[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] LH 350 HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY formed of every import nut event. In a few months intelligence came that a rival was in the field, and thai the consequences could not be answered for if he delayed to renew his visits to New York. Whether,„. the bustle of canip, or the scenes of war had moderated his Lmiration, or whether he despaired of success, is not known. He.. -ver saw the lady again till she was married to that same rival, Captain Morris, his former associate in arms and one of Braddock's aids-decamp." Mary Philipse's husband took a positive stand against the patriot cause in the Revolution, and as a consequence Ids property in America was confiscated. The lady lived to be ninety-live years old, dying in England in 1825. The Harlem Heights resi-dence was occupied for a time after the Revolution as a tavern, and was then purchased by Stephen Juniel, a wealthy Frenchman, whose wi<low became the wife of Aaron Burr. On the 16th of September occurred the lively encounter of Har-lem Plains, in which the Americans acquitted themselves well and for the first time in the open field had the satisfaction of putting their adversaries to flight. After that no steps of any general im-portance were taken on either side for several weeks. The Ameri-