Lieut. Col. Henry Moryson

Francis Moryson (bef. 1628–1680/81) was an English soldier and Virginia colonial official. He was a Royalist in the English Civil War.

Moryson was the son of Sir Richard Moryson and his wife Elizabeth Harrington daughter of Sir Henry Harrington.

Moryson emigrated to Virginia in 1649, surviving a shipwreck en route. He served as Speaker of the Virginia House of Burgesses in 1656, and was on Governor Sir William Berkeley's Council 1660–63. He was named acting governor in Berkeley's absence 1661–62. He returned to his home in Bishop's Waltham, Hampshire in 1663, acting as an English agent for the colony. His last trip to Virginia was in 1677, when he served on a royal commission investigating Bacon's Rebellion.

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Francis Moryson soon after returned to England, and died there not long after [after 1685]. He left a widow Cecilia, sister of Giles Rawlins, and a son Henry, who in 1699 was colonel to the Colstream Foot Guards.

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From Seldens of Virginia and Allied Families, Volume 1 By Mary Selden Kennedy page 24

Major Francis Moryson served in King Charles' Army, came to Virginia in 1649, and was appointed Captain of Point Comfort Fort. He was Speaker of the House of Burgesses, Acting Governor, etc. He returned to England in 1677. His eldest son, Henry, was born in the Parish of Bishop's Waltham, Southhampton County, England, October 21, 1669, and in 1699 was Lieutenant Colonel in Lord Cutt's regiment of Foot Guards.

From Old Records; Wm. & Mary Qtrly, Vol. 9, No. 2.

!28 Dec 1698: Rachel Viscountess Dowager ffaulkland aged sixty yeares or thereabout make the oath yt haveing married wth Harry late Lord ffaulkland who was sonn to one of ye Daughters of Sr. Richard Morryson, She ye said Lady ffaulkland was well acquainted with severall of ye said Sr. Richard Morrysons relacons & has been informed & is well satisfied yt ye said Sr Richard Moryson had five sonnes... . ffrancis ye third Sonn who dyed Leaveing Issue Henry Morryson his Eldest sonn who is now a Lewt. Coll. in ye Lord Cutts Regemt of ffort Guards... & the said Lady ffaulkland ffarther maketh oath that shee is well satisfyed & really believes yt ye Last menconed Henry Morryson is ye only Surviveing heire of ye said Sr. Richard Morryson and of Charles Morryson likewise who dyed at Plymuth as aforesd. Ra : ffaulkland. Jurat 28th die Decembr, 1698. Coram Myles Cooke. Recorded 22d of July 1699 P Cha : Jening s Cl Cur. Old Kecoughtan, Elizabeth City County, VA - Old Records; Wm. & Mary Qtrly, Vol. 9, No. 2.
22 Jul 1699: Edward Morryson gentleman maketh oath yt he this depont being a descendant and relacon of Sr Richard Morryson hath been informed & doth really believe that ye said Sr Richard Morryson had (amongst others) Issue a Sonn called Richard, wch last sd Richard had Issue a sonn called Charles who lately lived in Virginia in parts beyond ye Seas and dyed at Plymuth & this depont further sayth that he is very well acquainted with Lt Coll Henry Morryson in ye Second Regiment of ffort Guards who is eldest Sonn to ffrancis Morryson Esq deed whoe was another of ye sonns of ye said Richard Morryson, and is very well satisfied yt ye said Henry is heire at Law to the said Charles. Edward Morryson. Jurat 24 die Decr 1698 coram Miles Cook Recordd. ye 22th of July 1699. P Chas. Jenings Cl Cur. Old Kecoughtan, Elizabeth City County, VA - Old Records; Wm. & Mary Qtrly, Vol. 9, No. 2.
!21 Oct 1669: These are to Certify Whome it may Concern yt Henry Morryson Sonn of ffrancis Morryson late of Bpps Waltham in ye Countie of South'ton Esq deceased was baptized at Bpps Waltham aforesd ye one & twentieth day of October in ye yeare of our Lord God 1669 as appeares by ye register booke of ye sd Parish of Bpps Waltham. Given under our hands ye 16th day of March 1696 Meredith Reynolds Curate; Robert Harris Clerke of ye said parrish. Wee whose names are herewith Subscribed Inhabitants of the aforesaid parrish of Bpps Waltham doe hereby Certify that ye above written Certificate is true and yt ye above named Henry Morryson is the Eldest son of ye above named ffrancis Morryson and yt ye said ffrancis Morryson is dead Witness our hands ye 16th day of March 1696 James Bleakely, John Horner, James Hampton, John Grapmill. Recordd. ye 22th July 1699 P Cha: Jenings Cl Cur. Old Kecoughtan, Elizabeth City County, VA - Old Records; Wm. & Mary Qtrly, Vol. 9, No. 2.

from page 445 of Tyler's Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine, Volumes 3-4 edited by Lyon Gardiner Tyler

Hard Times at POINT COMFORT. The following occurs in a letter of Anthony Henley, of the Grange, County Southampton, England, father of the Lord High Chancellor, Robert Earl of Northington (1708-1772), to Dean Swift:
“Col. Morrison of the guards (he lives next door to Tart-Hall) his father was in Virginia, and being like to be starved, the company had recourse to a learned master of arts; his name was Venter: he advised them to eat one another pour passer la temps, and to begin with a fat cook-maid. She had certainly gone to pot, had not a ship arrived just in the nick with a quantity of pork, which appeased their hunger, and saved the wench’s bacon.”London Magazine 1766, p. 352.

(Henry Moryson, son of Col. Francis Moryson, was born in the parish of Bishops Waltham, Southampton Co., England, October 21, 1669. In 1699 he was Lieut. Col. of Lord Cutts’ Regiment of Foot Guards. His father, Francis Moryson, son of Sir Richard Moryson, was a cavalier in the army of Charles I, and came to Virginia in 1649, where he was captain of the Fort at Point Comfort and acting governor in the absence of Sir William Berkeley in 161-62.—(William and Mary College Quarterly, IX, 119-122.)

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