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Greetings,
I am interested in any additional information on this individual and his family. Their arrival in America, family marriages etc.
Morris's memorial history of Staten Island, New York
Ira K. Morris
Vol 1. p. 342
Haycock, Morris. Born near Willow Brook, Staten Island, in Dec. 24, 1755. He enlisted in the Queen's Rangers and became a Sergeant Major. We find him a prisoner of war at Trenton, New Jersey, in 1779. He was at the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown, Virginia, and went to the province of New Brunswick, in 1783, with the remnant of his regiment, where he was mustered out. He settled in Sunbury County in that province, and was one of the founders of a Church of England parish there. For several years he served as adjutant of the militia regiment of Sunbury County. He was an educated man and became a very useful citizen of his adopted country. He removed to Brier Island about 1799, where he died a few years later. Brier Island is located at the entrance of the Bay of Fundy, in the Province of Nova Scotia, and is an important fishing community. Sergeant Haycock's descendants now reside on that island, where they are fisherman and mariners and are a hardy and courageous people. The family name has become
extinct on Staten Island.
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