696 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



Col. Roger Morris had five children; (1), Joanna Morris, married in 

 1787, to Thomas Cowper Hincks, Esq., Captain in the Dragoon Guards, 

 and left issue. (2), Amherst, (named after his god-father, Lord Am- 

 herst , born in 1763, Commander in the Royal Navy; died at Bailden, 

 in Yorkshire, in 1S02. The following inscription is on his grave-stone 

 there : — 



To the memory of 



CAPTAIN AMHERST MORRIS, 



of the Royal Na /y, 



who died the 27th day of April, Anuo Domini 1802, 



aged 38 years. 



Virtute nihil obstat et armis. 



(3), Maria, died at York, as above ; (4), Margaret, died young in this 

 country; Henry Gage Morris, Rear Admiral of the Royal Navy, who 

 was born in 1770, married in 1805, died in 1851, and lies buried in the 

 church-yard of Beverly Minster, Yorkshire, leaving, by his wife Rebecka, 

 Newenham, Millard, Orpen, daughter of Rev. Francis Orpen, of Cork, 

 Ireland, and six sons, viz : — Rev. Francis Orpen Morris, Rector of Nun- 

 Burnholme, Yorkshire; Rear Admiral Henry Gage Morris, of the Royal 

 Navy, London ; Frederick Philipse Morris, Barrister, London ; Bev- 

 erly Robinson Morris, M.D., Nottingham; Rev. Adolphus Philipse 

 Morris, A.M., first rector of St. Mary's Parish, Yorktown, and now 

 curate of Leeds, Kent, England; and Charles D'Urban Morris, AM., 

 of Lake Mohegan. 



The parochial church of St. Mary stands near the Lake, and the resi- 

 dence of Mr. Morris, fronting on the Peekskill road, leading from Lake 

 Mahopac to the latter place ; it is built of stone concrete, in the early 

 English style. The church lot, embracing half an acre, was the gift of 

 Charles D'Urban Morris, A.M. 



Shrub Oak contains a Methodist church, a post-office, and about 

 fifteen dwellings. The Methodist society of this place was first incor- 

 porated upon the 22d of September, 1840; Newman Lounsberry, 

 Benjamin Curry, Solomon Requa, Thomas Curry, jr., and Jonathan 

 Danow, trustees." The church, which was erected in T839, is a very 

 neat wooden structure. In the immediate neighborhood, lies Lake 

 Magrigaries, ( Hollow Lake, already alluded to,) which is a beautiful 

 sheet of water, well stocked with fish. 



A rich and picturesque vale extends south from Crompond, backed 

 by rolling hills. Upon one of the principal heights in this vicinity, 



o Co. Rcc. Religious Soc. lib. B. 65. 



