I have always had close family ties, and I hold dear the times we have spent together. As the years pass some of our ancestors are no longer with us, and our memories of them fade, and I often wonder what will be remembered about them and what their lives will signify to future generations. About the year 1988, a few years after my fathers death, I started recording some of the past events of my immediate family. My hope was that we could all share the memories and relive the wonderful times we had experienced while growing up. This was the start of my endeavor to help preserve those precious moments of our lives.

According to my grandfather, Wallace Webster Morrison, there was a book which was passed down for generations, and contained the genealogy of the Morrison Family. Unfortunately he did not know what became of this book. Due to the fact that he left Nova Scotia as a very young boy, and he did not return there to visit any family members, he had no ties with the Nova Scotia descendants, and the history of the family was very much obscured from him. Many years ago my father, Wallace Bruce Morrison set out to find this book, but with responsibilities of a family to look after, the job of researching the family ancestry was left uncompleted. The desire to find links to the past has been passed along, and I decided to set out to try and determine if such a book was truly in existence and who our forbearers were.

There have been many people who have helped me in my efforts to trace the lives of past generations, but I must give special thanks to Delphine Ann Morrison Tombs who has provided me with the information I needed to start locating my ancestors. After months of research I eventually traced my ancestry back to Economy, Nova Scotia, and I was able to locate the book that my grandfather described, entitled "The History of the Morison or Morrison Family" written by Leonard A. Morrison and published in Boston Massachusetts in the year 1880. It is an excellent record of the past, and an invaluable source of information. Leonard Morrison has provided us a record of our past that, without his dedication and effort to preserve, would have been lost forever.

In consideration of the amount of information I have collected, and in reviewing the size of the family, and overall amount of work involved, I have decided to limit the scope work, and dedicate my efforts towards outlining the Morrison's who are descended from Captain John Morrison who emigrated to Colchester Co. in 1760, of whom I am a direct descendant. I have included many references of the work contained in the book written by Leonard Morrison as well as other literary works in the attempt to glean a better perspective of the family. In order to distinguish the first three John's apart from each other, since they all bear the same name, I will refer to them as John, "Charter" John, and "Captain" John for the first, second and third generations respectively.

The information presented here has been gathered from many sources. This information can be used to form an understanding of events, to formulate perceptions of the personalities of these individuals, and to gain an appreciation for what their efforts have accomplished.

With all genealogical work, there is potential for error, and at times much ambiguity in the reporting of precise dates. I have attempted to be as accurate as possible and I have recorded the dates which appear to be the most reliable. I have included the names of the first three generations of direct ancestors for reference only, as they have been well described in the book authored by Leonard A. Morrison. I have started numbering the generations beginning with the oldest ancestor, the original John Morrison who migrated from the vicinity of Aberdeen, Scotland to the North of Ireland.

Although the spelling of the name Morrison was invariably spelled with one or two r's in the first three generations, all succeeding generations descended from Captain John Morrison are spelled with two r's. This is in contrast to the Peterborough N.H. branch of descendants, who have adopted the one r version of the name.

I have tried to include as many references as possible. This is especially true in cases where there is conflicting information, such as in the spelling of an individuals name, or the dates relating to vital statistics. The dates that I have reported are the ones that I think are the most reliable, based on the reliability of the source. As in any genealogical work, there will inevitably be errors, especially when primary sources are not available to support the information provided. In the case where one source provides information for more than one entry, only the principal entry in the family group may contain a reference to the source.