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Of all the gay and hospitable occasions that brought , through the mansion 's wide doors , courtly gentlemen and high-and-mighty ladies , from their coaches , sleighs , horses , or Hudson sloops , perhaps none saw more feasting and richer display of ruffles and brocade than did the wedding of Mary Philipse and Captain Morris , seven years after the death of her father , and two after the marriage of her brother . It was on the afternoon of Sunday , Jan. 15 , 1758 . In the famous east parlor , which has had much mention and will have more in course of this narrative , was raised a crimson canopy emblazoned with the Philipse crest , -- a crowned golden demi-lion rampant , upon a golden coronet . Though the weather was not severe , there was snow on the ground , and the guests began to drive up in sleighs , under the white trees , at two o'clock . At three arrived the Rev. Henry Barclay , rector of Trinity , New York , and his assistant , Mr. Auchmuty . At half-past three the beauteous Mary -LRB- did so proud a heart-breaker blush , I wonder ? -RRB- and the British captain stood under the crimson canopy and gold , and were united , `` in the presence of a brilliant assembly , '' says the old county historian .