Identifier: oldbuildingsnewy00newy (find matches)
Title: Old buildings of New York City, with some notes regarding their origin and occupants
Year: 1907 (1900s)
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Subjects: Historic buildings -- New York (State) New York
Publisher: New York : Brentano's
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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oney. A grandfeast followed the nuptial ceremony, and late on thatbrilliant moonlit night most of the guests departed. While they were feasting a tall Indian, closelywrapped in a scarlet blanket, appeared at the door ofthe banquet hall, and with measured w^ords said: Yourpossessions shall pass from you when the eagle shalldespoil the lion of his mane. He as suddenly disap-peared. . . . The bride pondered the ominous wordsfor years . . . and when, because they were royalistsin action, the magnificent domain of the Philipses wasconfiscated by the Americans at the close of the Revo-lution, the prophecy and its fulfillment were mani-fested. * While in Xew York in 1756 Washington stayed atthe house of his friend, Beverly Robinson, who had mar-ried a sister of Miss Philipse, and there is no doubtthat her charms made a deep impression upon him, butthere is no evidence that she refused him. After the Revolution Colonel Philipse withdrew to * Boltons History of Westchester County, vol. II. 144
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The Jiimel House Chester, England, died there in 1785, and was buriedin Chester Cathedral, where there is a monument tohis memory. Some of his descendants are now livingin England, as well as descendants of Colonel and JNlrs.JNIorris. A part of the Philipse estate was in posses-sion of Colonel JNIorris in right of his wife, and thatthe whole interest should pass under the (confiscation)act, Mrs. JNIorris was included in the attainder. * Itis believed that Mrs. JNIorris and her sisters were theonly women attainted of treason during the Revolution. In 1787 the Attorney General of England examinedthe case and gave the opinion that the reversionary in-terest was not included in the attainder, and was recov-erable, and in the year 1809 JNIrs. JNIorriss son. CaptainHenry Gage JNIorris, of the royal navy, in behalf ofhimself and his two sisters, sold their reversionary inter-est to John Jacob Astor for twenty thousand poundssterling. In 1828 JNIr. Astor made a compromise withthe State of Xew

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