[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] in which you suggest that you are authorized," etc. A naive interpretation, indeed, of a stern Revolu-FROM JANUARY, 1775, TO JULY 9, 177G 329 tionary summons. Finally, he dismisses the inconvenient matter by flattering himself that the committee really will not require his presence at all. The lord of Philipseburgh Manor deemed himself well within the bounds of political sagacity in treating the committee with such exact though courteous reserve. The overpowering fleet and army of Great Britain had just arrived, the provincial congress was scurrying out of New York ( V.y, and, indeed, if Frederick Philipse had been so obliging as to journey to the city on that 3d of July conformably to the " suggestion " which had been conveyed to him, he would have found no committee there to interrogate him. It does not appear that Philipse was again summoned or that he was ever subjected to any inquisitorial examination. He was, how-ever, compelled to give his parole to guarantee his good behavior. That summer of 177C> was a most critical period for the patriot in-terests on the banks of the Hudson. British warships were in the river, and it was suspected that they were holding nightly commu-nication with the influential Tories. Washington deemed it expe-dient to remove Philipse from his manor house on the Nepperhan to a quarter where his presence would not be a possibly disturbing thing. On the llth of August Philipse, by Washington's order, was taken to New Kochelle.