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Lewis Morris (April 8, 1726 – January 22, 1798) was an American landowner and developer from Morrisania, New York. He signed the U.S. Declaration of Independence as a delegate to the Continental Congress from New York. This Morris was the third to be named Lewis Morris, and was born on the family estate of Morrisania. He was the son of Lewis and Katrintje or Catherine (Staats) Morris. His great grandfather (Richard, died 1672) had immigrated to New York through Barbados after being part of Oliver Cromwell's army in the English Civil War of 1648. He purchased the first tract of land in the Bronx that became the basis for the Morrisania manor. When Richard and his young wife died, leaving behind an infant son named Lewis, it was Richard's brother, Colonel Lewis Morris, also of Barbados, who came to Morrisania to help manage the estate formerly belonging to his late-brother and now his infant nephew. Eventually the infant Lewis Morris (1671–1746) inherited the estate of his father after the death of his uncle, Col. Lewis Morris, and his wife, who were childless. This Lewis Morris married a woman named Isabella and then expanded and patented the estate and was also Governor of New Jersey. When his father died in 1762, he inherited the bulk of the estate. A prominent land owner in colonial New York, Lewis was appointed as a judge of the Admiralty Court for the province in 1760. As the Revolution drew near, he resigned this post in 1774. He was elected to the Colonial Assembly in 1769. ==Marriage and children== On September 24, 1749, Lewis married Mary Walton (May 14, 1727 – March 11, 1794), a member of a historic merchant family. () Lewis and Mary were the parents of 10 children; * Catherine Morris (March 4, 1751 – November 22, 1835) * Mary Morris (1752 – July 5, 1776) * Col. Lewis V. Morris (1754 – November 22, 1824); married Ann B. Elliott of Accabee Plantation S.C.; her sister married Congressman Daniel Huger. * Gen. Jacob Morris (December 28, 1755 – January 10, 1844) * Sarah Morris (born 1757– died young) * Lt. William Walton Morris (1760 – April 5, 1832) * Helena Magdalena Morris (1762 – October 6, 1840); married Senator John Rutherfurd of New Jersey * James Morris (1764 – September 1, 1827) * Capt. Staats Morris (1765–1826); married Everarda van Braam Houckgeest (Amsterdam April 2, 1765 – Stillwater 1816), daughter of Andreas Everardus van Braam Houckgeest and Baroness Catharina C.G. van Reeds van Oudtshoorn; their offspring took the surname "Van Braam Morris" and they live in the Netherlands. * Capt. Richard Valentine Morris (March 8, 1768 – May 13, 1815) His eldest three sons served during the Revolutionary war, and had distinguished military careers. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lewis Morris」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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