The terms of the arrangement required, that within a specified time he should execute a deed of conveyance in fee simple, with warrantee against the claims of the Morrises -- husband and wife -- their heirs, and all persons claiming under them ; and that he should also obtain the judgment of the Supreme Court of the United States affirming the validity and perfectibility of his title. These conditions were complied with, and the respectable body of farmers who held the confiscated lands under titles derived from the sales of the commissioners of forfeitures, were thus quieted in their possessions. •

" Colonel Morris died in England in 1794, aged si.-vty-seven, and Mary his widow died in 1825, at the age of ninety-six. Their remains were deposited near Savior-gate Church, York. Tlieir son, above mentioned, erected a

* Burke's Hist, of the Landed Gentr}' of England, vol. iv. 490.

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monument to their memory. It is unJerstood that the British government made them a second compensation for their losses, and that the whole sum received was jCl7,000 sterling. Their children were as follows : Henry Gage, a captain in the royal navy ; Amherst, who was named for his godfather Lord Amherst, who was also a captain in the royal navy, and who died unmarried in 1602; Johanna, who married Captain Thomas Cowper Hincks of the British dragoons, and who died in 1819 ; and another daughter whose name and fate have not been ascertained. To the memory of Captain Amherst Morris, there is a monument at Baildon, England. Of Captain Henry Gage Morris, honorable mention is made in the British naval history. Of Mrs. Morris's early life, there is a most interesting incident. That Washington had some desire to become her suitor, is a fact which rests on the highest authority.