Notes for Morris HETFIELD

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Notes for Morris HETFIELD

See NJ Supreme Court Case # 16076 between Morris Hetfield, plaintiff, and Robert Forrest, defendant, 1787 - also see three other SC cases that Mr. Hetfield was involved in!
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Morris and Abigail Hetfield lived in the old homestead of the Hetfield family. He recorded his birthdate along with most of his brothers and sisters in the ledger kept for Graham's Tavern, which he ran after the death of his mother-in-law's second husband William Graham.
"He came into the possession of the old homestead of his father John largely due to the fact that his brothers were interested on the Loyalist side.
Morris was active on the patriotic side. In a letter from Robert Ogden to Francis Barber, October 6, 1776, it says "Major Morris Hetfield was taken
prisoner on Montresor's Island and is sent down to New York to be cured of his wounds as he was shot through the cheeks. It is said Maj. Hetfield fought valiently, that he fired his musket 9 times and the last account of him by our men was a Grenadier was coming up to him with a bayonet fixed to run him through and they saw the mayor fire, and the Grenadier drop at his feet".
(Hatfield's History of Elizabeth, p. 44 also Descendants of Matthais Hetfield, p. 84).
Morris became landlord of "Sign of the Unicorn", his mother-in-law's inn at Elizabethtown in 1787 or 1788. In April 1789 he changed the sign to "Sign of the Two Lions". His mother-in-law having married a third time in 1791 she took over the inn and he with David Dunham established a ferry to New York which he operated with his son (Descendants of Matthais Hetfield, p. 84).

The family vault is located in St. John's Churchyard in Elizabeth, Union Co., NJ.

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