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. Mr. Fanner had no children of his own," which induced them to take charge of the young orphan, Frederick. Old Mr. Frederick Philipse was so shocked at the death of his eldest son, Philip, that he immediately sent for his grandson to New York. This gave great offence to the child's uncle and aunt, Farmer, who had set their heart on the child; so that although they were very rich they only left him ^10.000 in cash and the Springhead plantation, which was afterwards sold to a party named Osbourne/

By the will of Frederick Philipse all that portion of the manor of Philipsburgh north of Dobb's Ferry, including the present town became vested in Adolphus or Adolph Philipse, second son of the Testator. This individual was also proprietor of the Great Highland patent, which included all of the present county of Putnam, granted on the 17th of June, 1697 ; and the executor of his brother, Philip Philipse's estate, letters of adminstration having been granted to him in that capacity on the 2 2d of December, 1 7 1 4. 17 Adolphus Philipse was bom in New York in the year 1665. On the rumor that the French were about to attack Albany, he was sent in 1691 to Connecticut to demand assistance from that Colony. He was called to the Council on the 7th of February, 1704-5, and in 17 18 was appointed one of the commissioners for running the boundary line between Connecticut and New York.