Morris, Sarah, 1704-1775

<p> p.38 Sarah Morris was born on the 16th day of the 11th month, 1703/4.<p>
<p> p.139 Sarah Morris died on the 22nd day of the 10th month, 1775.<p>

Sarah Morris was a traveling minister and one of the yearly meetings she attended was the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.

Daughter of Anthony and Elizabeth Morris, of Philadelphia.
Born in 1703. When she was seventeen, her father on his
deathbed said of her that "she never had disobeyed him,
and was his Comfort." Her first religious tour was made
with Margaret Ellis as companion. In 1764 accompanied by
Joyce, wife of Anthony Benezet, and Elizabeth Smith, the
maiden sister of Samuel and John Smith, of Burlington,
N.J. she went on a religious visit to New England. Her
mother received her close attention to the advanced age
of Ninety four years. After her death, Sarah Morris,
accompanied by her niece, Deborah Morris, sailed with a
Minute from her meeting for service in England, setting
out from Philadelphia for London in the spring of 1772,
shortly pefore John Woolman. They attended the same Yearly
Meeting of that year, an arah Morris and her niece were
also at the following ne, after which she returned home in
the autumn of 1773. Several other Friends from Great

Britain crossed with them on the return voyage. She accompanied Mary Leaver and Elizabeth Robinson in some family

visits in Philadelphia in the winter of 1773-4 and was at
New York Yearly meeting in the spring.
Sarah Morris was stricken with dropsy, and was carried to
her last meeting in Philadelphia, 6mo. 4, 1775. She died
l0 mo. 24, 1775, aged seventy two years,