High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles The Morris Reserve was a 500,000 acre (2,000 km ) tract of land owned by Robert Morris in western New York in the late 18th Century. It was originally part of the 6,000,000 acre (24,000 km ) purchase in April 1788 of the pre-emptive right to all of Massachusetts' lands in western New York by Oliver Phelps and Nathaniel Gorham (the "Phelps and Gorham Purchase"). The sale of the pre-emptive right to Phelps...