1753- 67; Woods, 1762-76; Ludlow, 1761-71; Kent, 1762-72; Ryker, 1765-(38 ; Helme, 1765-73; Vincent, Matthews, 1770-71 ; Benson, 1771 ; Antill, 1771 ; Townsend, 1770-76 (probably Micah Townsend, Esq., of White Plains) ; Jphn McKcs.son, 1771 ; Wickham, 1763-72; De Peyster, 1773 ; Murray, 1774; and Bogart, 1776.
Hon. Richard Morris (of the Morrises, of Morrisania, and whose biography is given in another chapter) practiced in Westchesfer County (1752-76) ; He, with Thomas Hicks (1752-64), Benjamin Kissam (1750-75) and Timothy Wetmore, afterwards attorneygeneral of the province of New Brunswick, became the leading lawyers after Alsop and Nicolls had ceased to figure. Thomas Jones (1760-71) and Samuel Jones (1764-76) did also a good deal of legal business.
Gouverneur Morris, son of Hon. Lewis Morris, fourth proprietor and second lord of the Manor of
'Communicated by .Tosiah Mitchell, Esq., Authorities N. Y. Revolutionary Papers, p. 159; Sabin's "Loyalist," p. 415; "Wetmore Memorial," Muiisell i Rowland, Albany, 1861.
Morrisania, practiced law in Westchester County about the year 1772. He had graduated at King's College (now Columbia), in 1768. Entering upon the practice of law, he soon gained a high reputation. lu 1775 he was a delegate to the Provincial Congress in New York. The same year he was appointed a member of the Committee for Public Safety for Westchester County. In 1776 he was one of the committee for draughting a Constitution for the State of New York. He went to France in 1787 and remained in Paris until 1795, as American minister, witnessing thus the terrible scenes of the French Revolution from its incipiency to its consummation.