[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] 327 the same. He also erected St. John's Church, Yonkers, and liber-ally endowed it with a farm and parsonage. The Hon. Frederick Philipse died in 1751. His last will bears date the 6th of June of that year. His two sons, by Joanna Brockholes, daughter of gover-nor Brockholes, were Frederick Philipse and Philips Philipse; also three daughters, Susannah. Mary and Margaret. The eldest son, Frederick, being heir of his father, became devisee in tail male of the manor of Philipsburgh, tenant for life, under the will of his father, with remainder in tail male, while the upper high-land patent of Philipstown passed to the second son, Philip, devi-see in tail of those lands among whose descendants it still re-mains. In 1779 the lands in this town together with the rest of the manor of Philipsburgh, became by the attainder of Colonel Fred-erick Philipse, vested in the state of New York. After having been in possession of the Philipse family nearly a century. In the year 17S4, the state by commission parcelled out these lands to various individuals. One of the principal grantees was Gerard G. Beeckman, Esq., v/ho purchased one thousand six hundred acres in the vicinity of Tarry town, upon which is situated the old manor house. Mr. Beeckman married Cornelia van Cort-landt; thus after the forfeiture of the Philipses a portion of the manor again reverted to a connection of that ancient family; Ja-cobus van Cortlandt, having married Eva Philipse, daughter of the Hon. Frederick Philipse.