Their eldest daughter, Mary, was Injured by a fall at the fort in New York Anthony was the eidest : Susanna, the second daughter, married Philip French, sou of Philip French by Annetje Philipse, daughter of Frederick Philipse, who had Issue four daughters-- a Philip French who died a bachelor, and a daughter was by a second wife. The four daughters of Philip French, by Susanna Brockholst were adopted by their aunt, Brockholst. One. Susanna, married Gov. Wm. Livingston, another married Mr. Van Home ; a third Mr. Clarkson of New
Jersey; and a fourth married . Another daughter of Gov. Brockholst married Mr. Van
Vactek, but left no children ; Joanna, another daughter, married, as. we have seen, the richest man In the province or New York.
b N. Y. Doc, Col. MSS. vol. vi, 737
c Surrogates office, N. Y., No. xviil, p. 3.
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three daughters, Susannah, Mary and Margaret. The eldest son, Frederick l'hilipse being heir of his father, became devisee intail male of the manor in Philipsburgh, tenant for life, under the wall of his father, with remainder intail male, while the upper Highland Patent of Philipstown passed to the second son, Philip devisee intail of those lands among whose descendants it still remains.
Frederick Philipse, the eldest son and last lord of the manor of Philipsburgh, was born in New York, 12th of September, 1720. He was educated at Kings College (now Columbia), New York, and became a most accomplished gentleman, and a person of considerable literary attainments. He was also an ardent Churchman, and a liberal benefactor. In fact, to his untiring efforts, under God, does St. John's parish, Yonkers, owe much of her present prosperity ; it was through his generosity that the parochial church was erected, in 1752-3.