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some few years or months, they and their tenants, who hold part of the 

 said Manor, by, from and under them, have met with great disturbances 

 from Lewis Morris, Esq., Chief Justice of the Province of New York, 

 and the town or borough of Westchester, Daniel Turneur and Thomas 

 Hunt, of Westchester, who pretend title to some part or parts of the 

 same Manor, and more particularly the said Lewis Morris, Esq., hath 

 not only caused their fences to be pulled down and removed, but some 

 time within these two years, hath entered upon, &c, and taken posses- 

 sion of upwards of three hundred acres (of said manor of Fordham) of 

 the best of their land adjoining to his Manor of Morrisania, and hath 

 given out in speeches that unless they will release to him the said quan- 

 tity of land and of their said Manor, he will lay claim to their whole 

 Manor, either in his own right or in the rights of the borough of West- 

 chester, and that if your orators will freely and peaceably release to him 

 and let him keep and hold the quiet possession and enjoyment of said 

 three hundred acres, he will release to ye orators all the rest of the 

 said Manor, and also procure to them the like release to them from the 

 town of Westchester. As orators witnesses cannot live long who can 

 prove the running of the line — prays for examination "in perpetuan rei 

 memoriam," and asks for subpoena against Morris, Mayor, Aldermen and 

 Commonality of Westchester, Daniel Turneur and Thomas Hunt." 



On the 5th of May, 1725, appears notice of taxation of costs for 

 setting aside the subpoenas irregularly issued against the defendants in 

 the above suit, also a draft of the foregoing bill in Chancer}-, likewise a 

 copy of Mire vs. Trespass case without date. On the 27th of March, 

 1725, occurs the filing of a demurrer to above bill. 



Besides the above documents, all of which are in the possession of 

 Gouverneur Morris, Esq., are the following: 1. Copy of O'Neal's 

 Patent. 2. Dutch Church Charter. 3. John Archer's Patent, 167 1. 4. 

 Letter of Lewis Morris, April 25th, 1717, protests against surveying the 

 boundary line. 5. Elias Doughty to Betts and Tippets. 6. Petition of 

 Dutch Church, filed Dec. 7th, 1724. praying for an examination of wit- 

 nesses " in perpeiuam rei memoriam" for the proof of the title of the said 

 Dutch Church to the manor of Fordham, a copy of original supposed to 

 be filed in Court of Chauncery. 7. Copy of panel of jurors dated Rye, 

 March 13th, 1 759, Dutch Church vs. Lewis Gerardus Willets, et a/. 8. A 

 green paper endorsed, ''Papers relating to dispute between Morrisania 

 and the Manor of Fordham." N. B. — Lewis Morris, under the Ford- 

 ham title, possessed himself of the upper part of Morrisania — now 

 owned under his will by his son William. 9. Draft of advertisement. 

 10. List of jurors balloted, 15th March. 1759. 11. July, 1756, Supreme 

 Court, issue joined and Coroner directed to draw a jury. 12. Partial 

 draft of foregoing advertisement. 13. A brief submitted by Lewis Mor- 

 ris ; the same Lewis Morris, original defendant, died in May. 1746. 14. 



