[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 the wealth of his time. All he had was not to be compared, as to absolute amount, with what we call princely wealth to-day. 4 The New York Collegiate Church Record has the baptism of this child. She is entered as "Maria." Some have thought this a mistake of the entry clerk. Others have suggested that there may have been both a " Maria" and an " Eva" De Vries, and that Maria had died. But Ibis would be to suppose Eva left unbaptized, as no Eva is on the baptismal record. It is known that the name of the widowed grandmother of Fred-erick Philipse, who originally left Bohemia for Friesland, was Eva. We venture the suggestion that when Philipse, upon his marriage w ith the widow Margaret De Yries, adopted her only child " Maria " as his own, he may have required her name to be changed to " Eva " to perpetuate the name of one whose history and memory must have been to him very dear. 10 HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNT V. herself the management of her own fortune, even to the extent of purchasing sliips, and sailing in them as her own supercargo. Yet she always cherished her hus-| band's business interests. But he himself soon became a wealthy man in his own right.