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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 95 (part 3)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] At the time of Bayard's arrest, fearing a like fate, he saved himself by hasty flight.' It is an interesting fact that Leisler was related by marriage to both Van Cortlandt and Bayard; and Philipse also became of kin to Leisler's family by marrying Van Cortlandt's sister. Yet so in-tense were the passions of the times that these ties of relationship counted for nothing, and Leisler's own kinsmen were the most bitter and unrelenting of the enemies who resisted him during the days of his authority and pursued him to ignominious death after his down-fall. Late in 1690 King William appointed Colonel Henry Sloughter as Oft &~y Oi^^y^^U. * (2^^^^^^