THE TOWN OF WEST FARMS. 48 1 



the Province of New Jersey. A lady endowed with every qualification requisite 

 to reader the sex agreeable and entertaining. Through all the various scenes 

 of life, she was a pattern of conjugal affection, a tender parent, a sincere friend, 

 and an excellent economist. She was 



Liberal without Prodigality, In Person, Venerable. 



Frugal without Parsimony, In Conversation, Affable. 



Cheerful without Levity, In Friendship, Faithful. 



Exalted without Pride, Of Envy, Void, 



She passed through life, endowed with every grace ; 

 Her Virtues, OUent Destruction can't deface, 

 Or Cruel Envy e'er eclipse her fame, 

 Nor mouldering time obliterate her name." 



The sons of the Hon. Lewis Morris and Isabella his wife, were: — 1st, 

 Lewis, to whom his father bequeathed all that part of Morrisania lying 

 to the eastward of the Mile Brook ; and the remainder, westward of the 

 same stream, called Old Morrisania, to his wife Isabella for life, and 

 after her death to his said son Lewis Morris, for life, with power to dis- 

 pose of the same by will to which ever of his sons he should see fit. ft 2d, 

 Robert Hunter Morris, Chief Jusrice of New Jersey, who had for his 

 share the Jersey estates. 



Lewis Moms, who by his father's will, now took the lordship and 

 manor of Morrisania, was Judge of the High Court of Admirality and 

 one of the Judges of Oyer and Terminer, was born 23d of Sept., 1698, 

 and died 3d July, 1762. By his last will, dated Nov. 19th, 1760, he 

 devised "all that part of Morrisania situated west of the Mill Brook, to 

 his eldest son Lewis Morris." To his wife, "the land whereon his house 

 stands, west of the Mill Brook." " To his brother Robert Hunter Mor- 

 ris, he bequeathed the pictures of his father and mother," and " that of 

 myself and wife to my daughter Isabella. 6 



His, son, Governeur, was to have the best education that was to be 

 had in England or America. 



His three sons by his first wife, Catharine Staats, were Lewis Morris, 

 fifth proprietor and third Lord of the Manor, General Staats Long 

 Morris, who married Catharine, the celebrated Duchess of Gordon, and 

 Richard Morris, Judge of the High Court of Admirality in 1776. 



Lewis Morris, the fifth proprietor and the last Lord of the Manor, 

 was born at old Morrisania in 1726. Educated at Yale College, he 

 received his B.A. degree in 1746, and his M.A. in 1790. Returning 



a Prerogative Court, Trenton, New Jersey, Lib. E. of Wills, p. 11, &c. 



6 The above pictures are in possession of Lewis G. Morris, Esq., of Fordham. 



e Surrogate's oillce, N. Y., Liber. 23, 426. 



