The purely internal history of Westchester County for three-quarters of a century following the comparative completion of its settlement comprehends, indeed, nothing more than the ordinary chronicles of a lew scattered communities and of a mixed land-owning and farming population, living together in circumstances of good understanding and of xneasing though quite uneventful prosperity and progress. It is in the general historical associations attaching to the careers of representative Westchester men that the broad interest of our county's story up to the events antecedent to the Revolution is found.

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HE estate of Morrisania, established by Colonel Lewis Morris, of the island of Barbadoes, upon the foundations of the old Dutch Bronxland grant -- an estate consisting of nearly two thousand acres, -- was inherited at the colonel's death, in 1691, by his nephew, Lewis, who at that time had just come of age. Young Lewis Morris as a boy was of a vivacious and somewhat wayward disposition, and, tiring of the humdrum life in the home of his, uncle, a stern old Covenanter and rigid Quaker, ran away and roamed about in the world until his craving for a more animated existence had been pretty well gratified. He first went to Virginia, and then to Jamaica, trying to support himself as a copyist and in other ways, The old and finally returned, tractable enough, to his uncle's roof. took an gentleman not only granted him full pardon, but promptly interest in procuring a suitable wife for him, with the result that, in November, 1691, he received the hand of Isabella, daughter of James Graham, Esq., attorney-general and one of the principal men of the the Morprovince. Being his uncle's sole heir, he inherited not onlyMorris had risania estate, but the large tract of land which Colonel the to attention his Turning J.