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"Morris declined Washington's offer to serve as the nation's first Treasury Secretary, instead suggesting that Washington appoint Hamilton to the position. Morris represented Pennsylvania in the Senate from 1789 to 1795, during which time he aligned with the Federalist Party and supported Hamilton's economic policies.

Morris invested a considerable portion of his fortune in land shortly before the Panic of 1796–1797, which led to his bankruptcy in 1798, and he spent several years in debtors' prison, until the United States Congress passed a bankruptcy act to release him"

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"Anna Shoemaker, daughter of Benjamin Shoemaker (1745-1808) and Elizabeth Warner, born March 27, 1777; married, first, May 5, 1796, Robert Morris, son of Robert Morris the "Financier of the Revolution;" married, secondly, Nov. 3, 1823, Francis Bloodgood, clerk of the Supreme Court of New York and Mayor of Albany.

Originally buried in St James the Less Cemetery, (died age 88yrs). Anna was reinterred from St James the Less to West Laurel Hill by her son Robert Morris.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Death Certificates Index, 1803-1915
Name: Anna Bloodgood
Birth: abt 1777
Death date: 5 Mar 1865
Death place: Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Age at death: 88
Burial date: 7 Mar 1865