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Last name Morris
First name Benjamin
Display name Benjamin Morris
Birth date 1762
Death date 1825
Gender m
Affiliations Society of Friends
Bio notes Worked as an agent for the Pine Creek Land Company. One of the founders and first settlers of Wellsboro, Pennsylvania. Son of Capt. Samuel and Rebecca Wistar Morris. Married at Market Street Meeting in Philadelphia Mary Wells in 1785. Moved to Tioga County before 1800.

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William Allinson Diary, Volume 1