As a Royal Province. 1685-1776 



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of the same, and lieutenant commander-in-chief of the mili- 

 tia and all the forces by sea and land within the colony 

 of Connecticut and of all the forts and places of strength 

 within the same, in council at the fort at New York," 



issued to Lewis Morris a patent for the manor of Morrisania. 

 The quit-rent was "six shillings, yearly and every year, on the 

 feast day of the Annunciation of our Blessed Virgin, payable 

 at the city of New York. " 



It was a royal patent, issued in the name of William the 

 Third, and it confirmed all the previous patents and grants 

 from the original one to Jonas Bronk to that present time. 

 The bounds of the manor are the same as the bounds of the 

 patent granted to Colonel Lewis Morris in 1676, and the 

 acreage is given as 1920, more or less; so that it does not 

 seem that Colonel Morris added anything from "the adjacent 

 lands not already granted or patented." The point of begin- 

 ning in both patents is "the proprietor's house situated in 

 Bronck's land over against Harlem." The manor-lord was 

 also given the right of advowson, or patronage to all churches 

 within the manor. 



In 1733, occurred the difference between Judge Morris and 

 Governor Cosby. The Governor saw fit to find fault with a 

 decision of a court given against him in the matter of his 

 suit for salary from the time of his appointment to the time that 

 he actually arrived in America and assumed the duties of his 

 office, a period of several months, during which the lieutenant- 

 governor, Rip Van Dam, conducted the government and was 

 paid for so doing. Cosby was so imprudent as to state con- 

 cerning Chief Justice Morris that, 



"I can neither rely upon his integrity nor depend upon his 

 judgment ; he is a person not at all fitted to be trusted with 

 any concerns relating to the King. Ever since coming to this 



