Governeur Morris, also a fine marble bust of Mrs. Morris.

The grounds are enriched with many rare ornamental trees and shrubs, among the former deserve to be mentioned, two or three specimens of the deciduous American cypress, (cupressus disticha) said by Gordon to be the finest of the kind in the United States. Of the latter, there are hedges of the gliditsia tricanthus, and the gliditsia horrida. The orchards consist principally of the bell flower, styre and pearmain apple trees.

St. Ann's Cburcli, Morrisania.

At a short distance from the house, stands the parish church of St. Ann's, a pleasing gothic structure of marble. This edifice " was erected by the present Governeur Morris, Esq., in a field on his own estate, which had for some time been hallowed, as containing the sepulchre of his parents. In a vault constructed to receive his remains^ as appears by a tablet in the chancel, the relics of the Hon. Governeur Morris," were laid by his faithful widow. In the year of our Lord 1837, she joined him with the

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dead ; and, over her remains has arisen this beautiful sanctuary, which, in remembrance of her^ and with respectful regard to two other valued relations of the name, was called St. Ami's, from "St. Anna of the Gospel, and consecrated by that name on the 28th of June, ISU,"'^ by the Right Rev. Benjamin T. Onderdonk, D. D., bishop of New York. The corner stone had been laid with appropriate ceremonies in the preceding October. Its incorporation took place on the 20th of July, 1841 ; Robert Morris and Lewis Morris, churchwardens, Jacob Buckhout, Daniel Devoe, Benjamin Rogers, Benjamin M. Brown, Edward Legget, Lewis G. Morris and Henry W. Morris, vestrymen."^