In addition to his various purchases in this county, Philipse bought of white people, in 1C>S7, the Tappan salt meadows lying opposite Ervington and Dobbs Ferry in the present County of Rockland, a comparatively small but finely situated tract, which was incorporated in the manor grant of June 12, 1693, and always remained a part of the hereditary manor. The ancestors of Frederick Philipse are said to have been Hussites of Bohemia, who, driven from their home by religious persecution, emigrated to Friesland, one of the provinces of the United Netherlands. There his father, Frederick, married Margaret Dacres, supposed to have been a lady of good family from the parish of Dacre, The son was born in Bolsward, Friesland, in 1626, and. in England.

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according to Bolton, came to New Netherland some time previously to 1(353, in which year lie was appointed one of the appraisers of the house and lot of Augustine Heermans, in New Amsterdam. His surname in Dutch was variously written Flypse, Flypsen, Vlypse, Ylypsen (meaning the son of Philip), which was anglicized into Philipse country in 1 he pos(pronounced Phillips). Whether he came to this session of any comfortable amount of means is unknown; but it is certain that as a young man in New Amsterdam he began life in a emhumble capacity, working at the trade of carpenter. But soon barking in commerce, aud developing great shrewdness and moneylarge getting ability, his fortunes rapidly improved. He made shipping the from and Indians the with ns profits" from transactio good business, and, having the tact and address to place himself on valuperiod early an from terms with the government, he enjoyed grants to desirable special favors. From Stuyvesant he isreceived little if any doubt that There able lands on Manhattan Island. he was engaged in the slave trade and alilso in contraband and piratical traffic.