"3007 Dr. Asahel Morris, son of Captain Amos Morris, 1st, born February 14, 1766, lived with his parents on the farm at Morris Point until his twenty-first year, assisting in the farm work and studying as he had opportunity. He entered Yale College, took a full course of study and graduated, 1789. He studied medicine in Hartford, Conn. In 1793, settled as a physician in a place called 'Tiossiock,' on the Hoosic river, in the town of Cambridge, Washington County, N. Y. … known. He was a man of great integrity and honesty, was a careful, prudent and successful physician, and at his death was greatly mourned. His death occurred in July, 1830, caused by taking a malignant disease
from a patient whom he had treated and nursed to convalescence. His wife contracted the same disease and died a few days later."
