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She treated both Patriot and British patients during the American Revolution, and witnessed firsthand the arrival of troops in Burlington. Morris chronicled her experiences of the revolution in December 1776.
Margaret Morris Biography | Women of the Revolution. by Edward St. Germain. Learn all about Margaret Morris and her role in the American Revolution.
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Margaret Morris - Crossroads of the American Revolution. Meet Your Revolutionary Neighbors. Margaret Morris. 1737 – 1816. I was a Quaker widow who cared for everybody during the Revolution. In my early life I lived in a Quaker community in Philadelphia. I married William Morris in 1758, but unfortunately he died young.
From about 1780 to 1782 I ran a small apothecary shop selling medicines I had prepared. I was respected as a competent doctress and helped provide health care through Quaker organizations. At one point, I ran a smallpox hospital with up to thirty patients. During the Revolution, I treated people on all sides impartially and kept a journal of my ...
Her diary, written between December 6, 1776 and June 14, 1777 and excerpted here, is an important record of the early phase of the Revolution. It has been valued by historians for its information about the war and Washington’s surprise Christmas Eve attack on the Hessian camp at Trenton.
A Quaker Woman in Burlington, New Jersey, during the American Revolution. * Selections from the Journal of Margaret Hill Morris, December 1776-January 1777. A Quaker widow with four children in Burlington, New Jersey, Margaret Morris found herself in the center of war in late 1776.
From this primary source collection, compile a list of possible civilian roles in the American Revolution, such as "sutler," privateer, camp follower, civilian spy or messenger, pacifist activist, official printer, state legislator, and diplomat.
