Bickley of Wr co aforesaid, to be mx executors in trust, and overseers to see this my will punctually perf d and MfiPd ; and in reg'd to the remoteness of their abodes from one another, I do oi-dkr and appoinr that any tlu-ce of them may act as they shall find needfull, jn-cn'ia^'d Wm. Bich'n. Wm. Bickley, or Kich'd llartshorne be of that mmilxr ; and fox want of a 3d person in the co :Monmouth, K"d Hartshome and John Hanvt may act there as tliey shall find cause, or may choose a 3d person to act,
&c., «.t.
And -niow, having thus disposed of that outward estate and substance that it hath pka3ed God to possess me of, I commit my soul to God, &v\
la testimony whereof, I the s'd Lewis JLorris, have hereunto to this my last ■wiU and I'i subscrib'd, signed and fixed my seal, at my plant'n over against Harlem, in frie p'o N. Y'., this seventh day of this twelfth month called February, in the 'year l>:i)0, in presence of Johannis Vennilje, Jan Tibout, Lamueert Zoches, David Li]lJi}3, marks of Susannali Roberts-- Wm. Bickley.
The above will shows plainly that " Colonel Lewis Morris was by conviction a Quaker, and ai^arently remained a Friend to the day of his death; for he bequeathes i'ive pounds to the meeting of Friends at Shrewsbur}-, and likev.-ise gives his negro man. YaiT, to his honored friend ■VYilliam Pcnn, provided the said Ponn shall come to reside in America.