He prohibited any mourning dress to be worn on his account, as he should die when divine Providence should call him away, and was unwilling thai his friends should be at the unnecessary expense, which was owing only to the common folly of mankind."'' To his eldest son, Lewis Morris, he bequeathed all that part of Morrisania lying to the eastward of the mill brook, and the remainder westward of the same stream, called Old Morrisania^ to his wife Isabella.'^

The following items are taken from the journal of his son Lewis Morris. " May 2(3th, 1746, set out from Trenton with my father's corpse for Amboy ferry; got there that night about nine of the clock. His corpse was attended by numbers of people and his pall was supported by Messrs. Andrew Johnston, James Hide, Peter Kemble, Thomas Leonard, Philip French, Daniel Cox, Philip Kearney and Charles Read. The corpse was put on board of a large peri-auger which came from Morrisania for that purpose, and arrived the next morning at Morrisaa Hist. Not. Miss, of the Church of England, p. 20. b Blake's Biographical Dictionary.

■: Surrogate's Office N. Y. Lib. xviii. 94. Chancery Records, Albany, for peti lion of Isaac WiUett.

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nia, tiie wind blowinor at night at north-west extraordinary hard, and being cold lay that night at the ferry."

"May29lh. My father was buried at Morrisania in a vault built by directions in his will. The materials and workmanship came to £10 6 7^.^ His bearers were the Chief Justice, Joseph Murray. Robert Walters, .Tames Alexander, William Smith, David Clarkson, Abraham Depeyster and Lewis Johnston. Dr. Standard the minister of the parish of Westchester attended the burial and performed the service of the church."