[56] The king: “Pray, Mr. Morris, what part of America are you from?” Morris: “I am from near New York, sir. I have a brother who has the honor to be a lieutenant general in your Majesty’s service.” The king: “Eh! what! You’re a brother of General Morris? Yes, I think I see a likeness, but you’re much younger.” Diary, vol. II, p. 135. Some years prior to the Revolution, his elder brother, Staats Morris, had married the Duchess of Gordon and was a lieutenant general in the British army. He was the first lieutenant colonel of the Eighty-ninth Regiment of Highlanders, the duke being a captain, and his brothers, lieutenant and ensign. [57] “Life of Morris,” vol. I, p. 477. [58] Diary, vol. II, p. 418. [59] “The Homes of America,” p. 119. [60] The house was taken down in 1905 to make way for the tracks of the New York & New Haven Railroad Company. [61] Surrogate’s Office, New York, fol. XVIII, 62. [62] “Bolton’s History of Westchester County,” vol. II, p. 622. [63] Daughter of Lieutenant Robert Feake, patentee of Greenwich, Conn., and his wife Elizabeth, niece of John Winthrop. [64] Morris’s “Memorial History of Staten Island.” [65] New York _Herald_, April 15, 1906. Transcriber’s Notes Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed. Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced. Inconsistent use of small-caps in the “Subjects” (Table of Contents) has been retained here. Misspelled French words were not corrected. Photographs of the buildings usually are just above the chapters referring to them, and the Table of Subjects refers to the chapters, not to the photographs. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Old Buildings of New York, by Anonymous