The Birkbecks of Westmorland and their descendants . MORRIS BIRKBECK AND HIS WIFE. THE BIRKBECKS OF WESTMORLAND. loi I. Deborah, born 9 December, 1756 ; died unmarried; buried atPlymouth 15 February, 1821. William Birkbeck died 15 September, 1772, and was buried at Settle. MORRIS BIRKBECK of Wanborough, Surrey, eldest son of Williamand Sarah (p. 99), born at Settle 4 November, 1734. He does not appearto have been in the Settle business, but from a letter in the box of papers atSettle before-mentioned, he would seem in 1784 to have been engaged inan insurance business in London, Birkbeck and Bl


The Birkbecks of Westmorland and their descendants . MORRIS BIRKBECK AND HIS WIFE. THE BIRKBECKS OF WESTMORLAND. loi I. Deborah, born 9 December, 1756 ; died unmarried; buried atPlymouth 15 February, 1821. William Birkbeck died 15 September, 1772, and was buried at Settle. MORRIS BIRKBECK of Wanborough, Surrey, eldest son of Williamand Sarah (p. 99), born at Settle 4 November, 1734. He does not appearto have been in the Settle business, but from a letter in the box of papers atSettle before-mentioned, he would seem in 1784 to have been engaged inan insurance business in London, Birkbeck and Blakes. I do not knowwhen he left Settle, but on his second marriage he is described in theFriends Register as late of Settle. In 1773 he was in Americainspecting an estate of 1280 acres near New Garden in North Carolina,which he purchased, but he returned to England in 1774, and later on settledat Wanborough, near Guildford. He married first, 9 July, 1762, at Wray,Lancashire, Hannah Bradford of Lancaster; she died 27 January, 1764,buried at Settle,


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