Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1858-03-06

lie went to Boston, and soon after to England.
In l77S he was prescribed and banishcd, and
his great property was confscatcd. The Eng
lish government allowed $500 year, and he
received his share of the compensation Ultimate
" given to the loyalists by that government
He survived until 1916, and as his only son had
died in 1909, the name and title then became
extinct. Some Of Mrs. Sparhawk's descendants
lived and died in the most abicct poverty, being
kept from the aims house only by the charity of
individuals The manson-house at Kttery has
become a home for many plebian families. The
very tomb of the family had, few years ago,
fallen into ruins, and the bones of the conquer
or of LouiSburg could be handled as carclcssly
as were those of Noricl by Mr.. Sexton Argal
The tomb has recently been repaired, at the eX-
pcnsc of great grand daughter of the first Sir
William Pcpperell, now living at Portsmouth
The sad lines Of Spcnscr might be written over
the gate of the Pepperel mansion -
What man that sees the evcr-whirlinr whocle
OF Change the which all mortal things doth sway,
Bd, that thereby doth find. ard plainly fe,le,
How Mutabilti. In them doth play
Her cruel sports to many mems duay.
Such is a brief sketch of the origin rise, pro-
gress, decline, and extinction of one of the great
families of the colonial aristocracy With an
allowance for difference in details. it is the his
tory of many a family that existed in North
America before the Revolution, and which went
down in that great storm. The Fari,txes, the
NaSsalS, the De Lanceys, the Penns. the Phil
lipSeS, the Waldos and the Wentworths were
prominent members Of the provincial aristocra-
cy, and were very wealthy. One of the Fair
faxes owned more than five millions of acres of
land in Virginia The landed property of the
PhillipSc family covered three hundred and nine
ty square miles. on the banks of the Hudson,
and most ofthis was confScatcd. All oft would
have been thus served, had it not been that pos
SCISSORS of Il portion Of it were too Young at the
time of the Revolution to commit treason. In
1909 the whole Phillipse property was calculat-
ed to be worth over three millions of dollars. -
The Waldo patent is well known. 1t was on q
portion of it that General Knox was enabled to
live SO Hospitality. lie held it in right of his
wife, nee Letitia Fucker, and niece of two of
the Waldos, who were loyaliSts The influence
of the Waldo family was at one time great in
Maine. The WcntworthS were equally power
ful in New Hampshire. One of them was Gov
ernor of that colony at the commencement ofthe
Revolution and it is curious circumstance
that his last official act that Of prorogung the
Assembly. was performed at the Isle of Shoals,
whore the foundation of the prosperity of the
PepperclS was laid. The De Lanceys were a
New York family and were the very cream Of
the aristocracy of that aristocratical province
The NasSals were OF Massachusetts, and the
Pcnns were Of Pennsylvania Ruin overlook
them all, as it was proper it should when they
elected to take sides with the enemies of their
country. With some change ofwords, We might
say of them land the spirit of the passage is
strictly applicable to their fortunes) what Scott
SAYS Of the knights of AShby- y-dc-la-Zouche -
"rhcr escutchcons have long mouldered from
the walls of their castles. Their castles them
selves are but green mounds and shattered ruins
the places that once knew them know them
no more-nay, many race since theirs has died
out and been forgotten in the very land which
they occupied with all the authority of fcudal
proprietors and fcudal lords.