progress of events, Colonel Phillipse abandoned his home and took refuge in the city of New York, and finally embarked for England. In person, he was extremely large, and on account of his bulk, his wife seldom rode in the same carriage with him. Colonel Fhillipse had one brother and two sisters, who inherited the Manor of Fredericksburgh in equal portions. His brother whose name was Philip, died before the Revolution, and his children were too young to take a part in the war. Their share was saved, and is still in the family. For an account of Susannah and Mary, the sisters, the reader is referred to the notice of their husbands, -- the senior Colonel Beverly Robinson and Colonel Roger Morris.

The Manor of Philipsburgh was the property of Colonel Phillipse, and like his sisters' share of the other estate, was confiscated. He applied to the British government for compensation, and was allowed ^62,075 sterling, or about $300,000. In 1809, in an Englisii work, the value of the two Manors, or the whole of the original Phillipse property was estimated at six or seven hundred thousand pounds. Nor was the smaller sum extravagant. But it is to be remembered, that lands in 1763, hardly had a fixed value ; while, in 1809, the impulse which the Revolution had given to settlements, to increase of population, &c., had already effected vast changes in the marketable prices of real property. Colonel Phillipse's son Frederick, is also named in the New York confiscation act. This gentleman married a niece of Sir Alured Clarke, Governor of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope."