Lewis Morris

The New Netherland Ancestors of

LEWIS MORRIS



Continental Congress Delegate, Declaration of Independence Signer, State Senate 




		 __Captain Richard Morris3
		|
	    __Lewis Morris3
	   |    |
	   |    |__Sarah Pole3
	   |
       __Lewis Morris3
      |    |
      |    |     __James Graham5
      |    |    |
      |    |__Isabella Graham3,5
      |         |
      |         |__(__)5
      |
LEWIS MORRIS3
      |
      |          __Abraham Staats1,2,4
      |         |
      |     __Samuel Staats1,2,4
      |    |    |
      |    |    |     __Jochem Wesselszen2
      |    |    |    |
      |    |    |__Tryntje Jochemse2
      |    |         |
      |    |         |__Geertruy Hieronimus2
      |    |
      |__Tryntje Staats3,4
	   |
	   |     __Barent Reynertszen1
	   |    |
	   |__Johanna Rynders1,2
		|
		|__Geertruyd Jans1



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Biography of LEWIS MORRIS

 
MORRIS, Lewis, (half brother of Gouverneur Morris and uncle of Lewis Richard Morris), a Delegate from New York; born in Morrisania (now a part of New York City), N.Y., April 8, 1726; instructed by private tutors and was graduated from Yale College in 1746; engaged in agricultural pursuits; appointed by the Crown a judge of the Court of Admiralty in 1760 and resigned in 1774; again appointed by the provincial congress in 1776, but declined; elected to the Colonial Assembly of New York in 1769, but was declared disqualified for nonresidence; delegate to the provincial convention of the colony in April 1775; Member of the Continental Congress 1775-1777, and was a signer of the Declaration of Independence; deputy to the State provincial congress in 1776 and 1777; county judge of Westchester County in 1777; member of the committee on detection of conspiracies in 1777; served in the State senate 1777-1781 and 1784-1788, and was a member of the council of appointment in 1786; member of the first board of regents of the University of New York and served from 1784 until his death; delegate to the State convention which adopted the Federal Constitution in 1788; died in Morrisania, N.Y., January 22, 1798; interment in vault beneath St. Anne's of Morrisania Church, Bronx, N.Y.
 

 


Notes and Sources


   1.  Riker, David M., Genealogical and Biographical Directory to Persons
       in New Netherland from 1613 to 1674.  CD-ROM. Cambridge: The
       Learning Company, 1999.  1231.
   2.  Pearson, Jonathan, Contributions for the Genealogies of the First
       Settlers of the Ancient County of Albany, from 1630 to 1800.  Albany:
       Joel Munsell, 1872.  150.
   3.  Seaver, J. Montgomery.  The Morris Family.  Philadelphia:  American
       Historical-Genealogical Society, 1929. 31.
   4.  Pearson, Jonathan.  "Contributions to the History of the Ancient Dutch
       Families of New York." The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record,
       2 (1871):  139-141.
   5.  Riker, op. cit., p. 1035.

 

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