Sabine in his biographical sketches of American Loyalists', says, " Frederick Philipse applied t'> the British government for compensation and was allowed ^GV1^ sterling, or about $ao<\onu In 1S">>, in an English work, the value of the two manors was estimated at six or seven hundred thousand pounds, But It la lobe remembered, lhat lands in 17*1 hardly had a fixed value ; while in isn't, ine impulse which the Revolution had given to settlements, to increase of population, Ac., had already created v:i-t changes in the marketable prices of real property."

6 Penshurst was brought into the Smvthe family bv the mat liageof Sir Thomas Smythe, K. B., first Viscount Strangford in ICS with Lady Barbara Sydney, seventh daughter of Robert first Earl of Leciester.

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The Beeckmans who succeeded the Philipses in this portion of the manor of Philipsburgh, Willem or William Beekman, Lieutenant-Governor of the South River (Delaware). His ancestors had been respected for their talents and virtues, and had suffered much persecution for religion's sake. He was the son of Henry Beeckman and Maria Bandartus (a celebra'ted name among the clergy of the Reformed Church in Holland), and was born at Hasselt in Overyssel, April 1 8th, 1623. We are indebted to the Evening Gazette for the subjoined notice of this remarkable lady : " Cornelia Beeckman was the second daughter of Lieutenant- Governor Pierre Van Cortlandt, by his wife, Joanna Livingston, whose birth took place in the old manor house, by the banks of the Croton, on the 2d of August, 1753. Here her infancy and youth glided away, and but a short time before the war, she left its scenes for a life in New York, whither she removed upon her marriage with General Beeckman. When the Revolutionary troubles ran high, she came back to the old house at Peekskill, where part of her family resided.