He came to Nieuw Amsterdam in Stuyvesant's time, under an engagement with the West India Company for five years, during which time he worked on the forts at Nieuw Amsterdam and Esopus. He married, in 1662, Margaret Hardenbrook, widow of Peter Rudolphus de Vries, a successful trader. Margaret was also engaged in trade, which she continued after this marriage, going to and from Holland as supercargo of her own vessels, in one of which, the " Charles," she brought over the Labadists, in 1679. By her " fortune, thrift and enterprise" and his exertions, Mr. Flypsen became the richest man in the colony. After the death of Margaret he married, in 1692, Catherine Van Cortlandt, widow of John Dervall and daughter of Olaf Stevenszen Van Cortlandt, by whom he received further additions to his wealth. Mr. Flypsen purchased other large tracts of land in Westchester County. In 1693 he procured the erection of the whole into the Manor of Phillipsburgh, in which the " island Paparinamin " was included. The old manor-home is now the city hall in Yonkers. For twenty years Mr. Flypsen was a member of the

- In early records and IISS. this name is sometimes written " Heddy," " Hedger," etc.

' This was probably the sale for which Mrs. O'Neale " received a good part of her payment in horses and mares," with which she was about to '■ return home into Maryland, y« place of her abode ; " but hearins report of a prohibition against importing horses to that colony, she procured a letter to its Governor from Governor Lovelace, of New York, asking a dispensation from the rigor of the late order in her case so as to permit her to dispose of her horses in Maryland to her best a<lvantage.