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Morris chronicled her experiences of the revolution in December 1776. Her diary, kept for the entertainment of her sister Milcah, outlines her encounters with soldiers and her efforts to defend her home from pillaging.
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By Jamie Mastrogiacomo. Elizabeth Drinker was born in 1735...
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Margaret Morris; Mary Jemison / Dehgewänis; Friederike...
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A Quaker widow with four children in Burlington, New Jersey, Margaret Morris found herself in the center of war in late 1776. Washington’s army was retreating across the state, pursued by the victorious British army.
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The month of December 1776 was especially troubling because of the recent American army defeats and the arrival of Hessian troops at Burlington. On December 8, I wrote, “every day begins & ends with the same accounts, & we hear today the Regulars are at Trenton – some of our neighbors gone, & others going … but our trust in Providence ...
Margaret Hill Morris (November 2, 1737 – October 10, 1816) was a Colonial American Quaker medical practitioner and diarist. Her journal provides a first hand account of events of the American Revolutionary War in and around Burlington, New Jersey, including the 1776 Battle of Trenton.
Margaret Hill Morris (1737-1816) was a Quaker widow and local medical practitioner living in Burlington when the Revolutionary War began. Her four children were between 10 and 17 years old at the time and her sisters and father were living in Philadelphia.
december 16th, 1776: “About noon this day, a very terrible account of thousands coming into town, and now actually to be seen off Gallows Hill – my incautious son caught up the spy-glass, and was running towards the mill to look at them.
Margaret Hill Morris (1737-1816) was born in 1737, at South River, near Annapolis, Maryland. Her parents, Richard and Deborah (Moore) Hill moved to the island of Madeira when she was young, and Morris was raised by her aunt and uncle in Philadelphia.
