He related how Morris and his son, Van Dam, Smith, and Alexander had by their long-continued acts " wrought the people to a pitch of rebellion." " These are the men," he said, " who declaim against the king's prerogative, who poison the minds of the people, who libel the governor and all in authority in weekly printed papers, and who have endeavored to distress the governor in his just administration." Hewent so far as to recommend, as a drastic remedy, that the younger Morris and others be sent to England for sedition, a thing which he regretted he could not venture to do without orders, because " forbidden by His Majesty's instructions to send any prisoners to England without sufficient proof of their crimes to be transmitted with them." They were a worrisome set, these Morrises, to royal governors having a fancy for arbitrary power and a strong distaste for popular interference with their executive ease. The younger Morris was also a judge of the Court of Admiralty, and at one time a judge of the Court of Oyer and Terminer. He was twice married, his first wife being Catherine Staats, and his second Sarah Gouverneur. Like his father, he possessed a positive temperament, an unbending will, and a rather domineering manner. His uncompromising disposition in all matters of opinion and feelingis well illustrated by the celebrated direction given in his will regarding the education of his son Gouverneur. " It is my wish," he says, " that my son Gouverneur shall have the best education that can be furnished him in England or America, but my express will and directions are that under no circumstances shall he be sent to the Colony of Connecticut for that purpose, lest in his youth he should imbibe that low craft and cunning so incident to the people of that country, and which are so interwoven in their constitution that they ean not conceal it from the world, though many of them, under the sanctified garb of religion, have attempted to impose themselves upon the world as honest men." 1 It was during the period of the events recorded in this chapter that Faneuil Hall. identified so conspicuously with the subsequent a citation for American libertv. was built in T,P.oston. , _ , ^ . whom .