The Revolutionary Journal of Margaret Morris, of Burlington, N. J., December 6, 1776, to June 11, 1778

Abstract

Margaret (Hill) Morris, the author of the following Journal, was the eighth child and sixth daughter of Richard Hill, of South River, near Annapolis, Maryland, and his wife, Deborah Moore, a granddaughter of Thomas Lloyd, the friend of William Penn. Richard Hill was a physician and also a trader (shipping merchant). Through bad debts, and losses at sea, tradition says by privateers, he became greatly embarrassed, and to mend his fortunes, moved (1739) to Funchal, Island of Madeira, entered into the wine and commission business, was very successful, and paid his old creditors principal and interest. He returned to America in 1761, his wife having died a short time before he sailed, and he himself died not long after his arrival in Philadelphia. On going to Madeira, the parents left six of their children including Margaret, then about two years old, to the care of their daughter Hannah, not sixteen years old, but already the wife of her cousin, Dr. Samuel Preston Moore, of Philadelphia. It was under the care of this sister and her husband that Margaret Hill was brought up. How well it was done the after lives of this young group testify. This sister, Hannah, had no children of her