[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] sued, the independent holdings of Hadden, Metis, and Tibbetts had been completely extinguished..Such of their former proprietors, or their descendants, who continued to live on the lands, remained not as owners but as tenants of the Philipses. Even the so-called island of Papirinemen1 (now Kingsbridge), where the ferry from Manhattan island terminated, became a part of the manorial lands. The south-ern section of the old Van der Donck patroonship, embracing the parcels originally bought from Doughty by Betts, Tibbetts, and Had-den, was called' the Lower Yonkers, the residue, which embraced more than three-fourths of the whole, being known as the Upper Yonkers. Frederick Philipse, in his first appearance as a purchaser of lands in this county, acted only as one of three associates, who combined to acquire all that was left of the Van der Donck grant after the first sales of it to various persons, each of the three agreeing to take an equal third of the property. By this arrangement he became seized in 1072 of some twenty-nine hundred acres in the Upper Yonkers— certainly a large proprietorship, very much larger than either the Archer or the Morris patents. But this was only the initial venture in a series of land-buying transactions, at least eight in number, which continued over a period of fifteen years, and, when completed, made him sole owner of the country from Spuyten Duyvil to the Croton River and from the Hudson to the Bronx.