In that engagement George Washington, Robert Orme, and Roger ]Morris, Esqrs., were aids to Braddock.^' At the commencement of the Revolution he was a member of the Council of the Colony, and continued in office until the peace, although the Whigs organized a government as early as 1777, under a written and well framed constitution. Col. Roger Morris died in England in i794»

n riarper'a .Viie-J/ont/i'y itan. '•Ko'-uaiK'':" of tho II;iil.~on," No. cccxi, April, ISTC, voL lUl. p. 6U.

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aged sixty-seven; and Mary his widow died in 1S25, at the age of ninetysix. Their remains were deposited near Sanour-gate church, at York, Their son was Captain Henry Gage Morris, R. N.

Their children were as follows : Henry Gage, above mentioned, a captain in the royal navy; Amherst, who was named for his god-father Lord Arnherst, who was also a captain in tPie royal navy and who died unmarried in 1S02; Johanna, who married Captain Thomas Co^\•per Hincks of the British dragoons, and who died in 1S19; and another daughter, whose name and fate have not been ascertained.

To the memor)- of Captain Arnherst ]Morris there is a monument at Baildon, England. Of Captain Henry Gage Morris, honorable mention is made in the British Naval Historj'. Of Mrs. Morris' early life there is a most interesting incident. That Washington had some desire to become her suitor, is a fact which rests on the highest authority.