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    • Blue River Quakers move West
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Morris Area

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http://www.kinstories.com/morris-and-white.html Original Homestead Each family selected a place for a home, usually near a spring or flowing water. Jehoshaphat elected to purchase a farm with two springs, one a source of Blue River, about 10 miles NE of Salem, (in the NW 1/4, Sec. 21, T.3N; R 5E.) which had been entered by Thomas Thompson. Additional acres were purchased for a “bit” per acre (12 1/2 cents) and some others were added by original entry. This became the “original homestead” of our branch of the Morris Family. Original Homestead still in the Family In 1818, the eldest brother, Aaron, came over with his family of four sons (three more sons were born in Indiana) and settled 1/2 mile north of Jehoshaphat. Evidence also indicates that he also brought James White Morris his nephew, aged 12, (son of Thomas & orphaned in 1817) with him. Their claim amounted to several hundred acres of level land on the watershed, known for generations as “The Flat Woods” or the “Morris Neighborhood.” When Jehoshaphat’s son, Pritchard, married, he built a home 1/4 mile east of the homestead, where he lived until he died in 1887. The farm has been in the possession of Jehoshaphat’s descendants until this day. https://www.amazon.com/Washington-County-Indiana-Historical-Society/dp/B084HCX64M

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