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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the Proviocc of New Jersey. A lady endowed with every qualincatioa requisite (., rt.'ider the sex n-grceablo and eatertaining. Through all the various sceriCS (if life, she was a pattern of conjugal affection, a tender parent, a sincere friend, and an excellent economist. She was

Liberal without Prodigality, In Person, Venerable.

Frugal without Parsimony, In Conversation, xVffable.

Cheerful withotit Levity, In Friendsliip, Faithful.

Exalted without Pride, Of Envy, Void,

She pasJ3ed through life, endowed with every grace ; Her Virtues, OUeut Destruction can't deface. Or Cruel Envy e'er eclipse her fame, Isor mouldering time obliterate her name."

The sons of the Hon. Lev/is Morris and Isabella his wife, were:-- ist, Lewis, to whom his father bequeathed all that part of Morrisania lying to the eastward of the Mile Brook ; and the remainder, westv/ard of the same stream, called Old AIorrisa?iia, to his wife Isabella for life, and after her death to his said son Lewis Morris, for life, with power to dispose of the same by will to which ever of his sons he should see fit.** 2d, Robert Hunter Morris, Chief Jusrice of New Jersey, who had for his share the Jersey estates.