[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The title to the possessions thus acquired and the rights and prerogatives conferred by the royal c har-ter were transmitted by inheritance through a period of eighty-six years, until they were all extinguished in 1779 by the Legislature of New York, which de-clared Colonel Frederick Philipse, the great-grandson of the original lord of the manor, to be guilty of treason against his country by casting in his lot with her enemies during the War of the Revolution, and on that ground it confiscated all his property to the State. The Legislature went further and enacted a law providing for the appointment of Commissioners of Forfeitures to sell the lands thus confiscated. A supplementary act was passed on May 12, 17*4, under which Isaac Stoutenburgh and General Philip Van Cortlandt were duly appointed as said commissioners, and in 1785 they accordingly sold the lands in fee to those largely who had been former tenants undfer the hereditary proprietor and lord. The deeds given by these commissioners were to operate as a warranty 01 the State against all future claims. The title to a large part of the land in Westchester County, and to all, in fact, in Greenburgh and Mount Pleasant, is traceable directly back to these conurissioners' deeds. The Philipse family had a history that was marked by varied fortunes. Its origin was in Bohemia, where it is said to have ranked as noble. Being in active sympathy with John Huss and Jerome of Prague, "REDWOOD COTTAGE," IRVINGTON, N. Y.