[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The ne-cessity for this last step seems to have arisen again and again in the early days. -It is said that the earlier generations had been Hussites, and that their descendants continued firm in the faith. The famous " Thirty Years' War," which broke out Iu 1618, and afterwards involved the peace of all Western Europe, started in Bohemia. The Boh mians rose for lib-erty, and this opened the conflict. The wildest persecutions followed. Frederick Philipse, father of the first lord of this manor. This Frederick, soon after the settling in Friesland, married Margaret Dacres. It is said that he had a brother Adolphus. This is probable, as the name Adolphus comes in again and again in later generations. Margaret Dacres is said to have been of the parish of Dacre, in England. We have no ac-count of her immediate family; but we are told that the parish has a baronial castle, the ancient seat of the barons of Acre, the exploits of one of whose ances-tors as a crusader at Acre, in Palestine, obtained for the family this name. Frederick Philipse and Mar-garet Dacres, bringing with them their son Frederick (no other child appears in their American history), are sometimes said to have come to New York in 1 (>•">*. But Valentine's " History of New YTork City " (p. 317) has the son on a New York tax-list in 1655, and Bol-ton says he was named as an appraiser of New York property in 1653. He also says it is asserted and not improbable, that he came over with Stuyvesant in 1 1!47.