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LEWIS MORRIS

Lewis Morris was an American politician. He was born in 1726 and died in 1798. He was a delegate from New York to the Continental Congress from 1775 to 1777. He was a commissioner to the Western Indians in 1775 to induce them to join the colonists against the British. He signed the American Declaration of Independence. He was major-general of the New York State Militia.
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