[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] — With Yonkers the Phil-ipse family and property were controllingly identified from 1672 to the outbreak of the American Revolu-tion. Information respecting the family origin and history must therefore be given. It is said to have been originally a noble family of Bohemia. The spelling of the name was " F-e-l-y-p-s-e." Felypse (in full Felypsen) — Eng. Philipse (Phil-ipsen), means " son of Philip." The family had left Bohemia for Friesland, one of the Holland provinces. At what date is not known. Tradition connects the step with religious persecution as its cause. Bolton (i. p. 508) says the members of this family who first took it were the widow of Right Honorable Viscount Philipse and her children.2 Among the latter was 1 Bolton has two references to these fifty acres (ii. p. 587). First, he states that Joseph Hadley sold them to Matthias Buclthout, February 22, 1070, and Buckhout sold them to Philipse, January 22, 1(194. But we have noticed that they had been already confirmed to Philipse in the charter of 1693. Then, again, he gives us an Indian deed for the same fifty acres to Jacobus Van Cortlandt and others, bearing date August, 1701, although the property had then already been owned by the parties named for years. The explanation of this apparent confusion has been anticipated. First, the grant was given, then the purchase had to be effected, and finally, in 1701, some cpiestion as to original title being raised, a fresh quit-claim deed from the Indians was obtained.