Smyrna times., 1881-05-04

ne nFst member Of the family Of whom
nave any record was Anthony Morris mori-
ncr Of London. ma =
lie was lost at sea. LEAVING u,;doo, r..
beth ncc Senior Morri, and oro oliId
!y-"ho was born in London on tbo 2aJ &c
lugust' l63I According to the Parish record
VI 81 Dunstans Stepney. of London in III.
A'"SdSh OF Great Britain. Young Antbony
| '-"ul was taken to the Parish Church aud b,,
'.N'" "ieh he was but two days old. He con-
''Hued 70 reside IN London until 1853 ,ybor Ia
8F@Icd TO America. He married lst Nor,
''"e', on the Goth of January, 1916 He
second wife was Agnes Boone. the third mo,
Mary CoddIngton and the fourth F Wo,s,n
O"II''Feh were the fruit of each MARRIAGE Ho
va: d man OF large means, and soon after his
"''E"i IN TINS country, purchased a tract Of
iahd IN New jersey and settled in the vicinit,
Oh what Is now Morrstown He did not attain
10 great age, but died on the 9th of Octohor
l12l, in his G8th year.
Ills children migrated to different sections
some OF them settled in PHILADELPHIA and wore
prominent IN Revolutionary times and history
propose IN this article to trace but one of hi,
children, namely: James and his descendant,
lie was the son Of Anthony and his first w;fo
Mary ,1cc Jones Morris.
James Morris settled in Delaware. on lands
lying between Duck Creek y Roads and Bonn
pay Hook. \ portion Of this land since divid
Ell INTO several farms, now belongs to George
W. Cnmmins, and have been by him brought
10 a high State Of cultivation
Nhether the Morris were originally Of the
Dociet' oi Friends, or their descendants became
trends through confinement Or intermar-
rage do not know; but all of the Delaware
Morris Of whom have any knowledge, were
members ofthat society.
James Morris married Margaret Cook OF
their children, their son James married Ann
Hilton and LET; descendants, of whom Mar
married Isaac Griffin, Margaret married Henry
PETERSON James married Elizabeth Berry.
! VI the children Of James and Elizabeth nee
Berry Norris-Ann, married Thomas Roth
well, Rcbecca married James Rigby Corse and
| left sons and daughters, Debora married. first,
VIM. Darrah. second, Samuel Groome, and
left children by both unions. The Rothwells
Corse's, Darrah's and Groome's have many
representatives still living.
Phebe Morris, daughter Of James and Mar
garet nee Cook Morris, married Robert Helli-
day. Of their children, Mary married frs,
Cornelius Empson, second, Benjamin Jones.
Their children intermarried with Wilson's,
Wilds', Weldons, Hills and Miller's.
Susan, the eldest daughter OF Robert and
Phebe nee Morris Holiday, married George
Wilson. OF their children, Phebe married
Phillip F. Rasin and left large family of
children Of whom Henry Holiday Rasin is
the only survivor. Robert married, first
Elizabeth Peterson. and second, Mary Davis;
their children died in infancy. George Will
liam married William Arm Rnggold and left
large family of whom Mrs. Maria Deborah
Dunlop, Of GaleEa, Kent county Nd, is the
sole survivor. AIillicent married, first. Jarvis
Spencer, second, William Redding, and third,
DR.. Dunbar She left children by her first
and second marriages, of whom George W
Spencer, of Kent county, Nd, is sole survivor
Susan married John Cummins the most of
whose living children reside in and near
Smyrna. Rachael married Edward Price
Wilmer, and left children of whom Edwin
Wilmer, of Baltimore, is the only survivor.
Margaret married John c. Lowber and left a
large family. Their daughter Ellen married
DR.. VIM. Cummins, and Kate married the late
Ex-Gov. VIM. Temple.
Having promised you Mr. Editor that would
occasionally send you some items relative to
some of the early settlers in your section,
have thought the foregoing brief record, cover
ing period of 600 years, connecting so many
families and persons now living, might per-
haps prove interesting to your readers some of
whom especially Mrs. Ann Denney, had per-
sonal acquaintance with the most of those re-
ferred to of the last century.
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