Vrederyck therefore the son of Felyp.c Besides their high rank as nobles, they appear also to have held the office of Grand Veneurs, or keepers of the deer forests in Bohemia.<i In the year 1658, Frederick Philipse, (having previously obtained the consent of the Stadiholder and States General,) emigrated from East Friesland to the New Netherlands, carrying" with him money, plate and jewels. « Upon his arrival in the city of New Amsterdam, (as New York was then called,) he purchased a large estate, and soon became one of its wealthiest merchants. On the 9th of February, 1653, Governor Stuyvesant granted certain lots within the city of New Amsterdam to Frederick Philipse, which were subsequently confirmed to him by the English governor, on the 12th of April, 1667.

In the general tax list of 1674, raised by the Dutch, on their reconquest of the city and province, we find the estate of Frederick Philipse assessed at 80,000 guilders. f By his wife Margaret Dacres, he left one son, Frederick, born at Bolswaert, East Friesland, A.D. 1656.

Frederick Philipse, jun., was the first lord of the manor of

» Burke's Hist, of tlie Landed Gent, of Great Britain.

b In German, peace is friede, and rich is reich : the compound, therefore, in that language would be Friedreich.

c Extracts from a note of Egbert Benson to Captain Phillips, in 1820.

d The collar and badge of office, consisting of a gold chain set with amethysts, diamonds, rubies and emeralds, is still preserved in the family. It was last in pos, session of Miss Susan Kobinson, sister of Col. Beverly Robinson.