When Thomas Noviou Morgan was born on 17 March 1774, in Cumberland Parish, Lunenburg, Virginia, United States, his father, Joshua Morgan, was 53 and his mother, Ann Capers, was 31. He married Elizabeth Blevins about 1793, in North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 3 daughters. He died before 1830, in Wilkes, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 54.