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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 19 (part 3)

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[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Lord Philipse (1st) left all his real estate in New York City and Bergen County to his two (laughters, — Eva Van Cortlandt and Anna French. The Philips-burgh manor he left in two sections. -one from Dobhs Ferry northward to his son Adolphus, :md the other from Dobhs Ferry southward, including Yonkers. to his grandson Frederick, born in Barbadoes. The manor lav in this divided state forty-seven years. Adolphus, during this period, added to his section a Putnam County tract, thenceforward designated as " the Highland estate." In 1749 he died, unmarried, and his section came to his nephew, Frederick, just mentioned. This restored the Philipse manor to its original integrity, not broken again till it fell apart, as later on we shall see, with the reason for it, in 1785. The Sec ond Lord Philipse. — So then the grand-son of the first lord of the manor became its second lord. Born in Barbadoes and educated in England, he never knew the Reformed (or Holland) Church of his Philipse ancestors, but was trained in and became deeply devoted to the Church of England. We do not know when he came to live on his manor. Per-haps it was about 171 9,1 when he married Joanna, a daughter of Governor Anthony Brockholst. He died of consumption July 26, 1751, in his fifty-seventh year, leaving his wife and five of his ten children to survive him. His wife was killed in 1765 by a fall from her carriage on the Highland estate.