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. After the erection of the manor he was active in various ways in improving the property and promoting its availability for permanent settlement. He built across the Spuyten Duyvil Creek, in 1694, the first bridge connecting the mainland witii Manhattan Island, which has been known from that day to this as the King's Bridge. Having established his permanent country residence at Castle Philipse, on the present site of Tarrytown, he built near there the first church in the western section of the county -- the far-famed Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow.1 In a communication from 1 See p. 163. While the present History lias boen going through the press, there has been

every personal and local name, of its four great registers of members, consistorymen, baptisms,

published a little book entitled, " First Record an(J marriageSi from its organization to the Cook of the Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hoieighteenth century. Translated and low, Organized in 1697, and now the First Reorig- copied from the original, and carefully proofN. Y. Anmatter. formed Church islation of of Tarrytown. its brief historical d. by Rev. David Cole, D.D.. Yonkers, id a reproduction,