Tucker, Morris, Banta/Banty/Bauton, Mitchell
Morris, Lieut. Edward, died Sept. 14, 1690
Morris, Grace, wife of Edward, died June 6, 1705
Morris, Deacon Edward, born Mar. 10, 1658,died Aug. 29, 1727 age 69 yrs,
Morris, Elizabeth Bowen, wife of Deacon Edward, born Jan. 26, 1661, died N ov. 20, 1743
Morris, Ebenezer, born 1662/3, died Feb. 26, 1717, age 54 yrs
Morris, Benjamin, born 1695/6, died Apr. 15, 1729, age 33 yrs
Morris, Joshua, born 1703/4, died Dec. 10, 1731, age 27 yrs
Morris, Hannah, daughter of Deacon Edward & Bethia, born 1717/18, died Sep t. 2, 1736, age 18 yrs
Morris, Edward Jr., born 1718/19, died Aug. 14, 1745, age 26 yrs
Morris, Hannah, daughter of Edward Sr. & Bethijah, born 1740/41, died Au g. 14, 1745, age 4 yrs

WOODSTOCK CEMETERIES
MORRIS:
Amos, s of Jedediah & Sarah, d 15 Mar 1755 4 wks
Amos, d 21 Oct 1756 44 yrs
Asa, d 30 Jul 1775 48 yrs
Asenath, dau of Asa & Anna, d 30 Jul 1766 3 yrs
Dorothy, dau of Jedediah & Sarah, d 20 Apr 1775 7 yrs
Leonard, s of Jedediah & Sarah, d 16 Dec 1765 3 yrs
Lydia, w of Lemuel, d 18 Jun 1794 49 yrs
Lydia, dau of Lemuel & Lydia, d 22 Jun 1793 14 yrs
Mary, w of Amos, d 15 Mar 1796 79 yrs 8 mos 26 das
Parker, d 18 Jul 1773 35 yrs 9 mos 22 das
Pattie, dau of Asa & Anna, d 28 Dec 1766 5 yrs
William, s of Asa & Anna, d 9 Nov 1756 4 yrs
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Barbour Collection - Woodstock, Windham, Connecticut
James Morris; 36
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MORRIS Here lies buried the body of | Dea. Edward Morris | Aged 69. Dec eas'd August ye 29 | 1727. | Born in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts Ma r. 10, | 1658. |
Came to Woodstock in | 1691. |
Selectman twenty four years | between 1691 & 1721 |
and twenty two years deacon of the Church.
| Elizabeth Bowen Morris | born in Roxbury | Jan. 26, 1661 | Died Nov. 2 0, 1743.
more Woodstock Hill Woodstock
Windham Co.
Connecticut, US 1727
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In 1724 a final division of the remaining land in the south half was order ed. Some fifty odd pieces scattered about the tract were surveyed and numb ered. The commons at Plaine hill and South Woodstock and some other piec es were reserved for public uses; the remaining forty-five pieces of lan d, amounting, to 1,681 acres, were divided among the representatives of t he orig prop.s. A number of rights were bought up by John Chandler, Jr., w hich were laid out to him in one strip of two hundred acres. Of the fir st settlers none were living but John Chandler, Joseph Bugbee and Jonath an Peake. Henry Bowen, John Marcy and Benjamin Griggs had recently decease d. The shares were distributed to thirty-six prop.s. The selectmen at th is date were John Chandler, Smith Johnson, Edmond Chamberlain, Jonathan Pa yson and Samuel Paine; assessors, Samuel Perrin, Payson and Chamberlain; c onstables, Ephraim Child and John Holmes; highway surveyors, Samuel Lill y, Ebenezer Morris, David Holmes and Maturin Allard; tithing-men, Lieutena nt Jabez Corbin and Daniel Abbot; fence viewers, John Child and Edward Mor ris, Jr.; hog-reeves, Zachariah Richardson, Joseph Wright, Joseph Lyon, Is aac Johnson and Henry Bowen; leather sealer, Stephen Fay. Eliphalet Carpen ter and Jonathan Payson served as licensed inn-keepers; John Chandler as r etailer.

Back to: Woodstock, Windham County, Connecticut History

Source: History of Windham County, Connecticut, Bayles, Richard M.; New Yo rk: W.W. Preston, 1889

=====MORRIS Here lies the Body of | Mr. Edward Morris | he departed th is | life Augst 12th 1769 | in ye 80th year of His Age. more Bung ee Hill, West Woodstock Woodstock
Windham Co.
Connecticut, US 1769

• Married: 24 MAY 1683 ³

1. Elizabeth Morris b: 12 FEB 1683/84 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA
2. Elizabeth Morris b: 9 FEB 1685/86 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA
3. Hannah Morris b: 14 NOV 1686 in Roxbury, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA
4. Edward Morris b: 9 NOV 1688 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA
5. Grace Morris b: 14 NOV 1692 in Woodstock, Windham, Connecticut, USA
6. Abigail Morris b: 25 OCT 1694 in Woodstock, Windham, Connecticut, USA
7. Susanna Morris b: 16 AUG 1698 in Woodstock, Windham, Connecticut, USA
8. Prudence Morris b: 9 AUG 1702 in Woodstock, Windham, Connecticut, USA

1. Title: Hale Collection, late 1600s-ca. 1934
   Note: ABBR Cemetery Inscriptions, The Hale Collection
   Repository:
   Note: NAME Connecticut State Library
   ADDR History and Genealogy Unit
   CONT 231 Capitol Avenue
   CONT Hartford, Connecticut 06106-1537
   ADR1 History and Genealogy Unit
   ADR2 231 Capitol Avenue
   CITY Hartford
   STAE Connecticut
   POST 06106-1537
   Text: Morris, Deacon Edward, died Aug. 29, 1727, born Mar. 10, 1658, age 69 yrs
2. Title: Hale Collection
   Repository:
   Media: Book
   Text: Morris, Deacon Edward, died Aug. 29, 1727, born Mar. 10, 1658, age 69 yrs
3. Title: Family Data Collection - Individual Records
   Author: Edmund West, comp.
   Publication: Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2000
   Repository:
   Note: www.ancestry.com
   Media: Ancestry.com
   Text: Online publication - Edmund West, comp.. Family Data Collection - Individual Records [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2000.