It is understood that the British government made them a second compensation for their losses, and that the whole sum received was ^17,000 sterling.

There is a beautiful portrait of Mar}' Philipse still preserved at Philipstown in the Highlands, which represents the youthful heroine in ail her native loveliness. It is in the possession of her namesake and grand niece, Mary Philipse, widow of the late Samuel Gouverneur, Esq. In Rivington's Royal Gazette of May 18, 1773, occurs the following notice of the commencement at King's College, (now Columbia College) New York.

" Tuesday being the day appointed for the annual commencement c{ the graduates of King's College in this city, a very numerous and splcn-

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»l:d audience assembled at Trinity claurch. After prayers and a Latin i;<t.'c!i b)- the President, an elegant salutatory oration was delivered with '"'rcat propriety of pronunciation and gracefulness of action by Mr. Fredc:;ck Pb.ilipse. The audience was then entertained with a discourse on jhc happiness of connubial life, by Mr. Ueverly Robinson, whose just observations on the subject did him much honor. Degrees were after this, roiiferred on the following gentlemen : Beverly Robinson, Frederick I'hilipse, Nathaniel Philipse, B. A. Philip Pell, and the Rev. Harry Munro, M. A."

Ui>on the arrival of the British forces in New York, Colonel Frederick was arrested on some suspicions in the J^Ianor Hall, at Yonkers, and removed to Flartford, Connecticut, by the American anthorities. On thisoccasion, his faithful colored valet, George Angevine, attended hinx until his return to Philipsborough, which took place shortly afterwards. Here Colonel Philipse was residing when the battle of White Plains was fought.