"
Adam - "The first token of the Aaronic Priesthood."
Peter - "Has it a name?"
Adam - "It has."
Peter - "Will you give it to me?"
Adam - "I can not, for it is connected with my new name, but this is the sign" (Paden, p. 20).
Mason text:
"What is this?"
Ans. "A grip."
"A grip of what?"
Ans. "The grip of an Entered Apprentice Mason."
"Has it a name?"
Ans. "It has."
"Will you give it to me?"
Ans. "I did not so receive it, neither can I so impart it." (Morgan, pp. 23-24).”
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Compare the Second Token of the Aaronic Priesthood with the Second Degree (Fellow Craft) oath:
Mormon text:
"We and each of us do covenant and promise that we will not reveal the secrets of this, the Second Token of the Aaronic Priesthood, with its accompanying name, sign, grip, or penalty. Should we do so, we agree to have our breasts cut open and our hearts and vitals torn from our bodies and given to the birds of the air and the beasts of the field" (Paden, p. 20)
Mason text:
"I . . . most solemnly and sincerely promise and swear . . . that I will not give the degree of a Fellow Craft Mason to any one of an inferior degree, nor to any other being in the known world . . . binding myself under no less penalty than to have my left breast torn open and my heart and vitals taken from thence . . . to become a prey to the wild beasts of the field, and vulture of the air. . . ." (Morgan, p. 52).
(Mormon officials expunged the Five Points of Fellowship and the Penalties from the Endowment in 1990.)
The method used by Smith and Cowdery becomes apparent. They would read and then rewrite certain parts of an existing work to make them sound more religious than the original. Sometimes using one, but often several sources for the rewrite. This was undoubtedly the method used in creating the Book of Mormon. One of the sources appears to be the story of the Ancient Americans as found in the work based on Prince Madoc that Morgan was using to write his story of Ancient pre-Columbian people of America, and perhaps several others such as the Bible and “Manuscript Found” by Solomon Spaulding.
http://solomonspalding.com/docs/1882PatA.htm.
Irrespective of which specific books may have been used it appears that Smith and Cowdery inserted their own flowery language into the book of Mormon.
In order to keep the scheme secret Smith married Morgan’s widow claiming that polygamist marriages were permitted by God in the Mormon religion. A practice which has since been abandoned by modern mainstream Mormons. Also, this could explain why, Emma, the wife of Smith’s first attempted scribe and financial backer, Martin Harris, burned the first 116 transcribed pages of the BOOK OF MORMON declaring them to be a fraud.
CONCLUSION
The fates were kind to William Morgan. He most likely never thought or intended that his book would end Free Masonry in the USA. He only wanted to help turn public opinion against the Mason’s in order to prevent a takeover of the US Government by the British through the use of Masonry. Something that was a common fear in those days. Whether by design or chance he was immensely successful in that effort. Free Masonry in the US suffered a severe blow by the events surrounding his disappearance. When Masonry did make a comeback in the US it was a kinder, gentler, more socially conscious, American organization free from British dominance.
Morgan’s life came to a similar fate. Around the time of his disappearance in New York his health had been very bad. He had suffered a catastrophe in his financial status following the destruction of his brewery in Canada. His wife and children were ill. His prospects for financial recovery were bleak and he was past 50 and having a difficult time laboring at his old trade as a stone and brick mason , particular in the cold winters of upper western New York.
When he relocated to a tropical island in Central America his health improved dramatically in the Island's warm and sunny climate. He lived a long, healthy life on a diet primarily of fresh fruit and fish. When his prospects of reuniting with the family left behind in New York were destroyed after he was declared dead and his wife remarried, not even to consider the storm of political controversy his disappearance had left in the wake of his departur++e, he had to either fall into despair or remake himself. He chose the latter course of action, remarried, had six children and became wealthy from being one of the first men to import bananas to the US from his plantations in Central America. He surrounded himself with good and loyal friends and lived a peaceful and quiet life with his large and loving family on a beautiful tropical island paradise for the remainder of his life. Today the many people bearing the Morgan name and living on the Bay Islands of Honduras, around New Orleans and Tampa are some of his numerous descendants.
Please do not consider this document to be a condemnation of modern Mason’s. If anything, this story proves that the Mason’s never killed William Morgan as they were wrongly blamed for doing. Personally, I believe that most rank and file Masons today are members of the Order the same way people are members of the Moose Lodge, Chamber of Commerce, Knights of Columbus and other fraternal organizations. It is primarily used as a social outlet and helps the members “rub-elbows” with other members of their communities. That said, I do nevertheless believe that at the very top of the Freemasons there may still be those powerful few that may not have the best interest of the whole at heart. Those people may be dangerous to society because their own self interest is foremost on their agenda. It is those few that ordinary society needs to keep a close watch on now, as in the past.
Neither is this a condemnation of the Mormon Religion, which is only a footnote in this story of William Morgan . Yes, I do think that Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery made up the story of the Golden Plates. Yes, I think that they also fabricated the names of people and places in the Book Of Mormon. However, at the same time I have to admire the skill they displayed to create such a masterful work as the Book Of Mormon.
The story of the Pre-Columbian history of America as told in the Book of Mormon is certainly much closer to the true history of early America than that taught in text books in schools and universities today. Archeology has uncovered evidence of numerous contacts between the American Indians and the “civilized world”. There is the Welch in the Dakotas, Mayans in Georgia, Minoans in the Great Lakes, Viking on the east coast, Romans, Jews , Celts, Egyptians, Chinese and many, many others who may have had ancient contact with Pre-Columbian America.
Around the time of this story was unfolding in the 1820’s America was in the process of opening up the Western Territories to development. That area had been the ancestral home and property of the Indians. It was more politically expedient for those that wanted development to take away the Indian lands by portraying them as ignorant savages. Evidence that the Indians had very complex religious and political beliefs ran contrary to those plans. Evidence that some Indian “Tribes” were actually decedents of earlier European explorers would have created immense problems for the developers so that those stories and evidence had to be suppressed. The Book of Mormon tells of one such story and in the process teaches fundamentally sound principals of ethical and moral values.
Irrespective of whatever may have been missteps in its origin there is no doubt that the modern day Mormon Church is a valuable organization which does wonderful work. What is important is not what it may have been, but rather what it is today and none can seriously question its sincerity and dedication to family and community, nor its history of contributions to society through the faith of its members. All religions must be subject to a “leap of faith “at some point in their history.
One final lingering thought has troubled me in relation to the so called "MORGAN AFFAIR". That is that his abduction and disappearance seems to have been contrived and carried out as though it was a pre-planned skit, perhaps with the cooperation of Morgan himself.
Why was he brought over 100 miles from Canandaigua to Fort Niagara on the Canadian border traveling several days through western New York unless the decision to release him in Canada had already been made prior to his abduction? It would have been much easier and more secretive to kill him and dispose of his body somewhere closer to Batavia or Canandaigua if murder was the true intent. Some witnesses to the event have said that Morgan was in fact a willing participant. If so, then he would have not done it with the expectation of forever leaving his homeland and family. Some of those involved later admitted that this was in fact the case and Morgan was never killed, but his release in Canada had in fact been prearranged and pre-agreed. Given his health, personal and financial status at that time, it seems a reasonable explanation.
How do I know many of these things? William Morgan of Honduras was my great, great grandfather. I am the oldest living male member of my branch of the family and the only one left who directly remembers the verbal history passed down through the family. If I do not tell the true story of William Morgan now it will probably never be told.
I grew up listening to the stories of this incident and its aftermath from my father, my uncles and the many relatives and friends that visited our family from Honduras in New Orleans. Like my father, his siblings ,father ,grandmother and great grandfather many were Methodist, as was Morgan. It was generally after family “get togethers” on weekends or Holidays that the women would go to the living room and the men to the kitchen. They would break out the Bourbon and talk into the early morning hours. I loved to just sit there and listen. It would generally start with how the families were doing and the business status of each family. Then they would turn to their favorite subject’s of football and fishing. Eventually, someone would ask about news from the Bay Islands in Honduras where they all were born and raised. That would lead to someone asking about any new found treasure and that, in turn, would lead into someone saying that we were related to the pirate, Capt. Henry Morgan.
The conversation would then get into a discussion of the fact that we were related to the pirate Morgan through their great grandfather, William Morgan, who they called “old man Morgan”. I gathered that he was pretty stubborn and fixed in his ways. The family story was that he was from somewhere in the States and had got into a disagreement with some men who wanted to kill him. He had escaped and left a family and children there. Also, some people had stolen some of his books and tried to form a new religion to make money and have more encounters with women, but that he believed that the whole thing was a fraud and he wanted nothing to do with it. He was never going back to the States, but he sent his children there to be educated. The elders in my family never really understood the significance of what had happened to William Morgan in New York in 1826. The simply knew the story in its most basic form, probably because that is all he wanted his family to know.
Many people have died, been killed or abducted in order to keep this story secret. Among them were, of course, William Morgan, but possibly also Meriwether Lewis and my cousin Marty Howell in Honduras, with whom I was collaborating on this story at the time of his recent unexpected and sudden death.
Why does the Mormon Church maintain a full time staffed Mission on the small tropical island of Utila? Why is there a Masonic Lodge on the same Island? Why does a man appear at Fort Niagara today to tourist groups to defame Morgan ? Why was Morgan working on illustrations for his book while in prison there if he knew that he was there to be killed?
Personally, I traveled to Batavia, NY to do some research on this subject. I went to the public Library and looked up the catalog numbers for the books and other information on Morgan. When I tried to find them they were missing from the Library shelves. I asked a young woman working behind the desk about why the books could not be found on the shelves and she told me someone in the Library must be using them .I searched the entire library and they were nowhere to be found. I went back to the desk and as I was explaining to the young woman my dilemma when an older woman sitting at a desk behind the counter and asked me why I wanted to see that material .I explained to her that I was William Morgan’s great, great grandson and was doing some research on his life. She asked me to come with her and I followed her into a room in the back that contained a locked cabinet. She unlocked the cabinet and took out the material for me to review. I asked her why the material was kept locked up in the back of the library and she told me that the information was much too controversial to keep out in the open for the public, even today.
For additional reading on this subject please see John Uri Lloyd’s book “Etidorhpa” http://www.gutenberg.org/files/37775/37775-h/37775-h.htm , first published in 1895, but was purported to have been written 30 years earlier. It is obviously the story of William Morgan told from a mystical Masonic point of view. It is full of hidden meanings, metaphors and text. An example is the name itself “Etidorhpa” as it is the name of the Greek Goddess of Love “Aphrodite” ( which also means “risen from the sea foam”) spelled backwards. Also , in the Book "the Man" goes underground to learn great lessons and do great things. After his abduction in New York Morgan "went underground" figuratively, and went on a great adventure to learn and do great things.
The Book itself is also a guide as to how one might become an Adept or Ascended Master, most of whom are from Agartha, a land inside the hollows of the Earth . It is very similar to Jules Verne’s 1864 science fiction book “Journey to the Center of the Earth”. In Tanis Helliwell's recent book “Summer with the Leprechauns”, she claims to meet a being from the hollow earth. He tells her he is the same being written about in the book Etidorpha.
In Etidorhpa , “the Man” is taken into the hollow of the earth through a cave in Kentucky during the early part of the nineteenth century. His guide is a cavern dweller who was a member of a secret organization whose objective is the preservation of vital knowledge for the future enlightenment of mankind. The objective of this trip was the inner shell of the earth, where the nameless one (Morgan), who in the book is called "The Man" , was to receive advanced schooling in the mysteries of the Universe.
The true story of William Morgan needs to be told so I am telling it here. Now that it is on the internet it can be found later by searching the many web-crawlers that constantly search and record almost everything published on the web; even should this web-site be taken down or destroyed later.
There is much more to the history than has been told in text books. If nothing else has been accomplished here I hope this document has made you think .
John Doe 1/22/13
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UPDATE:--- If the William Morgan of New York and William Morgan of Honduras in the 1820's are in fact the same person, then the DNA results of my family should match with the DNA of others who are related to the Morgan family living in and around Culpepper and Monongahela, Virginia (which later became West Virginia in 1863) around the start of the Revolutionary War in 1776. If the DNA does not show such a relation, then there is almost an absolute certainty that the American William Morgan and the Honduras William Morgan were not in fact the same person because they did not come from the same family.
In the 1770's Virginia was mostly wilderness and some of the Morgan families in the area were killed by Indians and a number of the Morgan children were left orphaned. Therefore , DNA has to be tied to close relatives or people in the same family group as opposed to people in the direct line.
However, in the rare and exceptional event that the DNA of my family matched the DNA of the Morgan family living in that part of Virginia in the 1770's , then there is a very high probability , to an almost certainty , that the William Morgan in Batavia , NY (who is reported to have left New York in 1826 ,is the same William Morgan who arrived in Grand Caymans around 1826 aboard the schooner "Star") are the same person.
So, I had my DNA run through Ancestry.com and the results are that I am genetically related to others alive today who are genetically related , as I , to the Morgan families born and living in Culpepper and Monongahela , Virginia at the time that William Morgan was born there in 1774. It appears that the parents of William Morgan may have been killed in an Indian attack while living somewhere in the Culpeper County , Virginia area. After his parents death it appears that William Morgan and his surviving siblings moved in with his father's brother and his family in the Monongahela ,Virginia (now West Virginia) area.
As a practicing attorney for the past 45 years I have no doubt but that I could go into any civil court in America and prove by an overwhelming preponderance of the circumstantial and DNA evidence that the William Morgan of Batavia , NY in 1823 is the same man who arrived in Grand Cayman Island in 1775 onboard the schooner "Star" and who later married William Page's daughter, Catherine, my great, great grandmother.
Is the DNA enough to make it absolutely conclusive that the two are the same man? Probably not. The only way it could be conclusive would be if the DNA from the two William Morgan's were run and compared. That is simply impossible today. However, considering the entirety of the circumstantial and DNA evidence available it is certainly more probable than not , in fact highly probable to an almost certainty, that the two are the same person. We now have evidence of him saying they are the same person, the timeline matches, his actions match, the physical description of his appearance matches and now the DNA to matches. All of that together appears to be pretty convincing evidence .
To turn it around on the naysayers (and there will always be naysayers), given the overwhelming circumstantial and DNA evidence, there is no way they can prove that the two William Morgan's are not in fact the same man. At best, all they might be able to do is to raise a less than a reasonable speculative doubt that the two are in fact the same person.
So, what is the significance of all of this? The significance is profound.
1. This means that the Masons who said that Morgan was never murdered were correct. He was not. As they claimed, he was given a horse and $500 and promptly took a boat out of the country. The Mason's are finally vindicated of that crime.
2. The person found in Lake Ontario wearing Morgan’s clothing was likely a plant to make it look like Morgan was killed. The body was most probably that of Canadian fisherman Timothy Monroe.
3. Some of the Masons participating in the abduction, capture and alleged murder of Morgan were likely unknowingly tricked by other Masons into believing that they had actually killed Morgan.
4. Morgan was likely not only writing a book on secret Mason rituals as was later claimed , but instead was also writing a book about the manner in which the British bankers , the Rothschild’s ( Illuminati ), and their group, were planning to take over the USA banking system through the American Masonic organization in an attempt to control the American government and he was going to name names . This was certainly more of a motivation for murder than the writing of a simple book on low level initiation rituals and secret handshakes that was otherwise being widely distributed in other books. Also, his old commanding officer, Andrew Jackson, had always been fervently anti-central banking for America. Something that was likely not lost on his men , including Morgan.
5. Morgan was never solely anti-Masonic, but was anti-Rothschild and “anti” a central banking for the USA. He was anti-Masonic only to the extent that he did not want the British capitalist using American Masonic lodges to carry out their plans.
6. As Morgan later claimed, the Masons in the USA took in his family from Honduras when they came to the USA for an education and helped him get the banana trading business started in the USA, which rapidly turned into a highly successful and profitable business.
History books and the stories they contain are not always accurate. The truth is often much more interesting. Such was it in the case of William Morgan. It is time. The truth will always out.
John Doe
August 5, 2017
p.s. Thanks to my newly found first cousin ( from DNA matches on Ancestry.com), Jeanette Ruiz Barker , for pointing out the similarities in the DNA patterns between our family and the Morgan Families in Culpepper and Monongahela, Virginia in the 1770's.
p.s.- Someone had intentionally misarranged and added to my "Family Tree" on Ancestry.com. Thanks to my sister, Jane Doe for spending the time to get it straightened out again.
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