Thursday, November 9, 2017

Anna Shoemaker Bloodgood etc etc "him too"



"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;"

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Death Certificates Index, 1803-1915
Name: Anna Bloodgood
Birth: abt 1777
Death date: 5 Mar 1865
Death place: Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania


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"There are a few things we're all taught to notice about the Declaration of Independence: the famous preamble, the phrase "all men are created equal," the defiantly large signature of John Hancock. But off to the right of Hancock's name is the cramped signature of a man few Americans have ever heard of. 

His name was Robert Morris, the nation's founding capitalist and the financier of its revolution."

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"From 1781 to 1784, he served as the Superintendent of Finance of the United States, a forerunner to the position of U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. As the central civilian in the government, Morris was, next to General George Washington, "the most powerful man in America." 


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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." 



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