[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] ',„t channel, formed at high tide another across the shallow tideway that the "cause-(though shallow) tideway; and the land in-way >' was built before the days of the Kings closed between the main channel and this tide-Bridge.. THE THILIPSES AND VAN CORTLANDTS 157 associates of 1072, Thomas Delaval and Thomas Lewis, in the Upper Yonkers tract; 1686, the Sint-Sinck tract, or Sing Sing, which had previously been purchased by and confirmed to his son, Philip Phil-ipse; 1687, the " Tappan Meadows" (Rockland County); and finally, at a date or dates now indeterminate, but previously to June 12, 1693, the holdings of Betts, Tibbetts, and Hadden in the Lower Yonkers tract, together with the island or flat of Papirinemen. This vast region, whose individual parts had been separately confirmed to him as purchased, was vested in him as a whole by Governor Fletcher on the 12th of June, 1693. The document is one of the most elab-orate of ancient land deeds. Besides confirming him in tin* owner-ship, it erects the estate into a manor called Philipseburgh or Phil-ipseborough, and also confers upor> Philipse the privilege of build-ing a bridge across Spuyten Duyvil Creek at Papirinemen, on the line of the then existing ferry, and authorizes him, in recompense for his expenses in that enterprise, to collect, for his own behoof, fares from all persons using the bridge.