A History of the County of Westchester, Vol. II — Passage 42
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] Besides the negroes in fol. 7, more. Appraised by us underwritten. More 17 doz. scissors at 33. 2 11 0 7 ewt. 1 qr. 9 lb. old lead at 30s. per cut, 11 0 0 £\3 11 0 S. V. CORTLANDT. Exhibited the seventeenth day of February, 1691, by Lewis Morris, ad-ministrator, &c, for a true and perfect inventory, &c., but under protestation of adding, &c., if &c. L. Morris. £4071 16. 844 0 Step. V. Cortlandt, N. Bayard, John Pell, Wm. Richardson. Lewis Morris, heir of his uncle Lewis, and third proprietor of Morrisania, appears to have been a man of extraordinary talents. Chief Justice William Smith informs us, that of all the members of the New York assembly in 1710, "Colonel Morris had the greatest influence on our public affairs. He was a man of letters,