We should be glad to see this beautiful tree, whose dark verdure never fails, naturalized in the gardens of Westchester.

In this Mansion the lords of the manor on the great rent days, feasted their tenantry. Some idea may be formed of this establishment which maintained thirty white and twenty colored servants. There appears to have been two rent days yearly for the manor of Philipsborough. One in January, held at Yonkers for the convenience of the lower tenantry ; another a few days subsequent at Sleepy hollow, for the upper.

In lieu of rent was frequently received a couple of fat hens, a day's work, or a trifling, sum amounting to three or four pounds. The farmers bordering the river having greater privileges, paid higher rents. The Courts Leet and Baron were held yearly at the house of John Cockles, the site of the present Nap-pe-cka-mak tavern. This court took cognizance of all criminal matters, and sometimes "inflicted punishments that were even capital. In the administration of justice the baronial lord presided, either in his own person or that of his steward.

Tn the Manor Hall, July 3d, 1730, was born Mary Philipse, daughter of the Hon. Frederick Philipse, speaker of the House of Assembly and lord of the manor of Philipsborough. "From this lady's character 'Fenimore Cooper formed the heroine of the Spy, under the name of Frances, (see the interesting account of her in that work.) It is said that she refused the hand of Washington, who was greatly attached to her; she subsequently married Col. Roger Morris, 15th January, 1758. This individual greatly distinguished himself during the first American Vol. IT. 59