484 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



(APT. W. MORRIS, 



(Aid to Gen. T. Pinckney,) 



Died at Sullivan's Island, S. C, 



September 7th, 1823, ^E. 40 years. 



"Go my friend, with thy hundred virtues. 

 to the home of thy Fathers', go with thy 



noble to the bosom of thy God. 



Brave and generous spirit. Fare thee 

 well."— A. H. 



Erected by the daughters of Col. Morris. 



Lieut. Col. Morris was the father of the late Col. Lewis Morris of 

 Morrisania, who died at Adams Run, St. Paul's Parish, S. C, 30th Sept., 

 1863. The son of the latter, Henry M. Morris of New York, possesses 

 the following portraits, formerly preserved at Old Morrisania : — 



Hon. Lewis Morris, first proprietor of Morrisania, of that name, Gov- 

 ernor of New Jersey ; only son of Richard Morris, in yellow coat and 

 flowing wig. Gen. Staats Long Morris, attired in the uniform of a Brig- 

 adier-General of the British Army, red coat, white satin vest trimmed 

 with gold lace, black cocked hat trimmed in the same manner. Isaac 

 Gouverneur, dressed in a blue coat and a red waistcoat ; An unknown 

 portrait in brown coat and scarlet waistcoat ; General Lewis Morris, 

 signer of the Declaration of Independence and Brigadier- General in the 

 Continental army, dressed in olive-green coat; Mary Walton, wife of the 

 signer, dressed in a light blue silk dress ; Sophia Elliott, by Waldo ; Wil- 

 liam Elliott, by the same ; Colonel Lewis Morris, aid to General Greene, 

 a miniature, by Fraser, of South Carolina; a marble bust by Launitz, of 

 Ann B. Elliott, wife of the latter. 



The Honorable Richard Morris, third son of Lewis Morris, third pro- 

 prietor and second Lord of the Manor, was born at Old Morrisania in 

 1730, and was Judge of the High Court of Admiralty in 1776; by 

 Sarah, daughter of Henry Ludlow, he left three children — Lewis R. ; 

 Robert, of Mount Fordham; and Mary, who married Brigadier- Major 

 William Popham. Robert, the second son, left the Honorable Robert 

 H. Morris, Justice of the Supreme Court of New York. This individual 

 died at the residence of his father-in-law Munson, at Astoria, Oct. 24th, 

 1857. The following notice of his death appeared in the papers of the 

 day: — 



■ Among the bonks formerly preserved in the library at Old Morrisania may be mentioned 

 Syrel's History of England. Dugdale's Summons of Parliament, < lollllm'e Heraldry, Anderson's 

 1:. Del i'i, 1.-, Commons ili.-t. AngL Scriptures Dea , ball Mosi, Plaian Exercitatione, 

 Matthew Paris Li-toria-Chaucer, Ac, <Jx. « 



