[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The payment consisted of the usual quantity of clothing and other dry-goods, and of kitchen uten-sils, together with guns, powder and rum, to which were added " 10 spoons and 2 rools of tobacco." By these successive conveyances, running through a period of nearly three years, with others previously made, and upon what now seems a very ridiculous consideration, Frederick Philipse became the pro-prietor of an immense landed estate within the limits of the present townships of Greenburgh and Mount Pleasant. He had already become the owner of other lands in addition to these, having made a joint pur-chase in Upper Yonkers with Thomas Delaval and Thomas Lewis on November 29, 1672, which seems to have been his first transaction of the kind in this neighborhood. He afterwards bought of white peo-: pie, west of the Hudson River, the Tappaan salt-meadows, lying opposite to Irvington and Dobbs. Ferry, on June 27, 1687, which was probably his last. These last-named purchases, however, lie outside of the territory whose history is here to be traced. Although he completed his title as proprietor of all these lands in Greenburgh by his final purchase in 1684, it was not till 1698, nine years later, that Fred-erick Philipse received the royal charter from Wil-liam and Mary, King and Queen of Great Britain, con-stituting him lord of the Manor of Philipsburgh, continuing his claims to the lands and defining their bounds.