[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The flat was granted to him, and also the right he asked for, and the family retained hothas long as the Philipae Manor continued. Uncertainty, how-ever, hangs over its acquisition by Philipse. Some have thought it really belonged to the land conveyed to John Archer by Elias Doughty in 1(5(37; that the heirs of Archer, finding that Philipse's charter inclu-ded it, called his title in question; and that the diffi-culty was adjusted by Philipse through some lease ar-rangement, the terms of which were faithfully observed during the continuance of the Philipse Manor, so that the question was never renewed. Be this as it may, it is at least certain that no purchase of the tract by Philipse can now be traced. In this way the immense Manor of Philipsburgh grew up and was finally confirmed. From the whole property the royal grantors only required an annual tax of four pounds and twelve shillings, to be paid at Fort Amsterdam. The only sale, as far as we know, ever made from it by Mr. Philipse, was that of fifty acres, known as George's Point, to his son-in-law, Ja-cobus Van Cortlandt, October 16, K399.1 Meanwhile, November 1, 1683, the county of West-chester, one of New York's ten original counties, had been set off. No change was made in the limits of this county till January 1, 1874, when the old towns of Morrisania and "West Farms and the then newly-created town of Kingshridge were set off to the city and county of New York. The Philipse Family.