In witness whereof we have • hereunto sett our hands and affixed om- seals this seventh day of February, 1GS4-5, in presence of us :

Samcel Edsaix, Ye mark !>i TAQL\A3IARICE.

JouN r.ASSETT, Te mark O WANACAPEEX.

Joirs JIanton'.

Signed and scaled by A"\V.V2s AWIS, ATitnessed by Loxgz Classs,

S-IAHASIi. and KNEED. a lady Wastowancktt,

In presence of us. Ye uiarke of ><; Am axawis,

Joiix lor.xxT, Ye niarke of i~i SuAHAsn,

Edwakd IlAnr.ALi- Ye marke of <0 Ivxeed.

Jo ax EuSALL..

On the 25th of October, 1676, Colonel Morris purchased a large tract of land in East Jersey, consisting of 3,540 acres, which he named Tintern and Monmouth, after the paternal estate in Monmouthshire, Wales.

The last will and testament of Colonel islorris bears date 7 th of February, 1690. Although t%nce married, he left no issue ; his nephew, therefore, according to the agreement of 1670, succeeded to the estates. Upon tlie 15th of May, 1(^91, Henry Sloughter, Captain-General and

c A I)u;i;h m rL". a measnrtnl a little less thau nvo acres English.

464 HISTORY O" THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.

Govcrnor-in-Chief, " granted letters testamentary to Levis Morris, nephew to Colonel Morris, the executrix being dead."

THE LAST WILL OF LEWIS MORRIS.

"Whereas I formerly mtcndod to have made my nephew, Lewis Jlorris, son of my deceased brother, Richard ]MoiTis, my sole c.\ecutor; his many and gii.i: miscanyages and disobedience towarels me and my wife, and his causciesa :i;>- sei'iting himself from my house, and adhering to and advizeing with those of hij[ life and conversation, contrary to my directions and example unto him, and fnr other reasons best known to myselfe, I doe make and ordaine my dearly beloved wife, Mary ^Morris, sole execntrix of this my last will and testament ; and To the meeting of Friends at Shrewsberry, in ilonmouth Co., five pounds current money of Xew York per annum iorcvev, to be paid out 01 his plantation at Tuiton iron works, to be paid on 2jth JIavch yearly.