[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] when it is remembered that many thousand acres of confiscated lands were sold after the war by the State at low prices. The principal confisca-tion by the State of lands of British adherents in Westchester County was thai of Philipseburgh Manor. The act forfeiting the manor was passed in 1779, whereupon all its lands, extending from the Spuyten Duyvil Creek to the Croton, and from the Hudson to the Bronx, became the property of the State of New York. In due time provision was made by the legislature to sell to private persons all the confiscated lands in the State (with the exception of certain properties which were re served for gifts to particular individuals), and to that end commis-sioners of forfeiture were appointed for the four districts into which the State was divided— the Eastern, Western, Middle, and Southern. General Philip Van Cortlandt, son of Lieutenant-Governor Pierre Van Cortlandt, was one of the commissioners for the Southern district, which comprehended our county. Most of the resulting sales oc-curred in 1785, although a few were made in 1786. The following is a list of the purchasers of forfeited lands in the Yonkers portion of the manor, which we extract from Allison's History of Yonkers: ORIGINAL NEW YORK STATE SEAL. GENERAL COUNTY HISTORY TO 1842