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

a In this vault, which lies near tlio residence of Colonel Lewis Morris, the remains of the Morris family have since been interred, with the single exception of Gouverneur IMorris, who erected a new vault at Morrisania.

b From the journal of the Hon. Lewis Morris, in possession of Gouverneur M- Wilkins, Esq.

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Isabella."^^ His son Governenr was to have the best education " ihat is to be had in England or America," (fcc.** His three sons by his first wife, Catharine Staals, were Lewis Morris, a brigadier general in the Continental army,° also a member of Congress and one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Slaats Long Morris, the father of General Staats Long Morris who married Catharine, the celebrated Duchess of Gordon, and Richard Morris, judge of (he high court of admiralty in 1776. By his second wife, Sarah Governenr, Lewis Morris had one son Governenr Morris. Trie following biograghical sketch of the latter gentleman is from Barber's Historical Collections.