The record says, the Congress conceive it necessary towards carrying ' these Resolutions of the Continental Congress into ' execution, to appoint a Brigadier-general and a ' Major of Brigade of the Militia of Westchester- ' county ; and Lewis Morris, Esqr., being thought the 'most proper person for a Brigadier-general of the Militia of that County, 7 and having been recom- ' mended by the County Committee, for that purpose, and Lewis Morris, Junior, Esqr., having been also formerly recommended by the said Committee ' for an appointment, to be the Major of Brigade of ' the Militia of that County ;

"Resolved: That Lewis Morris, Esqr., be ap- ' pointed Brigadier-general of the Militia of the ' County of Westchester, and that Lewis Morris, 'Junr., Esqr., be appointed Major of Brigade of the ' Militia of the said County."

The Secretaries were ordered to engross the Commissions ; and that, properly attested, those Commissions be " sent to those gentlemen with all possible

7 As tbe Militia Bill which the Provincial Congress had adopted on the twenty-second of August, 1775, had massed " the Militia of the Counties "of Duchess and Westchester" [into] "one other Brigade," it would seem that Duchess-county ought to have been consulted, in this matter; but, very evidently, it was not.

WESTCHESTEK COUNTY.

" despatch," ' although the Offices were only those of the Militia, not in active service and, with a'small exception, not likely to be so. The '' despatch " was " necessary," however, since a full-fledged Brigadiergeneral would be a more imposing candidate, when the election should be held for the Brigadier-general of the four Battalions who had been called into the service of the Continent ; and it was not a characteristic of the Morris family to be backward when its own interests required attention and action, at the front.