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.

Although lio was cliissed, in these Resolutions, among those who occul)ied "an enuivocal neutrality " -- ho preferred to retain his hold on the Koyal Troiisury as long as possible ; and the studied denunciation of him, in the.so Resolutions, was admirably ada|ited to secure the steady payment of bis Salary and Fees, aud to secure the family estates, in case the Rebellion should bo suppressed-- just eight weeks after the presentation of this Report, ho was appointed, by the same Provincial Congress who had received and adopted this formidable series of Resolutions, to the Bench of the now-formed revolutionary Court of Admiralty ; anil, three years subsequently, when .John .Jay ceased to be Chief-juslice of I lie new State, this Richard Morris was aiipoiuted to succeed him, in tliat honorable aud iutluential position. lie held the latter ottii e until September, IT'JO.

The controlling power among the revolutionary elements, in the Colony as well as in the new-formed State, was not slow to reward the Morris family with offices and emoluments; and the latter was ei|ually watchful of its own interests, in accepting whatever was olfered.