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Point, De Lancey's Neck, Wilkins's Creek, Morrisania, and 

 Port Morris. 



Colonel Lewis Morris died in 1691. His will, dated Feb- 

 ruary 7, 1690, begins: 



"Whereas I formerly intended to have made my nephew, 

 Lewis Morris, son of my deceased brother, Richard Morris, 

 my sole executor; his many and great miscarryages and 

 disobedience toward me and my* wife, and his causeless ab- 

 senting himself from my house, and adhering and advizeing 

 with those of bad life and conversation, contrary to my 

 directions and example unto him, and for other reasons 

 best knowne to myselfe, I do make and ordaine my dearly 

 beloved wife, Mary Morris, sole executrix of this my last 

 will and testament. " 



Colonel Morris left no children, and Mary Morris died before 

 her husband. His will was not admitted to probate or exe- 

 cuted on account of its vagueness, so that the nephew Lewis 

 was appointed administrator, cum testamento annexe Lewis 

 succeeded to the estates in accordance with the agreement 

 made between his father and uncle at Barbados in 1670, 

 whereby the children of the one should succeed to the estate 

 in case the other should die without issue. 



That the Colonel remained a Quaker until his death is 

 evident from the fact that there were several bequests to 

 Quaker societies and of his negro man Yaff to his honored 

 friend William Penn, provided the said Penn should come to 

 reside in America. It is probable that Perm received Yaff, 

 for he says in a letter to a friend: "I have resolved after 

 four years of faithful service he shall be free. " 



Young Lewis Morris was of a lively and adventurous 

 disposition, and probably found the restraints of his Quaker 

 uncle's household rather irksome; so much so that, according 



