{"id":21027,"date":"2026-06-04T10:41:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T17:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=21027"},"modified":"2026-05-06T12:04:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T19:04:05","slug":"the-founders-lewis-morris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=21027","title":{"rendered":"The Founders: Lewis Morris"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lewis Morris<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Damn the consequences. Give me the pen.”<\/a><\/sup><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lewis Morris was a signer of the Declaration of Independence after abstaining during the vote. He may have been pressured to sign by George Washington. He had extensive land holding in New York and New Jersey. Morristown, New Jersey was named after him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

During the revolution when the British occupied New York his estate in the Bronx was destroyed bu he and his family were given safe passage to Connecticut. He had three sons who fought in the war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The name Morristown gives Morris some name recognition and I found a quote attributed to him so he earns a B on the Simon Signers Familiarity Index.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lewis Morris “Damn the consequences. Give me the pen.” Lewis Morris was a signer of the Declaration of Independence after abstaining during the vote. He may have been pressured to sign by George Washington. He had extensive land holding in New York and New Jersey. Morristown, New Jersey was named after him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1543],"tags":[1559,1541,1593,1594,1595],"class_list":["post-21027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-founding-fathers","tag-founders","tag-founding-fathers","tag-lewis-morris","tag-morristown","tag-new-jersey"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-06-at-9.32.22-AM.png?fit=984%2C1296&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-5t9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21029,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21027\/revisions\/21029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}