Rebecca Cadwalader

Death

1. Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania

   53-54, William Morris, eldest son of Anthony Morris by third marriage with Mary Coddington, born in Philadelphia, 5mo.l (July) 23, 1695, died there November 6, 1776, was one of the most prominent members of the family, but his long career of usefulness and honor was largely spent outside of the city of his birth. Early in life he engaged in mercantile trade with the West Indies, and removed to the island of Barbados, where he married 4mo. (June) 14, 1718, a rich heiress, Sarah Dury, of Speightstown, Barbados. William Morris purchased of the Trent estate 500 acres of land on the Assunpink, including mills thereon erected, and made his permanent home in Trenton for nearly the whole remainder of his life and is there buried...His wife Sarah died August 26, 1750, in her fifty-sixth year, having been born 12mo. 26, 1694. He married (second) November 2, 1752, Rebecca, daughter of John and Martha Cadwalader, sister of Hannah Cadwalader, who had married in 1737 his nephew Samuel Morris. She died October 9, 1764, and he November 6, 1776.