By the death of Adolph Philipse the whole manor ot Phihpsburgh became vested in his nephew the Hon Frederick Philipse, as the nearest male heir of his grandfather Frederick. Tliis distinguished personage was born upon the Springhead estate, island of Barbadoes, A. D. 1698. From 1721 to 1728 he filled the office of speaker to the house of Assembly in the province of New York, and ill 1733 was Baron of the Exchequer, and second judge of

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the same. He also erected St. John's Church, Yonkers, and liberally endowed it with a farm and parsonage. The Hon. Frederick Philipse died in 1751. His last will bears date the 6th of June of that year. His two sons, by Joanna Brockholes, daughter of governor Brockholes, were Frederick Philipse and Philips Philipse ; also three daughters, Susannah. Mary and Margaret. The eldest son, Frederick, being heir of his father, became devisee in tail male of the manor of Philipsburgh, tenant for life, under the will of his father, with remainder in tail male, while the upper highland patent of Philipstown passed to the second son, Philip, devisee in tail of those lands among whose descendants it still remains.

In 1779 the lands in this town together with the rest of the manor of Philipsburgh, became by the attainder of Colonel Frederick Philipse, vested in the state of New York. After having been in possession of the Philipse family nearly a century. In the year 17S4, the state by commission parcelled out these lands to various individuals. One of the principal grantees was Gerard G. Beeckman, Esq., v/ho purchased one thousand six hundred acres in the vicinity of Tarry town, upon which is situated the old manor house. Mr. Beeckman married Cornelia van Cortlandt ; thus after the forfeiture of the Philipses a portion of the manor again reverted to a connection of that ancient family ; Jacobus van Cortlandt, having married Eva Philipse, daughter of the Hon.