[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] of England. His wife was Joanna Brockholes, daughter of General Anthony Brockholes, whom he married in 1719. He died in New York City, July 2(5, 1751, aged fifty-seven years, leaving a widow and five children. The oldest of these children was his son Frederick, born September 14, 1720, and he became the third and last lord of the Manor of Philipsburgh. He completed his education and graduated at King's College (now Columbia), in New York City. From the fact of his being colonel of the militia, he was most frequently spoken of as Colonel Philipse. His wife was the widow Elizabeth Rutgers and daughter nr. HISTORY OF WHSTCHESTKK COUNTY. of Charles Williaius, an English gentleman, connect-ed with the custom-house. Colonel Philipse was a devoted adherent of the Church of England. Being a Tory in the Revolution, he was arrested by the Am-erican authorities after the hattle of White Plains, or Chatterton's Hill, which took place on October28, 1776. In 1777 he betook himself for refuge to the city of New York, which was then in the hands of the British. From thence he went to England, where he died in the city of Chester on April 30, 1785, aged sixty-five years. He was buried in the great cathedral church of that city, where a monument was erected to his memory. The following words, taken from the in-scription upon it, give, probably, a truthful state-