The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester, Vol. II (1881 revised ed.)
Isaac Gouverneur, dressed in a blue coat and a red waistcoat ; An unknown portrait in brown coat and scarier waistcoat; General Lewis Morris, signer of the Declaration of Independence and Brigadier-General in the Continental army, dressed in olive-green coat; Mary Walton, wife of the signer, dressed in a light blue silk dress; Sophia EUiott, by Waldo ; William Elliott, by the same ; Colonel Lewis Morris, aid to General Greene, a miniature, by Fraser, of South Carolina ; a marble bust by Launitz. of Ann B. Elliott, vrife of the latter.^
The Honorable Richard Morris, third sou of Lewis Morris, third proprietor and second Lord of the Manor, was born at Old Momsania in 1730, and was Judge of the High Court of Admiralty in 1776; by Sarali, daughter of Henr}- Ludlow, he left three children -- Lewis R. ; Robert, of Mount Fordham ; and Mary, who married Brigadier-Major William Popham. Robert, the second son, left the Honorable Robert H. Morris, Jusrice of the Supreme Court of New York. This individual died at the residence of his father-in-law Munson, at Astoria. Oct. 24th, 1857. The following notice of his death appeared in the papers of the day : --
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" The death of Hon. Robert H. Morris, one of the Justices of the Supreme Coiu-t of this district, took place suddenly on ^\'ednesday last, at llie residence of his father-in-law, Marcena Munson, Esq., of Astoria. There was no member of the bar more generally known or more universally admired, and the intelligence of his death was received yesterday with feelings of intense grief.