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of the "Gordon riots" described in Dickens's Barnaby Rudge, 

 and the Honorable Richard Morris, who married into the 

 Ludlow family, and who was a judge of the Court of Admiralty 

 at the outbreak of the war. The second wife of Lewis Mor- 

 ris, Junior, was Sarah Gouverneur, by whom he had one son, 

 the Honorable Gouverneur Morris, and four daughters, one 

 of whom, Isabella, became the wife of the Reverend Isaac 

 Wilkins. 



Lewis Morris, Junior, died in 1762, at the age of sixty-four. 

 By his will, dated November 19, 1760, he bequeathed to his 

 eldest son Lewis "all that part of Morrisania west of the Mill 

 Brook"; to his wife, "the land upon which my house stands 

 west of the Mill Brook"; and to his other sons, the remaining 

 part of the manor. He also directed that his son Gouverneur 

 was to have the best education "that was to be had in England 

 or America." The legacy of the land to the west of the Mill 

 Brook carried with it the right to the use of the stream for 

 milling and other purposes, so that the east bank really became 

 the boundary. It is a curious fact that to-day, in consequence, 

 the purchaser of a lot which lies on both sides of the bed 

 of the former stream, that is, which would be crossed by the 

 stream if it existed, is obliged to get a quit-claim, or release, 

 of the brook from the descendants of the original legatee, in 

 order that the title shall be clear and above reproach. 



Lewis became the manor-lord and continued so until after 

 the Revolution. Upon the breaking out of hostilities, he be- 

 came a brigadier-general in the American army, but, early 

 in the war, he resigned his position to become a member of 

 the Continental Congress ; and, as such, his name is affixed as a 

 signer of the Declaration, as a delegate from New York. 

 His brother, Staats Long, refused to perform service in 

 America against his countrymen and remained in England 



