While on this service, Captain Lewis Morris purchased a large estate in that island. When the Protector sent forces to attack Hispaniola, under Admirals Penn and Venables, he forwarded a vacant regiment and a colonel's commission to him, with instructions that the forces were to land as directed by Colonel Morris. The failure of the expedition is said to have been owing, in a great measure, to a non-compliance with his directions.^ In the attack upon the Island of Jamaica, Lewis was second in command. On ihe restoration of King Charles the Second, Colonel Morris deemed it prudent not to return to England, where his family had played so bold a part. In 1663, he, with others, purchased the Island of St. Lucia of Araivvatta Baba, chief proprietor of the Carribee Islands. He subsequently emigrated to the province of New York in 1674.

William Morris, who had for his portion Denham, also joined the Parliamentary service, and took an active part against the king, when (through his favorite, the Marquis of Worcester,) he attempted to enclose Wendswood chase, Monmouthshire. Upon the defeat of the popular party, William determined upon a sea voyage, until the storm should have blown over. He was lost at sea. His son John received a captain's commission from the Parliament in 1651. Like his father, he also perished at sea oft" Deal Castle in 1688. His body was found under the walls of the castle, and buried with military honors. His descendants are still numerous in the Island of Barbadoes.