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Charles Morris (surveyor general)

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Charles Morris
Charles Morris in Regency Era attire[1]
Surveyor General
In office
1748–1781
MonarchGeorge III
Succeeded byCharles Morris (1731–1802)
Chief Justice of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court
In office
1776–1778
Preceded byJonathan Belcher (jurist)
Succeeded byBryan Finucane
Personal details
Born(1711-06-08)8 June 1711
Boston, Massachusetts
Died4 November 1781(1781-11-04) (aged 70)
Windsor, Nova Scotia
RelationsCharles Morris (1731–1802), son; Charles Morris (1759–1831), grandson
Charles Morris St. Paul's Church (Halifax), Nova Scotia
Chaining Pin and Plaque marking original Charles Morris House Location, VIC Suites on Hollis & Morris Streets, Halifax, Nova Scotia[2]

Charles Morris (8 June 1711 – buried 4 November 1781) army officer, served on the Nova Scotia Council, Chief Justice of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court (1776–1778) and, the surveyor general for over 32 years, he created some of the first British maps of Canada's maritime region and designed the layout of Halifax, Lunenburg, Lawrencetown, and Liverpool.[3] In Halifax he laid out both the present-day down town core and the Halifax Common.

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History

He was born in Boston and when he first came to the colony he fought in the Battle of Grand Pré. 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.

He was named to the Council 30 December 1755, and did not directly participate in the expulsion decision that July.[4]

He fought for and won the establishment of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly (1758). Morris was instrumental in establishing New England Planters in the colony.

As chief justice, his most famous trial was of those who participated in the Eddy Rebellion (1776) at the outbreak of the American Revolution.

Publications

Site of First Court House Plaque, Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society, Scotia Square, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Charles Morris map. A CHART OF THE SEA COASTS OF THE PENINSULA OF NOVA SCOTIA, 1755

Legacy

See also

References

Endnotes

  1. ^ This image is not contemporaneous. Given the era of the clothing, the clothing may be simply a mistake by the artist or the image is actually of Charles Morris III, who lived during the Regency Era.
  2. ^ "Charles Morris Plaque Unveiling". snapd Halifax - Community Events Media. Archived from the original on 6 March 2016.
  3. ^ Morris was preceded in his mapping by Nathaniel Blackmore's work of 1711 & 1712, published by Herman Moll, Geographer, of London. Morris may have been the first observer/surveyor to produce and publish his own maps of the region. Like Blackmore, Morris surveyed portions of the region and then combined his work with information from other mapmakers' maps to produce his larger regional maps.
  4. ^ Blakeley, Phyllis R. (1979). "Morris, Charles (1711-81)". In Halpenny, Francess G (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. IV (1771–1800) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
  5. ^ "Researchers Identify Morris Building as Halifax's Oldest Wooden House". St. Mary's University. 19 June 2012. Archived from the original on 19 August 2012. Retrieved 7 August 2021.

Texts

Government offices
New office Surveyor General of Nova Scotia
1748–1781
Succeeded by
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