Morris and Popham families papers
by Morris, Lewis
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Correspondence, journals, notebooks, legal papers, and other papers including the papers of Lewis Morris (1671-1746), Lewis Morris (1698-1762), Richard Morris, and Robert Hunter Morris, and Major William Popham. Includes a record of the court martial of Col. Moses Hazen in 1780 and copies of George Washington's letters to Robert Hunter Morris. Other correspondents include Peter Stephen Du Ponceau, John Taylor of Caroline, and James Tilton. Most of the letters after 1849 are addressed to William S. Popham.
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Correspondence, Practice of law, New York State Society of the Cincinnati, Courts, Courts-martial and courts of inquiry, Politics and government, HistoryPeople
Moses Hazen (1733-1803), Peter Stephen Du Ponceau (1760-1844), James Tilton (1745-1822), Morris family, John Taylor (1753-1824), Popham family, George Washington (1732-1799), William S. PophamShowing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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Open to research.
Purchase, 1952.
Family members include Lewis Morris (1671-1746), owner of most of the land now known as the Bronx, chief justice of the province of New York, and governor of the province of New Jersey; Lewis Morris (1698-1762), judge of the Vice Admiralty Court of Connecticut, New York and New Jersey; Richard Morris (1730-1801), chief justice of New York State; Robert Hunter Morris (1700-1764), governor of Pennsylvania; major William Popham (1752-1849), president-general of the Society of the Cincinnati and Richard Morris' son-in-law; and William Popham's son, William S. Popham, a leading member of the New York State Society of the Cincinnati.
Collection material in English.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room.
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