The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
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State of Service: CT
Qualifying Service: Soldier / Patriotic Service / Civil Service
Birth: abt 1723 East Haven / New Haven / CT Death: 30 Dec 1801 East Haven / New Haven / CT
Qualifying Service Description:
Patriot and commissioned officer of the Connecticut Light Horse Militia for the defense of New Haven
Prisoner in a British prison ship on the Long Island Sound
DAR states:
SELECTMAN
JP
POW, ON LIST OF PRISONERS TO BE EXCHANGED SEPT 1780
PAID FOR LOSSES
Additional References:
CT Record of Service, War of the Revolution, pg 560
The British Invasion of New Haven, CH Townsend, pg 8, 9, 20
"Revolutionary Characters of New Haven", Connecticut Society, SAR Magazine, 1911, pg 105-114
Memoranda of the Descendants of Amos Morris, 1853
DAR Patriot Index, pg 480
DAR cites:
JOHNSTON, CT MEN IN THE REV, pg 626
CT REV WAR RECS, SER 1, Volume 4, PT 2, DOC 410, ROLL #36.8
HOADLY, PUB RECS OF THE STATE OF CT, 1776-1781, Volume 2, 1778-1780, pg 7, 254
LABAREE, PUB RECS OF THE STATE OF CT, 1789-1792, Volume 7, pg 462
"The Morris Tree: Memoranda of the Descendants of Amos Morris of East Haven, Connecticut" (New York: A. S. Barnes Co, 1853), pg 99
Record of Service, CT Militia, pg 557
History of East Haven, pg 236
"The Old Morris House" (Morris Cove, New Haven, CT), issued by authority of the Pardee Morris House Committee of the New Haven Colony Historical Society
No GPS data for grave site on findagrave.com - Oct 2022
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Find-a-Grave lists the following children: John, Elizabeth, Esther, Asahel, Lorinda, and Anna