tured Africans, like other human beings, have natural rights, which can not be withheld from them without great injustice." Upon the same occasion Penn spoke of his long and familiar acquaintance with Colonel Morris, which intimacy, he said, had its influence in inducing him (Morris), although many years older, to become a Friend. Colonel Morris retained his Quaker convictions to the last, and in his will provided for the payment of annuities to the meeting of Friends at Shrewsbury, N. J., and the meeting in the province of New York. To his nephew and heir, young Lewis Morris, he refers in the will with considerable severity, adverting to " his many and great miscarryages and disobedience toward me and my wife, and his causeless absenting himself from my house, and adhering to and advizeing with those of bad life and conversation." This graceless youth soon proved himself, however, eminently deserving of his fine inheritance. Under him the Bronxland estate was converted into the Manor of Morrisania in 1697. He rose to be one of the most distinguished men of his times in America, holding, among other prominent positions, those of chief-justice of New York and governor of New Jersey.

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E have seen that the old patroonship of Colen Donck, after being confirmed by Governor Nicolls in 1GGG to Van der Donck's widow and her second husband, Hugh O'Neale, was conveyed by them to Mrs. Q'Neale's brother, Elias Doughty, and by him sold in parcels to a number of purchasers. The southernmost portion was bought by John Archer, and, with other land adjoining, was erected, under his proprietorship, into the Lordship and Manor of Fordham in 1671. North of Archer's purchase was a tract of about two thousand acres, sold to William Betts and George Tibbetts, which stretched from the Hudson River to the Bronx, forming a parallelogram.