" She was a handsome, pleasing woman," born in New York, 5th of August, 1732, and married 9th Sept., 1756. Her

first husband was Rutgers. "At the commencement of our

Revolution," continues Mr. Jay, "he, Frederick Philipse," was inclined to the Whigs, but was afterwards persuaded to favor the tories." He was removed to Connecticut on his parole. Nothing could have been more favorable to him, circumstanced as he was, than to be placed in

a Babtne In his Biographical skercH.es of American loyalists, says of Frederick Philipse: " He occupied an elevated position in colonial sociely, but he d6es not appear to have been a prominent actor In public affairs. He was, however, a member of the House of Assembly, and held tli ! c immlssion of colonel in the militia. Nor does It seem that, though a friend of existing iustutions, and an opposer of the \\ higs, he was an active partisan. lu April, 1775, he went to the gtouml appointed by the Whigs of Westchester i ounty, to elect deputies to Congress, and declared, that he would not join lu the business of the day ; and. that his sole purpose in going there was to protest against their illegal and unconstitutional proceedings. On some other occasion he pursued a similar line of conduct, but his name is seldom met Within the documents of the tune. Soon after 1771, Colonel David llumphrcvs. who subsequently b c imean aid to Washington, and under the Federal government, minister to Portugal a id Spain, and who had just completed his stmli. - at ~i ii.- « I. 'cm ii i - a re- lent in his family, then living on Philipse manor. The late President Dwight was well acquainted with him at this time, and speaks of him as " a worthy and respectable man, not often excelled in personal and domestic amlableness :" and of Mrs.