Morris, Staats Long
(1728–1800)
- Stuart Reid
Extract
Morris, Staats Long (1728–1800), army officer, was born in New York on 27 August 1728, a younger son of Lewis Morris (d. 1762) of Morrisiana, New York, a judge of admiralty court and prominent landowner in the colony, and his wife, Tryntie (or Catherine) Staats...