Morris Liston

1637 - 1708  (71 years)

• Name	Morris Liston
  Birth	1637	Letterkenny, County Donegal, Ireland
  Gender	Male
  Death	15 Feb 1708
  Burial	Old Burying Grounds, Liston Property, New Castle, New Castle, Delaware, United States
  Person ID	I1139	The Road to Here
  Last Modified	20 Nov 2025

  
  

  Father	Rev. William Listoun,   b. 1595, Kirkliston, Midlothian Scotland d. 1695, Letterkenny, County Donegal, Ireland (Age 100 years)
  Mother	Sara Hay,   b. 1595, Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom d. 1665, Scotland, United Kingdom (Age 70 years)
  Marriage	9 Jun 1635	Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
  Family ID	F8762	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Jane Milcome,   b. 1668, Loughgall, County Armagh, Ireland d. 16 Jan 1711 (Age 43 years)
  Marriage	8 Jun 1685	Bucks County, Province of Pennsylvania   [1]
  Children	1. Edmund Liston,   b. 2 May 1694, Ducks Creek, New Castle County, Delaware d. 7 Jun 1757, Appoquiniment Hundred, New Castle, Delaware (Age 63 years)   2. Liston,   b. Abt 1699, Duck Creek, New Castle, Delaware d. Yes, date unknown   3. Sarah Liston,   b. 1680, Duck Creek MM, Smyrna, Kent County, Delaware, British Colonial America d. Abt 1710, Augusta County, Virginia Colony (Age 30 years)   4. Jean Liston,   b. 28 Mar 1700, Duck Creek, New Castle, Delaware d. Yes, date unknown   5. Morris Liston, Jr.,   b. 19 Jan 1698, Duck Creek, New Castle, Delaware d. 1780, New Castle, New Castle, Delaware (Age 81 years)   6. Thomas Liston,   b. Abt 1698, Duck Creek, New Castle, Delaware d. Yes, date unknown   7. Sarah Liston,   b. 10 Feb 1692, New Castle, Delaware d. 1710, Augusta, Virginia (Age 17 years)   8. Patrick Liston,   b. 17 Oct 1690, Duck Creek, New Castle, Delaware d. Yes, date unknown   9. Janet Liston,   b. 19 May 1688, Duck Creek, New Castle, Delaware d. Yes, date unknown   10. John Liston,   b. Abt 1686, Middletown MM, Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States d. Between 1709 and 1712 (Age 23 years)
  Family ID	F366	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 Nov 2025

  
  

• Notes

  http://genforum.genealogy.com/liston/messages/353.html --- Morris Liston and Jane Milcome Greaves ? First Generation Morris Liston imigrated from England in 1665. In the Maryland State Archives, Liber EE, fo: 218 it reads: On the backside of a warrant for three hundred and fifty acres of land for Raymond Staplefort date the sixth of June one thousand Six hundred Sixty five is this assignm. I assign over to Mr. Morris Liston two Rights of this warrant as witness my hand September the tenth Pocomoke one thousand Six hundred Sixty an five. Signed Raymond Staplefort. Morris Liston Enters his own Right proved before us the Subscribers in Common forme the Tenth of January one thousand Six hundred Sixty five. Signed Steven Horsi, William Stevens. Morris Liston is listed as registering a cattle mark in Somerset County, Maryland in 1665. He is listed with wife Winnefret as having a land patent in Pokomoke, Accomac County Virginia and is listed on the tax lists of that county 1669-1671. Records in the Library of Virginia Land Patents list 3 separate 600 acre plots being ?land that was formerly owned by Morris Liston?. A September 11, 1672 record in Pokomoke, Maryland shows the birth of Amy Liston, daughter of Morris Liston and Winnefred his wife. Morris moved to New Castle County, Delaware before 1675. His name can be found in the Duke of York Record 1646-1679, confirming a land patent on November 5, 1675 for a tract of land on Cedar Creeke in Delaware. Morris? Will was proved in New Castle Co., Delaware, February 15, 1708/09. Morris and Jane Milcome Greaves were Quakers. Their marriage was recorded in the Bucks County Quaker Minutes, Province of Pennsylvania June 8, 1685. Jane Greaves, of Armagh, Ireland, arrived in Bucks Co., Pennsylvania in 1682 on the ship, Antelope, with her mother, Ann Milcome, and two sisters, Mary & Grace. Jane Liston?s Will was proved January 16, 1711/12. Children of Morris Liston and Jane Milcome Greaves are: 1 - Female Liston, born ca 1686, married Russell: children Rachel & Ruth Russell mentioned in Morris? & Jane?s Wills 2 ? Jane Liston ,born ca 1688 Per the memorandum to her mother?s will, Daniel Blowitt was to build a house for her. 3 - John Liston, born ca 1690, was named first son in Morris? Will and given the plantation that his father lives on. Per Deed Book X, Vol. 1, pages 297-300, dated 10 December 1764, the witness to the Liston deed is John Liston and Elizabeth his wife (this John, aged 74, or this John?s son?). A John Liston is listed on the 1787 Taxables for Appoquinimink Hundred. 4 - Edmund Liston born 1694

  
  

• Sources

  [S188] Bucks County Quaker Minutes, Province of Pennsylvania.