Young. He was paid mostly in cattle, sheep, and horses. In the fall he moved his family to Morgan, building his first permanent home, which he enclosed with a stockade. This stockade was about 1/4 mile west of Deep Creek and about 1/4 mile above the current county road. This area came to be known as Littleton. At about the same time the Territorial Legislature granted to Thomas Thurston, his older brother George W. Thurston, and Jedediah M. Grant a large section of land in the Valley for herd grounds.5 In I860, Thomas moved his family from Littleton to the west side of Line Creek. There he built another home about 1/4 mile above the current Milton meetinghouse near some springs. The move from Littleton to Milton came about as the result of a division of the land with the heirs of Jedediah M. Grant. Thomas gave the Grant heirs their choice of the land, and they chose the Littleton area, leaving the northwestern part to him.6 Settlements The early settlements in Morgan included Peterson, established in 1855; Littleton, 1859; Mountain Green, 1857, Porterville and Richville, 1859; Stoddard, Round Valley, and Morgan City, which was divided into North and South Morgan, I860; Milton and Enterprise, 1861; and Croydon, 1862. Jesse W. Fox, This home of Thomas Thurston was the territorial surveyor, did the survey located twenty yards east oj the borne work for these settlements. Date and Barbara Thurston presently On 9 December 1861 the ninth reside *Jt**om wouMhat,e been Terriloria] Legislature convened in Salt at least the third one Thomas built in . , _, ° . ,.,.,. the Valley. Lake City. During this legislative assembly which finally adjourned on 17 January 1862, an act was passed creating Morgan County from portions of Weber and Summit Counties. The act was approved and signed into law by acting Governor Frank Fuller. Temporal Matters Late frosts, lack of water, and plagues of grasshoppers all contributed to the difficulty of raising crops and being able to maintain a family in the Morgan Valley. President Jedediah Morgan Grant, by the power of the priesthood, blessed the Valley that the elements would be tempered and crops could grow. The Saints dug canals several miles long from the streams that flowed through the Valley to provide water in the summer months for their crops. Through these efforts the land began to produce and Morgan became a permanent home for many. In 1862 the Saints faced a different problem. This time there was too much water, and the swollen streams began to exceed their banks and flood the land. The Weber River made Devils Gate impassable for several months,