Lowe conveyed part to William Constable. April 29, 1796, Wm. Constable and wife sold

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to Jacob Stout. April I, 1803, Jacob Stout conveyed it to Joseph Howland. It was finally bought under a decree of Chancery by Lemuel Wells, Esq., at whose death in 1842, the Mansion House with 300 acres, passed to his heirs at law, he dying intestate. The present proprietor of the Manor House is his nephew, Lemuel Wells, Esq. The Wells family are originally from Cambridgeshire, England, and descend from Richard Wells, who held the manor of Wells at a very early period. In the possession of the present Lemuel Wells, Esq , is a coat of arms beautifully embroidered in silk needlework. These arms were granted to the Cambridge Wells's, A. D. 1614. a- The present family are more immediately descended from Samuel Wells of Wethersfield, Conn., who removed A. D. 1639, with his three sons, John, Thomas and Samuel, to Milford, Conn.b This family gave a Governor to that State.

The last lord of the manor, Colonel Frederick Philipse, returned to Chester, in England, where he died, A.D. 1785, after a short illness, and has a monument there erected to his memory.•= His faithful colored valet, Angevinc, who had accom-

* Berry's Encj-clopedia of Arms. . .

b Trumbull's Conn., 105.

= " Frederick Philipse (says Mr. Sabine) occupied an elevated position in Colonial society, but he does not appear to have been a prominent actor in public atTairs.

He was, however, a member of tlie House of Assembly, and held the commisfiion of colonel in the militia. Nor does it seem that, though a friend of existing institutions, and an opposer of the whigs, he was an active partisan. In April, 1775, he went to the ground appointed by the whigs of Westchester county, to elect deputies to the Congress ; and declared that he would not join in the business of the day, and that the sole purpose in going there was, to protest against their illegal and unconstitutional proceedings.