III. Jane, b. 13th February, 1739, m. to IV. Mary, b. 5th January, 1740, m. at Roger Morris d. 13th January, 1748, and was buried at St. George's, Hanover Square, 4th February. His third son, ROGER MORRIS, esq. lieutenant-colonel in the army, b. 28th January, 1727, m. 19th January, 1758, Mary, daughter of Frederick Philipse, esq. of New York, (see FAMILY OF PHILIPSE,) and had issue, I. AMHERST, (named after his god-father, Lord Amherst,) born in 1763, Captain R. N. gallantly distinguished in the celebrated engagement between the English frigate, La Nympe, of 30 guns and 255 men, and the French, La Cleopatre, of 42 guns and 336 men; Lieutenant Morris was the first officer to board the enemy's ship, and to him the French captain surrendered his sword, which is still preserved among other family relics. Captain Amherst Morris died unm. at Baildon, in Yorkshire, 29th April, 1802, and a to the side of the English government, and in consequence, the estates which he held in right of his wife, Mary Philipse,* were confiscated by the Americans. Her brother Frederick, and her surviving sister, adhered to the mother country; but the other brother, Philip Philipse, acting with the Americans, secured his share of the property, and his family still reside at Philipsburgh, in America. Frederick Philipse, as head of the family, received "compensation money" from the English government, (curtailed by Mr. Pitt,) £60,000 as his share. Colonel Beverley Robinson received in right of his wife, (who was the other surviving sister besides Mrs. Morris,) £17,000 for his life interest in the same, from the treasury, and Colonel Morris, in right of his wife, £17,000 for his life interest. Excuse was made for the smallness of the sum, on the score that the property was secured by the treaty of peace. In America it was not then the custom to have marriage settlements; but Colonel Morris, previously to his alliance, had settled his property on his children, which the American government were not aware of, and in consequence of a clause in the treaty of peace, that settlements should hold good, it was said that the rights of the children would be secured to them. But the family could not then afford to go to law for them after all their losses, and, moreover, to pay for all the improvements made on the estates, during their expulsion, by the AmeHENRY-GAGE, of whom presently. rican farmers of them, one hundred and Johanna, m. in 1787, to Thomas-Cowper fifty in number; and, accordingly, in the Hincks, esq. captain in the dragoon year 1809, Captain Henry-Gage Morris, on guards, and had issue. (See p. 366.) behalf of himself and his two sisters, sold the Maria, of York, died unm. 25th Sep-reversionary right to Mr. Astor,† a German tember, 1836. monument is there erected to his me- Colonel Roger Morris, who had received his company, in the 17th regiment, then stationed at Westminster, at the early age of seventeen, served with distinction in the first American war, and was wounded in the celebrated battle of the Monongohela river, in which General Braddock was killed, with most of his officers. In that engagement George Washington, Robert Orme, and Roger Morris, esqs. were aides-du-camp to General Braddock, and of the conflict an original manuscript account, a very curious document, is in the possession of the present CAPTAIN HENRY-GAGE MORRIS, R. N. On the breaking out of the second American war, Colonel Morris, as holding the king's commission, was bound by his duty to adhere It was from Mary Philipse's character, that Cooper, the American novelist, formed the heroine of "the Spy," under the name of Frances, and an interesting account is given of her interview with Washington. Vide also the preface to the "Water Witch." speculator and capitalist, for £20,000, though only one-third of the portion of each of the three younger children, viz. Colonel Morris, in right of his wife, Colonel Beverley Robinson, in right of his wife, and Frederick Philipse. Thus the whole property, even at that time, was worth 6 or £700,000, and in the present times, its value would be incalculable, nearly the whole of New York being built on a corner of it; their grants of land being twice as large as Yorkshire. Colonel Morris d. 13th September, 1794, aged sixty-seven; Mary, his wife, 18th July, 1825, aged ninety-six, having been born 5th July, 1730. Her family appear to have been remarkable for longevity, her sister Susannah, who was m. to Colonel Beverley Robinson, attained also the great age of ninety-four. The remains of Colonel and Mrs. Morris are deposited in a vault in St. Saviourgate Church, York, where a monu The American Rothschild. Frederick Philipse and his sisters were left equal shares by their father. ment is erected to their memory. Their | catholic Lancashire family, the fourth goveronly surviving son is the present CAPTAIN HENRY-GAGE MORRIS, R. N. Arms-Gu. a lion rampant reguardant or, quarterly with three boars' heads couped sa. Crest-A lion rampant reguardant or. Mottoes-Marte et mare faventibus, and Irrupta Copula. Estates-In the counties of York, Dorset, Cork, and Kerry. Residence-Charmouth, Dorsetshire. Family of Philipse. The ancient Dutch family of Philipse is presumed to have been originally of Bohemian extraction, and to have fled thence, on the persecutions that arose in the times of John Huss, and Jerome, of Prague. Cooper, the American novelist, in his preface to "The Water Witch," speaks of them as the "Bohemian Felipses," and the name had originally, it is probable, some meaning. FREDERICK PHILIPSE, the founder of the present family, emigrated from Holland to America, and arrived at New York in 1658, at that time in the possession of the Dutch, called New Netherlands. He brought with him money, plate, and jewels, having left East Friesland, with the consent of the stadholder and the states' general, to take possession of a large purchase of land he had made in the province of New York, Fredericksbourg, called the upper, and Philipsbourg, called the lower, patent, with many houses he had purchased in the city of New York, and land, which he laid out in streets, and afterwards built upon. He settled in the town, and also erected the house at Philipsbourg. He m. Margaret Dacres, and had, with a daughter, Eva, m. to Jacobus, third and youngest son of the Right Hon. Oliver-Stephen Van-Cortlandt, a son, FREDERICK PHILIPSE, b. in 1656, who m. Catherine, third daughter of the Right Hon. Oliver-Stephen Van-Cortlandt, of the manor of Cortlandt, and had a son, PHILIP PHILIPSE, b. in 1676, who m. Maria Sparkes,* daughter of the governor of Barbadoes, and dying in 1700, left a son and nor of New York after its cession to Great Britain, by Susannah-Maria, his wife, daughter of Paulus Æmilius Schrect, of the Pompton Estate, in New Jersey, and had issue, FREDERICK, his heir. Philip, who m. Miss Margaret Marston, Frederick, who m. first, his cousin, Susannah, m. Colonel Beverley Ro- BEVERLEY ROBINSON, colonel in the army, m. Miss Barclay, and left issue. Morris Robinson, also a colonel, John Robinson, speaker of the issue. Susannah-Maria-Robinson. MARY, b. 5th July, 1730, m. 19th Ja- Eva, m. to John Lay, esq. FREDERICK PHILIPSE, esq. of Philipsbourg, m. Elizabeth Rutgards, widow, dau. of Charles Williams, esq. and had issue, FREDERICK, Who m. Miss Griffiths, of Rhent, North Wales, niece of Gen. FREDERICK, a colonel in the army, Peerage and Baronetage, and had five children. Charlotte, m. to William, eldest son of Sir Henry-Allen Johnstone, bart. (see BURKE'S Peerage and Baronetage), and had nine sons and three daughters. Maria-Eliza, m. 4th September, 1779, to Lionel, Viscount Strangford, and had issue. (See BURKE'S Peerage and Baronetage.) Louisa, m. to Noble, esq. and had issue, Colonel Frederick Noble, who died in India s. p. and Eliza Noble. Charlotte, m. to Colonel Webber, and had three sons. Arms-Az. a demi lion rampant, rising out of a coronet arg. Crest-A demi lion rampant. MACNEILL, OF BARRA. MACNEILL, RODERICK, esq. of Barra, in the shire of Inverness, chief of the Macneills, m. in 1818, Isabella, daughter of Charles Brownlow, esq. of Brownlowsderry, in the county of Armagh, and has an only child, CAROLINE-ELIZABETH-FLORENCE. Colonel Macneill, who is a magistrate and deputy-lieutenant for Invernesshire, s. his father in 1822. Lineage. The Macneils are a very ancient clan in the Western Isles of Scotland, and formed one of those who in ancient times followed 66 the banner of the Lords of the Isles. Their chiefs, the Macneils of Barra, always ranked among the " Principes Insularum who formed the council of the island monarch, and possessed the privilege of declaring his successor. Barra, with the neighbouring islands which constituted the dominion of this chief, has been in the family for upwards of four hundred years, although tradition assigns a much older date as the period of their occupancy. The first of the Macneils of Barra who can be traced on record is NIGELLUS OGE, who obtained from RoBERT BRUCE a charter of some lands in Kintyre. He had a son, MURCHARD MACNEIL, who was succeeded by his son, RODERICK MACNEIL, who witnesses a charter by Donald, Lord of the Isles, to Hector Mac Gilleon, of Dowart, in 1409, in which he is styled "vir Nobilis." He married a daughter of Ferquhard Mac Gilleon, by whom he had several sons, the eldest of whom was GILLEOWNAN MACNEIL, who had a charter in the reign of JAMES I. from Alexander, Lord of the Isles, to Gilleownan Roderici Murchardi Macneil, of the island of Barra and lands of Boisdale in the island of Uist. He was succeeded by his grandson, GILLEOWNAN, who obtained from JAMES IV. a crown charter, confirming the grant made by the Lord of the Isles to his grandfather, dated 12th August, 1495. He was succeeded by his son, of the same name, GILLEOWNAN MACNEIL, of Barra, who took an active part in the various rebellions made in favour of the lords of the isles during the reign of JAMES V. and regency of Mary of Guise. He had two sons, 1. RODERICK, or RORIE OGE, his heir. II. Gilleownan. who obtained from his brother the lands of | Jane, second daughter of Sir Ewen CameSkirwal, &c. in Barra. The elder surviving son, NEIL MACNEIL, of Barra, had three sons, II. Hector. III. Neil. The eldest, JOHN MACNEIL, of Barra, married Catharine, daughter of the Captain of Clanranald, by whom he had two sons, 1. RODERICK, his heir. II. John, who settled in Kintyre. The elder, RODERICK MACNEIL, of Barra, obtained a crown charter of the estate of Barra 10th August, 1688, and married Isabella, eldest daughter of Sir Norman Macleod, of Bernera, by whom he had two sons, 1. RODERICK, his heir. II. James. He was s. by the elder, RODERICK MACNEIL, of Barra, who married Alice, second dau. of William Macleod, who was second son of Sir Norman Macleod, of Bernera, and had a son and successor, RODERICK MACNEIL, of Barra, who m. Anne, daughter of Donald Macneil, of Watersay, and was s. by his son, RODERICK MACNEIL, of Barra, who m. ron, bart. of Fassifern, and had two sons, and five daughters, viz. RODERICK. Ewen Cameron. Arms-Quarterly; 1st, vert, a lion rampant or 2nd. arg. in base the sea, with a castle above the sea ppr.; 3rd, or, a lymphad sa. sail furled; 4th, or, a dexter hand erect couped gu. within an orle of nine fetterlocks. Crest-A rock gu. Supporters-Two lions rampt. ppr. standing on a scroll, with the " "" motto Vincere vel mori. Estates-The islands of Barra, Watersay, Sanderay, Phappa, Berneray, &c. all in Invernesshire, possessed from time immemorial. Seat-Barra House, Invernesshire. HIBBERT-WARE, OF EDINBURGH. WARE-HIBBERT, SAMUEL, M.D. of Edinburgh, b. 21st April, 1782; m. first, 23rd July, 1804, Miss Sarah Crompton, of Bury, Lanca shire, and by her, who died 13th April, 1822, had issue, TITUS-HIBBERT, b. 17th September, 1810. William-Hibbert, b. 15th April, 1812, in the medical He married, secondly, 8th January, 1825, Charlotte-Wil- Robert-Green, b. 18th May, 1826. George-Henry, b. 9th November, 1834. This gentleman, whose patronymic is Hibbert, by royal licence dated 28th March, Charlotte-Wilhelmina Murray, who was b. 10th August, 1790; m. 10th August, 1808, for her first husband William Scott, esq. son of the Rev. James Scott, D.D. minister of Carluke, Lanarkshire. He held the office of receiver-general of the Isle of Man, and d. 28th August, 1818, leaving issue, 1. Henry-Murray, b. 16th November, 1809, an ensign in the 83rd regiment, d. October, 1832. II. Archibald-Hamilton, b. 16th August, 1812. III. James, b. 6th September, 1816. IV. William-Douglas, b. 22nd January, 1819. I. Jessie. II. Elizabeth. III. Another daughter of the name of Jessie, died young. 1837, assumed the surname and arms of Ware, as being the representative of the oldest branch of the family of Sir James Ware, the historian of Ireland. Dr. Hibbert-Ware is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and has held the office of Vice-president of the Antiquarian Society of Scotland; he is also the author of various works connected with physiological, antiquarian, and geological researches. Lineage. 1. JAMES, (the historian), knighted in the lifetime of his father. He was the only one of the sons who left behind him male issue, of whom more immediately. The family of Ware, according to Walterbury, Suffolk. (Walter Harris says she Harris, who had access to Sir James Ware's was the sister of Sir Ambrose Briden, of private records, (see Harris's Ware, vol. ii. Maidstone, in Kent.) She was interred in p. 145), claims a descent from Roger de the church of St. Werberg, Dublin, 5th Ware, lord of Isefield, and a baron of Par- December, 1632. The issue from this marliament in the reign of EDWARD I. The riage were founder of this house was Jordan de la War, of Wick, in the county of Gloucester, whose descendants enjoyed extensive grants of land in the southern, midland, and western counties of England, for having signalised themselves in various wars, particularly in the fields of Cressy and Poictiers; while the last baron was "" 'Magister Thomas la Warre," living in the reign of HENRY V., priest and rector of Manchester, and the munificent founder of the collegiate church of that town. CHRISTOPHER WARE, descended from Roger de Ware, lord of Isefield, was in the beginning of the reign of Queen ELIZABETH settled in Yorkshire. "He was an early convert," says Harris, "to the Protestant religion, having been brought over from Catholicism by the zeal and labours of John Fox, the martyrologist, then lately returned from Germany, whither he had fled from the persecutions and cruelties of the government of Queen MARY, as great numbers of the Protestant profession had done." JAMES WARE, the youngest of the two sons of Christopher Ware, was very early sent to push his fortunes in the court of Queen ELIZABETH. In the year 1588 he accompanied Sir William Fitz-William, lord deputy of Ireland, in the capacity of secretary, which was the first appearance of this family in the sister-kingdom. Owing to his great attention to the public affairs of Ireland, he was advanced, about six years after his arrival, to the office of clerk of the Common Pleas in the Exchequer, and shortly afterwards obtained the appointment of auditor-general, with a reversionary patent of the office in favour of his son. In the reign of JAMES I. he was knighted, and in 1613 was returned member of Parliament for the borough of Mallow, in the county of Cork. He appears to have acquired considerable property while thus employed in Ireland, as his will mentions estates in the county of Longford, at Cloughred in Tipperary, at Jamestown, Abbey of Derge, Macetown in the county Meath, &c. &c. Sir James Ware m. Mary, daughter of Ambrose Bryden, esq. of Saint Edmunds 11. John, who m. Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Henry Piers, bart. of Tristernagh. III. Joseph, in holy orders, dean of v. Robert (not named in his father's ter, Mary, baptized at St. Michan's, 11. Anne, m. to Emanuel Downings, III. Russel, m. to Humphrey Reynolds, v. Cecilia, m. to Sir Dudley Loftus, Sir James Ware died suddenly, 14th May, 1632, in walking from Fishamble Street to his house in Castle Street, and was succeeded by his son, SIR JAMES WARE, knt. the historian.* * Two or three discrepancies occur which it is not easy to adjust. The individuals whom Sir James Ware, the historian, mentions in his will as his cousins may possibly supply some blanks, viz. Sarah King, Russel Nevin, and Mary Rourk. |
