Family: William Morris / Rebecca Cadwalader (F5259723603)

• Father | Male William Morris

  
  

  Born	23 Jul 1695	Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
  Died	6 Nov 1776	Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
  Buried	Aft 6 Nov 1776	Trenton, Mercer, New Jersey, United States
  Married	2 Nov 1752  [1, 2]
  Other Spouse	Sarah Dury | F5259722458
  Married	14 Feb 1718/19	Speightstown, Barbados
  Father	Anthony Morris, III | F1047623488 Group Sheet
  Mother	Mary Howard | F1047623488 Group Sheet

  
  

  Mother | Female Rebecca Cadwalader

  
  

  Born
  Died	9 Oct 1764	Trenton, Mercer, New Jersey, United States
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• Sources

  [S5351730433] Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania, Jordan, John W., LL.D., (Lewis Historical Publishing Company, New York, 1932), 0806308117, 9780806308111., 50. Issue of Anthony and Mary (Howard-Coddington) Morris: William, b. July 23, 1695, d. Nov. 6, 1776, m. (first) Feb. 14, 1718-9, Sarah Dury, (second) Nov. 2, 1752, Rebecca Cadwalader; Elizabeth, b. 4mo. 28, 1697, m. (first) 10mo. 13, 1716, Samuel Lewis, (second) William Dury; Joseph, b. May 12, 1699, d. July 25, 1699. [S5351730433] Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania, Jordan, John W., LL.D., (Lewis Historical Publishing Company, New York, 1932), 0806308117, 9780806308111., 53-54. William Morris, eldest son of Anthony Morris by third marriage with Mary Coddington, born in Philadelphia, 5mo.l (July) 23, 1695, died there November 6, 1776, was one of the most prominent members of the family, but his long career of usefulness and honor was largely spent outside of the city of his birth. Early in life he engaged in mercantile trade with the West Indies, and removed to the island of Barbados, where he married 4mo. (June) 14, 1718, a rich heiress, Sarah Dury, of Speightstown, Barbados. William Morris purchased of the Trent estate 500 acres of land on the Assunpink, including mills thereon erected, and made his permanent home in Trenton for nearly the whole remainder of his life and is there buried...His wife Sarah died August 26, 1750, in her fifty-sixth year, having been born 12mo. 26, 1694. He married (second) November 2, 1752, Rebecca, daughter of John and Martha Cadwalader, sister of Hannah Cadwalader, who had married in 1737 his nephew Samuel Morris. She died October 9, 1764, and he November 6, 1776.