Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Morris, The Family
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Falls Township


THE MORRIS FAMILY is one of the oldest families in 
Pennsylvania, and is of Welsh origin.  Anthony Morris, the 
first married Elizabeth Senior.  He was a captain of a 
merchant ship and lived in London.  He was lost at sea on a 
voyage to Barbadoes, leaving one son, Anthony, the second, 
born at St. Dunstans Stepney, of London, August 23, 1654, 
and who came to Philadelphia in 1683.  He was judge of the 
provincial court from 1694 to 1699.  In 1704 he was mayor of 
Philadelphia.  He married Mary Jones and died in 1721. Their 
son, Anthony, was a man of character and ability.  He was at 
one time a member of the provincial assembly, and in 1739 
was mayor Philadelphia.  He married Phoebe Guest, and died 
in 1762.  His son Anthony Morris, the third, was born in 
Philadelphia in 1705, and married Sarah Powel.  He owned a 
large brewery on Morris' alley.  He was a prominent citizen 
and died in 1780.  His son, Captain Samuel Morris, was born 
in Philadelphia June 23, 1734.  He was governor of the 
Schuylkill fishing company of the state in Schuylkill, an 
institution founded in 1732 by a few choice spirits, who, 
under the mock forms of the state, with governor and other 
officers, met at stated periods of the year at the castle in 
Schuylkill, on the spot now known as "Eagles' Field," to 
fish and dine together on the product of their sport.  He 
was elected governor in 1776 and annually re-elected until 
his death in 1812.  He was an active member of the 
Gloucester Fox Hunting club, of which he was president for 
some unascertained period prior to the revolution until his 
death.  He was captain of the first troop of Philadelphia 
cavalry.  The troop numbered in its ranks not less than 
twenty-two of the members of the Gloucester Fox Hunting 
club.  Samuel Morris was captain of the troop, served 
through the campaign of 1776 and 1777, and took active part 
in the battles of Trenton and Princeton, where his brother, 
Anthony, who was ensign of the troop, was killed.  By a 
complimentary order from General Washington the troop was 
mustered out of service January 23, 1777, at Morristown, N. 
J.  He died on the 7th of July, 1812, at the age of 77 
years.  He left six sons, one of whom, Anthony, in 1793 was 
speaker of the State senate, and during the administration 
of Mr. Madison acted as an agent of the United States in 
Spain.  He died in 1860.  He married a daughter of James 
Pemberton, a well-known citizen of Philadelphia and Bucks 
county, and owner of the "Bolton Farm," in Bristol township, 
which he left, by will, to his grandson, James Pemberton 
Morris, who married Rosa Gardner, in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 
1816.  She was a daughter of the Rev. William Gardner, D. 
D., of Edinburgh.  Phineas Pemberton Morris, LL. D., their 
son, is an attorney-at-law at 404 Locust street, 
Philadelphia, and resides at 1827 Chestnut street.  He was 
born on the old Bolton Farm in Bristol township, May 2, 
1817.  He was educated at Georgetown College, D. C., where 
he was graduated in 1836.  He was for a long time professor 
of practice, pleading and evidence in the law department of 
the University of Pennsylvania, and has been in general 
practice at the Philadelphia bar for forty-five years.  He 
ranks among the most prominent lawyers in the city.  He was 
admitted to the bar in 1840, February 8.  He is now emeritus 
professor of the University of Pennsylvania.