Sarah Morris Mifflin
(1747-1790)
BIRTH
April 5, 1747
PLACE
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
NAME
Sarah Morris
DEATH
August 1, 1790
PLACE
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
FAMILY
HUSBAND
Thomas Mifflin
(1744-1800)
CHILDREN
Emily Mifflin Hopkinson
(1774-1850)
HOMES
POLITICAL VIEWS
BRITISH GOODS BOYCOTT ADVOCATE
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
CHRISTIAN
QUAKER
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Sarah Morris Mifflin (c.1747–1790) married Philadelphia merchant Thomas Mifflin in 1767. During a visit to Boston, the couple commissioned John Singleton Copley’s 1773 double portrait. Sarah is shown weaving decorative fringe on a small loom, an image the museum interprets as a possible endorsement of the boycott of British goods. Her husband became a Continental general and Pennsylvania governor. The portrait places her in the political culture before the Revolution.
EARLY LIFE
Sarah Morris Mifflin was born on Apr 5, 1747 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 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.
No distinct public profession or office for Sarah Morris Mifflin is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Sarah Morris Mifflin died on Aug 1, 1790 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Sarah Morris Mifflin died on Aug 1, 1790, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Sarah Morris Mifflin married Philadelphia merchant Thomas Mifflin in 1767. During a visit to Boston, the couple commissioned John Singleton Copley’s 1773 double portrait. Sarah is shown weaving decorative fringe on a small loom, an image the museum interprets as a possible endorsement of the boycott of British goods. Her husband became a Continental general and Pennsylvania governor. The portrait places her in the political culture before the Revolution. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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