All the lands north of Archer's line, with sole exception of the Mile Square, were eventually absorbed in the great Philipsc purchase; and accordingly by June 12, 1693, the date on which the royal charter for the Manor of Philipseburgh was issued, the independent holdings of Hadden, Metis, and Tibbetts had been completely extinguished. .Such of their former proprietors, or their descendants, who continued to live on the lands, remained not as owners but as tenants of the Philipses. Even the so-called island of Papirinemen1 (now Kingsbridge), where the ferry from Manhattan The southisland terminated, became a part of the manorial lands. ern section of the old Van der Donck patroonship, embracing the parcels originally bought from Doughty by Betts, Tibbetts, and Hadembraced residue, Yonkers, the Lower was called' Upper as the knownwhich being whole, the of the three-fourths than more den, Yonkers. Frederick Philipse, in his first appearance as a purchaser of lands in this county, acted only as one of three associates, who combined to acquire all that was left of the Van der Donck grant after the first sales of it to various persons, each of the three agreeing to take an equal third of the property. By this arrangement he became seized in 1072 of some twenty-nine hundred acres in the Upper Yonkers-- certainly a large proprietorship, very much larger than either the Archer or the Morris patents. But this was only the initial venture in a series of land-buying transactions, at least eight in number, which continued over a period of fifteen years, and, when completed, made him sole owner of the country from Spuyten Duyvil to the Croton River and from the Hudson to the Bronx. He bought additional lands successively as follows: 1081 (confirmed in 1683X, the Pocantico tract, covering the territory around Tarrytown; 1682 (confirmed in 1684), the Bissightick tract, or Irvington; 1082 (confirmed in 1081), the Weckquaesgeck tract, or Dobbs Ferry; 1681 (confirmed in 1081), the Nepperhan tract, stretching from the north line of the present Yonkers to the extreme northern limits of the manor, between the Sawmill and Bronx Rivers; 1085, the equal thirds of his the Spuyten Duyvil Creek ;e, while identical with' the pres',„t channel, formed at high tide another shallow) tideway; and the land in(thoughbetween the main channel and this tideclosed