Mary White Morris
(1749-1827)
BIRTH
1749
PLACE
NAME
Mary White
DEATH
1827
PLACE
FAMILY
HUSBAND
Robert Morris
(1734-1806)
CHILDREN
Hester Morris Marshall
(1774–1817)
CHILDREN
Maria Morris Nixon
(1779-1852)
CHILDREN
Henry Morris
(1784–1842)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Mary White Morris (1749–1827) was a Philadelphia hostess and wife of merchant Robert Morris, the financier of the American Revolution. They married in 1769 and had seven children. They befriended George and Martha Washington. Charles Willson Peale painted Mary in 1782, holding a citrus branch associated with their estate, The Hills. She survived the loss of the family fortune and her husband’s death in 1806, dying in Philadelphia in January 1827.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Mary White Morris’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies Mary White Morris with work or public activity as a hostess. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Mary White Morris died in 1827. Mary White Morris was a Philadelphia hostess and wife of merchant Robert Morris, the financier of the American Revolution. They married in 1769 and had seven children. They befriended George and Martha Washington. Charles Willson Peale painted Mary in 1782, holding a citrus branch associated with their estate, The Hills. She survived the loss of the family fortune and her husband’s death in 1806, dying in Philadelphia in January 1827. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
Christ Church Philadelphia
20 N American St, Philadelphia, PA 19106
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