Rash's Surname Index
Notes for William MORRIS
William Morris, eldest child of John and Mary (Sutton) Morris, born in Philadelphia, June 27 ,1735, was a merchant. He was a man of fine intellectual ability and attainments, and took an active interest in the various institutions of his native city. He was appointed a signer of Provincial paper money in 1737, and was a contributor to Pennsylvania Hospital in 1738. A member of the Society of Friends, be moved in the most exclusive social circles of the Quaker City. He was elected a member of the "Colony in Schuylkill", October 7, 176k. He died in his early prime, April 14, 1766.
William Morris married, September 21, 1758, Margaret daughter of Dr. Richard Hill, of Island of Madeira, later of Philadelphia, a native of South River, Maryland, and a nephew of Richard Hill, the Provincial Councillor, so long identified with the Colonial affairs of Philadelphia and the Province of Pennsylvania The mother of Margaret Hill was Deborah Moore, born in Maryland, June 2, 1703, died in Madeira, December 19, 1751, daughter of Dr. Mordecai Moore, the family physician of Lord Baltimore, who accompanied him to Maryland, by his second wife, Deborah, daughter of Thomas Lloyd, President of William Penn's Council and Deputy Governor of the Province of Pennsylvania, 1690-93, and a descendant through the Lloyds of Dolobran, Wales , from Alfred, the Great. Margaret Hill Morris represented the noblest type of womanhood, a true "Mother in Israel" to the poor and afflicted, she bore with Christian resignation the heavy trials of sorrows that fell to her lot and was a model to Christian womanhood and motherhoo d. Left a widow with four small children (one unborn at her husband's death), she reared them to manhood and womanhood and the memory of her wise counsels and Christian teachings has been reverently transmitted to her posterity to the present day. She survived her husband over half a century, removing in 1770 to Burlington, New Jersey. where she thereafter lived. At the death of her son, Dr. John Morris, in 1793 she adopted his youngest daughter Margaret then an infant and she was her constant companion until her marriage in 1810, after which she received into her household another granddaughter.
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