= "He was one of the Council in that province, and a judge of the supreme court there in lfi92. Upon the surrender of the government to Queen Anne, m 1702, he was named to be governor of the colony; but the appointment was changed in favor of Lord Cornbury, the Queen's cousin." " Within the limits of Shrewsbury, (says Mr. Whitehead,) Col. Lewis Morris had extensive iron works, employing si.xty or seventy negroes, in addition to white servants and dependants." " The land (3540 acres) was granted to him, Oct. 25, 1676. Full liberty was given to him and his associates " to dig, delve, and carry away all such mines for iron as they shall find or see fit to dig and carry away to the iron works, or that shall be found in that tract of land that lies inclosed between the southeast branch of the Raritan River and the whale pond on the sea-side, and is bounded from thence by the sea and branch of the river, to the eastward, to the Raritan river, he or they paying all such just damages to the owners of the land where they shall dig mines as shall be judged is done by trespass of cattle or otherwise sustained by the carting and carrying of the said mine to the work." -- E. J. Records, B. page 155.

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pointed in his place.''=^ The following particulars in relation to this affair, are taken from the Carribeana, a literary periodical purporting to be " written by several hands in the West indies." The reader will see that the Chief .Justice performed his part with great boldness and independence.