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 1760 - 1818 (58 years)
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| Name |
Lewis Mory |
| Birth |
1760 |
Rhode Island  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
Aug 1818 |
Camden Co, GA |
| Burial |
Camden Co, GA |
| Person ID |
I243 |
Georgia Revolutionary War Graves |
| Last Modified |
4 Oct 2015 |
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| Notes |
- Lewis Mory was born in Kingston, Rhode Island, and enlisted in the Continental Navy in 1778. After the Revolutionary War, Lewis Mory became the owner and master of several vessels in Philadelphia during the next three decades. Voyage accounts in newspapers report journeys to France, Cuba, South America, Caribbean, Island of Maderia and Africa. His cargoes included flour, brandy, rum, Maderia wine, sugar and bar iron.
ON June 25, 1793, the brig Susannah and Captain Mory were captured by the British privateer Fanny, near St. Bartholomew?s on the return voyage from Bordeaux, and the French cargo was removed by the British privateer.
Reportedly, he was captain of the ship, William Henry, which sailed to St. Croix in December 1817. The ship then carried General ?Lighthorse Harry? Lee to General Nathanael Green?s Dungeness estate on Cumberland Island to recuperate from injuries.
Mory returned later that year to visit an old friend and fellow midshipman on the Confederacy, Amos Latham, keeper of the Cumberland Island lighthouse. Mory became ill on the voyage, was cared for by Latham, but died in St. Marys in August 1818, at age fifty eight years, and was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery. On his tombstone at Oak Grove, he is listed as ?Captain Lewis Mory of Philadelphia? in recognition of his reputation with merchant vessels and the fact that he was not a resident in St. Marys.
- Elizabeth Bucks was born 1768 in Philadelphia; married on December 10, 1789 in Philadelphia; and died October 2, 1847, and buried in the Old St. Paul?s Episcopal Church Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Since Lewis Mory left his wife his entire estate, it is assumed they had no children. Elizabeth Mory applied for a Revolutionary War Widows Pension on April 26, 1839.
- Lewis Mory enlisted in the Continental Navy in 1778, and became a midshipman on the frigate, Confederacy along with his brother Robert, a shipwright. In 1779, the ship sailed for Philadelphia where he contracted smallpox, but soon recovered. The ship was assigned convoy duty and captured three prizes, and drove off two British frigates. In 1781, when returning from a trip to France and Spain, the Confederacy was captured by two British ships, and Lewis Mory was confined on the prison ship, Jersey, in the New York harbor for about nine months.
- SAR Ancestor #P-334279
- Sources
1-- Oak Grove Cemetery, --Kay Westberry page 121-122 ? page 107-
2-- Lewis Mory?s Will prepared 2 October 1810;
3-- Obituaries: The location of his death is confirmed by a mortuary notice in the Albany (NY) Gazette of 12 September 1818. And in the Columbian Centennial in Boston, Massachusetts, ? Sept 5. 1818 issue-
4-- Georgia Revolutionary Soldiers & Sailors, Patriots & Pioneers, Vol. 2, Ross Arnold and Hank Burnham; page 72 ? Lewis Mory is not listed in the book, but a Lewis Massey is listed with Mory?s DOB & DOD, and states that Massey later became a sea captain.
5- Continental Navy.Com article about his extensive maritime activities-
6- Pension W- 3286
7-- White, Virgil D., Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Files- Lewis Mory or Morey, Navy (PA)
- Grave marked by Marshes of Glynn Chapter 12 Sep 2015
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