[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] His parents were Philip, eldest son of Frederick and Margaret Philipse, and Maria, daughter of Governor Sparks, of Bar-badoes. Philip Philipse, born in New York City in 1663, went to THE ARISTOCRATIC FAMILIES 261 Barbadoes to reside on an estate of his father's called Spring Head. Frederick was the only child, and was left an orphan at the age of five. His grandfather, who was still living, thereupon sold the Bar-badoes property, and the boy was sent to England to be reared by his mother's people. There he remained until his early manhood, en-joying every educational and social advantage which wealth and dis-tinguished connections could give. Although from these associa-tions he derived marked aristocratic predilections, which, in turn, were inbred in his children, and became the cause of their undoing in the evil days of the Revolution, his character, as thus formed, was that of an accomplished and amiable gentleman, quite free from corrupt and arrogant traits. By his tenants and the public he was always known as "Lord" Philipse, and his personality well corres-ponded to his title. " He was/' says Mrs. Lamb, " polished in his manners, hospitable, generous, cordial, manly. His cultivated Euro-pean tastes were soon distinguishable in his improvements. The manor house swelled into thrice its former size, and was beautiful in innumerable ways. The two entrances on the new eastern front were ornamented with eight columns and corresponding pilasters.