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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Morris and Popham families papers, 1669-1892 (bulk 1750-1850)</title>
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    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, journals, notebooks, legal papers, and other papers including the papers of Lewis Morris (1671-1746), Lewis Morris (1698-1762), Richard Morris, and Robert Hunter Morris, and Major William Popham.  Includes a record of the court martial of Col. Moses Hazen in 1780 and copies of George Washington's letters to Robert Hunter Morris.  Other correspondents include Peter Stephen Du Ponceau, John Taylor of Caroline, and James Tilton.  Most of the letters after 1849 are addressed to William S. Popham.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Family members include Lewis Morris (1671-1746), owner of most of the land now known as the Bronx, chief justice of the province of New York, and governor of the province of New Jersey; Lewis Morris (1698-1762), judge of the Vice Admiralty Court of Connecticut, New York and New Jersey; Richard Morris (1730-1801), chief justice of New York State; Robert Hunter Morris (1700-1764), governor of Pennsylvania; major William Popham (1752-1849), president-general of the Society of the Cincinnati and Richard Morris' son-in-law; and William Popham's son, William S. Popham, a leading member of the New York State Society of the Cincinnati.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <note>Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room.</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1760-1844</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hazen, Moses</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1733-1803</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Popham, William S</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Taylor, John</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1753-1824</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Tilton, James</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1745-1822</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Washington, George</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1732-1799</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Morris family</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Popham family</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>New York State Society of the Cincinnati.</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Courts</topic>
    <geographic>New York (State)</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Courts-martial and courts of inquiry</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Practice of law</topic>
    <geographic>Connecticut</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Practice of law</topic>
    <geographic>New Jersey</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Practice of law</topic>
    <geographic>New York (State)</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Bronx (New York, N.Y.)</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>New Jersey</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>New Jersey</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Pennsylvania</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Revolution, 1775-1783</temporal>
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    <titleInfo>
      <title>Lewis Morris papers</title>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Morris, Lewis,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1671-1746</namePart>
    </name>
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    <titleInfo>
      <title>Lewis Morris papers</title>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Morris, Lewis,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1698-1762</namePart>
    </name>
  </relatedItem>
  <relatedItem>
    <titleInfo>
      <title>Robert Hunter Morris papers</title>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Morris, Robert Hunter,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">approximately 1700-1764</namePart>
    </name>
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  <relatedItem>
    <titleInfo>
      <title>Richard Morris papers</title>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Morris, Richard,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1730-1810</namePart>
    </name>
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  <relatedItem>
    <titleInfo>
      <title>William Popham papers</title>
    </titleInfo>
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Popham, William,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1752-1847</namePart>
    </name>
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