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that his friends should be at the unnecessary expense, which was owing 

 only to the common folly of mankind."' 1 



The following notice of his death appeared in the New York Weekly 

 Post Boy for May 26th, 1746 : — 



" New York, May 23d, Wednesday last departed this life, at Trenton, 

 after a lingering illness, in an advanced age, his Excellency Lewis Morris, 

 . Captain General and Governor-in-Chief of the Province of New 

 Jersey." 



The following items are taken from the journal of his son, Lewis 

 Morris : — 



•• May 26th, 1746, set out from Trenton with my father's corpse for 

 Amboy ferry ; got there that night about nine of the clock. His corpse 

 was attended by numbers of people, and his pall was supported by 

 Messrs Andrew Johnston, James Hide, Peter Kemble, Thomas Leon- 

 ard, Philip French, Daniel Cox, Philip Kearney and Charles Read. 

 The corpse was put on board of a large peri -augur, b which came from 

 Morrisania, for that purpose, and arrived the next morning at Morrisa- 

 nia, the wind blowing at night at north-west extraordinary hard, and 

 being cold lay that night at the ferry." 



"May 29th. My father was buried at Morrisania in a vault built by 

 directions in his will. The materials and workmanship came to ^10 

 6s. 7^d. His bearers were the Chief Justice, Joseph Murray, Robert Wal- 

 ters, James Alexander, William Smith, David Clarkson, Abraham De- 

 peyster and Lewis Johnston. Dr. Standard, the minister of the parish of 

 Westchester, attended the burial and performed the service of the 

 Church." c 



By her last will and testament d Isabella Morn's, wife of Governor 

 Morris, directs that " her body be decently interred in the vault at Mor- 

 risania, near the remains of her deceased husband."' This lady was the 

 daughter of James Graham, Attorney-General for the province of New 

 York, and a near relation of the Marquis of Montrose. 



The subjoined notice of her decease appeared in the Pennsylvania 

 Gazette for April 9th, 1752 : — 



New York, April 6th. — "Last Monday, died in the eightieth year of her age, 

 and on Thursday was decently interred in the family vault at Morrisania, Isabella 

 Morris, widow and relict of his Excellency Lewis Morris, Esq., late Governor of 



a See will in papers of Lewis Morris, New Jersey, Hist. Soc, p. 323. 



b Perl-auger Peril, (little,) and the Spanish augua, (water,) a flat-bottomed boat like a 



met without bowspit or gib with centre board. 

 c He adds, " May 3orh, sent back the chaises to Harlem that we borrowed for the burial. 

 There was one quarter cask of wine expended at the funeral to about two dozen bottles, and 

 two gallons of rum, a barrel of cider and two barrels of beer, Ac, &c. Nov. (5,1 746, 

 1 in my mother withmy wife, begged her blessing and returned back at dusk."— Copied 

 from the journal of lion. Lewis Morris In possession of the late Uovcrneur M. Wilkins, Esq. 

 d Lib. zviiL of wills, Surrogates Office, N. Y., p. 94. 



