The county elected him at once to the Assembly, and the borough of Westchester elected his son Lewis. On his visiting New York salutes were fired in his honor, and deputations of citizens met and conducted him with loud acclamations to a public and splendid entertainment. Cosby's administration was so distasteful to his opponents that, in 1734, they determined to lay their grievances before the crown, and IMorris was selected as the messenger to go to England for that purpose. He laid the case before the Privy Council, and obtained a decision pronouncing theGovernor's reasons for his removal as chief justice insufficient, but his mission was other- I wise unsuccessful. Cosby died in 1736, and Morris returned to America. He received an ovation on reaching New York. In 1738 he was appointed colonial governor of New Jersey, and continued as such until 1746, when he died. His remains were buried at Morrisania. By will he gave all that part of the Manor of Morrisania that lay to the eastward of Mill Brook, to his eldest son, Lewis 3Iorris, and that to the \ve.st of Mill Brook, which he called Old Morrisania, to his wife during her life, and on her death to his son, Lewis, during his life, with ■ power to dispose of the same by will. His son, Robert

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

Hunter Morris, then chief justice of New Jersey, received his fatlier's New Jersey property.

Governor Morris's widow died in 1752, and we thus find her son Lewis possessed of all the manor.