[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] those Reformers before the Reformation, some of its members became the subjects of persecution. They suffered severely, both in person and property, and were at length constrained to leave their native country and to seek for an asylum in Holland. In Friesland, on the northwestern shore, among a people — the Frisians — who are said to be the only Germanic tribe that has preserved its name since the time of Tacitus, and who were characterized as much by their physical force as by their courage and lofty inde-pendence, the head of the Philipse family made for himself a home in the little town of Bolsward. Here, about the close of the sixteenth century, the father of our American Philipse was born. The child hav-ing grown to man's estate, took for his wife Grietje or Margaretha Dacres. To them a son was born in Bols-ward, about 1(32(3, who was named Frederick, after his father and grandfather. Some years later, when that son and only child became a young man, the parents emigrated to New Amsterdam (now New York), in America. Being poor, the son had