[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] About the time of his return to America to claim his inheritance, young Frederick was married to Joanna, daughter of Lieutenant-Governor Anthony Brockholst, who also had been tenderly reared in England. During the first few years of his residence on his estate he took no part in public life. But from the time of his first election to the assembly, in 1726, until his death, in 1751, he was constantly in official position. His career in the assembly was not specially note-worthy. Despite the rivalry of the Morrises, who stood for political views radically opposed to his own, his seat in the assembly seems never to have been imperiled. It was an understood thing in West-chester County for more than half a century that one of the county members should always be a Philipse. He was appointed by Gover-nor Montgomerie ou June 24, 1731, third judge of the Supreme Court of the province, and on August 21, 1733, by the removal of Morris from the chief justiceship and the elevation of de Lancey to that office, he became second judge, continuing as such until his death, lie was also, from 1735 until his death, judge of the Court of Com-mon Pleas of Westchester County. In opposing Chief Justice Morris and siding with de Lancey upon the question of the legality of the Court of Chancery appointed to try the Van Dam case, Frederick Philipse followed the natural bent of his sympathies.