William Cox Ellis / Rebecca Morris

Marriage

1. Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania

   58, Benjamin Wistar Morris, eldest son of Capt. Samuel and Rebecca (Wistar) Morris, born at Philadelphia, August 14, 1762, married at Market Street Meeting, Philadelphia, November 24, 1785, Mary, born at Burlington, New Jersey, September 4, 1764, daughter of Richard and Rachel (Hill) Wells, and about 1800 removed with his family from Philadelphia to Tioga county, Pennsylvania, where the town of Wellsborough was named for Mrs. Morris, and her brother Gideon H. Wells, and where they were among the earliest settlers.. Benjamin Wistar Norris died at Wellsborough, April 24, 1825, and his wife, November 6, 1819. They had issue: Samuel Wells, b. Sept. 1, 1786, d. May 25, 1847; Sarah, b. Sept. 2, 1788, d. May 18, 1862, m. Aug. 5, 1804, Jacob Shoemaker Waln; Rebecca, b. Dec. 23, 1789, d. Dec. 8, 1871, m. July 11, 1810, William Cox Ellis; Richard Wells, b. Feb. 18, 1791; d. Oct. 4, 1791.

2. Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania

   62, Rebecca Morris, second daughter of Benjamin Wistar and Mary (Wells) Morris, born in Philadelphia, December 23, 1789, removed with her parents to the present site of Wellsborough, Tioga county, Pennsylvania, about 1800. She married, July 11, 1810, William Cox Ellis, of Muncy, now Lycoming county, son of William and Mercy (Cox) Ellis, brother to Anna Ellis who married her brother Samuel Wells Morris. William Cox Ellis was born at Fort Muncy, then Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, May 5, 1787. He died December 13, 1871, and his wife Rebecca Morris, December 8, of the same year.