The birth of Morris Lewis, about 1745 in New Jersey, is recorded in the Ancestral File at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah. At age 20, he married Rhoda Rose, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania around 1765. Their place of residence in 1777 was on Shelley's Island, adjacent to Hill Island, in the Susquehanna River. Their only child, Morris Lewis, Jr. was born in December 1777.According to the manuscript of Judge James E. Rose, Morris Lewis was drowned in the Susquehanna River near the mouth of the Juniata River in 1787, at age 42. His son was only 10 years old when his father died.
Morris Lewis
Born: abt 1745 , , New Jersey
Married: abt 1765 , Lancaster, PA
Died: 1787 , Lancaster, PA
Sources: Family History Library's Ancestral File birth records; Book: "History of Trumbull and Mahoning" re the John Lewis family on page 496. Manuscript of Judge James E. Rose.
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