Morris, Margaret Hill (1737–1816)

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Morris, Margaret Hill (1737–1816)

American diarist. Born 1737 in Burlington, NJ; died 1816; children: 4.

A widow, kept a journal which was addressed to her sister, and later published as Private Journal of Margaret Morris (1836), of events in Burlington, NJ, surrounding Revolutionary war (1776–78); described difficulty of remaining neutral as demanded by her Quaker faith.

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