Lewis, the III: elder, thus became possessed of Bronxland. Dl, It seems that, this matter being settled, he returned

ill.' to B;irbadoes for the purpose of closing up his busifj( ness on that island, but left his nephew, Webley, in

" 1 N. Y. Col. Docs., vol. ii. 599. 2 Mem, filT.

3 Idem, 651. * Idem, fi84.

' Idem, Ki'i. « Idem, G.J7.

charge of the estate in New York." The young ward's movable property had been scattered far and wide,^' but Webley attended to getting things together. Colonel IMorris returned to New York in 1675, and in 1676, the English having in the mean time recaptured the province, G jvernor Andros granted to Lewis, the elder, a confirmatory i)atent of Bronxland and some "addicional lands" adjacent thereto, not included in any patent. Under this grant Colonel Morris became seized of a tract of land containing some nineteen hundred acres. It was bounded on the north by a line which, if extended east from Judge Smith's tavern, on Central Avenue, to the road south of the Home for Incurables, would be the north line; on the south and southeast, the Harlem River; on the west, Cromwell Creek ; and on the east, the Hunt and Richardson patent, mentioned elsewhere. By reference to the map it will be seen that this patent covered more than the original grant to Jonas Bronck. Colonel Lewis Morris, the elder, settled and resided on this estate until the time of his death." He seems to have been a friend of Governor Andros, having entertained him at his house and also accompanied him on the special expedition when Andros visited Carteret to arrange about the settlement of the government in New Jersey after the accession of James, Duke of York, to the throne of England." He was a sympathizer with the government, and against Leisler during the Leisler Rebellion, and his house at Morrisania was used as the exchange for the governmental secret correspondence rendered necessary at that time.