524 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



such a state of tranquil neutrality On a certain occasion he obtained 

 permission 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 re- 

 turn. His estate was confiscated.* He left issue Frederick Philipse — 

 who married Harriet Griffith, of Rhent, North Wales — father of Lieuten- 

 ant-Colonel Frederick Charles Philipse, of Rhual, Flint County, whose 

 two sons are Frederick Philipse, born 1829, and Edward William 

 Philipse, born 8th of April, 1830. 



Charles Philipse, second son of Col. Frederick and Elizabeth Williams, 

 was drowned in crossing the Bay of Funday. Philip died without issue, 

 Captain John was killed at the battle of Trefalgar in 1S05. Maria 

 Eliza, their eldest daughter, married, in 1779, Lionel Smythe, seventh 

 Viseount, Strangford, father of Percy Clinton Sydney Smythe Viscount 

 Strangford and Baron Penshurt of Penshurst in the the County of Kent, 

 England;* Sarah, the second daughter, married Major Mungo Noble; 

 Elizabeth died 8th of March, 1828, and Charlotte, the youngest, married 

 Captain Webber. 



Col. Frederick Philipse died at Chester, England, on the 30th of April, 

 1785 ; and was buried in the Cathedral church of that city, where there is 

 a monument erected to his memory, on which is the following inscription : 



Sacred to the memory of 



FREDERICK PHILIPSE, ESQ., 



late of the Province of New York. 



A gentleman, in whom the various social, domestic, and 

 religious virtues were eminently united. The uniform 

 Rectitude of his Conduct, commanded the esteem of others, 

 whilst the Benevolence or his heart and gentleness of his 

 manners secured their love. Firmly attached to his sov- 

 ereign and the British constitution he opposed at the 

 hazard of his life, the late Rebellion in North America; 

 and for this faithful discharge of his duty to his King 

 and Country, he was proscribed, and his estate, one of the 

 largest in New York was confiscated by the usurped Legis- 

 lature of that Province. When the British troops were 

 withdrawn from New York in 1TS8, he quitted a province 

 to which he had always been an ornament and Benefactor 

 and came to England, leaving all hisPropertj behind him, 

 which reverse of fortune he bore with that calmness, 

 Fortitude and Dignity which had distinguished him 

 through every former stage of life. 



Born at New York the 12th day of September in the year 1720, 

 Died in this piano the 30th day of April in the year 17S3, Aged 65 Yeaks. 



a MSX, in hand- writing of John Jay. furnished by his son, the late' Judge Win. Jay, brother 

 of the late Peter A. Jay, siisc. books 01 <; sn. De Peyater. Sabine in his biographical sketches 

 of American Loyalists. sa.v>, " Frederick Philipse applied to the British government for com- 

 pensation and was allowed £62,075 Sterling, or about $300,000 In L809, m an English work, 

 the value of the two manors was estimated at six or seven hundred thousand pounds. But 

 it Is to be remembered, that, lands in its:; hardly had a fixed value ; while in 1809, the impulse 

 which the Revolution had given to settlements, to increase of population, &c, hail already 

 creati <i \a-t changes in the marketable prices of real property." 



b Penshursl was broughl Into ill Hmythe family by the marriage of Sir Thomas Smythe, K. 

 B., first Viscoum Strangford in 1628 with Lady Barbara Sydney, seventh daughter of Robert 

 first Earl of Leciester. 



