06/17/2026
WARSAW’S SOLDIERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION - SOLOMON MORRIS
THE HISTORIC TIES THAT BIND WARSAW’S EARLIEST FAMILIES FOR GENERATIONS
On Saturday, June 20th at 1 p.m. the Warsaw Historical Society will hold a one-hour dedication ceremony honoring Warsaw’s veterans of the American Revolution. A granite monument bearing the names of 17 veterans will be unveiled at 1 p.m. on West Buffalo Street, across from Silver Lake Restaurant.
Featured speaker Mark Herman will briefly address “Why we celebrate 1776 and our Revolutionary soldiers.
Immediately thereafter at 2:15 refreshments will be served at the nearby Gates House Museum (15 Perry Avenue).
Solomon Morris Senior 1755 – 1840
Solomon Morris’ remarkable story traces his and his family’s journey from colonial Connecticut after the Revolutionary War, to the land which would be named Warsaw in 1808. Senior Morris’ legacy produced a long line of descendants who helped build Warsaw and left a remaining symbol of his family’s connections with Warsaw.
Solomon Morris, Sr. was born in 1755 in Wallingford, then a hamlet in the British colony of Connecticut. After the outbreak of the Revolutionary War in 1775, he enlisted in Connecticut’s 10th Regiment Militia. By April 1778, he was serving in the 15th Company under Captain Robert Martin and Lieutenant Reuben Royce. Although few records survive describing the company’s exact activities, their state-mandated duties included maintaining local security, guarding against Loyalist activity, and supporting the Continental Army when called.
After the Revolutionary War ended in 1783, Solomon Morris Sr. and his family at some point moved from Connecticut to Hampton in Washington County, New York.
At age 49 Solomon’s family included seven adult children. During the years between 1804 and 1808 the family moved to Warsaw. Morris and his four adult sons had acquired lots within Elizur Webster’s 1803 purchase of what would be about 3,000 acres from the Holland Office.
Morris Senior and his son, purchased in 1803 adjoining lots comprising about 349 acres in what would become today’s South Warsaw. Solomon Morris Jr., built in 1822 a substantial brick home on lot 27 that would become the Morris Family homestead for generations of descendants.
Morris Senior and his wife Keziah Moss had 12 children, five of whom died before reaching adulthood. Senior died in 1840 at the age of 85 and is buried with his wife in the Warsaw Pioneer Cemetery. Solomon Morris Jr., died in 1839 at the age of 52 and is buried in the Warsaw Cemetery. Both passed less than two years before Wyoming County was formed from the southern half of Genesee County in 1841.
Pictured is the family’s brick, Federal Style home with the date 1822 inscribed above the front door. Built with heavy timber framing, the house is joined with wooden pegs. The bricks used in its construction were handmade on the property.
Located about 1.5 miles South from the stoplight in downtown, the home remained in the family until the 1960’s.
