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. Finally, at the age of thirtysix, in 1662, be contracted a very advantageous marriage, esMargaret s, Hardenbroek pousing DeYrie the

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Adolf Harer of daughtek and widow of denbro Pietries Rudolphus De Vries, a wealthy New Amsterdam merchant. This lady proved to be hardly less energetic and resourceful than Philipse himself, and, PHILIPSE MANOR HOUSE, YONKERS retaining the management of her own affairs, added not a little to the growing wealth of the family. She continued the business of her first husband, and which made frequent voyages to and from Holland on the vessels of a l Journa " nown well-k the In argo. superc as she owned acting s Colonie an Americ the of Several in Tour and Voyao-e to'New York by the in 1679-80," by Jasper Dankers and Peter Sluyter (published one of Lon<r island Historical Society), the writers, who crossed on s eristic charact ss busine her to hor "ships, make various allusions nt idea of which while by no means complimentary, give an excelle