Ann Cary Randolph Morris | |
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Born | Ann Cary Randolph September 16, 1774 |
Died | May 28, 1837 Morrisania, New York, U.S. | (aged 62)
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Children | Gouverneur Morris Jr. |
Parent(s) | Thomas Mann Randolph Sr. Ann Cary Randolph |
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Ann Cary Randolph Morris (September 16, 1774 – May 28, 1837) (nicknamed Nancy) was the daughter of Thomas Mann Randolph Sr. and the wife of Gouverneur Morris. Books have been written about the scandal in which she was embroiled in central Virginia as a young woman after the death of her fiance. After she married Gouverneur Morris in New York, she regained much of her favorable social prominence until he died in 1816. She was devoted to their son, Gouverneur Morris Jr. (1813–1888), whom she called her "richest treasure.” They lived at Morrisania (in what is now the Bronx). He had the St. Ann's Episcopal Church in Bronx built in her memory.