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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 19 (part 4)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The second Lord Philipse was long baron and sec-ond judge of the exchequer, and represented Philips-burgh in the Colonial Assembly continuously for twenty-seven years. The testimony is that he was an affectionate father, an indulgent landlord, liberal to the poor, a true patriot and universally venerated. He enlarged his manor-house here in 1745, extending it to the north, changing its frout to the east and giving it its imposing array of windows, its two por-ticoes as now seen, and its surmounting balustrade, from within which views of the river and the Pali-sades were commanded. Close under the roof were sleeping-places for some, perhaps all, of the family