Death and Legacy
In 1816, Morris died after sticking a piece of whale bone through his urinary tract to relieve a blockage. He died at the family estate, Morrisania, and was buried at St. Ann's Church in the The Bronx.
Morris also established himself as an important landowner in northern New York, where the Town of Gouverneur and Village of Gouverneur in St. Lawrence County are named for him.
In 1943, a United States liberty ship named the SS Gouverneur Morris was launched. She was scrapped in 1974.
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