After remaining in England several years he returned to his native land and studied law in the office of Aaron Burr, then in the zenith of his

1 Commodore Morris, United States Navy, died iu 1815 on the family estate now occupied in part by his grandson, Henry Lewis Morris. He married Ann Walton, and their issue were Gerard W., Richard \. and Henry. Gerard married Martha I'yne, and their cliildren were Gerard, Isabella, .\nnie P., Richard B., Captain John P., Heury W. (who attained the highest honors in the Masonic order), Mononah and Mary Pyne. All died unmarried, except the last two named. Mononah married Francis Barl-etto, Jr., who died in ISGfi, leaving aa sole heir Gerard JI. Barretto, of Jiew York City. Mary Pyne married Jonathan Kdwards. Their children were Gerard M., Mary Morris ami Rev. .\rthur Jlorris, Episcoi«al missionary at Tokio, Japan. Richard V. Morris died unmarried in 184:!. Hemy, third son of the commodore, married Mary X., daughter of Hon. J. C. iSpencer, Secretary of War and of the Treasury under President Tyler. Their children were Mary Natalie (died uumarried, 1870) and Henry Lewis, who married Anna M. Russell, and resides on Mott Avenue, Morrisania, and whose children are Eleanor R. and Lewis Spencer.

legal fame. At a later date he was appointed high sheriff of New York by Governor John Jay. In 1796 he married Helen, daughter of Augustus Van Cortlandt, of Yonkcrs, and removing from the city of New York, settled at Morrisania, where the remainder of his life was passed as a country gentleman of ample means and refined tastes. His large estate gave him favorable opportunities as an agriculturist, and he was foremost among the farmers of the State and one of the founders of the Westchester Agricultural Society, one of the first in the country, and throughout his life was a man of success, integrity and honor.