ed, because of his action in the General Assembly -- notwithstanding it was in an earnest opposition to the Ministry and in an equally earnest support of the demands of the Colony for a redress of grievances -- because of his Declaration and Protest at the White Plains, and, undoubtedly, because of his understood authorship of some political tracts which were obnoxious to the controling political faction, Isaac Wilkins was obliged to seek personal safety in flight -- he left his family and his estate and found a refuge in London. 1

After having spent some months in retirement, Pierre Van Cortlandt resumed his place in the political turmoil of the period ; while Frederic Philipse and John Thomas, the former at Yonkers and the other in the Harrison Precinct, are not known to have taken any part whatever, in the partisan operations of that period.

When the spirit of proscription was introduced into Westchester-county, destroying the peace which had previously prevailed among its rural inhabitants, Frederic Philipse was named among those who, without the slightest evidence of any wrong-doing, were to be arrested and dealt with. 2 He does not appear to have been disturbed, however, until the organization of the notorious " Committee to Detect Conspiracies," of which mention has been already made; 3 when, at the head of the List of Suspected Persons, in Westchester-county, who were designated as the victims of that American Inquisition, was placed the name of "* Frederic Philipse X" -- the asterisk before the name indicating that he was " to be Sum- "moned;" and the cross which followed the name indicating that he was " to be Arrested." i