I represent John Morison. I was a resident of Pensacola during the British period. I was a barrister, or attorney at law for the Crown, employed by General John Campbell. I defended military officers accused of crimes. In my 1782 claim to the Crown for losses, I told my story: I had practiced law in West Florida for 10 years When the Spanish came, I had to abandon my home with my wife, who had died three years earlier, and my five children ranging in age from 5 to 14. I went from Pensacola to Havana and from there to New York (this was the path many of the survivors of Pensacola took as prisoners of war under parole). On the way from New York to Britain I was shipwrecked at Padstow, Cornwall. I lost everything, ” including a manuscript history of West Florida, the product of several years’ hard work which [I] had intended to publish in England.” Claim 1782. 66: “upwards” of ten years. “hath constantly been employed by Lt. Gen. Gampbell from the tiem of his arrival [in WF] to the surrender of theplace, as counsel on behalf of the Crown, in Defence of such officers under his command both in the civil and military branches, who were litigiously prosecuted by enemies to his Majesty’s service and government. Note that a John Morison appears in 1820 Spanish census of the Escambia River. As my claim said I intended to go to Nova Scotia with my children (and many other British refugees), this may not be me.
Sources: 5, 7, 32, 65, 66