About the middle of the fifteenth century a younger brother of the family of this first Maurice, (still settled in Monmouthshire.) who v/as named William, bore a commission in the army, and married a lady of good fortune in Devonsliire where he settled and had several sons.''

"One of the descendants in 1623 -- Sir William Morrice -- as it v/as then corruptly spelt, settled in Cornwall. In the year 1635 the elder branch of the fanuly, the lineal descendants of the first ]Mon-is, still rea Articles of uo^reenit'iit were entered itiro between the two brothers, that If *'itlnT o( them died witlioat i.-i-^Ui.-, tho survivor, or issue of tiie survivor, if any, sUouid taiCL' t!i',- estate.

b Dun!ay3 ll;;t. of N. V., Vol. I , ".'i.

e Account of the famiiy of Morns c mpilL'd by Valentine Morris In ITOo, thr o:i:ri;ial .M6S. Is in the possi-ssion of Harry M. Morris of New York. Aiuon^' the uupro\icie<l b(r;hL<;a<jf Sc. Daviirs i.-'ii^'fL'.;-, Ivint '■'j'Kr-inir.-, in l",)", was Lewis Morris. oti'- of the imnisti-rs whn vecfiytd a iH'i'sMHi of £>: i.i -- l!i-r. nf S'. ha', id's i':irh>-.Ival, bv r.rouii Wiv.y. Th'-.i"tTi< of |-tiv-_aiv-- 'IV-.vil iir - Mj-.vr, {l'rr-.ce of Walc-i lu 1077,) were gii. ur lioa, rauipaat WiUua a b-ctiuro, ladentod, or.

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maining in Monmouthshire, consisted ot' throe brothers -- Lev,-is, William and Richard," sons of Col. Lewis Morris.

Lewis, the eldest son, who inherited the paternal estate of Tintern,''^ embarked for the West Indies as early as 1633, (according to the English State papers,) in the service of the New Providence Company. He also commanded a troop of horse in the Parliament army against Charles First for which the king afterwards confiscated his estates in ?iIonmoutlishire. Li return for his losses Oliver Cromwell subsequently idemnified him.