by the Presbytery of Baltimore to represent them in the General Assembly which sat at Cleveland, O. In 1876, he resigned his charge of the Bethel church to assume that of the Grove church, Harford County. From 1860 until the present time, Mr. Morrison has been prominently identified with the questions that affect the integrity of the Presbyterian church. His father, George Morrison, was a Presbyterian minister who from 1822 to 1837 preached in Baltimore and Harford Counties. He was an accomplished classical teacher, his reputation as such extending throughout the State. His wife, the mother of George Morrison the younger, was Eliza Millington Lovell. The grandfather of the subject of this sketch was Douglass Morrison, who died at his farm near Whiteclay Creek Presbyterian church in New Castle Co., Del. He was an elder in that church, as were his father and grandfather. Several generations of the Morrison family, from 1711, are interred in the cemetery of the above church. Mr. Morrison's maternal grandfather was William Lovell, from London, who settled in Baltimore in the early part of the present century. In August of 1856, Mr. Morrison was married by the Rev. Dr. Robert J. Breckinridge, to his daughter, Sally Campbell Breckinridge, at Braedalbane, near Lexington, Ky. She dying in 1865, he married the second time, February, 1875, Maggie Regester, daughter of Joshua Regester, of Baltimore. Mr. Morrison is a gentleman of great force of character and marked individuality, and is one of the ablest ministers in the Presbyterian church."

The issue of the twin children of the above Douglass and Elizabeth (Wilson) Morrison were,

b

SEVENTH GENERATION.

Second child, Catherine, who was b. 1800; m. Mr. Kelly, a farmer of
New Castle Co., Del.

1. George D. Kelly, b. 1822; d. 1837, age 15 yrs.

2. Samuel, b. 1825; d. 1873, aged 48 yrs. He was a farmer and merchant of Wilmington. He left one son, George Douglass Kelly, who is a farmer of New Castle Co. His wife is a Clarke of same county, and they have two children, minors.

3. Elizabeth, b. 1828; m. Mr. Higgins; d. 1869, and left seven children, one of whom, Maggie, is m. to Mr. J. Moore, a farmer of New Castle Co., Del.

4.

John Kelly, b. 1837; has four sons, minors.

5. Annie, b. 1838; m. to Robert Taylor, and has seven children, one of whom is m. to Mr. John Welch, and has one child, a minor.

C ANNIE MORRISON, twin sister, who died in 1879; married George Madill, of Del., brother to William Madill, for two terms governor of Ohio. The issue were,

1. George Douglass Madill, a farmer at Whiteclay Creek farm. He is an elder in the Whiteclay Creek Presbyterian church. He has five children, minors.

2. William Madill, of Lancaster, O. He is a farmer, and heir by law of the estate of his uncle, Governor Madill. He has five children, minors.

d Matilda, born 1805; she married Mr. William Hawthorne, a farmer of Delaware, and a Presbyterian elder. The issue of this marriage was:

1. Wm. M., b. 1834; a farmer, with three children.
2. George Morrison, b. 1840; two children, deceased.

3.

Dr. Columbus Henry, b. 1844, after the second marriage of his mother to Captain Henry, of Delaware. Dr. Henry has two children, and is a large and successful practitioner of medicine in Newark, Del.

4. Dr. Charles Henry, aged 31; unmarried.

e David, born 1808; a farmer of New Castle Co., aged 72. His children are,

1. Douglass Morrison, b. 1836; unmarried.

2.

James C. Morrison, b. 1839; married, but no issue.

f Elizabeth McCoy, born 1815; married to Mr. James McCoy, of New Castle Co., Del. The issue of this marriage are,

1. Rev. John McCoy, b. 1839; twice married; pres. wife a Miss Grove, of Baltimore, by whom one child. Mr. McCoy, in Delaware, Baltimore, and now as pastor of the Presb. church at Columbia, Pa., is an able and successful preacher of the Gospel. He is a graduate of Jefferson College and of Princeton Theo. Seminary. 2. David; has two children.

3.

4.

Douglass Morrison; unmarried.

William; unmarried.

5. Jas. Franklin; unmarried.

CHAPTER XX.

HISTORY OF ERSKINE MORRISON'S BRANCH OF THE CLAN MHIC-GHILLEMHUIRE. EARLIEST MENTION OF MHOIR, MHUIR, MHOR, OR MORE, THE ORIGINAL OF MORESON. · EXPLANATION OF THE ORIGIN OF "THREE MOORS' HEADS" IN THE ARMS AND CREST OF THE MORISONS. - - MORRISONS OF CAPE BRETON.

"IN or about the year 1715, Andrew Morrison, who had, it was said, taken part in The Rising of Fifteen,' as it was called in the Highlands, came over from Aberdeenshire, Scotland, where he resided, passing through the Lewis, which he regarded as the cradle of his race, and settled in the north of Ireland, thus avoiding the unpleasant consequences of having taken part in that affair.

"He came to Callagary, Tyrone Co., Ireland, and there married a Miss Hamilton, the descendants of whose family have since held seats in the House of Commons up to the year 1879. A sister of this Miss Hamilton married a Colonel Archdall, who was an ancestor of the present Archdalls of Fermanagh in Ireland. This Colonel Archdall entered into a lawsuit with his brother-in-law, Andrew Morrison, for some property about which there was a dispute between the two sisters. The decision of the court being in favor of Mr. Morrison, an appeal was made, and again was the decision given in favor of the latter. Another appeal was then made, and once more Morrison gained a victory over his brother-in-law; but the cost of these three lawsuits was so enormous, that the leading lawyer of the winning side, who was not an honest man, charged the estate with such a heavy bill to defray expenses, that it was sold, and the sale financially ruined Mr. Morrison. He was a man of very violent temper, as was proved by the fact that he once struck a man in court, and when asked his reason for doing so, replied, My Lord, he trod on my corns. At another time he knocked a man down in the street for attempting to take the wall side of him.

"He was a gentleman by birth, education, and profession, which latter was that of arms. The branch of the Hamiltons to which his wife belonged, at that time took its place amongst the aristocracy of the kingdom, and indeed retains the same in the present day. The property which came into his possession in the north of Ireland, and which he afterwards lost, is now, or