[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] A girl attempt-ing to rinse out the ship's mop let it fall overboard, whereupon the captain put the ship immediately to the wind and launched the jolly-boat, into which two sailors placed themselves at the risk of their lives in order to recover a miserable swab, which was not worth six cents. As the waves were running high, there was no chance of getting it, for we could not see it from the ship. Yet the whole voyage must be delayed, three seamen be sent roving at the risk of their lives, and Ave, with all the rest, must work fruitlessly for an hour and a half, and all that merely to satisfy and phase the miserable covetousness of Margaret." Within a comparatively few years after his marriage to Margaret, Frederick Philipse had become by far the wealthiest man in New York. During the Dutch interregnum, in 1674, his possessions were valued by commissioners appointed by Governor Colve at 80,000 guil-ders, an amount which, though large for the times, was small com-pared with the wealth that he ultimately amassed. In 1002, Mar garet having died, li<-married for his second wife Catherina, daughter of Oloff Stevense Van Cortlandt and widow of John Dervall — an-other fine alliance from the substantial point of view. His commer-cial and financial operations continually grew in magnitude and profitableness.