Little Visits to Historical Points in Westchester County
Little Visits to Historical Points in Westchester County
J Wallace Clapp
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his death In 1691, occupying a handsome res- idence which was a place of liberal hospitality. He left no descendants, his sole heir being his nephew Lewis, the only son of his brother Richard. As was the custom of the times Captain, or Colonel, Morris owned a large number of slaves; in his will he records over sixty negroes. The Colonel vvas an intimate acquaintance of William Penn, who had great influence over him, and induced Morris to become a Friend; the Colonel retained his Quaker convicti...ons to the last. The nephew, young Lewis Morris, was a gay youth, and his uncle referred to him in his will with considerable severity, adverting to "his many and great miscarryages and disobedience towards my wife and me, and his causeless absenting him- self from my house, and adhering to and advizing with those of bad Hfe and conversation. " This graceless youth soon proved himself eminently deserving of his fine inheritance. 108 MANORS OF WESTCHESTER CO. Under him the Bronxland estate, and the adjoin- ing 1, 420 acres were converted into the Manor of Morrisania, authority was given him to hold a court leet, and court baron, "to exercise jurisdic- tion over all waifs, strays, wrecks, goods or felons happening or being within the manor limits.
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