Then personally came before me Edward Viscount Corubury, Captain General and Governor-in-chief of New York, Ed. William Nicoll, Oloff Van Cortlandt and Philip Van Cortlandt, witnesses, who have subscribed their names to ye within will and made oath upon ye holy Evangelists of Almighty God that they saw ye within named ffrederick fflipse sign, scale and declare ye same will and testament and that at ye time thereof he was of sound mind and memory to ye best of their knowledge, Jurat Coram me Cobxbury.

New York, December 9th, 1702, Jacobus Van Cortlandt, one of ye within named executors was duly sworue to ye executor of ye within, Jurat Coram me,

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Philip Philipse, the eldest son of the above testator was born in New York, 1663, and baptized the 18th of March, 1664. From all accounts this individual appears to have been in his youth very wild and gay, and possessed withal of a very delicate constitution, which induced his father to send him to the Island of Barbadoes to look after his property there consisting of a plantation called Penus/ Herein 1697 he mara Rec. of Wells Surrogates office, N. Y., 1702 to 1712, pp. 101, 105. The above will was

proved 9th Dec , 1702.

i Philipse .US3. in possession of the late Frederick Philipse Philipstown, Putnam County,

HISTORY OF THE COUNTY WESTCHESTER

ried Maria Sparks, daughter of the Governor of Barbadoes, who died immediately after the birth of her only child Frederick Philipse in 1698. Philip Philipse did not long survive his wife, dying on the Springhead plantation, Barbadoes in 1700 aged, only thirty-seven. Mr. Philip Philipse's mother had been a Miss Joyce Farmer. Mrs. Sparks brother, Mr. Farmer, took his wife with him and went to the West Indies, and (on his niece's marriage to Philipse) they resided for some time together.