THE TOWN OF WEST FARMS. 46 1 



Fourteen days afterwards we find the following order issued : — 



" Whereas it has been found that the two-third parts of the estate left by the 

 late Richard Munis belong in real propriety to his brother, Colonel Lewis Morris, 

 a resident of the [eland of Barbadoea in the Caribbees, whose estate, 1 y the Pro- 

 clamation dated the 20th of September last, is confiscated for the behoof of the 

 government; and it being therefore necessary that in addition to the guardians and 

 tutors of the aforenamed Richard Morris's surviving orphan child, someone be 

 commissioned on the part of the government to regulate said estate. Therefore 

 have I resolved to commission and qualify Balthazar Bayard to that end, as he 

 is hereby commissioned and qualified to assume the said estate fcr the two-third 

 parts thereof which belong to the government, with said guardians by name, 

 Mess v " John Lawrence, Btephanus van Cortlandt and Walter Webly, for the one- 

 third part thereof inherited by them ; to adjust and settle the debts and credits; 

 to sell the remaining personal property, and thereof to deliver into the Secretary's 

 office pertinent account and balance when order shall be issued what further dis- 

 position shall be made therein. 



Bated. Fort Willem Hexdrick, 1st of Nov., W"Jd." a 



Lewis Morris addressed the following to the Governor-General some 

 time during the same month : — 



TO THE HONORABLE ANTHONY COLOE, GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF 

 NEW NETHERLAND. 

 Right HoN r ' LE Sir : — "Whereas departing on your pass from New Orange to 

 Oyster Bay, and so to New Haven, I have recovered there some of the missing 

 estate belonging to my nephew's plantation within your jurisdiction ; I therefore 

 humbly request you to be pleased to grant me a pass to enable me to bring said 

 property which belongs to my nephew who is one of your subjects with the sloop 

 belonging to my cousin's plantation known by the name of Bro.ck's Land, or to 

 New Orange, or to Oyster Bay, or to Sylvester's Island ; my affairs being such, 

 your compliance herewith will oblige me to be and remain, 



Your Honour's faithful friend, in the name and at the request of 



LEWIS MORRIS. 



Ordered: — The Petitioner is allowed to come hither in person, and to bring all 

 such goods as lawfully belong to the late Richard Morris's orphan child, also 

 said orphan's boat. 



This 30th Oct., 1673, by order of the Governor-General of New Netherland. 



(Signed,) N. BAYARD, Sccretanj:^ 



Upon the 28th of February, 1674, Anthony Coloe, the Governor, ap- 

 pointed two new guardians, or commissioners, for the surviving orphan 

 child of Richard Morris, viz., Messrs. Dirck Van Clyff and Walter Webly 

 with Balthazar Bayard, the already appointed commissioner, (in place of 



a Pec. Col Hist. N. Y. Holland Doc. 165T-1G7S, vol. ii. p. 650. 

 b Doc. Col. Hist. N. Y. Holland Doc. 1G57-16TS, vol. ii. p. Gfrk 



