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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 115 (part 3)

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[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Judge Philipse is described in an official communication from the council to the English government as " a very worthy gentleman of plentiful fortune and good education." On his manor — or rather his section of the manor, for it was only during the last two years of his life, after the death of his uncle THE ARISTOCRATIC FAMILIES 263 Adolph, that he enjoyed possession of the whole property — he ruled with much appreciation of his proprietary dignity and corresponding-observance of ceremony, but to the uniform satisfaction of his ten-