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Indies, settled upon it, and to them was born a son I Lewis. Richard and his wife died in 1672, and thfe I infant was left alone on the plantation with no one to care for him but the negro slaves and a nephew of his father's, a Mr. Walter \\'ebley. The Dutch had repossessed the colony, and the estate of a wealthy retired English merchant otfered spoils that Governor Colve did not overlook. His government called upon the orphan masters to summon the ncjdiew Webley and the curators of the estate of Richard to ai)pear before them and require the administration of the estate and as soon as possible to make a report on it. ' Webley, an English subject, kept out of the I way and removed the removable part of the estate as well as he could out of the conqueror's clutches. He ' I feared the new government, but was soon given a free ' pass and the assurance that his possession of the I estate of his cousin as administrator would not be I disturbed, and that all the government wanted was to I confiscate the share of the estate which belonged to his uncle, Lewis Morris, of Barbadoes. This latter ' gentleman, a tjuaker in religion, though one of Crom- '■ well's old soldiers, had also arrived in the province, but wisely kept himself out of government reach i until he could arrange about the estate. The govern- ' uient found that Col. Morris, being a citizen of Bar- 1 badoes,was not, under the terras of capitulation, entitled to the same liberal terms as British subjects of Virginia or Connecticut, and they also found that the D infant only owned one-third of the estate and the !• uncle Lewis owned two-thirds. Hence his two-thirds il was liable to confiscation. ' Balthazar Bayard was > therefore appointed to take charge of the two-thirds I of the estate which belonged to the government and r, John Lawrence, Stephanus Van Cortlandt and !■ Walter Webley, the nephew, were appointed adir ministrators of Richard's one-third for the benefit of le the infant Lewis. ^ The uncle Lewis, however, with i all the shrewdness of a Quaker and the tact of an old s. soldier, for a time kept in hiding, * but after arranging h. in some way with the government, was finally made 10 administrator of his brother's estate and afterwards a- guardian of the person and estate of his infant 3, nephew. ' He must have finally made a good iraor pression upon Governor Colve, for he was granted the [5, entire estate, buildings and materials thereon, on a ii- valuation to be made by impartial appraisers for the et- benefitoftheminorchild;*butColve,likeatruesoldier, who respected the rights of the commissariat first ii- and the vanquished afterwards, " appropriated" (due rij, regard being had of course to the infant's interests) all ([• the fat cnttle, such as oxen, cows and hogs.