The sleighing was good and the weather was tnild, and early as two o'clock in the afternoon the guests • began to arrive. The Rev. Henry Barclay, rector of Trinity church in New York, with his assistant, Mr. Auctmuty, was there at three o'clock. Half an hour later the marriage was solemnized under a crimson canopv, emblazoned with the golden crest of the family (a crowned demi-lion, rampant, rising from a coronet) in the presence of a brilliant assembh,-. The bridemaids were Miss Barclay, Miss Van Cortlandt, and Misi DeLancey. The groomsmen were Mr. Heathcote, Captain Kennedy, and Mr. Watts, acting Governor DeLancey (son-in law to Colonel Heathcote, lord of the manor of Scarsdale) assisted at the ceremony. The brother of the bride, the last lord of the manor -- decorated with the gold chain and jeweled badge of office of his family as keeper of the deer forests of Bohemia -- gave away the bride, for her father had been dead seven years. Her do^\Ty in her own right was a large domain, plate, jewelry and money.

A grand feast followed the nuptial ceremony, and late on that brilliant moon-lit night most of the guests departed. While they were feasting, a tall Indian, closely v.Tapped in a scarlet blanket, appeared at the door of the banquet hall, and with measured words said, " your possessions shall pass from you when the eagle shall despoil the lion of his mane." He as suddenly disappeared. This message was as mysterious as the writing on the wall at Belshazzar's feast. The bride pondered the ominous words for years; and when, because they were royalists in action, the magnificent domain of the Phihpses was confiscated by the Americans at the close of the Revolution, the significance of tlie prophecy and its fulfillment were manifested.