A History of the County of Westchester, Vol. II — Passage 93
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] » The Ameiican Loyalists, by Lorenzo Sabine. See also Historical view of the commission for inquiry into the losses and claims of the American Loyalists, by John Eardley Wilmot, Esq., London, 1815. 41^8. HISTORY OF THE., There is a beautiful portrait of Mary Piiilipse still preserved at Philipstown in the Highlands, which represents the youthful heroine in all 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) N. York. "Tues-day being the day appointed for the annual commencement of the graduates of King's College in this city, a very numerous and splendid audience assembled at Trinity church. After prayers and a Latin speech by the President, an elegant saluta-tory oration was delivered with great propriety of pronunciation and gracefulness of action by Mr. Frederick Philipse. The au-dience was then entertained with a discourse on the happiness ©f connubial life, by Mr. Beverly Robinson, whose just obser-vations on the subject did him much honor. Degrees were after this, conferred on the following gentlemen : Beverly Robinson, Frederick Philipse, Nathaniel Philipse, B. A., Phih'p Pell, Rev. Harry Munro M.