Isaac Morley’s Colony
From Lake County Historial Society
A tintype shows Isaac Morley in middle years as a bishop in the Latter-day Saints Church — his expression serious yet kindly, his hair graying, his chin clean-shaven. (Andrew Jenson’s Lattery-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia, Volume II, page 784) The first Morley to settle along the East Branch, Issac, came to Charles Parker’s Lot in the summer of 1811.12 The following June, he married Lucy Gunn near Greenfield, Massachusetts, and returned with her. Later that summer, for the War of 1812, Isaac volunteered and served, (probably in The Firelands), in a company commanded by Capt. Clark Parker of Mentor, (brother to Charles Parker). In 1815, from Charles Parker, he purchased the north half of Lot 613? (seventy-six acres), on which acres he seems to have built a house. He prospered by farming and by the sale of 260 acres to Mentor Township. In 1830 Isaac Morley operated a common stock colony in his house!14
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