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,

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HISTORY

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Governor Bellomont to the Lords of Trade, written in 1698, it is stated that at that time there were not more than twenty " poor families " in the whole Manor of Philipseburgh ; but there are strong reasons for regarding this as an utterly unreliable estimate. Bellomont was a governor of reform tendencies, and was particularly unsparing in his denunciations of the enormous land grants of his predecessors. He naturally wished to make these grants appear in as bad a light as possible, and so, in writing upon the subject to his superiors, represented that practically nothing had been done by the grantees toward populating their lands. It is unquestionable that the first lord of the manor laid substantial foundations for its development and transmitted it to his successors in a condition At the census of reasonably good preparedness for rapid progress. of 1712, only ten years after his death, the population of Philipseburgh Manor was 60S-- more than one-fifth of the whole population of the county. All of the first Frederick's children were the offspring of his first wife, Margaret Hardenbrook De Vries. His second wife, Catherina, a sister of Stephanas Van Cortlandt and widow of John Dervall, survived him many years, dying in V 1730. She lived witli her stepson, Adolph, \a at Castle Phiiipse, and was universally beloved for her gentle and pious character.