[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Colonel Philipse, like his father, loved the Church of England, and St. John's Church owes much to his fostering care and liberality. He not only carried out his father's directions in setting apart the glebe along the Saw -Mill River road, but he per-sonally gave the two acres on which St. John's Church, Sunday-school chapel and rectory now stand. A shrinking temperament, it is said, kept him back very much from public affairs. Yet he was a member of the Colonial Assembly. Ou assuming his estate in 1751, he thoroughly refurnished the manor-house, and afterwards maintained a very showy style of liv-ing, of which, however, his wife is said to have been the inspiration. Lady Philipse was very fond of dis-play. An aged lady of Yonkers, remembered by sev-eral still among us, and who knew Mrs. Philipse well, stated that it was her pride to appear on a road, skill-fully reining four jet-black steeds with her own hands. The statement that she was killed by a fall from her carriage seems to have been misplaced. That was, as stated above, the end of the second Lady Philipse. The manor-house and Manor of Philipsburgh bring over us a spell. This does not grow, however, out of impressions of enormous money value in the buildings or the lands.