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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 116

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[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] finally, by his will he directed his executors to expend £4(10 for the erection of a church, he took care to specify that the money should come out of the rentals from tin-tenants, lie donated,, however, a farm, with residence and outbuildings, lying east of the Sawmill River, as a glebe for the minister. The church was promptly built (1752-53) by his heir. He died in 1751. He had ten children, of whom only four — Fred-erick, Philip, Susanna, ami Mary — grew to maturity. Frederick was the third and last lord of the manor; Philip died in 1768, leaving three children; and Susanna and Mary, as already noted, married, respectively. Colonel Beverly Robinson and Major Roger Morris. This Mary was the celebrated Mary Philipse for whom George Wash-ington, according to some of his biographers, formed in his youth a romantic attachment. The Manor of Scarsdale, patented to Colonel Caleb Heathcote in 1701, had only a nominal continuance after his death (1721). He left no male heir to take a personal interest in the development of the 264 HISTORY OF westchestp:r county property as one of the great family estates of Westchester County, and thus Scarsdale never ranked with the other manors. It was pre-