" And if, on the aj)i)earance and examination ol " the said persons, it shall ai)pear to the satisfaction " of the said Committee that they or any of them are " friends to the American cause, that such of them " whom they shall so adjudge to be friends, be forth- " with discharged, and a Certificate thereof, under " the hands of the said Committee, given them, and " their names forthwith reported to this CJongress, " to the end that the same may be entered on their " Journals, and published, and justice thereby done " to their characters and reputations. And it is fur- " ther

" Rkholvei), That all such of the said persons as " the said Committee shall not adjudge and deter- " mine to be I'riends to the American cause, the said " Committee be and they hereby are required to treat " and dispose of in the following manner, to wit :

tJjo Jiiriedictiun uf whicli exteiulctl over Comiocticut, Now York, and New Jersi'y. Hia fatlier had ocfiipieil llio placo, before him ; lie had occupied it siiicu August 2, 17ii2 ; and ho wiis, also, Clerk of tlio Courts ol Nisi I'rivis and Ceiiural Jail Dolivery. He was a brother of Lewis Morris, the Delsgato iu the Contineiitiil Congress, and of Staats Long Slorris, an officer iu the Eiiyal Army, and liuebaud of the Dowager Duchess of Gordon ; and Gnnverneiir Morris was his half-brother. Ik* w;u*, also,tlie grandfather of Lewis (i. Morris, of Kordham Heights.