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

way was the so-called Island of Papirinemeu, It was ferry terminated. Verveelen's where across the shallow tideway that the "causeway >' was built before the days of the Kings Bridge.

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THILIPSES

CORTLANDTS

associates of 1072, Thomas Delaval and Thomas Lewis, in the Upper Yonkers tract; 1686, the Sint-Sinck tract, or Sing Sing, which had previously been purchased by and confirmed to his son, Philip Philipse; 1687, the " Tappan Meadows" (Rockland County); and finally, at a date or dates now indeterminate, but previously to June 12, 1693, the holdings of Betts, Tibbetts, and Hadden in the Lower Yonkers tract, together with the island or flat of Papirinemen. This vast region, whose individual parts had been separately confirmed to him as purchased, was vested in him as a whole by Governor Fletcher on the 12th of June, 1693. The document is one of the most elaborate of ancient land deeds. Besides confirming him in tin* ownership, it erects the estate into a manor called Philipseburgh or Philipseborough, and also confers upor> Philipse the privilege of building a bridge across Spuyten Duyvil Creek at Papirinemen, on the line of the then existing ferry, and authorizes him, in recompense for his expenses in that enterprise, to collect, for his own behoof, fares from all persons using the bridge.