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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.
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. Washington’s army was retreating across the state, pursued by the victorious British army.
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Margaret Hill Morris was a colonial Quaker woman who lived outside of Philadelphia during the American Revolutionary War. The entries detail Morris’s experiences during the early years of the war, including her fears for her family, the movement through her town of various military groups, and her treatment of the sick and injured at ...
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.
Mar 10, 2017 · Those profound words were recorded by Margaret Hill-Morris as the American Revolution raged outside her front door. That front door opened to a street in the city of Burlington, where the...
This collection is composed of the original, handwritten Revolutionary War diary of Margret Hill Morris, as well as a photocopy of the diary of Margaret Hill Morris. The entries detail Morris’s experiences
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Margaret Hill Morris was a colonial Quaker woman who lived outside of Philadelphia during the American Revolutionary War. The entries detail Morris’s experiences during the early years of the war, including her fears for her family, the movement through her town of various military groups, and her treatment of the sick and injured at ...
