By her last will and testament.'* Isabella Monis, wife of Governor Morris, directs that " her body be decently interred in the vault at Morrisania, near the remains of her deceased husband.' This lady was the daughter of James Graham, Attorney-General for the province of New York, and a near relation of the Marquis of ^Montrose.

The subjoined notice of her decease appeared in the Pennsylvania Gazette tor April 9th, 1752 :- --

New Yof.k, April 6th. -- "Last Monday, died in the eightieth year of her age, and on Thursday was decently interred in the family vault ;il Morrisania, l3.ibe!!;i Morris, widow and rehct of his Excellency Lewis Morris, Esq., late Grovernor of

a Sec will In papers of Lcsvis .Morria, Xew Jersey, Hist. Poc, p. 323.

h Peri-Bu^er Pftil, (iittle.,i iiQcl ttio Spanish auijua, (water,) a flat-bottomed boat like a sclioouer without bovrsptt or gib with centre board.

c lie adds. " M;iT anh. .•s.'ut back ttinchaiso.s to Harlem t^at■v^•e borrowed for the burial. There was o:**; ipiarter '^sk of wine expended at the fuueral to al>out two dozeu bottles, and about two jralliiu^ of niiii, a barrel of cider and two barrels of b.-er, .Ve , ^c Xov. ij, 1746. ■waited oil inv mother witlimv wifr. b.-.'.-rcd her bles^ii-/^ :iiid returno<l i>aclv at d'l-k "--Copied from the joiirnid of Ik.u. 1,.-wih .\li rn^ iii po3des.->ioii of the iiite Guveraeur .M. Wilkius, E.^q.

0. Lib. xviii. of wills, Sarro^ares OiTicc, N. V., p. 04.

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