The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester, Vol. II (1881 revised ed.)
;£844 0 0 3 box irons beaters, 1 little letter bos, Memorandum ; we finde in fol. the particulars by the appraisement to amount ir. the sum of, .
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20 0 0 1 IG 0
£4134 5 10 ,15 4 0
£4149 9 10
>Iore 17 doz. scissors at 3». 7 cwt. 1 qr. 91b. old lead at 30s. per cwt.
11 0 0
195 14
33 0
107 IS
135 7
9S 13
3023 11
470 11
£4071 IG
844 0
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N. B.VTARD,
Jons Pell,
Wm. KicUAf.nsox.
£13 11 0
S. V. COETLANDT.
Exliibited the seventeenth day of February, 1601, by Lewis Morris, administrator, etc., for a true and perfect inventor}-, &c., but under protestaiion of adding, &c., &c. L. MORRIS.
Lewis Morri:;, heir of his uncle, Lewis, was bom at Morrisania in 167 1, and appears to have been a man of extraordinary talt-nts. Chief Justice WiUiam Smith informs us, that of all the members of the New York Assembly in 1710, " Colonel Morris had tlie gaeatest intlucnco on our pubhc affairs. lie was a man of letters, and, though a little whim-
47° mSTORY OF THE COirXTY OF WESTCHESTER.
sical in his temper, was grave in his manners, and of penetrating ji.irs. Being excessively fond of the society of men of sense and readin^:, h-^ was never wearied at a sitting till the spirits of the whole company were dissipated. From his infancy he has lived in a manner best adapted to teach him the nature of man, and to fortify his mind for the \-icissituui.-s of life. He verj- early lost both his father and mother, as we have seen, and feU under the patronage of his uncle.