from his Academic pursuits in 1746 he became a farmer in his native tomi, he v.-a.^ opulent and desired no addition to his fortune ; but in the struggle against the mother country- his sympathies were for his native land. He was a Brigader-General of the Continental army, and at one time received orders from Congress to take possession, (witii his whole Brigade,) of such parts of the Sound and Hudson River as he might think most exposed to the enemy. In 1775 ^le was sent from New York to the Continental Congress where he distinguished himself-- being appointed to confer with the Aborigines and to bring them over to the American side. He was in Congress in 1776, and his name is in the great cluster of patriots attached to the Declaration of Independence. In 1777 he issued an address, or appeal, to the citizens of New York on tr.e constitution proposed by Convention of the United States for their future government in that year. In 1798 he died at his farm in old IMorrisania, in the seventy-second year of his age.

Gen. Staats Long ]\Iorris was bom on the 27th of August, 172S, and educated at Yale College. Having entered the army, he became Captain in the Thirty-sixth Regiment of Foot on the 31st of May, 1756, and attained the rank of Major in 1758. Government having resolved tlie following 3 ear to raise an additional regiment of Highlanders, by the influence of the Gordon family -- at the solicitation of the Dowager Duchess of Gordon, Major Morris, to whom she had been lately married, was appointed to raise that regiment, in which the Duke entered as Captain; Lord William, as Lieutentant; and Lord George, as Ensign. In a few weeks seven hundred and sixty men were mustered and marched to Aberdeen, and Major Morris received a commission as Lieutenant- Colonel of tlie new corijs, which was called the Eighty-ninth Highland Regiment, with it he embarked in December, 1760, for the East Indies; arrived at Bombay in November following, and served at the siege of Pondicherry in 1761.