Robert Morris

Robert Morris Aubrey H. Baldwin, III R OBERT MORRIS, MERCHANT AND FINANCIER, was no stranger to public office when the Pennsylvania Assembly on 30 December 1786 selected him by unanimous vote as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention. For the space of thirty years from 1765 to 1795 he was to serve the city, state and nation with a diligence and industry that earned him an international reputation. Born on 31 January 1734 in Liverpool, England, he left his homeland and mother, whose name is unknown, at the age of thirteen to join his father, Robert Morris, in Oxford, Maryland. The latter was engaged at the time on the Chesapeake in exporting tobacco. Young Morris was sent to school in Philadelphia. Shortly thereafter he entered the service of the Willings, shipping merchants, where his native talents won the respect and confidence of his employers. In 1754 he became a member of the firm. In later years Willing, Morris & Company built an import and export trade, acquired ships and engaged in international exchange and banking. Morris was a part of this enterprise for thirty-nine years and amassed an enormous fortune. On 2 March 1769, Robert Morris married Mary "Polly" White of Maryland. She presided over a large household of children on High Street and graced the many social affairs demanded by her husband's position. General and Mrs. Washington were close friends, as was Gouverneur Morris, a business associate during their residence in Philadelphia. When rioters stormed James Wilson's house, it was Polly Morris who provided refuge for Rachel Wilson and her children. Morris entered public life when he was chosen warden of the Port of Philadelphia in 1766. In 1774 he was a delegate to the first Continental Congress, and in November of 1775 he was sent by the Pennsylvania Assembly to Congress. He therefore was a member of that body when the Declaration of Independence was drafted. He voted against the measure as "being too premature", but when ratified he signed it on 1 August 1776. 95 96 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine He was elected to the Pennsylvania Assembly on 30 June 1775, and was named to its Council of Safety. In October 1775, he was re-elected to the last Assembly under the Colonial Charter, where he served on the Committee of Correspondence. He took his seat the following year in the first Assembly under the new Pennsylvania State Constitution. He was defeated in the fall election of 1779 due to his financial dealing in Congress with war measures that met with popular disapproval in the State. However, in 1780 he was elected for the term ending June 1781, and was returned thereafter until 1789 when he became one of the two senators from Pennsylvania to serve in the United States Senate. As the State's delegate to Congress, his committee assignments included the Committee of Secret Correspondence which became the Committee of Foreign Affairs, and the Committee of Commerce. A contemporary observer in 1777 reported Congress ruled by Richard Henry Lee, the Adamses and Robert Morris. It was Robert Morris who in 1777 signed the Articles of Confederation on behalf of Pennsylvania. He served as chairman of the Committee on Finance from 1778 to 1781, and Congress in that later year chose him as Superintendent of Finance with all powers required to meet the desperate financial situation of the Colonies. In accepting the post, Morris wrote: "The United States may command anything I have, except my integrity, and the loss of that would effectually disable me from serving them more", meaning by "integrity" the commercial honor of his signature. Morris organized the Bank of America in 1782, and was called upon to defend the bank and his fiscal measures in the Pennsylvania Assembly. He presented arguments for a strong government to regulate trade and cure the wretched condition of government finances. As a result of his able defence, he was named to the Annapolis Convention to deal with these matters. The debacle of that gathering set in motion the calling of a Constitutional Convention to begin in Philadelphia on Monday, 14 May 1787. With such credentials much was expected of Morris at the Convention. That he chose a passive role has been much commented on by historians. On 25 May 1787 with several states reporting, the Congress proceeded to organize. Morris spoke first on behalf of Pennsylvania, he formally proposed George Washington for President. His motion was seconded by John Rutledge of Virginia. With no other nominations and the ballot by states being unanim- Hobert Morris 97 ous, Morris and Rutledge escorted Washington to his chair. In the secret proceedings thereafter, Robert Morris is only twice recorded as speaking on the floor. He objected to a motion that voting be by states (a motion that lost); and he seconded a motion of good behaviour as the term of office for senators (again, a motion that lost). At the closing session 17 September he signed the finished Constitution. William Pierce, a delegate from Georgia, wrote while that body was still in session, "He (Morris) has an understanding equal to any public object, and posesses an energy of mind that few men can boast of. Although he is not learned, yet he is as great as those who are. I am told that when he speaks in the Assembly of Pennsylvania he bears down all before him." Max Farrand, noted chronicler of the Convention, notes that Morris followed everything that was done with the keenest interest. His position on the great matters before the Congress were well known. Furthermore, he probably agreed in almost every detail with his business associate and former assistant, Gouverneur Morris, who was the most frequent speaker at the Convention. While the nation's capitol was in Philadelphia, Morris was the most generous and lavish of hosts. Extravagances and land speculations led to his downfall, which was as spectacular as his rise to eminence. On the day his affairs collapsed he was involved in the construction of a palatial marble house in Philadelphia designed by the architect, L'Enfant. To escape his creditors he tied to his country estate, "The Hills" on the Schuylkill. It was a small creditor who caused his arrest in February 1798. He was taken to the debtors prison on Prune Street, Philadelphia, and was confined there for three and a half years until his release on 26 August 1801 under the new federal bankruptcy law. Robert and Polly Morris lived, after his release from prison, in a small house in the city. His wife's annuity secured for her by Gouverneur Morris was their chief means of support. Of the couple's five sons and two daughters, two sons died before their father. Robert Morris died 8 May 1806, in his seventy-third year. 98 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine 1. ROBERT' MORRIS was born 31 January 1734 in Liverpool, England. He married MARY WHITE on 2 March 1769, at Christ Church, Philadelphia. [Christ Church, Philadelphia Marriages 1709-1800, Collections of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, vol. 179 (Phila. 1907) 4345. Ph/2E:7 hereafter cited as Christ Ch. Marriages 1709-1800.] She was the youngest child of Thomas & Esther (Heulings) White of Philadelphia and the sister of the future Episcopal bishop, William White. She was born 13 April 1749 in Philadelphia. [Charles H. Hart, "Mary White —Mrs. Robert Morris", The Pennsylvania Magazine of History & Biography, H. (1878) 158. hereafter cited as Hart.] She was baptised 10 May 1749. [Christ Church, Philadelphia Baptisms 1709-1768, Collections of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, vol. 166 (Phila. 1907) 364. PH/2E:1. hereafter cited as Christ Ch. Baptisms 17094768.j They were the parents of seven children, all born in Philadelphia. Robert Morris died in Philadelphia, 7 May 1806. He was buried 10 May in the White-Morris vault in Christ Church Burial Ground. [Christ Church, Philadelphia, Burials 1785-1900, Collections of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, vol. 176 (Phila. 1907) 3648. Phi 2E:6. hereafter cited as Christ Ch. Burials 1785-19001 Mary (White) Morris died in Philadelphia 16 January 1827, she was buried with her husband, 18 January 1827. [Christ Ch. Burials 1785-1900, 3800.] Children of Robert & Mary (White) Morris: ROBERT' MORRIS was born 19 December 1769 in 2. i, Philadelphia. 3. ii. iii. 4. iv. W. THOMAS2 MORRIS was born 26 February 1771 in Philadelphia. WILLIAM2 MORRIS was born 9 August 1772 in Philadelphia. He was a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania in 1788. He studied law and traveled to Paris and London in 1794-5. He set up a law practice in Philadelphia where he died 9 October 1798 during a fever epidemic. [Hart, 178.1 He was buried at Christ Church the same day, [Christ Ch. Burials 178.5-1900, 3564.] ETTY2 [HESTER] MORRIS was born 30 July 1774 in Philadelphia. CHARLEY MORRIS was born 11 July 1777 in Philadelphia. He was baptised 17 March 1778. [Christ Robert Morris 99 Ch. Baptisms 1769-1794, Collections of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, vol. 167 (Phila. 1906) 975, hereafter cited as Christ Ch. Baptisms 1769-1794.] He was a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania in 1795; then studied law. He died, unmarried, probably the victim of yellow lever, before 1806. 5. vi. MARIA2 MORRIS was born 24 April 1779 in Philadelphia. 6. vii. HENRY2 MORRIS was born 24 July 1784 in Philadelphia. [Note: all children's birth dates noted in Morris Bible record, Hart, 1$4.] Second Generation 2. ROBERT2 MORRIS (Robert') was born 19 December 1769 in Philadelphia; [Hart, 1841 and baptised 16 February 1770. [[;hrist Ch. Baptisms 1769-1794, 705.E In 1782, at age twelve, he was sent to school in Geneva, Switzerland. In the summer of 1786 he went to Germany and entered the University of Leipzig, where he stayed for nearly two years. He returned to Philadelphia in the spring of 1788. [Hart, 169] On 5 May 1796, he married ANN SHOEMAKER, the daughter of Benjamin gc Elizabeth (Warner) Shoemaker. [Christ Ch. Marriages 1709-1800, 4544.] She was born 27 March 1777 in Philadelphia. [Benjamin H. Shoemaker: Genealogy of the Shoemaker Family, (Phila. 1933) 103.1 Robert Morris read law in the office of Richard Harrison in New York City. He came back to Philadelphia where he practiced law for many years. He died 2 June 1815. [Poulson's Daily Advertiser, Philadelphia, 12 June.] His widow remarried, 3 November 1823, Francis Bloodgood, 1775-1840, who was at one time mayor of Albany, New York. She died 5 March 1865 in Philadelphia. [Shoemaker Genealogy, 195-6.] Children of Robert Re Ann (Shoemaker) Morris: i. ROBERT' MORRIS was born 24 March 1797; baptised the same day. [Christ Church, Philadelphia Baptisms /794-1819, Collections of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, Vol. (Phila. 1907) 1449, Ph/2E3., hereafter cited as Christ Ch. Baptisms 1794-1819.] He died 30 May 1798. [Christ Ch. Burials 1785-1900, 3554.1 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine 100 7. ii. ELIZABETH ANN' MORRIS was born 18 November 1798 in Philadelphia. iii. MARY WHITE' MORRIS was born 28 November 1800 in Philadelphia. 9. iv. ROBERT3 MORRIS was born 12 December 1802 in Philadelphia. BENJAMIN SHOEMAKER' MORRIS was born 8 v. January 1804; baptised 5 December 1815. [Christ Ch. Baptisms 17944819, 1967.] He died, unmarried, at Albany, New York, 28 January 1849, [U.S. Gazette,1 February. ] 3. THOMAS2 MORRIS (Roberti) was born 26 February 1771 in Philadelphia [Hart, 184.] where he was baptised, 18 May 1771. [Christ Ch. Baptisms 1769-1794, 741.E In 1782, at age nine, he was sent to school in Geneva, Switzerland with his older brother Robert. They entered the University of Leipzig in the summer of 1786, finishing there and leaving Germany for home in the spring of 1788. [Hart, 169.] His father had purchased 1,200,000 acres in Western New York [New York, American Guide Series, (New York, 1940) 435.] and it seems probable that this is the reason Thomas settled in Canandaigua, New York in 1791-2. He is said to have built the second frame house in the town. From 1794 to 1796 he represented Ontario County in the New York Assembly. He read law with Richard Harrison in New York City and was admitted to the Bar. On 28 May 1799, at Albany, New York, he married SALLY KANE, the daughter of Colonel John gc Sybil (Kent) Kane, of Schnectady, New York. She was born, 31 October 1778 in Dutchess County, New York. He was a member of Congress from New York State, 7 December 1801-3 March 1803. In 1804 he moved to New York City where he practiced law. He was for many years the U.S. Marshall for the Eastern District of New York, retiring from office in 1841. He died in New York City, 12 March 1849. His widow, Sally (Kane) Morris died there 17 December 1853. 8. Children of Thomas Sz Sally (Kane) Morris: 10. i. MARY MORRIS was born 3 April 1800 in Canandaigua, New York. ii. SALLY3 MORRIS was born in Canandaigua, New York, 6 March 1802; she was baptised in Philadelphia, 13 March 1803. [Christ Ch. Baptisms 17941819, 1752.] She died, unmarried, in New York City, Robert Morris iii. 101 19 December 1848. ROBERT KANE 3 MORRIS was born in New York City; he was baptised, 31 January 1808. He died, unmarried, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 6 June 1833. iv, HENRY WHITE' MORRIS was born in New York City in 1805. He was appointed a Midshipman in the U.S. Navy, 21 August 1819; Lieutenant, 17 May 1828; Commander, 12 October 1849; Captain, 27 December 1856. During the Civil War, at the time of Admiral Farragut's advance on New Orleans, 24 April 1862, he commanded the sloop of war Pensacola. When Farragut proceeded up the Mississippi, Captain Morris was left to watch the Delta and adjacent coasts, and to hold the "City": "a trust which he so ably and discreetly discharged as to elicit the unqualified written encomiums of his superior in command." He died, unmarried in New York City, 11 August 1863. [Greenwood Cemetery record.] v. HARRIET3 MORRIS was born in New York City. She died, unmarried, 7 November 1862 in New York a vi. vii. viii. EMILY3 MORRIS was born in New York City, where she died, unmarried, 6 December 1884. ARCHIBOLD3 MORRIS was born in New York City, he died young. WILLIAM3 MORRIS was baptised in New York City, 16 January 1813; he died there before June 1817. 11. ix. CAROLINE JULIA3 MORRIS was born 14 June 1814 in New York City. x. WILLIAM WHITE 3 MORRIS was born in New York City, June 1817; baptised 1 March 1820. He died in Houston, Texas 5 November 1865. xi. CHARLES FREDERICK' MORRIS was born in New York City, 9 December 1819; baptised 1 March 1820. He was a graduate of West Point, 1 July 1841; 2nd Lieutenant, U.S. Army 28 September 1841; 1st Lieutenant, 18 June 1847. He served during the Mexican War and was wounded at the Battle of Resaca de la Palma, 9 May 1846; and again at the attack on The Pennsylvania Genea logical Magazine 102 Molino del Rey, 8 September 1847. He died, as a result of his wounds at Mixcoao, Mexico, 17 September 1847. [Records Adjutant-General, USA.] 4. ETTY2 [RESTER] MORRIS (Robert) was born 30 July 1774 in Philadelphia [Hart, 184.] and was baptised 25 August 1774. [Christ Ch. Baptisms 17694794, 844.] [Note: her baptismal name was Etty, although later sources give it as Hester.] On 10 April 1795, at Philadelphia, she married JAMES MARKHAM MARSHALL [Christ Ch. Marriages 1709-1800, 4529.] He was the son of Colonel Thomas Sc Mary (Keith) Marshall of "Oak Hill", Fauquier County, Virginia. He was born 12 March 1764 in Fauquier County. [W.M. Paxton: The Marshall Family, (Cincinnati, 1885) 51, hereafter cited as Marshall Family.] During the Revolution he served as a Lieutenant and Captain of a Virginia State Regiment, 1778-1781. [Francis B. Heitman: Register of Officers of the Continental Army, (Baltimore, 1967) 3801 It is said that he participated in the siege of Yorktown. After the war he went to Kentucky with his father. His elder brother, John Marshall, who became Chief Justice of the United States in 1801, had close ties to George Washington and the government. It may have been through this connection that it has been said, he was sent, as an agent of the government, to negotiate the release of LaFayette from prison in Olmutz, Austria, where he was held from 1792 to 1796. He spent several years abroad, and his two oldest children were born on ships of war off the British coast. While in England he purchased land in the Northern Neck of Virginia from heirs of Lord Fairfax. However, the State of Virginia confiscated most of the land, leaving Marshall a portion of Leeds Manor, Fauquier County. He studied law and practiced in Winchester, Virginia, where he was eminent in his profession. Early in the 1800s he left Winchester and settled on his Happy Creek, Warren County, Virginia estate where he built a massive house. About 1816 he presented this estate to his son Robert Morris and retired to "Fairfield" where Hester (Morris) Marshall died, 18 April 1817, after the birth of her sixteenth child! He died at "Fairfield", 26 April 1848. Both are buried at Happy Creek. [Marshall Family, 51-21 Children of James Markham & Etty [Hester] (Morris) Marshall: i. THOMAS3 MARSHALL was born on a U.S. manof-war in the river Thames, near London, England, 6 February 1796. He studied law and practiced at Winchester. In _Tune 1822 he married CATHERINE Robert Morris 103 THORNTON, the daughter of judge Thornton of Kentucky. She was born at "Fall Hill", Spottsylvania County, Virginia, about 1800. Thomas and Catherine (Thornton) Marshall were the parents of two infant children when an epidemic of some sort struck Winchester and caused the death of the entire family on 20 September 1826. [Marshall Family, 138-9.] 12. ii. iii. iv. ROBERT MORRIS3 MARSHALL was born on a U.S. man-of-war off the English coast, 20 January 1797. JOHNS MARSHALL was born at Happy Creek, 4 February 1798; he died there, 25 March 1798. MARY MORRIS MARSHALL was born 31 January 1799 at Happy Creek; she died, unmarried, at "Fairfield" January 1839. v. WILLIAM3 MARSHALL was born at Happy Creek, 1 April 1800; he died there, 17 June 1800. vi. ELIZA' MARSHALL was born at Happy Creek, 14 April 1801; she died there, 13 July 1802. vii. JAMES' MARSHALL was born at Happy Creek, 21 October 1802. He was a very successful lawyer in Winchester. He was a member of the Virginia convention in 1861 and was opposed to secession. He never married. He died at Winchester, 11 February 1880. [Marshall Family, 139.] 13. viii. JOHNS MARSHALL was born 27 June 1804 at Happy Creek. ix. WILLIAM3 MARSHALL was born at Happy Creek, 29 March 1806; he died there, 7 April 1806. x. LUCY' MARSHALL was born at Happy Creek, 26 June 1807; she died there, 25 September 1808. xi. CHARLES LEWIS3 MARSHALL was born 14 April 1809 at Happy Creek. He studied law, and died 13 May 1831 just as he was beginning his practice. 14. xii. HENRY MORRIS' MARSHALL was born at Happy Creek, 13 June 1811. 15. xiii. SUSAN 3 MARSHALL, was born 11 October 1812 at The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine 104 Happy Creek. xiv. ALEXANDERs MARSHALL was born at Happy Creek, 24 January 1814; he died there, 16 February 1814. xv. WILLIAM' MARSHALL was born 1 January 1815 at Happy Creek; he died there, 30 September 1831. xvi. LUCY' MARSHALL was born at Happy Creek, 22 March 1817; she died there in September 1827. 5. MARIA2 MORRIS (Robert') was born in Philadelphia, 24 April 1779; [Hart, 1$4.] she was baptised 29 October 1779. [Christ Ch. Baptisms 17694794, 946] She married, 4 March 1802, HENRY NIXON of Philadelphia. [Christ Church Philadelphia Marriages 1800-1900, Collections of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania (Phila. 1907) Ph/2E:8., 4510, hereafter Christ Ch. Marriages 1800.1900.] He was born 9 August 1776 in Philadelphia, the son of Colonel John & Elizabeth (Davis) Nixon. [Robert C. Moon: The Morris Family of Philadelphia, (Phila. 1909) Supplement, Vol. V. 3201 It was this Colonel Nixon who gave the first reading of the Declaration of Independence, 8 July 1776, to a large assemblage of people in the State House yard. Henry Nixon was the fourth president of the Bank of North America, from 1822 to 1840, he died in Philadelphia [or Albany, N.Y.], 18 August 1840. Maria (Morris) Nixon died in Philadelphia, 11 September 1852. Both are buried at St. Peter's Church, Philadelphia. [Charles R. Hildeburn: Description of St. Peter's Churchyard, Philadelphia, (Camden, 1879), 15. Ph/26E3,] Children of Henry 8c Maria (Morris) Nixon: 16. i. JOHN' NIXON was born 23 December 1802 in Philadelphia. ROBERT MORRIS' NIXON was born in Philadelii. phia, 23 August 1804. He was baptised 19 July 1812, as Morris Nixon. [Christ Ch. Baptisms 17954819, 18941 He studied law and was admitted to the Philadelphia bar in 1826. He never married, and died in Maryland in 1856 or 1857. iii. MARY NIXON was born 6 August 1806 in. Philadelphia. She was baptised 19 July 1812. [Christ Ch. Baptisms 1795-1819, 1894.] She died, unmarried, in Philadelphia, 8 October 185]. [St. Peter's Marriages Robert Morris 105 '6- Burials 1828-1884, Philadelphia, Collections of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, Vol 235, (Phila. 1909) 16. Ph/26E:2., hereafter St. Peter's Marriages & Burials 1828-1884.1 iv. ELIZABETH' NIXON was born in Philadelphia, 31 January 1809. She was baptised 19 July 1812. [Christ Ch. Baptisms 1795-1819, 1894.] She never married, and died 20 October 1890. 17. v. CAROLINE NIXON was born 28 March 1811 in Philadelphia. vi. HENRY' NIXON was born 4 June 1813 in Philadelphia. He was baptised 13 July 1814. [Christ Ch. Baptisms 1795-1819, 1945] It is said that he died in Ohio in 1853 or 1854. vii. DAVID WALKER' NIXON was born 5 November 1815 in Philadelphia. He was baptised 16 November 1816. [Christ Ch. Baptisms 1795-1819, 1987.] He is said to have married, the name of his wife is unknown, and that they lived in California with their two children. viii. HETTY3 NIXON was born in Philadelphia, 28 April 1818. She never married, and died in Philadelphia, 26 February 1856. [St. Peter's Marriages & Burials 1828-1884, 16.] 18. ix. EMILY' NIXON was born 8 August 1821 in Philadelphia. 19. x. ELLEN CORA3 NIXON was born 15 September 1825 in Philadelphia. 6. HENRY2 MORRIS (Robert') was born 24 July 1784 at Philadelphia. [Hart, 184 .] He was a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania in 1802. He married, 29 September 1819, ELIZA JANE SMITH, the daughter of Dr. William Pitt & Mary (Holliday) Smith of New York City. She was born in New York City, 29 September 1794. He was in business in Paterson, New Jersey in the early 18205; returned to Philadelphia; and by 1829 was. in Ohio. They lived at one time in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania where he represented the Philadelphia ge Reading R.R. Company in purchasing land in that area for the railroad's right of way. He was at one time in Delaware, but finally moved back to Philadelphia. In 106 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine 1841 he was elected Sheriff of Philadelphia County. He died 1 December 1842 in Philadelphia. Eliza Jane (Smith) Morris died in Philadelphia, 4 March 1844. Both are buried at Christ Church, Philadelphia. [Christ Ch. Burials 1785-1900, 3842, 38451 Children of Henry 8c Eliza Jane (Smith) Morris: 20. i. MARY MORRIS was born 7 July 1820 in Paterson, New Jersey. AMELIA SMITHS MORRIS was born 11 May 1822 in Paterson, New Jersey. Nothing further is known of her. 21. iii. ROBERTS MORRIS was born in Philadelphia, 16 February 1824. iv. WILLIAM PITTA MORRIS was born in Manayunk, near Philadelphia, 15 May 1826. He never married. He died at "Morris Farm", Bedford County, Virginia, 5 March 1881. v. CHARLOTTE ELIZA3 MORRIS was born 19 January 1829 in Cincinnati, Ohio. She died at Dauphin, Pennsylvania, 14 October 1882. vi. HENRY3 MORRIS was born 16 March 1832 at Neville, Ohio. He died, unmarried, near Leon, Nicaragua in 1855. 22. vii. SARAH' MORRIS was born 4 November 1834 in Beech Hill, Clermont County, Ohio. Third Generation 7. ELIZABETH ANN' MORRIS (Robert 2, Robert') was born 18 November 1798 in Philadelphia. She was baptised 5 November 1815. [Christ Ch. Baptisms 1795-1819, 19671 On 7 June 1820 she married [John] SYLVESTOR MALSAN, at Philadelphia. [Christ Church Philadelphia Marriages 1800-1900, Collections of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania Vol. 180, (Phila. 1907) 4777. Ph/2E:8., hereafter Christ Ch. Marriages 1800-1900 .] He was said to have been a native of France. He was probably a resident of Albany, New York at the time of their marriage. He died in Mexico soon after the birth of their second son in 1826. Elizabeth Ann (Morris) Mahan married second, probably in Albany, JOHN COSGROVE. She died 4 December 1870 in Albany. Children of (John) Sylvestor Sic Elizabeth Ann (Morris) Mahan: Robert Morris 23. i. 107 JOHN FRANCIS' MALSAN was born 25 February 1824 in Albany, New York. 24. ii. HENRY MORRIS4 MALSAN was born in 1826. Child of John & Elizabeth Ann (Morris-Malsan) Cosgrove: 25. iii. MARY ELIZABETH' COSGROVE was born 3 July 1842. 8. MARY WHITE3 MORRIS (Robert', Robert') was born 28 November 1800 in Philadelphia. She was baptised 5 December 1815. [Christ Ch, Baptisms 1794-1819, 1967.] She married in early March 1827, at Albany, New York, PAUL HAMILTON WILKINS, M.D. of Savannah, Georgia. [Poulson's Daily Advertiser, Philadelphia, 8 March 1827.] He was born 20 June 1802 at Sunbury, Liberty County, Georgia, the son of Paul Hamilton gc Margaret Anne (Campbell) Wilkins. They were living in Savannah by 1828. In 1838 Dr. Wilkins was chosen as a professor at one of the New York medical schools, and with his family took passage on the steamship Pulaski. The ship was wrecked off New River, Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, on 14 June 1838. One hundred lives were lost, including Paul & Mary (Morris) Wilkins and their five year old son, Francis Bloodgood Wilkins. 9. ROBERT3 MORRIS (Robert' Robert') was born 2 December 1802 in Philadelphia. He was baptised 5 November 1815. [Christ Ch. Baptisms 1794-1819, 1967.] He was a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania in 1821. He read law with Horace Binney, the well-known Philadelphia lawyer and was admitted to the bar 10 October 1828. In 1832 or 1835, he received a degree in medicine from the University of Pennsylvania, and thereafter practiced medicine. On 26 May 1836, he married his first cousin, CAROLINE3 NIXON, the daughter of Henry 8c Maria (Morris) Nixon. She was born 28 March 1811 in Philadelphia. [Poulson's Daily Advertiser, 31 May 1836.1 Caroline (Nixon) Morris died 31 March 1837, two weeks after the birth of their first child, Robert Morris. She was buried 1 April in Christ Church Burial Ground. [Christ Ch. Burials 1785-1900, 3829.] On 1 June 1854 at Happy Creek, Virginia, he married his second cousin, LUCY PICKETT4 MARSHALL, the daughter of Robert Morris & Lucy (Pickett) Marshall. She was born 26 October 1828 at Happy Creek. They lived in Philadelphia and spent summers at Happy Creek. Dr. Robert Morris died 18 June 1891 in Philadelphia. Child of Robert & Caroline (Nixon) Morris: The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine 108 ROBERT 4 MORRIS was born 18 March 1837 in Philadelphia. Children of Robert & Lucy Pickett (Marshall) Morris: HENRY" MORRIS was born 6 June 1855 in 27. ii. Philadelphia. JAMES MARKHAM" MORRIS was born 21 Februiii. ary 1858 in Philadelphia. He died in Philadelphia 23 December 1864 and was buried at Christ Church. [Christ Ch. Burials 1785-1900, 3878.] AN NA4 MORRIS was born 11 November 1859 in iv. Philadelphia. She married 14 January 1892, JAMES ALFRED MARYE the son of James Braxton & Jane C. (Jett) Marye, who were probably of Virginia. He was born 12 November 1847. SUSAN MARSHALL' MORRIS was born 26 28. v. November 1860 in Philadelphia. vi. LUCY MARSHALL' MORRIS was born in Philadelphia 24 March 1866. She married 10 June 1896, RICHARD PANAN TINSLEY, the son of Alexander & Mary D. (Panan) Tinsley. He was born 10 August 1867 in York County, Virginia. 10. MARY3 MORRIS (Thomas2, Roberts) was born 3 April 1800 in Canandaigua, New York. She was baptised in Philadelphia, 26 December 1800. [Christ Ch. Baptisms 17944819, 1573.] She married 22 December 1818, probably in New York City, CHARLES APTHORP VAN DEN HEUVEL. He was born 7 May 1789 in New York City, the son of John Cornelius 8c Charlotte (Apthorp) Van Den Heuvel. Mary (Morris) Van Den Heuvel died 12 April 1885 in New York City. Children of Charles A. gz Mary (Morris) Van Den Heuvel: JOHN CORNELIUS' VAN DEN FIEUVEL was i. born 21 September 1819 in New York City. He died, unmarried, in 1895. ii. APTHORP4 VAN DEN HEUVEL was born in New York City, 1.1 September 1820. He died, unmarried, in New York City, 7 May 1879. iii. ROBERT MORRIS' VAN DEN HEUVEL was born in New Haven, Connecticut, 31 October 1821. He 26. i. Robert Morris 109 never married and died in New York City in 1895. iv. CHARLOTTE AUGUSTA' VAN DEN HEUVEL was born 24 March 1823 in New York City. She never married and was living with her brother Robert in 1895. 11. CAROLINE JULIA5 MORRIS (Thomas2, Robert') was born in New York City 14 June 1814. She married, 3 August 1836, JOHN STARK NEWELL, the son of Samuel & Elizabeth (Stark) Newell. [He changed his surname to Stark after he was married.] He was born 10 October 1811 at Cambridge, Massachusetts. After the wedding they lived in Galena, Illinois, they returned to New York, and by 1848 were in Dunbarton, New Hampshire. He died, 14 May 1849, in Washington D.C. Caroline (Morris) Stark died, 16 January 1888, in Winchester, Massachusetts. Children of John & Caroline J. (Morris) Stark: i. MARY ELIZABETH' STARK was born in Galena, Illinois on 10 July 1838. She died, unmarried, 22 October 1881 in Bay Ridge, New York. ii. JOHN' STARK was born 19 March 1841 in Galena, Illinois. He died in New York City, 20 June 1845. 29. iii. CHARLES FREDERICK' MORRIS STARK was born 18 February 1848 in Dunbarton, New Hampshire. 12. ROBERT MORRIS' MARSHALL (Etty2 Morris, Robert') was born 20 January 1797, on a U.S. man-of-war, off the English coast. He was a graduate of Yale College and spent some years in the Navy. On 20 January 1819, he married his cousin, LUCY MARSHALL, the daughter of Charles 8c Lucy (Pickett) Marshall of Warrenton, Virginia. She was born 15 August 1796 at Warrenton. They lived for several years at "Mt. Morris", Fauquier County, Virginia, then his father relinquished to him, as eldest living son, the Happy Creek estate. He was a Whig and an Episcopalian. Lucy (Marshall) Marshall died 24 December 1844 at Happy Creek, Warren County, Virginia, Robert Marshall died at Happy Creek on 10 February 1870. Children of Robert Morris gic Lucy (Marshall) Marshall: i. HETTY MORRIS' MARSHALL was born at "Mt. Morris", 12 November 1819. She died, unmarried, in the late 1800s. The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine 110 JANE LETITIA4 MARSHALL was born 10 April 1821 at "Mt. Morris"; she died at Happy Creek, 2 May 1825. 30. iii. JAMES' MARSHALL was born 9 March 1823 at "Mt. Morris", Fauquier County, Virginia. ANNA MARIA 4 MARSHALL was born at Happy iv. Creek, Warren County, Virginia, 20 July 1824; she died 20 July 1825. CHARLEY MARSHALL was born at Happy Creek, v. 5 February 1826. He was a graduate of the University of Virginia. He studied law and had a practice in Wheeling, West Virginia. In his later years he returned to Happy Creek where he was living as a bachelor in 1885. THOMAS' MARSHALL was born at Happy Creek, vi. 5 April 1827; he died there, 15 November 1829. vii. LUCY PICKETT4 MARSHALL was born 26 October 1829, at Happy Creek. She married on I June 1854, her cousin, ROBERT' MORRIS, MD. of Philadelphia. [see # 9.] viii. SUSAN 4 MARSHALL was born at Happy Creek, 19 January 1830; she died 12 June 1838. 31. ix. THOMAS4 MARSHALL was born at Happy Creek, 13 April 1831. x. ROBERT MORRIS4 MARSHALL was born 7 September 1832 at Happy Creek. He was an engineer with the railroads in Missouri. He went as an engineer to Brazil and India. His failing health brought him home in 1866 where he was still living in 1885. xi. MARY MORRIS4 MARSHALL was born at Happy Creek on 21 September 1834, where she was living in 1885. 24. xii. ANNA MARIA4 MARSHALL was born 7 November 1835 at Happy Creek; she died 20 July 1836. 13. JOHN3 MARSHALL (Etty2 Morris, Robert') was born at Happy Creek, Warren County, Virginia on 27 June 1804. He was known as "Navy John" since he was in this service before his marriage. He was commissioned as Midshipman USN, and as ii. Robert Morris 111 Lieutenant, 3 March 1827. A letter he wrote to his sister Mary, from Marseilles, France, 2 September 1832, is printed in The Marshall Family, 140-1. The letter was sent via his friend Harry Ingersoll of Philadelphia. He resigned from the Navy 18 September 1838 and returned to "Edgeworth" his estate in Fauquier County, Virginia. He married 31 May 1837, MARY JANE (SHACKLEFORD) PAYNE, the widow of George Morton Payne, and the daughter of James & Elizabeth (Clarke) Shackleford. She was born 6 February 1811 at Maysville, Kentucky. She died 7 August 1849 and was buried in Leeds Church Yard at Happy Creek. [Marshall Family, 141.] John Marshall married, second, 24 October 1850, REBECCA BOYD SMITH. She was born 21 December 1822, the daughter of Colonel Augustin C. Sc Elizabeth Dangerfield (Magill) Smith. John Marshall died 18 September 1855 and is buried in Leeds Church Yard, Happy Creek. [Marshall Family, 141.] His widow, Rebecca (Smith) Marshall was living in 1885. Children of John & Mary Jane (Shackleford) Marshall: 32. i. JAMES MARKHAM4 MARSHALL was born 17 March 1738 at "Edgeworth", Fauquier County, Virginia, ii. WILLIAM' MARSHALL was born at "Edgeworth", 1 August 1840. He served in the Civil War in the Engineer Corps and the Fauquier Battery. In 1885 he was living as a farmer at "Edgeworth." 33. iii. CHARLES SHACKLEFORD4 MARSHALL was born 16 March 1843 at "Edgeworth", Fauquier County, Virginia. iv. ROBERT MORRIS4 MARSHALL was born at "Edgeworth" 12 July 1845. During the Civil War he was a private in his cousin James Marshall's Co. E., 12th Regiment of Virginia Cavalry. He participated in many battles and died in action on 13 October 1863. His body was brought home and buried at Leeds Church Yard. Children of John ge Rebecca Boyd (Smith) Marshall: v. HESTER MORRIS4 MARSHALL was born 26 July 1852 at "Edgeworth." She married 28 October 1875, JAMES PAXTON MARSHALL, the son of Charles A. & Phoebe A. (Paxton) Marshall. He was born 31 December 1848 at "Walnut Grove", Mason County, 112 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Kentucky. 34. vi. JOHN AUGUSTINE' MARSHALL was born 5 September 1854 at "Edgeworth", Fauquier County, Virginia. 14. HENRY MORRIS3 MARSHALL (Etty2 Morris, Robert') was born 13 June 1811 at Happy Creek, Warren County, Virginia. He married ELIZABETH BROOKE on 16 May 1834. She was the daughter of Matthew Whiting ge Elizabeth (Lewis) Brooke, born 19 October 1819 at "Warner Hall", Gloucester County, Virginia. Henry Marshall was one of the eight surviving grandchildren of Colonel Thomas Marshall in 1884. They lived at Rockland Mills, near Linden, Virginia. Children of Henry Morris Se Elizabeth (Brooke) Marshall: 35. i. MARY MORRIS4 MARSHALL was born 6 March 1835 at "Gibralta", Virginia. 36. ii. THOMAS' MARSHALL was born 29 August 1842 at " Fauquier County, Virginia. 37. iii. JAMES MARKHAM4 MARSHALL was born 7 October 1844 at "Fairfield". 38. iv. ELIZABETH LEWIS" MARSHALL was born at "Fairfield", on 25 May 1846. HESTER MORRIS' MARSHALL was born at v. "Fairfield" 26 January 1848. vi. WILLIAM" MARSHALL was born 3 February 1850 at "Fairfield" 3 February 1850. He was a farmer living at Rockland Mills, Virginia in 1900. vii. HENRY MORRIS" MARSHALL was born at "Fairfield", 18 July 1853. He was living at Rockland Mills, in 1900. viii. JOHN" MARSHALL was born 21 December 1855 at "Fairfield". In 1900 he was a lawyer in Detroit, Michigan. 15. SUSAN' MARSHALL (Etty2 Morris, Robert) was born 11 October 1812, at Happy Creek, Virginia. She married 8 June 1843, RICHARD CARY AMBLER, M.D. He was the son of Richard Cary & Catharine (Bush) Ambler and was born 8 November 1810 in Richmond, Virginia. He studied medicine in Paris and then settled in Richmond, Virginia where he practiced for many years. Susan Fairfield ", Robert Morris 113 (Marshall) Ambler inherited a 3,100 acre estate called "The Dell", six miles southwest of Markham, Virginia, where they lived after Dr. Ambler retired. He died 16 July 1877 and is buried in Leeds Church Yard. [Marshall Family, 143.1 Susan (Marshall) Ambler was living in 1885. Children of Richard Cary ge Susan (Marshall) Ambler: HESTER MORRIS' AMBLER was born at "The Dell", near Markham, Virginia, 28 February 1844; she died there 25 March 1844. CATHERINE BUSHY AMBLER was born 1 June 1845; she died the same day at "The Dell". 111. JOHN' AMBLER was born 26 May 1847 at "The Dell"; he died there 12 August 1860. iv. JAMES MARKHAM4 MARSHALL AMBLER was born 30 December 1848 at "The Dell". He received a medical degree from the University of Maryland in 1870. He entered the Navy as an assistant surgeon, 1 April 1874. He was part of a U. S. Navy Polar Expedition to Russia under the command of Lieutenant Commander George W. DeLong on the ship Jeannette. When the ship was crushed in an ice-pack the crew set, out in small boats. Dr. Ambler was in the boat with DeLong, they died of starvation at the mouth of the Lena river in Siberia, October 1881. The companions of Commander DeLong were brought home and interred with honor in New York City. In February 1884 his body was removed to Leeds Church, Happy Creek, Virginia, where a brass tablet is inscribed: "James Markham Ambler, Past Assistant Surgeon, U.S. Navy, died on the banks of the Lena River, during the memorable retreat of the ship's company of the U.S. Arctic Steamer Jeannette, in the year 1881. His sense of duty was stronger than his love of life. In memory of his noble example and heroic death, this tablet is erected by the medical officers of the U.S. Navy." 39. v. RICHARD CARY' AMBLER was born 10 June 1850 at "The Dell". 114 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine MARY MORRIS4 AMBLER was born at "The Dell", 28 October 1852. She was living there in 1884. vii. EDWARD4 AMBLER was born 6 July at "The Dell". He was a graduate of the University of Virginia, and studied law, but gave it up to farm for his mother at "The Dell". 16. JOHN' NIXON (Maria2 Morris, Robert') was born 23 December 1802 in Philadelphia. He was baptised 19 July 1812. [Christ Ch. Baptisms 1794-1819, 1894] He married 25 November 1828, ARMINE CRESS, the daughter of a widow in North Penn Township, Philadelphia County. She died 1 June 1836 in Northumberland, Pennsylvania. John Nixon moved to Northumberland about 1834. He married, second, "secretly by a Baptist minister", ca. 1840, CATHARINE VAN KIRK, the daughter of Mathais & Lucretia Van Kirk. She was born at Point Township, Northumberland County, 22 August 1804. John Nixon died in Northumberland 28 October 1854. Catharine (Van Kirk) Nixon died 13 January 1867, in Northumberland. Children of John & Armine (Cress) Nixon: 40. i. ELIZABETH' NIXON was born 19 April 1830 in Philadelphia. ii. HENRY' NIXON was born 5 October 1832 in Philadelphia. 41. iii. ARMINE4 NIXON was born 31 December 1835 in Northumberland, Pennsylvania. Children of John gc Catharine (Van Kirk) Nixon: MARY4 NIXON was born in Northumberland 12 iv. January 1841; she died in May 1$6l , n Northumberland. 42. v. EMILY' NIXON was born 10 February 1845 in Northumberland. 43. vi. JOANNA4 NIXON was born 20 March 1847 in Northumberland. 17. CAROLINE3 NIXON (Maria2 Morris, Roberta) was born in Philadelphia, 28 March 1811. She was baptised 19 July 1812. [Christ Ch. Baptisms 1794-1819, 1895.] She married her cousin ROBERT3 MORRIS, M.D. [see # 9.] vi. 18. EMILY3 NIXON (Maria2 Morris, Robert') was born in Phila- Robert Morris 115 delphia, 8 August 1821. She married 21 February 1842, at Mrs. Nixon's house, JOHN MOSS, the son of Samuel gic Eleanor Tetterberry (Mercer) Moss. [St. Peter's Church, Philadephia, Marriages & Burials 1828-1884. Collections of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, Vol. 235 (Phila., 1909) Ph/ 26E:2, 14-15] He was born in Philadelphia 7 July 1815. He was a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania in 1834. They moved to Moxisson, Bradford County after their marriage. By 1847 they had returned to Philadelphia. Emily (Nixon) Moss died in Germantown on 29 December 1868. John Moss died in Oakland, California 21 November 1872. Children of John 8c Emily (Nixon) Moss: i. JOSEPH MORA' MOSS was born in Moxisson, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, 17 May 1843. During the Civil Was he was a Second Lieutenant in Company K, 118th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers. He was killed in an engagement near Blackburn's Ford, Virginia on 20 September 1861. He is buried at Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia. 44. ii. HENRY NIXON' MOSS was born 17 December 1844 at Moxisson, Bradford County, Pennsylvania. iii. MARIA MORRIS4 MOSS was born in Philadelphia on 10 April 1847. She married on 12 February 1874, WILLIAM C. WATSON, the son of George W. & Harriet (Christie) Watson. He was born in Philadelphia on 8 August 1841. Maria (Nixon) Watson died at Pomfret Center, Connecticut, 24 February 1932 and is buried at St. David's, Radnor, Pennsylvania. 45. iv, ELEANOR MERCER' MOSS was born 18 July 1849 at Philadelphia. v. CAROLINE BOLLMAN4 MOSS was born in Philadelphia, 18 July 1855. She died at Germantown, Pennsylvania, 7 August 1871. She is buried at Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia. 46. vi. ARTHUR WELLS' MOSS was born 4 May 1859 at Philadelphia. 19. ELLEN CORA3 NIXON (Maria2 Morris, Roberts} was born 15 September 1825 in Philadelphia. She married 29 November 1843, EDWARD WALK, the son of Jacob Shoemaker ge Sarah (Morris) Wain. He was born in Philadelphia on 22 October 181 L 116 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine His mother Sarah (Morris) Wain was a descendent of Anthony Morris. Edward Wain was admitted to the Philadelphia bar, 6 September 1834. He died 2 October 1887 at "Walthamstowe", Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Ellen (Nixon) Wain died in 1909. Children of Edward Sc Ellen Cora (Nixon) Wain: i. SALLY MORRIS' WALN was born 27 September 1844 in Philadelphia. She was baptised as an adult at St. James's Church, Philadelphia, 12 April 1862. She died at "Pinehurst", Germantown, Pennsylvania, 25 July 1900. 47. ii. ELLEN NIXON' WALN was born 4 December 1846 at Philadelphia. iii. MARY MORRIS' WALN was born 14 September 1848 in Philadelphia; she died 21 June 1857 in Philadelphia. 48. iv. JACOB SHOEMAKER' WALN was born 10 September 1850 in Philadelphia. 49. v. EDWARD' WALN was born 6 November 1852 in Philadelphia. 50. vi. NICHOLAS4 WALN was born 9 October 1854 in Philadelphia. 51. vii. ESTHER NIXON' WALN was born 25 September 1856 in Philadelphia. viii. ix. x. xi. HENRY NIXON4 WALN was born at "Walthamstowe", Montgomery County, Pennsylvania on 30 August 1858; he died in Philadelphia on 30 March 1863. ELIZABETH' WALN was born in Philadelphia on 5 May 1860; she died 22 April 1863 in Philadelphia. SAMUEL MORRIS' WALN was born at "Walthamstowe", on 12 September 1864. While on a hunting trip in Wyoming he and his companion, Charles Livingston Strong of New York, were murdered by their guide at Point Rock, 25 miles north of Ferrie, Carbon County, Wyoming on 24 July 1888. REBECCA McMURTRIE4 WALN was born at "Walthamstowe" on 25 May 1864. She married Robert Morris 117 RICHARD BOWDEN SHEPHERD on 14 June 1888. He was the son of Solomon & Francis M. (Henop) Shepherd. He was born in Yonkers, New York on 22 September 1858. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania in 1878 and the Berkeley Divinity School in 1881. He was ordained as Deacon in the Episcopal Church in 1881; Priest in 1882. He served the parishes of Trinity Church, Oxford, Philadelphia; Church of the Advent, Philadelphia and Christ Church, Riverton, New Jersey. xii. RICHARD4 WALN was born 9 May 1870 in Philadelphia; he died at "Walthamstowe" on 3 August 1871. 20. MARY3 MORRIS (Henry2, Roberti) was born in Paterson, New jersey on 7 July 1820. She married 11 January 1841, JOSHUA LEONARD HUSBAND, the son of John Jenkins & Margaret (Leonard) Husband. He was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania on 21 jaw 1814. They lived in Philadelphia after their marriage. Joshua Husband died in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on 13 February 1880. Mary (Morris) Husband died 4 March 1894 in Washington, D.C. Children of Joshua Leonard gic Mary (Morris) Husband: i. HENRY MORRIS4 HUSBAND was born in Philadelphia on 22 October 1841. During the Civil War he was in the Regiment of Colonel Pare's Volunteers; 106th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers and the 99th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers. In 1885 he was unmarried and living in Knowles, Maryland. JOHN LEONARD' HUSBAND was born 19 Sep52. ii. tember 1843 in Philadelphia. 21. ROBERT3 MORRIS (Henry2, Robert') was born in Philadelphia on 16 February 1824. He was baptised 20 April 1824. [Christ Church Philadelphia Baptisms 1820-1900, Collections of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, 21661 He married on 31 March 1845, MARY WEBB FISHER, the daughter of Samuel & Eliza (1-linckman) Fisher. She was born in Woodbury, New Jersey on 15 September 1822. They lived in Kent County, Maryland when he was Postmaster of the U.S. House of Representatives ca. 1845 or 1852. They were for a time in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. He served for a number of years as a member of the Board of Mercantile 118 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Appraisers in Philadelphia. He died in Philadelphia on 31 March 1877. Mary (Fisher) Morris died near Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania on 19 May 1900. Children of Robert 8c Mary Webb (Fisher) Morris: 53. i. EDITH 4 MORRIS was born 2 December 1845 in Kent County, Maryland. 54. ii. GOUVERNOUR4 MORRIS was born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania on 5 November 1847. 55. iii. SAMUEL FISHER' MORRIS was born 24 February 1850 in Pottsville. 56. iv. MARY WHITE4 MORRIS was born in Washington, D.C. on 16 July 1852. 22. SARAH MORRIS (Henry, Robert)) was born at Beech Hill, Clermont County, Ohio on 4 November 1834. She married on 8 February 1862, JAMES DARRACH, M.D. They were married at Holy Trinity Church, Philadelphia by the Reverend Phillips Brooks. James Darrach was born 8 December 1828 in Philadelphia, the son of William & Margaretta (Monro) Darrach. He was the Contract Surgeon in charge of the Cuyler Hospital in Germantown, 1862. In 1914 they were living in Atlantic City. [Henry Darrack The Darrach Family, (Phila., 1901) 8.] Children of James 8c Sarah (Morris) Darrach: [The Darrach Family, 131 i. MARGARETTE4 DARRAGH was born 4 December 1862 in Germantown. She died 1 August 1863 and was buried at South Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia. EDITH MORRIS' DARRACH was born in Ger57. ii. mantown 5 November 1864. iii. CAROLINE4 DARRACH was born in Germantown on 24 July 1866; died 14 August 1866. She was buried at South Laurel Hill Cemetery. 58. iv. ROBERT MORRIS' DARRACH was born 7 January 1870 in Germantown. Fourth Generation 23. JOHN FRANCIS4 MALSAN (Elizabeth3 Morris, Robert', Robert) was born 25 February 1824 in Albany, New York. He married on 10 September 1849, SARAH BENNETT BROWN, the Robert Morris 119 daughter of John Anthony & Rebecca Humphreys (Bennett) Brown. She was born in Blanford, England on 18 February 1830. John Malsan died in Poughkeepsie, New York, 17 January 1890. Sarah (Brown) Malsan died 17 July 1899 in Albany. They had nine sons and one daughter. 24. HENRY' MALSAN (Elizabeth3 Morris, Robert2, Robert') was born in 1826, possibly in Philadelphia or Germantown. He married on 25 February 1848, SARAH ELIZA WHITE, the daughter of Henry & Julia (Bidwell) White of Whitesboro, New York. She was born 28 September 1829 in Utica, New York and died 17 July 1856 in Lockport, New York. Henry Malsan died 12 September 1865 in New York City. They had three daughters. 25. MARY ELIZABETH COSGROVE (Elizabeths Morris, Robert2 , Robert') was born 3 July 1842, perhaps in Albany, New York. She married on 21 February 1871, JOSEPH J. MANIFOLD. They had two daughters. 26. ROBERT' MORRIS (Robert3, Robert2, Robert') was born 18 March 1837 in Philadelphia. He was baptised at St. Peter's Church, Philadelphia. He married, 19 January 1860, ELLEN MARKOE WHARTON, the daughter of George Mifflin 8c Maria (Markoe) Wharton. She was born in Philadelphia, 15 July 1837. Robert Morris was a member of the Philadelphia City Troop at the outbreak of the Civil War and was with that corps during its three months of service. On 31 October he was commissioned a Major in the 6th Pennsylvania Cavalry, known as Rush's Rangers for Colonel Richard Rush its commander. In April 1863 with the disability of Colonel Rush, Major Morris became the commander. On 9 June 1863 during an engagement at Beverly's Ford, Virginia his horse was shot from under him and he was captured. He was confined to Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia where he died 13 August 1863. Ellen (Wharton) Morris married, second, George Mifflin Dallas. The Morris's had two daughters. 27. HENRY' MORRIS M.D. (Robert3, Robert2, Roberta) was born 6 June 1855 in Philadelphia. He was a graduate of Jefferson Medical College in 1878. He married, 12 October 1880, BESSIE THOMAS ELLIOTT, the daughter of Jacob Thomas 8c Victoria Regina (Baltzell) Elliott. She was born in Philadelphia, 19 March 1857. In 1883 he was elected a Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. They had one son and one daughter. 28. SUSAN' MARSHALL MORRIS (Robert3, Robert2, Robert') 120 The Pennsylvania Geneaiogical Magazine was born on 26 November 1860 in Philadelphia. She married on 20 November 1889, JOHN TYLER, JR., the son of John & Mary Virginia (Allen) Tyler. He was born 20 April 1863 in Richmond, Virginia. Mr. Tyler was a civil engineer in Richmond. They had two sons and one daughter. 29. CHARLEY FREDERICK STARK (Caroline3 Morris, Thomas2, Robert) was born 18 February 1848 in Dunbarton, New Hampshire. On 27 February 1878 he married ANNIE McNEIL, the daughter of John gic Cynthia Maria (Morse) McNeil. She was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, 14 March 1856. They lived in Concord, New Hampshire where Charles Stark had a law practice. They had one son. 30. JAMES' MARSHALL (Robe& Marshall, Etty2 Morris, Robert') was born 9 March 1823 at "Mt. Morris", Fauquier County, Virginia. He was a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute in 1842. He married on 18 March 1846, LUCY STEPTOE MARSHALL, the daughter of Charles Cotesworth &Judith Steptoe (Ball) Marshall. She was born at "Belle Grove", Fleming County, Kentucky. During the Civil War James Marshall was a Captain of Company E, 12th Regiment Virginia Cavalry. After the war he opened an Academy at Front Royal, Virginia. They lived at "Horseshoe" Warren County, Virginia and were the parents of four sons and seven daughters. 31. THOMAS' MARSHALL (Roberts Marshall, Etty2 Morris, Robert') was born at Happy Creek, Warren County, Virginia, 13 April 1831. On 17 October 1860 he married SARA ELIZABETH WILLIAMS, the daughter of Samuel Se Sarah (Ott) Williams. She was born in Woodstock, Virginia on 26 November 1837. During the Civil War Thomas Marshall was a Lieutenant in Company E, 12th Virginia Cavalry Regiment. He was killed 12 October 1863 during an engagement near Brandy Station, Virginia. The family home was "Woodstock", Shenandoah County, Virginia where they had one son and one daughter. 32. JAMES MARKHAM4 MARSHALL (Johns Marshall, Etty2 Morris, Roberts} was born 17 March 1738 at "Edgeworth", Fauquier County, Virginia. During the Civil War he was a Lieutenant in Company E, 12th Virginia Cavalry Regiment. He was seriously wounded at Brandy Station, Virginia on 9 June 1863. He returned to manage his patrimonial estate "Priestly", Hume, Fauquier County, Virginia. On 19 February 1879 he married MARY ALEXANDER WELLFORD, the daughter of Beverly Randolph & Mary Robert Morris 121 (Alexander) WeIlford. She was born at Fredericksburg, Virginia on 14 August 1846. They were the parents of one son and one daughter. 33. CHARLES SHACKLEFORD4 MARSHALL (john 3 Marshall, Etty2 Morris, Robert') was born 16 March 1843 at "Edgeworth", Fauquier County, Virginia. He entered the Confederate Army during the Civil War as an infantryman. He was wounded at the Battle of Mechanicsville (Virginia) on 26 June 1862, The explosion of a bomb caused him to lose his right eye. He served until the end of the war when he returned to his farm estate "Evergreen" at Hume, Fauquier County, Virginia. On 13 December 1866 he married GARY RANDOLPH JONES, the daughter of James Fitzgerald 8c Anne Lewis (Marshall) Jones. She was born at "Woodside", Fauquier County, Virginia. They were the parents of two sons. 34. 'JOHN AUGUSTINE4 MARSHALL (john3 Marshall, Etty2 Morris, Roberts} was born 5 September 1854 at "Edgeworth", Fauquier County, Virginia. He studied law. He married JESSIE KIRKPATRICK who was born in September 1865 in Nevada. He was a member of the law firm Hall & Marshall in Salt Lake City, Utah. They were the parents of Mary and Cary Marshall. 35, MARY MORRIS4 MARSHALL (Henry' Marshall, Etty 2 Morris, Roberti) was born 6 March 1835 at "Gilbralta", Fauquier County, Virginia. She married 4 March 1856, JAMES EDWARD MARSHALL, the son of John ge Elizabeth Maria (Alexander) Marshall. He was born at "Mt. Blanc", Fauquier County, Virginia, 17 October 1830. He died at "Mt. Blanc", 21 October 1872. They had four sons and three daughters. 36. THOMAS' MARSHALL (Henry3 Marshall, Etty2 Morris, Robert') was born 29 August 1842 at "Fairfield", Fauquier County, Virginia. He married on 5 December 1866, COURTEN.AY NORTON MARSHALL, the daughter of Edward Carrington gc Rebecca Courtney (Peyton) Marshall. She was born at "Carrington", Fauquier County, Virginia on 15 February 1847. They were the parents of four sons and five daughters. 37. JAMES MARKHAM4 MARSHALL (Henry3 Marshall, Etty2 Morris, Robert') was born 7 October 1844 at "Fairfield" Fauquier County, Virginia. He joined the Confederate Army at age sixteen and served to the end of the war in Turner Ashby's ["handful of undisciplined but highly effective partisan"' Cavalry. He returned 122 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine to his 1700 acres known as "Texas" six miles southeast of Markham, Fauquier County, Virginia. On 18 December 1872 he married ALICE POINDEXTER, the daughter of John & Adelaide Fitzwhylsonne (Jacobs) Poindexter. She was born 29 January 1850 at Clarkesville, Tennessee. They had one son and three daughters. 38. ELIZABETH LEWIS' MARSHALL (Henry3 Marshall, Etty2 Morris, Robert') was born at "Fairfield", Fauquier County, Virginia on 25 May 1846. She married on 22 November 1871, BOWLES EDWARD ARMISTEAD, the son of General Walter Keith & Elizabeth (Stanley) Armistead, U.S.A. He was born at "Ben Lomond", Fauquier County, Virginia on 26 April 1838. He was wounded in the war. He was a businessman and served as assessor of Fauquier County. They lived at "Western View" at Delaplane, Virginia. They were the parents of five sans and three daughters. 39. RICHARD GARY' AMBLER (Susan3 Marshall, Etty2 Morris, Robert') was born 10 June 1850 at "The Dell", near Markham, Virginia. He was a farmer near Flemingsburg, Kentucky. He married on 15 November 1877, ELIZA COLSTON MARSHALL, the daughter of Charles 84 Jane (Taylor) Marshall. She was born on 12 April 1857 at Fleming County, Kentucky. They had one son and four daughters. 40. ELIZABETH 4 NIXON (Johns Nixon, Maria2 Morris, Robert') was born 19 April 1830 in Philadelphia. She married on 29 November 1858, JOHN COOKE, the son of John gc Lydia Barton (Price) Cooke. He was born in Philadelphia on 10 January 1808. Elizabeth (Nixon) Cooke died 10 March 1882; John Cooke died in Philadelphia, 18 December 1883. They were the parents of six daughters. 41. ARMINE4 NIXON (John' Nixon, Maria2 Morris, Robert') was born 31 December 1835 and baptised 1 January 1836 at St. Peter's Church, Philadelphia. She married 16 November 1869, CHARLES HENRY HART, the son of Samuel ge Julia (Levey) Hart. He was born in Philadelphia on 4 February 1847. 42. EMILY' NIXON (John3 Nixon, Maria 2 Morris, Robert') was born 10 February 1845 at Northumberland, Pennsylvania. She married on 26 January 1864, WILLIAM McELVY SMITH, the son of Elias Smith. He was born at Light Street, Columbia County, Pennsylvania on 21 November 1833. Emily (Nixon) Smith died 10 March 1871 at Northumberland. William Smith died at Northumberland 9 November 1890. They were the parents of two sons and Robert Morris 123 one daughter. 43. JOANNA4 NIXON (john3 Nixon, Maria2 Morris, Robert') was born 20 March 1847 at Point Township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. She married on 28 December 1865, ROBERT McELRATH SLACK, the son of Henry 8c Mary (McElrath) Slack. He was born 1 August 1842 at Mooresburg, Montour County, Pennsylvania. Joanna (Nixon) Slack died 20 April 1880 at Northumberland. They had one son and one daughter. 44. HENRY NIXON4 MOSS (Emily3 Nixon, Maria' Morris, Robert') was born at Moxisson, Bradford County, Pennsylvania on 17 December 1844. He was a graduate of West Point in 1867, commissioned as Second Lieutenant, U.S.A. 17 June 1867. He resigned from the Army 5 June 1876 to engage in the mercantile business in San Francisco, California. He later moved to Washington, D.C. He married, second, ELIZABETH JOHNSON, the daughter of Patrick Henry Sic Mary (Monachan) Johnson. She was born in Memphis, Tennessee on 26 May 1863. She died in Washington in 1940. They were the parents of four daughters. 45. ELEANOR MERCER4 MOSS (Emilys Nixon, Maria 2 Morris, Robert') was born 18 July 1849 at Philadelphia. She married on 5 September 1872. DANIEL SMITH NEWHALL, the son of Thomas Albert & Jane Sarah (Cuchman) Newhall. He was born at Germantown, Pennsylvania on 7 April 1849. Eleanor (Moss) Newhall died at Delaware •Water Gap, Pennsylvania on 1 June 1908. Daniel Newhall died in Philadelphia on 12 July 1c13. He is buried at St. David's Churchyard, Radnor, Pennsylvaniti. They were the parents of two sons and three daughters. 46. ARTHUR WELLS' MOSS (Emily' Nixon, Maria2 Morris, Robert') was born in Philadelphia on 4 May 1859. He married at Holidaysburg, Pennsylvania on 29 April 1886, SARAH DENNISTON BLAIR, the daughter of Samuel Steel g: Sarah Massey (Denniston) Blair, She was born 2 June 1859 at Holidaysburg. Arthur Moss was with the Pennsylvania Railroad in jersey City, New jersey. They were the parents of six sons and six daughters. 47. ELLEN NIXON' WALN (Ellen' Nixon, Maria2 Morris, Robert') was born 4 December 1846 at Philadelphia. On 23 February 1870 she married CHARLES CUSTIS HARRISON, the son of George Leib & Sarah Ann (Waples) Harrison. He was born in Philadelphia on 3 May 1844. They lived in Philadelphia where they had four sons and three daughters. 124 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine 48. JACOB SHOEMAKER' WALN (Ellen' Nixon, Maria2 Morris, Robert') was born 10 September 1850 in Philadelphia. On 30 January 1872 he married LYDIA HOPKINS LEWIS, the daughter of Joseph Saunders & Martha Smith (Lewis) Lewis. She was born in Philadelphia on 31 January 1852. He was in the insurance business in Philadelphia. They had three daughters. 49. EDWARD4 WALN (Ellen' Nixon, Maria2 Morris, Robert') was born 6 November 1852 in Philadelphia. He married on 24 May 1882, CHARLOTTE MAY SHARPLESS, the daughter of Samuel Jones 8c Charlotte Ann (Heberton) Sharpless. She was born 10 May 1855 in Philadelphia. The lived at "Meadow Brook", Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. They had two daughters. 50. NICHOLAS' WALN (Ellen' Nixon, Maria2 Morris, Roberts} was born on 9 October 1854 in Philadelphia. He married on 18 December 1878, BERTHA FOX, the daughter of George S. 84 Amanda (Hickley) Fox. She was born in Philadelphia on 26 October 1861. They were divorced and she married, second, G. Jason Waters. There was one daughter. 51. ESTHER NIXON' WALN (Elena Nixon, Maria2 Morris, Robert') was born 25 September 1856 in Philadelphia. She married on 28 November 1883, PETER MEREDITH GRAHAM, the son of Thomas & Elizabeth Haskins (Du Poy) Graham. He was born in Dundaff, Pennsylvania on 10 March 1855. They lived at Wissahickon Heights, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia. They had two daughters. 52. JOHN LEONARD' HUSBAND (Mary' Morris, Henry', Robert') was born 19 September 1843 in Philadelphia. He enlisted as a private in Company C, 72nd Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 10 August 1861. On 20 December 1862 he was discharged on a Surgeon's Certificate of Disability. In September 1863 he joined the Construction Corps in Tennessee and served with the rank and pay of a Captain until the close of the war. He was then attached to the Finance Division, Post Office Department, Washington D.C. On 29 July 1882 he married ANNE REGINA SIATENEY, the daughter of Patrick Henry & Elizabeth (Smith) Sweeney. She was born 21 September 1840. They lived in Knowles, Maryland and were the parents of a son and a daughter. 53. EDITH4 MORRIS (Roberts, Henry', Robert') was born 2 December 1845 in Kent County, Maryland. She married on 22 December 1864, BAIRD SNYDER, the son of George Washington Robert Morris 125 & Isabella (Gumming) Snyder. He was born 14 July 1839 at Pottsville, Pennsylvania. Edith (Morris) Snyder died 1 April 1910 in Pottsville. They had five sons and three daughters. 54. GOUVERNOUR4 MORRIS (Robert', Henry2, Robert') was born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania on 5 November 1847. He married on 19 November 1872, FLORENCE WALTON, the daughter of Charles Fenton SC Annie (Amiss) Walton. She was born 24 July 1849 in New Market, Virginia. He died 31 December 1897 in Detroit, Michigan. They had one son. 55. SAMUEL FISHER' MORRIS (Robert', Henry2, Robert') was born on 24 February 1850 in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. On 9 February 1881 he married MARTHA FITZHUGH, the daughter of Nicholas & Martha Dickinson (Shrewsbury) Fitzhugh. She was born in Charleston, West Virginia on 24 July 1856. Samuel Morris was attached to the Engineering Department, Aqueduct Commissioners, New York City. He died on 30 June 1901 at Eckman, West Virginia. Martha (Fitzhugh) Morris died 24 July 1908. They had one son and three daughters. 56. MARY WHITE' MORRIS (Robert3, Henry2, Robert') was born in Washington, D.C. on 16 July 1852. She married on 19 January 1881, JOHN BARKER CHURCH, the son of John Barker & Maria Trumbill (Silliman) Church. He was born 15 February 1834 in Belvidere, Allegheny County, New York. He was a civil and mining engineer and worked for the Erie Railroad and the Croton Aqueduct in New York. He was a long time general manager of the Alliance Coal Mining Company in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. He died in Lansford, Pennsylvania on 4 March 1910. Mary (Morris) Church died 14 December 1913 in Pottsville. They had one son and three daughters. 57. EDITH MORRIS' DARRACH (Sarah' Morris, Henry, Robert') was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania on 5 November 1864. She was baptised by the Reverend Phillips Brooks of the Episcopal Church. She married 18 April 1892 at St. Luke's Church, Germantown, MARSHALL S. SHAPLEIGH. They had one son. 58. ROBERT MORRIS4 DARRACH (Saraha Morris, Henry2 , Robert') was born in Germantown on 7 January 1870. He married on 17 February 1898, ELIZABETH L. WOLLE, the daughter of the Reverend Augustus Wolle. She was born 17 February 1870, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. They were in Colorado Springs, Colorado when their only daughter was born. rfriiMaidivii10,)1 1 Jr;. 19N /11)yriOv.lif