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The Morris Family: New Jersey's Founding Family
A Presentation by Rick Geffken

Tuesday, May 5th at 8pm. Location: Your homes!
We cannot have our usual Public Presentations at Bahrs so we have decided to entertain and inform you via Zoom! To join this Zoom meeting, you should
so we can send you an email with a private Zoom log-in link. On Tuesday, just before 8pm, click on the link and wait for the host to check you in.
The Presentation by Rik Geffken: Morristown, Morris Plains, and Morris County are just the most obvious reminders of this influential and ubiquitous New Jersey family. From Governor Lewis Morris, our first Colonial head of the state (1738), to his grandson, Gouverneur Morris, who wrote the Preamble to the United States Constitution, the family’s legacy in New Jersey and New York is rivaled by no others


The presentation will explore where the Morris family came from, where they settled in New Jersey (Monmouth County’s Tinton Falls) and New York, what they did, and why they are so little remembered today.

Rick Geffken, a popular speaker on historical topics, lives on land once owned by the Morris family and reveals little-known facts about the family and their New Jersey connections.

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Navesink Maritime Heritage Association
Navesink Maritime Heritage Association is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving knowledge and appreciation of Monmouth County's maritime heritage through programs that teach wooden boat building and the boat handling skills; through preserving the history of Monmouth County's wooden boat builders and rich maritime history; and through experiential on-the-water programs of River Rangers for middle school children and Sea Scout Ship Navesink for coed youth age 14-21. 
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