The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester, Vol. II (1881 revised ed.)
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.
Lewis Morris, who by his father's will, now took the lordship and manor of IMorrisania, was Judge of the High Court of Admirality and one of the Judges of Oyer and Terminer, was born 23d of Sept., 1698, and died 3d July, 1762. By his last Avill, dated Nov. 19th, 1760, he devised ''all tliat part of Morrisania situated west of the jVtill Brook, to his eldest son Lewis Morris." To his wife, " the land whereon his house stands, west of the }*[ill Brook." " To his brother Robert Hunter Morris, he bequeathed the pictures of his father and mother," and " that of myself and wife to my daughter Isabella.^
His, son, Governeur, was to have the best education that was to be had in England or America. "=
His three sons by his first wife, Catharine Staats, were Lewis Morris, fifth proprietor and third Lord of the Manor, General Staats Long Morris, who married Catharine, the celebrated Duchess of Gordon, and Richard Morris, Judge of the High Court of Admirality in 1776.