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About Mary Morris
Mary White
- Birth: Apr. 13, 1749 Philadelphia Philadelphia County Pennsylvania, USA
- Death: Jan. 16, 1827 Philadelphia Philadelphia County Pennsylvania, USA
- Burial: Christ Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County Pennsylvania, USA Plot: Yard-XXXII
- Thomas White (1704-1779)
- Mother: Esther Hulings White (1717 - 1790)
- Brother: Bishop William White
- Spouse: Robert Morris (1734 - 1806)
Their seven children - five sons and two daughters:
- Robert Morris III b. 19 December 1769 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, d. 11 April 1850 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; m. 5 May 1796 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Anna Shoemaker dau. of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Warner) Shoemaker.
- Thomas Morris b. 26 February 1771 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania d. 12 March 1849 at New York; m1. Elizabeth Chadwick; m2. 28 May 1799 at Albany, New York to Sarah ("Sallie") Kane; dau. of John and Sybil (Kent) O'Kane.
- William White Morris b. 9 August 1772 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania d. 9 October 1798 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Did not marry.
- Hester "Hetty" Morris b. 30 July 1774 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, d. 18 April 1816 at Fairfield, Fauquier, Virginia; m. 10 April 1795 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Lt. James Markham Marshall.
- Charles Morris b. 11 July 1777 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania d. About 1804, at sea, near South America; did not marry.
- Maria Morris b. 24 April 1779 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; d. 18 September 1840 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; m. 3 March 1803 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Henry Nixon, son of John and Elizabeth (Davis) Nixon.
- Henry C Morris b. 24 July 1784 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; d. 1 December 1842 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; m. 29 September 1819 to Eliza Jane Smith.[2]
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The wife of Robert Morris, of Philadelphia, was Mary, daughter of Thomas White, who came to this country from London in early life and settled on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. White had a son and a daughter. The former was William, who became the first Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Pennsylvania and the second of that church in the United States. The other became Mrs. Robert Morris, who has been described as "elegant, accomplished and rich and well qualified to carry the bliss of connubial life to its highest perfection."
From "Women of the Republican Court"
Before his financial downfall, Morris held political office at various levels, including the Continental Congress and the Pennsylvania State Senate; that prominence plus “his wealth, ability, and social position, made his home the centre of all the amenity and civility of the day, and it is as the hostess presiding over this establishment that we have some of the most pleasing pictures of his wife.”[5] Mary’s responsibility was to make that society’s upper crust would always feel welcome in her home, while at the same time caring for her seven children. In describing her grand presence as a hostess, Rufus Griswold writes:
"Dinner company, well chosen, frequent, and elegant, was the style of the time. It was in this style that the home of Mrs. Morris was distinguished. Besides its essential household of table-servants, coachmen, footmen, &c., her establishment had its housekeeper, butler (a fine old Frenchman named Constance), its confectioner, and all the retinue of a mansion in which dinner company is frequently and elegantly entertained. Unlike most of the menial servants of that day, in Philadelphia, Mrs. Morris’s were all white, and they all wore the Morris livery.[6]"
Mary White Morris died twenty-one years after her husband, at age seventy-eight. Near the end of her life, she was so recognizable to the American community that even a glimpse of her at a window could cause an audience to applaud for so long that it “seemed as if [the ovation] would never cease.”[7]
From "Cause of Liberty: Mary White Morris"
Mary White was born on April 13, 1749, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the youngest child of Thomas and Esther White. She married Robert Morris, the future signer of the Declaration of Independence and great financier of the Revolutionary War, on March 2, 1769.
Mary was "well educated and carefully trained in the accomplishments of her day." She was "prominent in Philadelphia society" even before she married Morris, "one of the most prominent merchants of the day" at age 35. Mary and Robert became parents of five children, three sons and two daughters.
When General La Fayette made his famous tour through the country in 1824, he made his first private visit in the city to Mrs. Morris. He had not seen her for thirty-seven years, but he recognized her at her window as he passed her house earlier in the afternoon on September 29. At his personal request, Mary attended a grand Civic Ball given in his honor on October 5. Mary was sixty-seven years old at the time and was described as being "tall, graceful, and commanding, with a stately dignity of manner."
Mary Morris, Robert Morris's wife portrait by Charles Wilson Peale
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Mary Morris's Timeline
| 1749 |
April 13, 1749
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Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Province of Pennsylvania
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| 1769 |
December 19, 1769
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Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, Colonial America
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| 1771 |
February 26, 1771
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Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, United States
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| 1772 |
August 9, 1772
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Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, Colonial America
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| 1774 |
July 30, 1774
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Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Province of Pennsylvania
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| 1776 |
1776
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Morrisville, Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States
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| 1777 |
July 11, 1777
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Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, United States
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| 1779 |
April 24, 1779
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Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, United States
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| 1784 |
July 24, 1784
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Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, United States
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