'•Lewis Morris," (continues Mr, Dunlap,) "tells us in the preamble to his will, that his 'mother died when' he 'was about six months old,' and his father not long after, in New York, where he was left an orphan entirely in the hands of strangers, who were appointed by the government to take care of him." He thus lost his parents, (wlio were probably English, avoiding the restoration of kingly government in that country,) when Francis Lovelace was governor of New York, and between the years 1667 and 1673, when the province was again surrendered to the Dutch, and the boy "put by their magistrates into the hands of the trustees, by thern appointed to take care of him, and of what efiects their soldiers had left unplundered ; and after the surrender of New York to the English," by the peace of 1674, his "uncle came to these parts of America, and kindly took care of him, until he came to man's estate."''

In 1676, Lewis Morris, second proprietor of Morrisania, and brother of Richard, obtained the following letters patent :

'' GOVERNOR ANDROS'S PATENT FOR BRONCKS' LAND,

Edmund Andros, Esq., seigneur of Sausmarez, lieut. gov'r gen'i under his royal highness, James, Duke of York, and of all his territories in America, to all to whom these presents shall come, with greeting. Whereas Col. Lewis Morris of the island of Barbadoes hath long enjoyed and by patent stands possest of a certain plantation and tract of land, lying and being upon the maine, over against the town of Haerlem, commonly called Broncks' land, the same containing about five hundred acres, or two hundred and fifty morgen of land, besides the meadow thereunto annexed or adjoinir;g, cotted and bounded as in the original Dutch ground brief and patent of confirmation is sett forth, and the said Col.