[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] It is claimed that this south end was built in 1682. Mrs. Lamb assumes that this was so. Whether she rests her assumption on any other support than Bolton's statement that it is reported to have been built in that year, we do not know. Mrs. Lamb has another statement (we know not from whence it conies), which, if it be cor-rect, gives it strong probability. 'It is that the first Mrs. Philipse (Margaret Hardenbroek) had the south front door of the house made in Holland and brought over in one of her own ships in 1681. Then the house must have been built about the At any rate, this identifies it with the same time. first Mrs. Philipse, showing that it was built before 1691, when at latest she died. And it shows that -he was taking pride in the building, as if she meant it for her own residence, and not for a mete tenement-house. Probably nothing can be proved, but let us suggest a theory; — It is claimed both that the south part of this building was erected in 1682, and that part of Castle Philipse at Tarrytown was erected in 1688. II it be asked why two manor-houses were erected, we answer,— Neither of these two houses was built for a manor-house. Mr. Philipse owned one-third of Upper Yonkers (his one-third no doubt included the site of our city hall and the adjacent mill started by Van Der Donck) from 1672, ten years before the date claimed for the Yonkers building, and he owned the Pocantico site from L680, time years before the date claimed for the Tarrvtown YONKKRS.