The lord of Philipseburgh Manor deemed himself well within the bounds of political sagacity in treating the committee with such exact though courteous reserve. The overpowering fleet and army of Great Britain had just arrived, the provincial congress was scurrying out of New York ( V.y, and, indeed, if Frederick Philipse had been so obliging as to journey to the city on that 3d of July conformably to the " suggestion " which had been conveyed to him, he would have found no committee there to interrogate him. It does not appear that Philipse was again summoned or that he was ever subjected to any inquisitorial examination. He was, however, compelled to give his parole to guarantee his good behavior. That summer of 177C> was a most critical period for the patriot interests on the banks of the Hudson. British warships were in the river, and it was suspected that they were holding nightly communication with the influential Tories. Washington deemed it expedient to remove Philipse from his manor house on the Nepperhan to a quarter where his presence would not be a possibly disturbing thing. On the llth of August Philipse, by Washington's order, was taken to New Kochelle. There, says a historian of Yonkers, " he was closely confined, under guard, for eleven days, when he was removed to Connecticut and gave his parole that he would not go beyond the limits of Middletown. lie was accompanied by Angevine, his faithful colored valet, who afterward went with Mr. Philipse to England, and survived him but one year. They are interred in the same churchyard. Charley Philips, son of Angevine, lived for many years on the banks of the Hudson, and wa.s sexton of Saint John's Church (Yonkers) forty-five years. After the Philipse family had left Philipseburgh (1777), John Williams, steward of the manor, had possession of the manor until its confiscation, in 1779." * Philipse's undoing was at every stage the consequence of his own deliberate acts.