In his will, (proved January 12th, 1746,) he directs his body to be buried at Morrisania, in a plain coffin, without covering or lining with cloth; he prohibited rings and scarfs from being giving at his funeral; he wished no man to be payed for preaching a funeral sermon upon him; though if any man, churchman, or dissenter, minister or not, vras inclined to say anything on the occasion, he should not object. He pro- "hibited any mourning dress to be worn on that account, as he should die when Divine IVovidence should call him away, and wa.s u-.v.v.lling

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that his friends should be at the unnecessary expense, which was owing onlv" to the common folly of mankind."*

The following notice of his death appeared in the New York IFeei/)' Post Boy for May 26tli, 1746 : --

"New York, May 23d, Wednesday last departed this life, at Trenton, after a hngering illness, in an advanced age, his Excellency Lewis Morris, Esq., Captain General and Governor-in-Chief of the Province of New Jersey."

The following items are taken from the journal of his son, Lewis Morris : --

"May 26th, 1746, set out from Trenton wth my father's corpse for Amboy ferr\- ; got there that night about nine of the clock. His corpse was attended by numbers of people, and his pall was supported by Messrs Andrew Johnston, James Hide, Peter Kemble, Thomas Leonard, Philip French, Daniel Cox, PhiHp Kearney and Charles Read. The corpse was put on board of a large peri-augur, ^ which came from Morrisania, for that purpose, and arrived the next morning at Morrisania, the v.ind blowing at night at north-west extraordinary hard, and being cold lay that night at the ferry."