Elizabeth Morrow

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Elizabeth Morrow (Shaw)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Guilford County, North Carolina, United States
Death: October 23, 1848 (88)
Warren, TN, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Hugh Shaw
Wife of Robert Morrow, Sr.
Mother of George Morrow, Sr.; Margaret Pepper; Elizabeth Morrow; Hugh Morrow; Elizabeth Morrow and 5 others
Sister of William Shaw

Managed by: Erin Ishimoticha
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About Elizabeth Morrow

Updated birthdate, death date and 10 children, per http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=morrowdna...

These documents are in the National Archives Revolutionary War Records for North Carolina under R7431.

The first is the sworn affidavit of Elizabeth Morrow, dated the sixteenth of July 1840 It declares that Elizabeth Morrow "personally appeared before Edward Koge one of the Justices of the Court of Warren County, State above and Elizabeth Morrow of said county and State aged eighty years and after having been duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision of the act of Congress passed the fourth of July 1836 entitled "An act Supplementary to an act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the revolution" that she is the widow of Robert Morrow who was a soldier in the North Carolina line of the Army of the revolution in the Regiment Commanded by Alexander Martin that after the termination of that Service he was a volunteer in the Army Commanded by Gen Green and was employed by him to carry dispatches for some time previous to the battle of Gifford Court House and was in that battle as a volunteer. > "She further declares that she was married to said Morrow on the 4th day of Nov 1779 and when her husband said Robert Morrow was last in the Service at the battle of Gifford her first child was about one year old: and that her husband aforesaid Robert Morrow died on the 18th day of March 1824 and that she has never married since."

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Elizabeth Morrow's Timeline

1760
January 25, 1760
Guilford County, North Carolina, United States
1780
August 30, 1780
Guilford, NC, United States
1782
August 16, 1782
Guilford, NC, United States
1784
November 18, 1784
Guilford, NC, United States
1786
November 7, 1786
Guilford, NC, United States
1788
November 23, 1788
Guilford, NC, United States
1790
October 18, 1790
Guilford, NC, United States
1793
February 25, 1793
Guilford, NC, United States
1795
February 12, 1795
Guilford, NC, United States