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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New YorkLewis MORRIS
(1726-1798)
MORRIS, Lewis, (half
brother of Gouverneur Morris and uncle of Lewis Richard Morris), a
Delegate from New York; born in Morrisania (now a part of New York
City), N.Y., April 8, 1726; instructed by private tutors and was
graduated from Yale College in 1746; engaged in agricultural
pursuits; appointed by the Crown a judge of the Court of Admiralty
in 1760 and resigned in 1774; again appointed by the provincial
congress in 1776, but declined; elected to the Colonial Assembly of
New York in 1769, but was declared disqualified for nonresidence;
delegate to the provincial convention of the colony in April 1775;
Member of the Continental Congress 1775-1777, and was a signer of
the Declaration of Independence; deputy to the state provincial
congress in 1776 and 1777; county judge of Westchester County in
1777; member of the committee on detection of conspiracies in 1777;
served in the state senate 1777-1781 and 1784-1788, and was a
member of the council of appointment in 1786; member of the first
board of regents of the University of New York and served from 1784
until his death; delegate to the state convention which adopted the
Federal Constitution in 1788; died in Morrisania, N.Y., January 22,
1798; interment in vault beneath St. Anne’s of Morrisania
Church, Bronx, N.Y.
Bibliography
Report of a Treaty with the Western Indians: Conducted at
Pittsburgh September 12-October 21, 1775 and Now for the First Time
Published. Commissioners from the Colonial Congress, Lewis
Morris... [et. al.]. Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society,
1908.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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