[1] On 21 May 1833, Morgan arrived in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand, in the Prince of Denmark, to join the CMS mission.
[2] In December of that year he worked with William Thomas Fairburn, John Alexander Wilson and James Preece to establish the Puriri mission station in the Thames area on the Waihou River.
[1] His activities resulted in his expulsion from Otawhao in April 1863 following the Invasion of the Waikato by colonial government forces.
[1] The Letters and Journals of Reverend John Morgan, Missionary at Otawhao, 1833-1865, Published in 2 Volumes.
Edited, with an Introduction, by Jan Pilditch, Associate Professor of English and director of the Text and Translation Research Unit at the University Waikato.