[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] From the foregoing record it appears that in 1785 'the Yonkers,' as now bounded, was owned by between sixty and seventy persons, and a 530 HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY study of the old map leads to the conclusion that the number of houses within the limits of the present city were in 1785 between three score and four score." The Manor House of the Philipses on the Pocant.ico River — the ancient "Castle Philipse " — in the present Town of Mount Pleasant was bought of the commissioners, with 1,000 acres adjoining, by Gerard G. Beekman, Jr., husband of Cornelia Van Cortlandt, that indomitable patriotic lady (daughter of the lieutenant-governor) who YONKERS IN 17S41. was the hostess of the Van Cortlandt house near Peekskill during the Revolution, and whose stern reply to an insolent soldier on a perilous occasion is celebrated (see p. 427). Mrs. Beekman died in 1S47 at the age of ninety-four. Besides Philipseburgh Manor, various (states of Tories scattered through the county were confiscated. All of these, however, were properties of but moderate dimensions. Several of them were con-ferred by the State upon patriotic persons as gifts. John Paulding and David Williams, two of the captors of Andre, received forfeited 3 by William Calmer East. Reproduced by 1 From an engraving in the possession of D. McX. Stauffer. of Yonkers. Copyrighted, GENERAL COUNTY HISTORY TO 1842 531 farms in Westchester County— the former being given the handsome property of Dr.