14. Sarah Morris^ (Anthony," Anthony^), a daughter of Anthony Morris^ by his fourth wife Elizabeth Watson, was born in Philadelphia 11th mo. 16th, 1703-4. She was much beloved by her father and her family, for her sweetness of disposition and self-denial in all things. She became an eminent minister of her denomination, and besides laboring among the Friends in New Jersey, Maryland and Long Island, she visited Rhode Island in 1764, and accompanied by her niece Deborah Morris, she travelled through Great Britain in 1772-3. For some years, she had a "concern to make this religious visit to England, and notwithstanding her delicate health, and advanced age, she concluded, with the full acquiescence of the "Friends" to undertake it. But she allowed herself no time for rest before embarking, for we can, by the aid of Joseph Oxley's journal trace her, in her unceasing journeyings in America, up to the very time of leaving its shores. It had been arranged, that Joseph Oxley should return to England in the same vessel which was to carry Sarah Morris and her niece Deborah ...
The following obituary of Sarah Morris appeared in the "Pennsylvania Gazette" for Nov. 1, 1775: —
THE MEMORY OF THE JUST IS BLESSED.
On the morning of the 24th ultimo, departed this life, in "the seventy-second year of her age, in certain hope of a joyful resurrection Sarah Morris, an eminent minister among the people called Quakers. ...
