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. In the records of the Sleepy Hol-

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Bight Honorable, Godfearing, very wise and prudent Lady Catherine Phiiipse." By her will she left to the congregation of that church a chalice bearing her name, a baptismal bowl, and a damask cloth. Both Adolph and Frederick, the surviving male heirs of the first lord, were men of mark and influence, not only as Westchester County landlords, but in the general concerns of the province. Adolph was his second son and Frederick his grandson -- the only child of his eldest son, Philip, who died on the Island of Barbadoes in 1700. Adolph Phiiipse was born in New York City, November 15, 1065. He was reared to mercantile pursuits, and according to all accounts was, like his father, a shrewd and successful man of affairs. From old official documents it appears that he was his father's trusted and active lieutenant in the conduct of delicate transactions with the piratical skippers of the Indian Ocean. Notorious as were the rela