Karl David Wright it seems the reason for the duplicate spouses was due to merges you made a few days ago. ?
Seems Erica Howton has gotten it all sorted out.
This link provides info on the children of Margaret Morrow and John Harper.
https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/48295/images/TNBib...
I've made a screenshot of that page and will attach it to their Margaret and John's profiles.
I don't know of any documentation for the middle name Henry for Margaret's husband John Morrow.
Margaret's Find-a-Grave page has a more complete list of their children than the current profile notes that don't show a son named Asa:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/141602882/margaret-harper
John Harper and Margaret Morrow were the parents of the following children.
1. Rebecca Harper, b. 16 May 1773.
2. William Harper, b. 1 January 1775.
3. Hugh Harper, b. 22 September 1776.
4. John Harper, b. 25 February 1779.
5. Anna Harper, b. 8 September 1781.
6. Andrew Harper, b. 3 October 1784.
7. James Harper, b. 6 June 1786.
8. Elizabeth Harper, b. 25 March 1788.
9. Asa Harper, b. 4 August 1790.
10. Enos Harper, b. 2 July 1793.
11. Jesse Harper, b. 1 December 1795.
12. Margaret Harper, b. 29 November 1799.
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Regarding John Harper, I have never seen proof that John is a Knox descendant via his mother. I have posted about this before and it has remained intact, which is always a stumbling block to me when I'm tracing a pathway that goes via the Knox connections...because I'm not convinced those connections are correct. For example, John's Find-a-Grave page state that his parents are unknown:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/141602829/john-harper
John Harper's birth year, origins and parentage are uncertain, but he was most probably a son (if not a younger brother or a nephew) of William Harper, Sr., who was last of record on 7 October 1789 in the former Chatham District of Orange County, North Carolina (present-day northwest Alamance County near the Guilford County line, just southeast of Altamahaw).
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The excerpt above indicates it's not certain whether William Harper was his father or his uncle, which does indicate John was from that particular famliy, but it makes a difference as to who his mother might have been. In my Ancestry tree, I have his mother as Margaret (Unknown), since I've never seen proof of the Knox connection. Some Ancestry trees have his mother just as Margaret, as I do, some have no parents connected to him at all, but most seem to copy what is on Geni without any proof for the connections.
The Knox connection got made because there was a Knox family traveling from Ireland to America on the same ship John and his wife Margaret came over on. So someone at some point seems to have decided those must have been Margaret's parents. That is a very speculative leap just because folks left Ireland on the same ship based on this:
"A Knox family is also on board and seems to be related to the Harpers. The Knox family includes John Knox, age 50 (250 acres); Elizabeth Knox age 40; Hugh Knox age 10; Sarah Knox, age 17 (100 acres); James Knox, age 16 (100 acres); William Knox, age 50 (aka the Rev.) (100 acres); another William Knox, age 24 (100 acres)"
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'seems to be related to the Harpers' does not prove they were Margaret's parents. It speculates about a connection to the Harpers with no insight as to 'how'. They may not have been blood-related to Margaret at all. One could infer that they were related to the Harper family itself. But 'seems' is not proof of anything. I would think if the Knox family on the ship had been Margaret's parents and other relatives, that distinction would have been noted back then instead it refers to 'a Knox family', not even mentioning a connection to Margaret in any way.
If someone has actually proof of who John's mother's parents and family connections were, I would love to finally see that so I'd know one way or another whether the whole Knox connections is my actual blood lineage or not.
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