State Long Morris

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State Long Morris, around 1750

State Long Morris (also State Long Morris , born August 27, 1728 in Morrisiana, New York City , † January 28, 1800 in Québec ) was a British-American colonist , and British general and politician.

Life

He was the second-born son of Lewis Morris (1698–1762), landlord of Morrisiana in what is now Bronx County in New York City, from his first marriage to the Katrintje Staats (1697–1731) from a Dutch family.

He studied at Yale College and joined the British Army as a lieutenant in the New York Provincial Regiment in 1748 , was promoted to captain-lieutenant in 1751 and became captain of the 50th Regiment of Foot in 1755 . In March 1756 he married Lady Catherine Gordon (1718-1779), widow of Cosmo Gordon, 3rd Duke of Gordon (1720-1752) and daughter of William Gordon, 2nd Earl of Aberdeen . He was thereby stepfather of the underage Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon (1743-1827). In May 1756 he moved with the rank of captain to the 36th (Herefordshire) Regiment of Foot , which was stationed near the residence of his wife in Scotland . On the occasion of the Seven Years' War he prepared a new infantry regiment at his own expense, the 89th (Highland) Regiment of Foot , which he recruited from the lands of the Dukes of Gordon in Aberdeenshire and Banffshire and was promoted to lieutenant colonel . The regiment was deployed in India from 1760 , where Morris took part in the siege and conquest of the French city ​​fortress Puducherry in 1761 . In July 1763 he was promoted to Brigadier General .

In 1769 he acquired large estates at Otsego Lake in the province of New York and at Morristown in New Jersey . From 1774 to 1784 he was an MP for Elgin in the British House of Commons . He was promoted to major-general in 1777 and in 1778 appointed commander of the 61st Regiment of Foot , which was then stationed in Menorca . After his first wife died in 1779, he married Jane Urquhart (1749-1801), daughter of John Urquhart of Craigston, in December 1780, his second marriage .

During the American War of Independence he stood in opposition to his two brothers Lewis Morris (1726–1798) and Richard Morris (1730–1800), as well as his half-brother Governor Morris (1752–1816), who were all politicians on the side of the rebels , on the side of the loyalists . His regiment had to withdraw to England in 1781 after Menorca was conquered by the Spanish and French allied with the rebels . It was then used as a garrison in Ireland and later in the West Indies from 1783 to 1792 . After the War of Independence, he sold his lands in the United States in 1785 and 1790 .

In 1796 he was promoted to general and in 1797 appointed governor of the garrison of Quebec City in Lower Canada . He died in Quebec in 1800 at the age of 71. He left no children. His body was transferred to London and buried in Westminster Abbey .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ London Gazette . No. 14074, HMSO, London, December 16, 1797, p. 1202 ( PDF , English).

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personal data
SURNAME Morris, State Long
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Morris, Long State
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British colonist and general
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1728
PLACE OF BIRTH Morrisiana, New York City
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1800
Place of death Quebec City