466 HISTORY OF TKE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



prov'ts whatsoever, as also all goods, household stuff and utensills, moneys, plate, 

 and even- thing cist' moveable and im'ble within doors and w't that, can be named 

 or expressed, that now is, or hereafter shall be, in my pos'n or any ways belon'g 

 unto the B'd pl'n, except what is here otherwise disposed of and beq'd. Item. I 

 give and beq'h unto my said d'y bel'd wife all that my bouses, land in X. Y. city, 

 situate over against the bridge, unto all appurt'ees, profiittfl and advant'ges what- 

 soever thereunto belong's, with all deeds, pattents, writings, bills, bonds, oblg'ions, 



and all things else whats'r, named and unnamed, belonging: Item 



to John Bowne, of Flushing, one negro girl n'd Abba ; is att old Thomas Hunts. 



Item to Miles Foster, one serv'ble negro boy, such as my s'd d'y 



bel'd wife shall appoint. Item to Ric'd Jones, M'ht, of N. Y, one 



negro boy or one negro girl, such asmbdwif shall appoint. Item. 



. . to William Bickley and to my n'w, L. M., all m} r right, t and int., in and 



to the ship Friends' Adventure, as also all of my part of her profits and ad'ges 



by freight or ortherwise, to each of th eq'l alike part. Item my s'd 



n'w, my gold seale and my negro man Yeabba ; and whereas, I have beq'd unto 

 m s'd n'w, L. ML, all m E at the ironworks at T., with this expression, viz : (as 

 soon as II s'l attaine to the age of 21 yeare), 49 as above written, I doe now re- 

 voke ye s'd expression as to time, giving unto him, my s'd n'w, full power and 

 auth'y to enter into and possess the s'd e'te, and ev'y part and p'l thereof, imm'ly 

 after my decease, anything before above w'n to the contrary not'g, but under the 

 same restrictions and limitations as before men'd, viz : by his conformit}' to the 

 fulfilling of this my last will and testament ; all the rest of my plate and money, 

 silver and gold, I give and beq'h unto my dearly beloved wife. Lastly, I desire, 

 author' and app't my trusty friends, Ric'd Jones and Miles Foster, of N. Y., 

 John Bowne, of Flushing, Wm. Richardson, of W C'r, Richard Ilartshorne, and 

 John Banes, of co of Monmouth, and Wm. Bickley of W'r co aforesaid, to be 

 my executors in trust, and overseers to see this my will punctually perf'd and 

 fulfil'd; and in reg'd to the remoteness of their abodes from one another, I do 

 order and appoint that any three of them may act as they shall find needfull, 

 provided Wm. Rich'n. Wm. Bickley, or Rich'd Ilartshorne be of that number; 

 and for want of a 3d person in the co Monmouth, R'd Ilartshorne and John 

 I lanes may act there as they shall find cause, or may choose a 3d person to act, 

 &c, &. 



And now. having thus disposed of that outward estate and substance that it, 

 hath >d to possess me of, I commit my soul to God, &c. 



In testimony Avhereof, I the s'd Lewis Morris, have hereunto to this my last 

 will and ft subscrib'd, signed and fixed my seal, at my plant'n over against Har- 

 lem, in the p'e N. Y., this seventh day of this twelfth month called February, in 

 the year 1G90, in presence of Johannis Vermilje, Jan Tibout, Lamueert Zoches, 

 David Lillies, marks of Susannah Roberts — Wm. Bickley. 



The above will shows plainly that " Colonel Lewis Morris was by con- 

 viction a Quaker, and apparently remained a Friend to the day of his 

 death; for he bequeathes five pounds to the meeting of Friends at Shrews- 

 bury, and likewise gives his negro man, Yaff, to his honored friend 

 William Penn, provided the said Penn shall come to reside in America. 



