Mary (Dwight) Morris (1764)

Ancestors

Wife of Lewis Richard Morris — married 2 Dec 1786 (to about 1788) in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Biography

In 1786, soon after his arrival in Springfield, Lewis Richard Morris married for the first time. His wife was Mary Dwight, sister of the celebrated president of Yale College, Timothy Dwight. The marriage, however, proved unsuccessful. Indeed, the Dictionary of American Biography states that Morris "left her soon after their marriage" although a daughter, Louisa M., was born of that union .

Sources

• Dwight, Benjamin Woodbridge. The History of the Descendants of John Dwight, of Dedham, Mass (J.F. Trow & Son, New York, 1874)

• Wheeler, William Ogden. The Ogden Family in America (Printed for Private Circulation by J.B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, 1907)

• http://www.geni.com/people/Mary-Morris/6000000002860807219

• http://www.crjc.org/heritage/V07-14.htm

• https://archive.org/stream/ogdenfamilyiname00whee#page/256/mode/2up

• "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29L-L5SC : 10 February 2018), Lewis R. Morris and Polly Dwight, 02 Dec 1786; citing Marriage, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 186,161.

• "General Lewis R. Morris/Barry/Mollica House", Springfield, Vt., National Register, Connecticut River Joint Commissions, crjc.org [www.crjc.org/heritage/V07-14.htm]