Firmly attached to his sovereign a'id the British constitution he opposed at the hazard of his life, the late Rebellion iuNotth America; and for this faithful discharge of his duty to his King and Country, he was proscribed, and hi3 e^tat'-, one of the largest in New York was confiscated by the usurped Legislature of that Provinci. When th" 'British troops were withdrawn from New York in 1TS3, he quitt< d a province to which h ; had always been an ornament and Benefactor and came to England, leaving all his Property behind him, which reverse of fortune he bore with that calmness, Fortitude and Dignity which had distinguished him ' - through every former stage of life.

Bom at New York the 12th day of September in the year 1720, Died in this placa the 30th day of April in the year 17S5, Aged 65 Years.

a MSS.in hand-writing of John Jay. furnished by his son, the late Judge Wm. Jay, brother of the late Peter A. Jay, Misc. books of Oen. I)e Peyster. Sabine in his biographical sketches of American Loyalists', says, " Frederick Philipse applied t'> the British government for compensation and was allowed ^GV1^ sterling, or about $ao<\onu In 1S">>, in an English work, the value of the two manors was estimated at six or seven hundred thousand pounds, But It la lobe remembered, lhat lands in 17*1 hardly had a fixed value ; while in isn't, ine impulse which the Revolution had given to settlements, to increase of population, Ac., had already created v:i-t changes in the marketable prices of real property."