Charles Morris (1711 - 1781)

Born 8 Jun 1711 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died Nov 1781 at age 70 in Windsor, Hants, Nova Scotia, Canada

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Biography

Charles Morris is Notable.

Charles was born in 1711. He passed away in 1781.

Charles Morris: army officer, Surveyor-General Nova Scotia, served on the Nova Scotia Council, Chief Justice of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court (1776–1778). He was born 8 June 1711 in Boston, Massachusetts, eldest son of Charles Morris, a prosperous sailmaker, and Esther Rainsthorpe. He married about 1731 Mary, daughter of John Read, attorney general of Massachusetts, and they had 11 children. Charles Morris died 1781, buried at Windsor, Nova Scotia. [Crathorne has died 17 November; however Blakeley has buried 4 November]

His Biography is in Dictionary of Canadian Biography: Dictionary of Canadian Biography

Children, b. Hopkinton, Mass.:

1. William
2. Hezekiah
3. Mary
4. Alexander
5. Francis
6. Samuel
7. James

Interesting history about his house / office in Halifax, as one of the oldest wooden residences. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_House_(Halifax,_Nova_Scotia)

Sources

• Ethel Crathorne, “The Morris family – surveyors-general,” Nova Scotia Hist. Quarterly (Halifax), 6 (1976): 207–16.
• Phyllis R. Blakeley, “MORRIS, CHARLES (1711-81),” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 4, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed June 1, 2020, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/morris_charles_1711_81_4E.html
• Bourinot, John George. Builders of Nova Scotia; a historical review, with an appendix containing copies of rare documents relating to the early days of the province, by Sir John G. Bourinot, Copp-Clark Co, Toronto, 1900, pp.13, 16, 130. The illustration opposite page 16 has the caption: 'Hon. Charles Morris, First Surveyor-General. From a portrait in possession of Mrs. Morris of Halifax, widow of the great grandson of the first surveyor-general of Nova Scotia'. https://www.ancestry.com.au/interactive/34704/40617_106158-00004?backurl=&ssrc=&backlabel=Return#?imageId=40617_106158-00019
• http://www.blupete.com/Hist/BiosNS/1700-63/Morris.htm
• Wikipedia: Charles_Morris_(surveyor_general)
• The Reade Record (Reade Historical & Genealogical Assoc., Old State House, Boston, Massachusetts, 1912) no. 5, Page 4.

• "They lived some fifteen years at Hopkinton, Mass. and removed to Halifax, N.S., where he became Chief Justice; seven children..."