Graham became again Attorney-Gen ersl in the follo;^-ing ISTay. He was about nine years speaker of the Assembly, i.e. from 1691-1694, 1695- 1698, and a part of 1699, when the friends of Leisler being in a majority, the House voted a bill of Indictment, in the shape of a Remonstrance against their opponents, and had the cruelty to request their speaker to sign it. To enable him to avoid this unpleasant duty, Mr. Graham was called to the Council in, 1699. His pubHc career may be said to have now closed. He appears to have attended the Council for the last time, on the 29th of July, 1700. He was superseded in October, of that year, as Recorder of the city of New York, after having filled that office from 1683, with an interruption of otily two years, and was deprived of his office of .A.ttorney-General on the 21st of January, 1701, but a few days before his death, which occurred at his residence atMorrisania. His will bears date 12th of January 1700, and is on record in the Surrogate's Office, New York, Lib. ii., 95. He left all his property,

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share and share ah'ke, to his children -- Augustine, Surveyor-General of the Province, Isabella, wife of Lewis Morris, Esq.; Mary, Sarah, Margaret and John. The other members of the family consisted, in 1698,- of one overseer, two white servants, and thirty-three slaves."'*

MANOR OF MORRISANIA.

This Manor, formerly annexed in 1791 to the ancient Borough to^vn of Westchester was, by an act of the Legislature, in 1783, added to New York county. Its name is derived from the Morris family, the first mesne Lords and patentees under the crown; the termination ^^ ania" being in general use in the latter part of the seventeenth century.