If it should be asked what was his reward, for his great services to his country, and where stands his monument? the veneration in which his memory is yet regarded by the whole nation, answers that it is erected in the hearts of his countrymen.

" Such honors Ilion to her hero paid, And peaceful slept the mighty Hector's shade. ''(>

» In consequence of the death of Governor Tompkins in 1825, and of Mrs. Tompkins a few years after, the claim of what was due him in 1824, slept until February 4, 1847, when Congress voted its appropriation to the heirs of Daniel D. T-ompkins. -- Editor. See speech of the Hon. G. Rathbun.

b Some passages in the life of Governor Tompkins, by Mr. John W. Edmonds. See Proceedings of N. Y. Hist. Soc. 1844.

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The Hon. Daniel D. Tompkins died at his residence Tompkinsvilie, Staten Island, Jmie 11, 1825, aged fifty-one, and was buried in the vault of Mr. Minthorne, at St. Mark's Church, New York.a His wife was a daughter of Mangle Minthorne, Esq., of New York. His sons were Minthorne, Ray, Daniel, Clinton and Griffin Tompkins.

The Fox meadow estate in Scarsdale passed to the late Hon. Caleb Tompkins, the eldest brother of the Governor, and is nowoccupied by his son the present Jonathan G. Tompkins. The only surviving brother of the Governor is George Washington Tompkins, Esq., of White Plains.

The neighboring property on the south formerly belonged to the Hon. Richard Morris for many years chief justice of the province of New York, from whom it passed to his son-in-law, tlie late Brigade Major William Popham. The mansion erected in 1790, is a spacious wooden structure, and occupies a very secluded position in a picturesque hollow, surrounded by groves of locust trees.