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November 2, 1760

December 29, 1825

Scarsdale, NY

Mary Dwight (1786)

Major General Lewis Richard Morris was born in 1760 to Richard Morris and Sarah Ludlow. Morris served as an aide to General Philip Schuyler and General George Clinton (vice president) during the American Revolutionary War. Morris was a nephew of Gouverneur Morris and Lewis Morris.

In 1786, Morris moved to Springfield, Vermont prior to statehood. An article in the DAR Magazine indicates that he traveled there with forty enslaved people (no names are given) whom he later freed in compliance with the constitution of Vermont. Morris became a businessman, landowner and politician. He served in various public offices including as clerk of the Vermont House of Representatives. He was a member of the convention to ratify the United States Constitution and secretary of the constitutional ...convention in Windsor in 1793. Morris attended the Vermont ratifying convention in Bennington, Vermont, voting in support of the Constitution. In 1791, President George Washington appointed him the first U.S. Marshal of the District of Vermont. He served as Marshal until 1794. Morris was also a member of the Vermont House of Representatives and served as speaker. He was elected to Congress as a Federalist and held office from 1797, to 1803.

Some sources indicate that he deserted his first wife, Mary Dwight, while others indicate that they were legally separated. He married second Huldah Theodosia Olcott. She died soon after marriage and left one son; he then married Ellen Hunt, daughter of Hon. Jonathan Hunt.

He died in 1825, at Springfield, Vt.
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Dwight, Benjamin W. (Benjamin Woodbridge), The history of the descendants of John Dwight, of Dedham, Mass. 1816-1889 accessed at https://archive.org/details/historydescenda01dwiggoog/page/226/mode/2up?q=louisa+morris February 20, 2024

Pomeroy, Albert A., History and genealogy of the Pomeroy family : collateral lines in family groups, Normandy, Great Britain and America : comprising the ancestors and descendants of Eltweed Pomeroy from Beaminster, County Dorset, England, 1630, 1912. Accessed at https://archive.org/details/historyandgenea01pomegoog/page/209/mode/2up?q=morris ...February 20, 2024

See, Anna Phillips, "Pioneering with Forty Slaves" Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine, Volume 60 R.R. Bowker Company, 1926 Accessed at
https://books.google.com/books?id=ieSF03giaFUC&pg=PA406&lpg=PA406&dq=major+general+lewis+r+morris+%22mary+dwight%22&source=bl&ots=8DjjEBBuMY&sig=ACfU3U1NQ0iyYRUvWpP6u2mqjdX1OK9KBg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjhwtPvtbqEAxU648kDHWm9DNc4FBDoAXoECAMQAw#v=onepage&q=major%20general%20lewis%20r%20morris%20%22mary%20dwight%22&f=false February 23, 2024
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