[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] enhoven, who was usually called Conover, is said, in fact, to have built all around the house, almost com-pletely inclosing the original, and rendering the remodeled building much more roomy and conve-nient. The same variable orthography occurs in this name as in so many others. It is spelled Covenhoven, Couenhoven and Cowenhoven; but Jacob, in his autograph, wrote it Couenhoven. In tracing the title, the place which previously belonged to the Philips Manor is found to have been conveyed by the Commissioners of Forfeitures, Isaac Stoutenburgh and Philip Van Cortlandt, to Ann Covenhoven, by deed dated December 6, 178"). On October 5, 1786, she mortgaged the place to George Clinton for one hundred pounds. The mortgage was cancelled October 26, 1802. The place passed suc-cessively to Jacob Couenhoven and Edward Couen-hoven.1 The last-named individual conveyed it to Martin Smith by deed dated May 3, 1821. Captain Martin Smith had previously lived in Tarrytown under the hill, and had sailed a sloop between New York and Albany. In his hands the house was a place of public entertainment, where the New York and Albany stages stopped, going and coming, to