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. Such is the story of the wedding as told by Ange\ine (son of the favorite colored valet of Philipse), who was sexton of St. John's church at Yonkers for forty-five years.""
Captain, afterwards Colonel, Roger Morris greatly distinguished himself during the first American war, and was wounded in the battle of Monongahela river; on which occasion General Braddock'was killed •with most of his officers. In that engagement George Washington, Robert Orme, and Roger ]Morris, Esqrs., were aids to Braddock.^' At the commencement of the Revolution he was a member of the Council of the Colony, and continued in office until the peace, although the Whigs organized a government as early as 1777, under a written and well framed constitution. Col. Roger Morris died in England in i794»
n riarper'a .Viie-J/ont/i'y itan. '•Ko'-uaiK'':" of tho II;iil.~on," No. cccxi, April, ISTC, voL lUl. p. 6U.
b BurkCs lUst. of tHe Landed Goniry of Engliiud, vol. Iv. 400.