Gouverneur Morris
Publisher: University Press of the Pacific
Published: December 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781410210234
Subjects: Biography: general; Political; Biography / Autobiography; Fiction
First sentence: WHEN, on January 31, 1752, Gouverneur Morris was born in the family manor-house at Morrisania, on the lands where his forefathers had dwelt for three generations, New York colony contained only some eighty thousand inhabitants, of whom twelve thousand were blacks.