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GENERAL INTRODUCTION.

OUR ancestors labored and suffered much for the attainment of the rich blessings which we enjoy. They rest from their labors; they have found,

"Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas."

It is not right in their descendants to allow their names and deeds to perish from the earth. To permit it would be alike unjust to the living and the dead; to those who have gone before us, and those who shall come after us. To prevent such a result is this volume published.

It is a family record.

Its design is to give a history of the family of Morison or Morrison; to preserve its traditions; gather up the fading memorials of its past, and transmit them to those who shall succeed us.

It was not my intention, when I began my investigations, to prepare anything for the press. They were commenced for my own satisfaction, and to furnish some information to Hon. Thomas F. Morrison, of Nova Scotia, in answer to his letter of inquiry, bearing date of January, 1878. Becoming interested in the work, and meeting with a success far beyond my expectations in obtaining information, I decided to continue my researches, and print the result, in order to preserve the information I had gathered with so much trouble and expense. With this object in view, I resolved to prepare a History of Charter James Morison, of Londonderry, N. H., and his descendants, my own branch of the family. In my investigations, I gathered so much valuable matter relating to the other branches, that I determined to give a history of all the descendants of John

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