[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] After the Revolution the lands in the Manor of Philipsburgh were parceled out and sold, Frederick Philipse having been attainted of high treason, and his property confiscated to the State of New York. Gerard ( I. Beekman purchased the tract on which the old manor-house then stood, as it does now, and thither he removed with his family in 1785. There he died in 1822, at the age of seventy -six years, and there, twenty-five years later, on March 14, 1847, his wife, Cornelia Van Cortlandt Beekman, gently fell asleep in the ninety-fifth year of her age. Beekmantown, the original name of the village, for which the name of North Tarrytown was finally sub-stituted in the legal incorporation in 1874, was first laid out in lots by George W. Cartwright, a surveyor, about the year 1835. The Rev. George Rockwell, who was familiar with the locality at that period, says in regard to it : " I remember how surprised I was to find people willing to pay one hundred dollars for a little building lot, for that was about the price at first. It was a barren sand-bed, with but little besides wild