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Coat of Arms of Gouverneur Morris. Morris was born on January 31, 1752, the son of Lewis Morris Jr. (1698–1762) and his second wife, Sarah Gouverneur (1714–1786). Morris's first name derived from his mother's surname; she was from a Huguenot family that had first moved to Holland and then to New Amsterdam. [4]
After his mother died, his father married Sarah Gouverneur (1714–1786). [2] He graduated from Yale College in 1746, [ 1 ] and upon his father's death in 1762, he inherited the bulk of the estate. Morris' father had seven children, including his siblings, Staats Long Morris (1728–1800) and Richard Morris (1730–1810), and his half-siblings ...
Gouverneur Morris was born on February 9, 1813, Morrisania, Bronx, New York. He was the son of a founding father of the United States, Gouverneur Morris (1752–1816) and his wife, Ann Cary Randolph (1774–1837), nicknamed "Nancy".
Gouverneur Morris, who served as Robert Morris's representative to the Holland Land Company, was able to attach a provision to the sale of some land that gave Mary Morris a $1,500 (equivalent to $27,000 in 2023) per year annuity; this annuity allowed Mary to rent a small house in Philadelphia far away from the city's center. [207]
Lewis Morris (October 15, 1671 – May 21, 1746) was an American politician from the colonial period, who was chief justice of New York and British governor of New Jersey, was the first lord of the manor of Morrisania in New York City (in what is now the Bronx).
Ann Cary Randolph Morris (September 16, 1774 – May 28, 1837) (nicknamed Nancy) was the daughter of Thomas Mann Randolph Sr. and the wife of Gouverneur Morris.Books have been written about the scandal in which she was embroiled in central Virginia as a young woman after the death of her fiance.
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Morris was born on June 4, 1882, in Newport, Rhode Island.He was the son of Francis Morris (1845–1883), a Knickerbocker gentleman and descendant of Gouverneur Morris (a signer of the Articles of Confederation and the United States Constitution), and his wife Harriet Hall Bedlow (1849–1923). [2]