Adjoining Port Morris are many fine country seats; among which deserves to be noticed Rockwood, the residence of Samuel E. Lyon, Esq , a well-kno\ni member of the New York and Westchester bar.

Prior to the Revolution, Morrisania, as before stated, formed one of the precincts of Westchester parish; and in 1703 paid as her quot.i towards the rector's support and poor ^3. yj. ; in 1720 her rate was ^4

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JO/. Under the Manorial charter, the Morris's were possessed of the im- [.ropriation and the patronage of all and every -- the church and churches erected or estabHshed within the manor of Morrisania. Still ]Morrisania continued to be associated with Westchester in the support of a minister till tlie year 1840, when the present parochial church of St. Ann's was founded by Gouvemeur Morris, Esq., being the first building devoted to worship and religious instruction ever commenced in Morrisania. The church ■tt'ith its surrounding grounds was munificently conveyed to the vestr)', by its founder in 1841, under the follov/ing form : --

DEED OF GIFT.

"This indentiu-e made this seventeenth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, between Gouvemeur Morris, of ^lorrisania, in the County of Westchester, in the State of New York, Esquire, of the first part, and tlie Rector, Wardens and Yestryincn of St. Ann's church at ]Morrisania, of the second port ; Whereas the said Gouvemeur Morris with a view to the promotion of Religion aud Piety, has at his own expense erected on his estate on Morrisania aforesaid, a church or edifice intended for the public worship of God according to the rites and ceremonies of tlie Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America ; and whereas a religious society has lately been formed and incorporated according to law, by tlie name aud style of The Rector, Wardens and Vestrymea of St.