In 1740 the people of Bogt(m were rtivi(led in opinion llpon the ques,. . ., ,, . „. . , ,, , . lion of the erection of a new Central Market

of New was a native of our Town named, Rochelle, whence he went to Boston in the year 1720, at the age of eighteen. His uncle Andrew was a wealthy merchant of that city,

bltter fee,mg was aroused. Hal1' and mneh Thereupon, Peter Faneuil, actuated by public spirit, erected Faneuil Hall, and presented it to the city.

CHAPTER

ARISTOCRATIC

FAMILIES

XIII

THEIR

INFLUENCES

HE great Manor of Philipseburgh at the death of its founder, the first Frederick Philipse, November 6, 1702, was divided between two heirs, his son, Adolphus or Adolph, and his grandson, Frederick. Adolph took the northern portion, extending on the south to the present Dobbs Ferry and bounded on the west by the Hudson River, on the north by a line running from the mouth of the Croton to the sources of the Bronx, and on the east by the Bronx River. Frederick's share, also reaching from the Hudson to the Bronx, had for its southern limits Spuyten Duyvil Creek and the line of Fordham Manor. In this divided condition the manor remained until the death of Adolph in 1740, when, as no issue survived him, it was consolidated under the sole ownership of Frederick. By him the whole manor was transmitted at his death in 1751 to his eldest son, the third Frederick, who continued in possession of it until the Revolution. When tin- first Frederick Philipse died, the manor had been in existence only nine years. But he had previously devoted many years to the purchase of the estate and its gradual preparation for aristocratic pretensions, had built two mansions, one on the Nepperhan and one on the Pocantico, had established well-equipped mills, and had encouraged the coining of tenants by giving them land on the most liberal terms.