He resigned from the council in 1698, in anticipation of his removal by the home government in England, which followed, in fact, not long after. This removal was the result of satisfactory evidence that he was interested in the piratical East Indian trade, having its rendezvous in Madagascar -- evidence upon which a number of New York citizens had based a petition, praying that "Frederick Philips, whose great concerns in illegal trade are not only the subject of common fame, but are fully and

HISTORY

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COUNTY

place in particularly proved by depositions," "be removed from his His children, four in numberHe died in 1702. the council." his first wife. Philip, Adolphus, Annetje, and Rombout-- were all by y in childprobabl latter (the himself before died Philip and Rombout n, hood), and he accordingly divided the manor between his grandsothe Frederick (Philip's son), and his son Adolphus, the former taking er. remaind section from Dobbs Ferry southward, and the latter the manor; the of lord of title the to Frederick the grandson, succeeded but inlord, third the only not was ck, and his eldest son, Frederi herited the whole original estate (Adolphus Philipse having died Under Frederick, the third lord, the manor conwithout issue). consetinued to exist in its integrity until the Revolution, when, m to the himself g removin his and , partisan Tory a being quence of his ided sub-div be to ted, confisca British lines, the whole property was forfeiture. Annetje and sold in due time bv the State commissioners of of the manor, marPhilipse, the daughter of Frederick, the first lord rried with prominterma who ants descend ried Philip French, and left tons ami inent patriotic families, including the Brockholsts, Livings daughter The first Frederick Philipse also had an adopted Javs ), who married Eva (child of his wife Margaret by her first husband dt, a brother Cortlan Van Jacobus the eminent New York merchant, Jacock Philipse the first. of Catherina, the second wife of Frederifrom his father-in-law in the bus Van Cortlandt bought fifty acres of the his One Van Lower Yonkers tract, which formed the nucleus Bronx (whence tin the of h Boroug Cortlandt estate in the present Park). names of Van Cortlandt Lake and Van Cortlandt whose history with tor, proprie l origina the e, Philips Frederick ve, not longalone we are concerned in this portioningof ofourhisnarrati great estate, took after beoinning the systematic upbuild the banks of steps toward erecting two residences upon it, one on mill, and Donck's der the Nepperhan, not far from the site of Van Town of the other on the Pocantico, near Tarrytown, in the present e, which later residenc Yonkers the period what At nt.