Robert Hunter Morris, was a prominent governmental figure in Colonial Pennsylvania, serving as governor of Pennsylvania and Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court.
March 20. 1755 Sir We should with great Readiness and Submission have obey’d your Honour’s Commands, in Forbearing to publish the two Letters from Sir Thomas Robinson, of July the…
Sunday. [May 18? 1755] Sir: I imagine that a Line from your Honour to the Speaker and Committee, recommending the Affair of the Forage to them, is all that is…
Philada.: 19th. 5th mo: May: 1755. May it Please the Governor The money put into the hands of the Committee of Assembly (to whom the Governor is pleas’d to direct…
[Allen’s-Town, January 3, 1756] I am sorry to inform you, by these Lines, of the bad News of our Defeat at Gnadenhutten. The Day you left Bethlehem, December 31, 4…
Bethlehem, Jany. 14 1756 Sir As we drew near this Place, we met a Number of Waggons, and many People moving off with their Effects and Families from the Irish…
Fort Allen at Gnadenhutt Jany. 26. 1756. Sir We left Bethlehem the 10th: Instant 2 with Foulk’s Company, 46 Men, the Detachment of M’Laughlin’s 20, and 7 Waggons laden with…
Philada. May 15. 1756 Sir We are honoured with your several Letters of the 5th. 7th. 8th. 9th. 10th and 13th Instant, 7 and have complied, as far as we…
[June 13, 1756] 2 May it Please the Governor When the Indians first began to Infest our Frontiers, the Commissioners were of Oppinion, that the best means of Securing our…
Philadelphia Augt. 12. 1756 Sir Your Honour having in your Letter of Yesterday to the Commissioners 5 recommended sundry Articles of Expence, and the advancing of Money on several Occasions,…