Sir Nicholas Morris, Sr.

Parents unknown. Colonial Settlers has his wife as Martha Newman.

Nicholas Morris was a Sea Captain. He first settled in James Citti County in 1639. Shortly thereafter Col. John Mottrom arrived and they left and settled what was then Coan, Coan River, Coan Mill, Coan Warf, Coan Hall, and in 1645 Colony of Chickawane, to later be called Northumberland County, Virginia. In 1652 Lancaster County, Virginia was cut off from Northumberland, but the present line was established in 1673. In 1653 Westmoreland County was laid off from Northumberland, extending from the Machoactoke River were "Dick Cole lives and the Falls of the Potomac River" where Georgetown is now located in the District of Columbia. In 1692 part of Richmond County was cut off from Westmoreland, Old Rappahannock and present Essex Counties, Virginia. The Nicholas Morris family did not move just County Lines.

Nicholas Morris owned land on the Great Wicomico River before 1651. His near neighbor and associate was John Mottram, an English Protestant who had frequent visitors among those who had been banished from the colony of Maryland.

Nicholas and his wife, Martha (poss.Mottram) were living in the Virginia Colony by 1641, and first lived on land leased from John Upton. By April 1652, Nicholas was well-established in Northumberland County and was appointed a justice along with John Haynie.

Will probabted, in Virginia, data from familysearch.com per Ancestral File, ver. 4.19. According to Tidewater Virginia Families by Virginia Lee Hutcheson Davis, his will was presented in court in Northumberland Co.,VA on 20 Jan 1664, so he had to have died previous to that. He left his son, Anthony Morris, the plantation on which he lived, containing 550 acres and his wife, the land called “ye Island, being 506 acres”. He also bequeathed to his daughter, Jane (Morris) Haynie, one cow and to each of his three grandchildren, Martha, Elizabeth and Richard Haynie, one yearling heifer.

Martha, widow of Nicholas Morris, later married Thomas Lane, a wealthy land owner of Northumberland Co. She signed her Morris inheritance over to her son, Anthony, on 15 July 1665.
Children:

1. Thomas Morris
2. John Morris
3. George Morris
4. Abraham Morris
5. Mary Morris
6. Elizabeth Morris
7. Edward Morris b. Bet. 1626 – 1652
8. Nickolas Morris b. Bet. 1626 – 1652
9. William Morris b. Bet. 1628 – 1642
10. Jane Morris b. About. 1630 in VA
11. Anthony Morris b. 1645 in Northumberland Co., VA m.Dorothy Samford (Wife) Marriage: 1665

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