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."

"May 30. Sent back the chaises to Harlem that we borrowed for the burial. There was one quarter cask of wine expended at the funeral to about two dozen bottles, and about two gallons of rum, a barrel of cider and two barrels of beer," &,c. A:c.

" Nov. 6th, 1746. Waited on my mother with my wife, and begged her blessing and returned back at dusk."''

By Iier last will and testament, Isabella Morris, wife of his late Excellency Lewis Morris, directs that "her body be decently interred in the vault at Morrisania, near the remains of her deceased husband." This lady was the daughter of James Graham, Attorney General for the province of New York, and a near relation of the Marquis of Montrose. The sons of the Hon. Lewis Morris were, Lewis, who inherited the lordship and manor of Morrisania, and Robert who had for Iiis share the Jersey estates.

Lewis Morris the eldest son was judge of the high court of admiralty and one of the judges of oyer and terminer, he died in 1762, aged sixty-four years. By his last will, dated Nov. 19lli, 1760, he devised "all that part of Morrisania situated west of the Mill brook to his eldest son Ijewis Morris." "To his wife the land whereon his house stands west of the Mill brook." "To his brother Robert Hunter Morris he bequeathed the pictures of his father and mother," and "that of myself and wife to my daughter