page_title: Mary Philipse
section_title: American Revolution
hierarchical_section_title: Mary Philipse / American Revolution
caption_attribution_description: English: The Morris–Jumel Mansion, also known as the Roger and Mary Philipse Morris House, "Mount Morris" and other similar names, located at 65 Jumel Terrace in Roger Morris Park in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, is the oldest house in the borough. It was built in 1765 in the Palladian style by Roger Morris, a British military officer, and served as a headquarters for both sides in the American Revolution. It was bought in 1810 by Stephen and Eliza Jumel, and remodeled in the Federal style. The interiors are Georgian. Aaron Burr later married Eliza Jumel and lived in the house. The estate was sold off in lots after 1882. Z(Sources: Guide to NYC Landmarks(4th ed.) and AIA Guide to NYC (5th ed.))
context_page_description: Mary "Polly" Philipse was the middle daughter of Frederick Philipse II, 2nd Lord of Philipsburg Manor of Westchester County, New York. Of Anglo-Dutch extraction, she was a wealthy heiress, possible early love interest of George Washington, and New York City socialite. Married to an ex-British army colonel, her Loyalist sympathies in the American Revolution reshaped her life.
  At the age of 22 she inherited one-third of her father's roughly 250 sq mi "Highland Patent", which sprawled from the Hudson Highlands on the west bank of the lower Hudson River to the Connecticut Colony in the east.
  In 1758 she married in New York Englishman Roger Morris, who had fought extensively in the French and Indian War.
  With Roger's appointment to the Governor’s Council of the Province of New York the couple became pillars of the local establishment. A year after their marriage Morris had a large country estate, Mount Morris, built in northern Manhattan between the Hudson and Harlem rivers in what is now Washington Heights.
  The family lived there until 1775. Roger fled to England at the onset of the Revolution, returning two years later.
context_section_description: Morris and his family lived in Mount Morris from 1765 until 1775, when the American Revolution began. A  Loyalist, Morris went to England at the start of the war, while his wife and family stayed at the family Manor house in Yonkers. Between 14 September – 20 October 1776, General George Washington used the Morris mansion as his temporary headquarters.  There is no record of any communication during the war between Washington and Polly.
  Morris returned to New York in 1777, after the city had been captured by the British. In 1779, estates of 58 prominent Loyalists, including the Morris home and Mary's share of the Philipse Patent, were confiscated by the Commissioners of Forfeiture of the New York Colony.  Despite assurance of restitution in the 1783 Treaty of Paris  compensation was not forthcoming.
caption: Mount Morris, today's Morris-Jumel Mansion, in the Washington Heights section of northern Manhattan.  General George Washington used it as a headquarters during his defense of New York City in the American Revolution.
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