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is also connected with the Van Cortlandts, the lords of Cortlandt 

 Manor. Roger Morris (eleventh in descent from Cadugan of Philip 

 Dorddu, a powerful Welsh chieftain) who stood high in favor, and on 

 terms of great friendship, with the Duke of Argyle and the Earl of Pem- 

 broke in 1734, married Mary, daughter of Sir Peter Jackson, Knt., a 

 (Turkey) merchant of London, by Mary his wife, daughter of Sir Peter 

 Vandeput, Knt., sheriff of London in 1684, by Margaret his wife, 

 daughter of Sir John Buckworth, Knt. of West Shun Surrey. Roger 

 Morris died 13th Jan., 1748. The third son of Roger Morris and Mary 

 Jackson was Roger Morris, Esq., lieutenant-colonel in the British army, 

 born 28th of January, 1727, married 19th January, 1758, Mary, daughter 

 of Frederick Philipse, last Lord of the Manor of Philipsburgh. It was 

 from this lady's character that Cooper formed the heroine of " The Spy," 

 under the name of Frances. Washington is said to have greatly admired 

 her. Col. Roger Morris served with distinction in the first American 

 war, and was wounded in the celebrated battle of the Monongahela 

 River, in which General Braddock was killed with most of his officers. 

 In that engagement George Washington, Robert Orme and Roger 

 Morris, Esqrs., were aides-de-camp to General Braddock ; and of the con- 

 flict, an original manuscript account, a very curious document, was in 

 possession of the late Capt. Henry Gage Morris, of the R. N. 



Col. Roger Morris died 13th Sept., 1794, aged sixty-eight; Mary, his 

 wife, 18th July, 1825, aged ninety-six, having been born 5th July, 1730. 

 The remains of this distinguished and worthy couple are deposited in a 

 vault in St. Saviours church, York, England, where the following inscrip- 

 tion occurs on a marble tablet : — 



Near this spot are deposited the remains of 



COLONEL ROGER MORRIS, 



formerly of his Majesty's 47th Regiment of Foot, 



who departed this life on the 13th day of September, 1794, 



in the 68th year of his age. 



AND OF 



MARY MORRIS, 



relic of the same 



who departed this life on the 18th day of July, 1825, 



in the 96th year of her age. 



AND ALSO OF 



MARIA MORRIS, 



the affectionate daughter of the above, 



who departed this life on the 25th day of Sept., 1836, 



111 the 71st year of her age. 



