Susanna Philipse

He was a childhood friend of future American general and statesman George Washington, who was for a time during the French and Indian War an irregular guest at their home on Susanna's land on the east bank of the Hudson.

On 7 July 1748, she married then-Captain Beverley Robinson, a soldier from a prominent family in the Colony of Virginia, in Trinity Church, New York City.

[1] Robinson had personally raised a company of troops there in 1745 and relocated it to the Province of New York to defend that state's frontier against Indian attack.

[3] Susanna's eldest brother, Frederick Philipse III (1720–1785), inherited the family's vast 81 sq mi (210 km2) hereditary estate in lower Westchester County, New York, Philipsburg Manor, and was its third and last Lord.

Sons Beverly Robinson, Jr., a lieutenant-colonel, and Frederick, an ensign who went on to a long and distinguished career as a general in the British Army and colonial governor within the Empire,[4] served beneath him.