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."

[ The American Loyalists, by Lorenzo Sabine,

COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. _ 471

LIBERTY,

July 4, 1845, at the battles of Lexington, Danbury, White Plains, Trenton and Stony Point, Springfield and Tippecanoe. " . ' ^

The inhabitants of this town appear to have taken an active part during the struggle for Independence.

11th April, 1775, Colonel Frederick Philipse appeared at the head of a large body of his tenantry, when the deputies from the several towns of Westchester met at White Plains, for the purpose of electing delegates to represent this colony in the general Congress to be held in Philadelphia.^

At a meeting of the Committee for this County held at White Plains, on Thursday and Friday, the 17th and ISth days of August, inst,, the committee divided the County into districts or beats, agreeable to the directions of the Provincial Congress, for forming militia and minute companies.

Yonkers formed one of the districts of the southern battalion. The officers chosen, were John Cock, Capt., William Belts, first lieutenant, John Warner, second lieutenant, and Jacob Post, ensign. b