The record says, "the Congress conceive it necessary towards carrying " these Resolutions of the Continental Congress into "execution, to appoint a Brigadier-general and a " Major of Brigade of the Militia of Westchester- " county ; and Lewis Morris, Esqr., being thought the "most proper person for a Brigadier-general of the " Militia of that Count}',' and having been recom- " mended by the County Committee, for that pur- " pose, and Lewis Morris, Junior, Estjr., having been " also formerly recommended by the said Committee " for an appointment, to be the Major of Brigade of " the Militia of that County ;

" Resolved : That Lewis Morris, Esqr., be ap- " pointed Brigadier-general of the Militia of the " County of Westchester, and that Lewis jMorris, " Junr., Esqr., be appointed Major of Brigade of ihe " Militia of the said County."

The Secretaries were ordered to engross the Commissions; and that, properly attested, those Commissions be " sent to those gentlemen with all possible

' As the Militia Bill which the Prorincial Congress had adopted on the twenty-second of August, 1775, bad massed " the Jlilitia of the Counties "of Duchess and Westchester" [inio] "one otiier Brigade," it would seem that Duchess-county ought to have been consulted, in this matter; but, very evidently, it was not.

" despatch," * although the Offices were only those of the Militia, not in active service and, with a small exception, not likely to be so. The " despatch " was " necessary," however, since a full-fledged Brigadiergeneral would be a more imposing candidate, when the election should be held for the Brigadier-general of the four Battalions who had been culled into the service of the Continent ; and it was not a characteristic of the Morris family to be backward when its own interests required attention and action, at the front.