6 FRANCIS ORPEN MORRIS 



amount assigned them as compensation was com- 

 paratively small, the property having been valued 

 to the Commissioners in 1784 at over ^53,000 ; the 

 value of this, being so close to New York, would 

 at the present day be almost incalculable. It is 

 believed that Mrs. Morris and her sister were the 

 only two women attainted at the conclusion of 

 the war. 



Colonel Roger Morris died in 1794, and both he 

 and his wife were buried at St. Saviour's Church, 

 York. Mrs. Morris survived her husband thirty 

 years, and lived to reach her ninety-sixth year. 



Roger Morris's sons entered the royal navy. 

 Amherst, the elder of the two, so named after his 

 godfather, Lord Amherst, to whom his father was 

 for a time aide-de-camp, gallantly distinguished 

 himself in the celebrated engagement on June 18, 

 1793, between the English frigate Nymphe and the 

 French frigate Cleopatre. He was the first officer 

 to board the enemy's ship, and to him the French 

 lieutenant surrendered his sword, which is still pre- 

 served as a family relic. 



The second son, Henry Gage, joined the service 

 at the tender age of six, though he did not go to 

 sea till he was twelve, and served in many ships. 

 The last that he commanded was the Jalouse, being 

 employed in her from 1809 to 1812 on the Irish 

 station. Shortly before this time, while acting as 

 flag-lieutenant to Admiral Lord Gardner, the young 

 naval officer met his future wife, Rebecca Newen- 

 ham Millerd Orpen, the youngest daughter of the 



