[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Annetje Philipse, the daughter of Frederick, the first lord of the manor, mar-ried Philip French, and left descendants who intermarried with prom-inent patriotic families, including the Brockholsts, Livings tons ami Javs The first Frederick Philipse also had an adopted daughter Eva (child of his wife Margaret by her first husband), who married the eminent New York merchant, Jacobus Van Cortlandt, a brother of Catherina, the second wife of Frederick Philipse the first. Jaco-bus Van Cortlandt bought fifty acres from his father-in-law in the Lower Yonkers tract, which formed the nucleus of the his One Van Cortlandt estate in the present Borough of the Bronx (whence tin names of Van Cortlandt Lake and Van Cortlandt Park). Frederick Philipse, the original proprietor, with whose history alone we are concerned in this portion of our narrative, not long-after beoinning the systematic upbuilding of his great estate, took steps toward erecting two residences upon it, one on the banks of the Nepperhan, not far from the site of Van der Donck's mill, and the other on the Pocantico, near Tarrytown, in the present Town of Mount Pleasant. At what period the Yonkers residence, which later became the -Manor House" of the Philipses, was begun is a ques-tion that has never been settled satisfactorily, although it has in-volved some very animated controversy.