Morris, who holds one third part of Old Morisania, lying on tlie west side of the Mill brook, Colonel Lewis Morris, his mother, (who has a life estate,) Governeur Morris, (whose father purchased that portion formerly belonging to StaatsLong Morris,) Gerard Morris, Henry Morris, Hannah Morris, Albert J. and Smith Anderson, William H. Legget, Charles Dennison, Philip Dater, B. L. Benson, Captain Davy, Mr. Humphrey, Julia Stebbins and Jordan L. Mott.
The principal settlement in Morrisania, is a small hamlet bearing the same name, bordering the Haarlem river. Here is a neat hotel, a rail road depot, the rope and cord factory of Mr. John York, an extensive iron foundry belonging to Mr. Jordan L. Mott, and the nursery gardens of Mr. Joseph Lodge.'i
The Haarlem bridge communicates with the Westchester shore and New York island. Prior to the erection of the bridge, there
« Barber's Hist. Coll. of N. Y.
b Blake's Biographical Dictionary.
e Literally a run between two hills. This name was given her under the supposition that the English could not bewitch her with an assumed name.
d Mr. Lodge, who has had a long experience in the nursery gardening business, is extensively employed in ornamental horticulture.
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appears to have been ix fording place between the two shores ; for, upon the 11th of October, 1666, Governor Nicolls granted " certain saw mills to Thomas Delaval, John Vervelen and Daniel Turner, &c., lying over against Verchers or Hogg island, in the Sound, where a passage hath been made to ford over from this island to the maineT^