D., President of Talecollege, writing of Yonkers, in the Autumn of 1811, said, " it is remark- " able for nothing, except having been the residence of the family of " Philipse, one of the mostdistinguiBed of those which came, as Colonists, " from the United Netherlands. Colonel Philipse, the last branch " resident in this country, I knew well. He was a worthy and re- " spectable man, not often excelled in personal and domestic amiable- " ness. Mrs. Philipse was an excellent woman ; and the children, the " eldest of whom was about seventeen, gave every promise of treading " in the same steps," (Travels, in New England and New York, iii., " 442, 443.)

Mr. Bolton (History of Westchester-county, Second Edition, i., 523,) quoting from an original manuscript, in the handwriting of John Jay, said that that most zealous and most malignant of all Mr. Philipse's persecutors, said of him, probably in the later years of the life of the writer, " He was a well-tempered, amiable man ; and a kind, benevolent land- " lord. He had a. taste for gardening, planting, &c, and employed " much time and money in that way. * * * At the commencement " of our Revolution, he, Frederick Philipse, was inclined to the Whigs, " but was afterwards persuaded to favor the Tories.* He was removed " to Connecticut, on hiB parole. Nothing could have been more favor- " able to him, circumstanced as he then was, than to be placed in such "a state of tranquil neutrality. On a certain occasion, he obtained per- " mission to go to New York, while in possession of the enemy. On " being afterwards required to return, he very improperly and unwisely " yielded to the importunities of certain of his friends, and refused to " return.