"Let me interrupt thee a moment, Samuel," said Perm. " Thou wilt remember that Lewis Morris, the elder, served ^undcr my father the Admiral ia the West Indies; he was somewhat blamed in the Hispaniola affair, but his conducl at the taking of Jamaica in IGoS, was much applauded, His association with my father led to an intimacy with myself, although he was many years older, and had its influence in inducing him to become a Friend. We corresponded at intervals till the day of his death, when it appeared he had bequeathed to mc, bv will, a negro man named Yaff, provided I should come to dwell in America. As 1 am now fairly established here, I may readily obtain the servant by mentioniu'^ the affair to my young friend, Lewis Jlorris ; although a concern hath laid upon my mind for some time regarding the negroes, and I almost determined to give my own blacks their freedom. For I feel that the poor captured Africans, like other human being?, have natural rights, which cannot be withheld from them ■without great injustice, &c.""

Richard jM orris, the youngest of the three brothers, held a captain's commission in his brother Lewis's regiment. Upon the Restoration he retired to the Island of Barbadoes, where he married a lady of fortune, named Sarah Pole.

In the Parish Registers of Barbadoes, among a list of owners of land, hired servants, and apprentices, together with bought servants and negroes, occurs the name of " Richard Morris, the owner of thirt}'-five acres of land, one hired servant, one bought sei-vant and twelve negroes."°