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| Source | Passages | Words | Link |
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| J. Thomas Scharf (1886) | 916 | 173,521 | Original → |
| Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900) | 572 | 106,421 | Original → |
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J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] the favor he enjoyed with the English Governors and government, which gained for him at last the grant of the great Manor of Philipsburgh. Of course, when we speak of his wealth, we speak comparatively only, ac-cording to th…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] In 1674 already he was rated at eighty thousand guilders, which was far beyond the fortune of any other person in the city. His first wife having died in 1090 or 1691, he married, November 30, 1092, Catharina Van Cortlandt, …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] temptations. Complicity with piracy, smuggling and the slave trade were persistently charged upon him, and strong efforts were made to throw him out of the Common Council and bring about the confiscation of his great estate.…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] It is claimed that this south end was built in 1682. Mrs. Lamb assumes that this was so. Whether she rests her assumption on any other support than Bolton's statement that it is reported to have been built in that year, we d…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] 11 building.1 Now Mr. Philipse was not a "lord" in 1682 or 1683, nor for many years later, but simply a plain merchant intent on business. He bought this site in 1672, as the site of Van Der Donck's mill, long established, a…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Philipse built of this house, as we now have it, only reached from the south front to the south side of the present east and west hall. Ex-amination of the framing beneath this hall gives in-dication that the space it occupi…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] There was no "first lord " till 1003, and the " first lord " (in that year constituted) is known to have spent his closing years at Tarrytown with his second wife, the two quietly devoting themselves to the founding and dire…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] tiles, each representing some Bible incident.-It we would conceive of the outside surroundings of the substantial building during the life of the first lord, we must displace all the developments of later years. All around m…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Getty has furnished us with the following notes from his own memorandum : " The main hall of the building is eleven feet wide, its stairs are four feet and its front door, opening south, is eight by four feet. The east and w…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] west room of the second story the fire-place jambs are lined with one hundred and six tiles, five inches square, each one illustrating;i p.i>-u^e of Scripture. The iron fire-brick is dated 1700, and has upon it a casting rep…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Lord Philipse, on the death of his son Philip in 1700, promptly sold the Barbadoes estate, intending thereby to prevent his grandson from re-maining on the island. This end was answered. The boy, however, did not come here, …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Lord Philipse (1st) left all his real estate in New York City and Bergen County to his two (laughters, — Eva Van Cortlandt and Anna French. The Philips-burgh manor he left in two sections. -one from Dobhs Ferry northward to …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The second Lord Philipse was long baron and sec-ond judge of the exchequer, and represented Philips-burgh in the Colonial Assembly continuously for twenty-seven years. The testimony is that he was an affectionate father, an …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] 13 spects, except that they built the church on the site of the present edifice. The glebe along the Saw-Mill remained in the possession of the parish almost a hundred years. The rectors lived on it till 1845, when the prese…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The country residence of Col-onel and Mrs. Robinson was on the east side of the Hudson, a little southeast of Garrison's. It was erected in 1750, and was very celebrated down to the time of the Revolution (for the history of…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Mary Philipse's history possesses special interest on account of her re-puted beauty and accomplishments,, and the effect which, accordingto the his-torian Sparks, these are said to have had upon Colonel George Washington wh…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Colonel Philipse, like his father, loved the Church of England, and St. John's Church owes much to his fostering care and liberality. He not only carried out his father's directions in setting apart the glebe along the Saw -…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] To appreciate what these were really worth under the Philipses, we have to put back the since increased population, the since expended labor in clearing oil" forests, shaping farms and roads and I planting ornamental and fru…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] day. There are associated with our manor hall many real historic incidents of interest and many stories which are of doubtful foundation. It entertained within its walls many of the best known historic persons of the colonia…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Our only work here is to bring to a close the history of the Philipse family, as connected with our town, and tell of the collapse, and the changes that accomplished the collapse, of the Philipse manor. Colonel Philipse decl…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] In this way came to an end the Manor of Philipsburgh, and also the American history of the Philipse family, as far as it was connected with Yonkers. Persons who have been interlocked with the family still live in Putnam Coun…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The Uniform Rectitude of His condui t commanded the Ef teem of others; Whilft the Benevolence of His Heart and Gentleness of His Manners secured their Love, firmly attached to His Sovereign and the British Constitution, He o…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] A Province to which He bad always been an Ornament anil Benefactor, and came to England, leaving all His Property behind Him; which reverse of Fortune He bore with that calmness, Fortitude and Dignity w hich bad distinguishe…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] 177; Henry Brown, 113; Parsonage lot, 107; 2 Jacobus Dyckman, 6; Stephen Oakley, 291; Robert Reid, 141; John Lamb, 202; Robert Johnson and Lewis Ogdeu, 11)0, at Strawberry Hill; Cornelius P. Low, two lots, at the mouth of th…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] To these, of our own knowledge, we can add Garrison, Knitliu, Lefurgy, Merrill and Nodine, all here a century ago, and here still. They are not on the map, because not repre-sented just then among the tenants or buyers of th…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] the manor property that lay within the limits of the present city of Yonkers. We come now to the special disposition and history of that object of deepest in-terest, the manor-house. This was put up by the commissioners and …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] it after having once embraced it, we do not know, but we first find them exercising it in 1772. From that date forward, with some irregularities, till 1788, when the town was set apart, we have two sets of supervisors connec…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] IS HISTORY OF W ESTi 'HESTER COINTY. William Hadley; 1X02-24, Isaac Verinilyea; 1825-41, Caleb Smith; 1842-44, Priuce \V. Paddock; 1845-49, j William W. Scrugham; 1850-53, James L. Valentine; 1*54-55, William G. Ackerman; 18…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] we had closed this fifth section, we find the imputation of Yonkers put : at 129 in 10?4 ami at 008 in 1712. But Mr. Smith reminds his readers that at those dates "Yonkers" was an indefinite term. Bolton, in his "Church in W…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] shop, stood northwest of it, ami to the west of the carriage-shop, in front of where Hawley's building (recently "Bedford Hall") now stands, was a country store kept by Multus Cooper and Aaron Vatk. There were also a small s…