He was the father of Colonel Lewis Morris, the signer of the Declaration of Independence; of the still more noted statesman, Gouverneur Morris; of Judge Richard Morris, successor to John Jay as chief justice of the Supreme Court of New York State; and of General Staats Long Morris, of the British army. Lewis Morris, Jr., third proprietor and second lord of the Morris estates in Westchester County, was born September 23, 1698. Most of his political career was contemporaneous with that of his father, which it closely resembled in its general characteristics. Tie was a deputy for Westchester Borough in the general assembly from 1732 to 1750, serving as speaker in 1737. Previously to entering the assembly he had been a member of the for some but governor's had beencouncil removed from years, that body in 1730 because of his determined opposition to the policies of Governor Montgomerie. He was, in>ETER FANEUIL. deed, quite as heartily disliked by Montgomerie as his father was by Cosby, and apparently for quite similar reasons. In justification of li is course in the council lie wrote a very able letter to the English government, which is a luminous presentation of the partisan differences of the time. When the great popular issue arose in 1733 on the Van Dam salary question he was a zealous supporter of his father's cause. Cosby, in his denunciatory communications to the Lords of Trade respecting the attitude of Chief Justice Morris, speaks with savage resentment of the son also, who, he says, having "got himself elected an assemblyman for a borough, gave all the opposition he could to the measures the house took to make the government easy." With this wanton behavior of the junior Morris, Cosby continues, the father was well pleased, " wherein without