Death in the family. We find a dusty box filled with letters and documents (from 1813 to 1857) from our ancestors who lived on land once owned by Thomas Jefferson. We learn what David and Mary Higginbotham and their children had to say about life on the plantation they called Morven. Also, we discovered there was an intimate connection between Morven and the thriving city of Philadelphia. Morven had over 50 slaves, but slavery is scarcely mentioned; it is just a fact of life. Read on! ~ David Baldwin, great-great-great-great grandson of David and Mary Higginbotham