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. In 17 21 he was removed from the Council, on the representation of Gov. Burnet, for opposing the continuance of the Assembly after his Excellency's arrival/ In the following year he was elected to represent the County of 'Westchester in the assembly, and 1725 was chosen speaker. At' the ensuing election in 1726, Mr. Philipse was returned one of the four members for the city of New York, again elected speaker and filled that chair until 1737. At the general election that year, however, he lost his seat; but Gerrit Van Home, one of the members elect for the city dying soon

a Burke's Hist, of Landed Gentry of Great Britain. Another daughter of Gov. Sparks married a Colonel Fullerton, an only son and a man of large property In Scotland. Another daughter of i lie Governor remained unmarried. When Gov. Sparks went to Barbadoes his wife had delicate health and remained at his estate, Worcestershire, and kept her two youngest daughters Willi her. The other two accompanied their father. Philipsr'* MSS.