Who wielded this weapon?

Last year while working on the Fall 2005 Gazette, I happened to be formatting an article about Ralph Morden on the same day that I received an e-mail from a Christopher Morden, who is a member of a travel group to which I belong. I wrote to him in Iceland, "You may think me silly for asking this, but would you be related to Ralph Morden, a Loyalist supporter, hanged during the Revolutionary War?"

He wrote back: "I think I may be. My uncle, Palmer Morden, has been having some genealogical research done on the Green side of my father's family (their mother was a Green). My sister who lives in London, Ontario, has a sword that belonged to some Morden who was in the military back in the 1700s."

So I looked up Christopher's sister and visited her to take photos of this mysterious weapon. Can you cast any light on the mystery and history of this sword?

Michael Johnson, Asst. Editor.