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

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her extreme carefulness of her private interests. " The English mate, who afterward became captain,'" these narrators say, " was very close, but was compelled to be much closer, in order to please Margaret. It is not to be told what miserable people Margaret and Jan (her man) were, and especially their excessive covetousness. Margaret and her husband would not have a suitable boat for the ship built in Falmouth, but it must be done in New York, where timber was a little cheaper. ... A girl attempting to rinse out the ship's mop let it fall overboard, whereupon the captain put the ship immediately to the wind and launched the jollyboat, into which two sailors placed themselves at the risk of their lives in order to recover a miserable swab, which was not worth six cents. As the waves were running high, there was no chance of getting it, for we could not see it from the ship. Yet the whole voyage must be delayed, three seamen be sent roving at the risk of their lives, and Ave, with all the rest, must work fruitlessly for an hour and a half, and all that merely to satisfy and phase the miserable covetousness of Margaret." Within a comparatively few years after his marriage to Margaret, Frederick Philipse had become by far the wealthiest man in New York.