THE OLD MANOR HOUSE.

first Lord of the Manor had his home there, and made it the seat of his temporal sovereignty. Rev. J. Selden Spencer, in his Centennial address delivered at Tarry town, July 4th, 1876, said of it: "Upon the

THE OLD MANOR HOUSE.

banks of the picturesque Pocautico, shortly after 1680, Frederick Pliilipse built his Manor-house or Castle Philipse, as it was called, for it was strongly fortified as a protection against the Indians. Though in the progress of time it has been subject to many changes, yet there is much about it identical with the first edifice. The south half of the present house, is very much as it was first, and traces of the port-holes are found in the cellar walls. Here the Philipses for several generations enjoyed the distinctions and blessings of their vast estate in a truly baronial style, and exercised a large and liberal hospitality. The old manor house, with 1, bop acres of land adjoining, was bought by Gerald G. JBeekman, who married Cornelia Van Cortlandt, a connection of the Philipses. She was the daughter of Pierre Van Cortlandt, born in 1753, and manifested an indomitable and patriotic spirit all through the Revolutionary war. She died, with her fine faculties unt

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i ho patriots of the hi arior.

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