[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] tracted a very advan-tageous marriage, es-pousing Margaret Har-denbroek DeYries, the daughter of Adolf Har-denbroek and widow of Pietries Rudolphus De Vries, a wealthy New Amsterdam merchant. This lady proved to be hardly less energetic and resourceful than Philipse himself, and, retaining the manage-ment of her own affairs, added not a little to the growing wealth of the family. She continued the business of her first husband, and made frequent voyages to and from Holland on the vessels which she owned acting as supercargo. In the well-known " Journal of a Voyao-e to' New York and Tour in Several of the American Colonies in 1679-80," by Jasper Dankers and Peter Sluyter (published by the Lon<r island Historical Society), the writers, who crossed on one of hor "ships, make various allusions to her business characteristics which while by no means complimentary, give an excellent idea of PHILIPSE MANOR HOUSE, YONKERS THE PHILIPSES AND VAN CORTLANDTS 159 her extreme carefulness of her private interests. " The English mate, who afterward became captain,'" these narrators say, " was very close, but was compelled to be much closer, in order to please Margaret. It is not to be told what miserable people Margaret and Jan (her man) were, and especially their excessive covetousness. Margaret and her husband would not have a suitable boat for the ship built in Falmouth, but it must be done in New York, where timber was a little cheaper....