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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 122
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] relative influence and ability numbers. With all their boasts of superiority, the Tories of New York have left few names remarkable for anything more meritorious than proud faithfulness to the British monarchy, which faithfulness, moreover — as, for example, in the lamenta-ble case of our Frederick Philipse, — was p r o m p t e d quite as often by miscal-culating conceptions of the chances of the war as by nervous scorn for sordid self-interest. On the other hand, the contributions made by X«-w York to the roll of Rev-olutionary patriots of the more eminent order are im-pressively numerous. From whatever aspect the state of political society in New