Lewis, the nephew, had in the mean time grown to man's estate and succeeded his uncle as heir-at-law, and next of kin, as well as under his uncle's will. I On the 6th day of May, 1697, Governor Benjamin Fletcher confirmed to him the grant made by his predecessor, Andros, to his uncle and also erected the lands into a lordship or manor by the name and title of the Lordship or Manor of Morrisania, in the county of Westchester. The patent grants the same

I Idem, 6.37.

f Idrm, 63!i. " Idem, 634.

I" Book of Pateiita, vol. iv. paiie 99.

" For bonnilaries of this patent, see maji Httaclied to this arti< K'.

X. Y. Col. Docs., vol. ii. ptige 682. I'X. Y. Col. Docs., vol. xiii. i'«ge 542. » K. Y. Col. Docs., iii. 6S2.

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

lands as those mentioned in the earlier patent, to the uncle Lewis. The grantee had full authority to hold and keep a Court-Leet and Court-Baron, and to issue writs thereout. The lord of the manor had jurisdiction over all waifs, estrays, wrecks, deodands, goods of felons happening and being forfeited within said manor ; he also had the patronage and advowson of

native-born chief justice who filled the Supreme Court bench in New York. In his early youth he was wild, and gave his stern and rather straight-laced uncle and guardian much trouble. A zealous and pious Quaker who was his preceptor, one day, while engaged in silent meditation in the woods, heard, as he supposed, a voice from heaven, telling him to go