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Morris family financial records
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Samuel Buckley Morris (1791-1859) was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Quakers Luke Wistar and Elizabeth Buckley Morris. Samuel B. Morris became a member of the shipping firm of Waln & Morris in Philadelphia. He was one of the first directors of the Philadelphia Saving Fund Society. Morris was one of the founders of Haverford College, a manager of Friends Asylum and served on the Committee for Westtown School from 1843 until his death in 1859.
Hannah Perot Morris (1854-1931) was the daughter of Samuel Morris and Lydia Spencer Morris. She attended Westtown School and was made a minister in the Society of Friends in 1908. She was the first woman appointed by a Quarterly Meeting in Philadelphia Yearly Meeting to serve on Representative Meeting. Morris was the author in 1907 of Glimpses of the Life of Samuel Morris.
Source: Morris Family Papers, 1715-1925, finding aid, Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections.
Elliston Perot Morris I (1831-1914) was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1831, the son of Samuel B. Morris and Hannah P. Morris. He attended Westtown Boarding School, and Haverford College. He took care of his family's financial trusts and real estate holdings in a downtown Philadelphia office. He was prominent in Germantown civic organizations, serving on the board of the Savings Fund for 60 years, and was active in local Quaker institutions such as the Friends' Free Library and the Friends' Free School. He was a long-time member and president of the Friends' Freeman Association of Philadelphia and in this capacity corresponded with Booker T. Washington about Christianburg Institute, a school for African-Americans in Virginia. He died on December 3, 1914, at the House.
Martha Canby Morris (12 May 1836 – 1 November 1, 1919) was born in 1836 in Wilmington, Delaware, the daughter of Merrit Canby. She married Elliston P. Morris in 1861. Upon the death of Merrit Canby, her father, in 1866, she inherited money for which she kept an account. Martha ran the households at Church Lane and Sea Girt and documented expenditures. She died in Philadelphia in 1919.
Marriott Canby Morris I (September 7, 1863 - March 2, 1948) was born in Philadelphia in 1863, the eldest child of Elliston and Martha Morris. He attended the same Quaker schools as his father had and worked with his father in his real estate business. After his 1885 Haverford graduation and before his 1897 marriage, he lived with his parents but travelled to Europe and Bermuda on his own. He and Jane, his wife, raised three children -- Elliston Perot III, Marriott Canby Jr., and Janet ("Jay") -- and lived in Germantown throughout their lives. He continued his father's civic interests by serving in many organizations including the Germantown Savings Fund, the Provident Mutual Life Insurance Company, the Friends' Freedmen Association, and the Germantown Friends School. Marriott was heavily involved in the Germantown Boys' Club from its early days as the Boys' Parlor and in 1947 was given an award commemorating his 60 years of service from the National Association of Boys' Clubs.
Marriott Canby Morris Jr. (December 29, 1900 – February 9, 1992) was born in Philadelphia in December, 1900, the son of Marriott Canby Morris and Jane Rhoads Morris. Marriott attended Westtown School and Haverford College. He helped in building operations at a Native American school in the summer of 1917 and in 1919 went to France as a American Friends Service Committee volunteer. He spent 1923 and 1924 in Russia. He became a professor of German at Beloit College. Marriott married Elizabeth ("Libby") Haines. He died in 1992.
Janet ("Jay") Morris Butler (April 7, 1907 - August 28, 2010) was born in Philadelphia in 1907, the daughter of Marriott C. Morris and Jane Rhoads Morris. Janet attended Germantown Friends' School and Connecticut College. She died in 2010.
Source: Morris Family Papers, 1741-1989 finding aid, by the Northeast Museum Services Center for Independence National Historical Park
This collection is comprised of the 51 volumes of business and personal financial records of various members of the Morris family. Materials include account books, trustee accounts, and receipt books. Volumes generally record deposits, withdrawals for payments for goods and services, and account balances.
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Collection Inventory
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This volume is the daily sales book for an unknown member of the Morris family.
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This volume records payments made to the Bank of North America and to various individuals, amounts received by Morris, and the balances of her accounts. Pages inserted at the back of the volume record amounts left to Ann Morris by the Estate of Luke W. Morris.
Physical Description0.13 linear ft.
This volume records withdrawals, deposits, and balances of Morris' account.
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This volume records orders of coal made by various individuals, and balances for each year.
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This volume records orders of coal made by various individuals, and balances for each year.
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This volume records deposits, withdrawals for payments for goods and services, and account balances for Elliston P. Morris.
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This volume records payments made to various individuals for furniture and home goods.
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This volume is the account book for the trust of Janet Morris. The executor of the trust was Marriot C. Morris.
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This volume records deposits, withdrawals for payments for goods and services, and account balances
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This volume records deposits, withdrawals for payments for goods and services, and account balances.
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This volume records payments received by Morris for various goods and services.
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This volume was labeled as "Blotter no. 2," and records deposits, withdrawals for payments for goods and services, and account balances, as well as income from investments.
Physical Description0.21 linear ft.
This volume records deposits, withdrawals for payments for goods and services, and account balances.
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This volume is labeled as "Personal Blotter no. 2," and records deposits, withdrawals for payments for goods and services, and account balances for Morris' personal finances.
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This volume is labeled as "personal blotter, no. 3," and records deposits, withdrawals for payments for goods and services, and account balances.
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This volume records the payments from the investments and stocks of the trust for Marriott C. Morris Jr.
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This volume records the payments from the investments and stocks of Elliston P. Morris' trust for Martha Canby Morris, and provides balances for each month. Companies invested in include: Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company, Finance Company of Pennsylvania, and the Northumberland County Gas and Electric Company.
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This volume records deposits, withdrawals for payments, and account balances for the estate of Merrit Canby. The executors of the estate were William M. Canby, and Elliston P. Morris.
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This volume records deposits, withdrawals for payments for goods and services, and account balances
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This volume records deposits, withdrawals for payments for goods and services, and account balances.
Physical Description0.15 linear ft.
This volume records deposits, withdrawals for payments for goods and services, and account balances of Luke W. Morris' accounts. The volume also includes information about Morris' guardianship of Caroline and Elizabeth Morris, and records information about their financial accounts.
Physical Description0.1 linear ft.
Estate Accounts of Luke W. Morris, administered by Samuel B. Morris.
Physical Description0.13 linear ft.
This volume is the estate account book and records deposits, withdrawals for payments, and account balances. The executor of the estate in Samuel B. Morris.
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This volume includes amounts paid to various individuals for goods and services, including: the purchase of dry goods and the payment of wages.
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Bills and Notes Receivable and Payable.
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This volume is labeled Bills and notes section includes the following columns: "Numbers," "Date," "Drawer," "On Whom Drawn," "To Whom Payable." The Payable and Receivable sections include the following columns: "For Whom Account," "Accepted," "When Due," "Dollars," "Cents," and "Remarks."
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This volume records expenses for his house on Walnut St., and accounts with the Bank of America.
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This volume is a partial copy of Samuel B. Morris's personal account book, volume 4.
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Estate accounts after his death.
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This volume records Morris' investments, including stocks, and investment account with Bank of America.
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This volume records the dispersal of amounts of cash and investments left to Trustees of Elliston Perot Morris' will.
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This volume records the dispersal of amounts of cash and investments left to Trustees of Elliston Perot Morris' will.
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Note on the inside cover reads, "Trust for Children of Samuel B & Hannah P. Morris under Will of Elliston Perot."
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This volume records amounts received for goods and services from various individuals.
Physical Description0.08 linear ft.