John Morris (bef. 1646 - abt. 1711)

Born before 8 Mar 1646 in New Haven Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Hannah (Bishop) Morris — married 12 Aug 1669 in New Haven, Connecticut Colony

Descendants

Died about 10 Dec 1711 after about age 65 in New Haven, Connecticut

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Biography

John Morris, the son of Thomas Morris and Elizabeth Unknown, was baptized on March 8, 1646 and died December 10, 1711 at the age of 65. On August 12, 1669, he married Hannah Bishop, the daughter of Lt. Gov. James Bishop and Mary Lewen. They had 7 children: Mary, Hannah, Mary, Elizabeth, Thomas, Abigail and Desire.^[1]

There has been some confusion because there was another John Morris, possibly his cousin, living in New Haven at about the same time. See John Morris, who married Ann ---- and later Elizabeth Harrison, the widow of Henry Lines and Thomas Lampson. This John Morris later moved to Newark, New Jersey, and died there in 1675.^[2]

Lucy Ann (Morris) Carhart’s “Genealogy of the Morris Family” (1911, New York, The A. S. Barnes Company), on pages 74 & 75, combines these two John Morris’s into one man with three wives.

Causing further confusion, about a year before the birth of John Morris, Thomas and Elizabeth Morris had another son named John, who died soon after birth: John Morris.

Sources

1. ↑ Donald Lines Jacobus, "Families of Ancient New Haven", Vol V, pages 1210-1211 (Morris Family 1).
2. ↑ Donald Lines Jacobus, "Families of Ancient New Haven", Vol V, page 1212 (Morris Family 2)

• Find A Grave: Memorial #8702622
• Jacobus, Donald Lines. Morris Families of Western Connecticut, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1917) Vol. 71, Page 5