Background
He was born in Boston and when he first came to the colony he fought in the Battle of Grand Pre.
He was born in Boston and when he first came to the colony he fought in the Battle of Grand Pre.
In Halifax he laid out both the present-day down town core and the Halifax Commons. The maps he produced and information he gathered about the disposition of Acadians villages during his surveying of the colony was later used by the Military authority in Halifax to initiate the Expulsion of the Acadians during the French and Indian War. Morris was instrumental in establishing New England Planters in the colony.
As chief justice, his most famous trail was of those who participated in the Eddy Rebellion (1776) at the outbreak of the American Revolution.
Namesake of Morris Street, Halifax.