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family to the paramount duty of serving his country in that sphere where 

 he could be most useful, and to offer himself a victim for its safety if it 

 should be necessary; and the indomitable energy which enabled him in 

 less than forty days, without assistance in money from the national gov- 

 ernment, to bring into the field at various points of danger nearly 50,000 

 men, organized, armed and equipped, to endure the toil, expense and 

 embarrassment of commanding 20,000 of them in person, and at the 

 same time to administer the government of the State ; and in less than 

 sixty days when the national credit was at its lowest point of depression, 

 when the payment of even the interest of its notes could not be provided 

 for, to raise for the public service upwards of $ 1,000, 000. a 



If it should be asked what was his reward, for his great services to his 

 country, and where stands his monument ? the veneration in which his 

 memory is yet regarded by the whole nation, answers that it is erected 

 in the hearts of his countrymen. 



"Such honors Ilion to her here paid, 

 And peaceful slept the mighty Hector's shade." 6 



The Hon. Daniel D. Tompkins died at his residence, Tompkinsville, 

 Staten Island, June n, 1825, aged fifty-one, and was buried in the vault 

 of Mr. Minthorne, at St. Mark's church, New York. His wife was a. 

 daughter of Mangle Minthorne, Esq., of New York. His sons were 

 Minthorne. Ray, Daniel, Clinton and Griffin Tompkins. The youngest 

 brother of the Governor was George Washington Tompkins, father of 

 the late Joseph Warren Tompkins, of White Plains. 



The Fox Meadow Estate in Scarsdale, passed to the Hon. Caleb 

 Tompkins, the eldest brother of the Governor; and was afterwards 

 occupied by his son, the late Jonathan G. Tompkins. The property is 

 now owned by Charles Butler, Esq., whose taste and liberality has done 

 so much to add to the natural beauties of this charming spot. The 

 grounds are beautifully laid out and embellished with gardens, and ex- 

 tensive fruit houses. 



The neighboring property on the south formerly belonged to Hon. 

 Richard Morris, son of the Hon. Lewis Morris, of Morrisania, for many 

 years Chief Justice of the Province of New York, from whom it passed 

 to his son-in-law, the late Brigadier Major William Popham. The man- 

 sion erected in 1790, is a spacious wooden structure, and occupies a 



a In consequence of the death of Governor Tompkins in 1325. and of Mrs. Tompkins a few 

 years after, the claim of what was due him in 1S24, slept until February 4. 1847, when Con- 

 gress vol i-<1 its appropriation to the heirs of Daniel D. Tompkins— Editor. See speech of tne 

 Hon. G. Ratubura. 



b 8ome passages in the life of Governor Tompkins, by Mr. John W„ Edmonds. S^e pro- 

 ceedings of N. Y. Hist. Soc , 1S44. 



