To the west the greensward sloped gradually toward the river, dotted with fine specimens of ornamental trees, and was emparked and stocked with deer. The roof of the manor house was surmounted by a heavy line of balustrade, forming a terrace, which commanded an extensive view. The interior of the new part was elaborately finished. The walls were wainscoted, and the ceilings highly ornamented in arabesque work. The marble mantels were imported from England, and were curious specimens of ancient art in the way of carving. The main halls of the entrance were about fourteen feet wide, and the superb staircases, with their mahogany handrails and balusters, were proportionately broad. The city establishment of the family was, in its interior arrangements, quite as pretentious as the manor house, and it was where the courtly aristocracy of the province were wont to meet in gay and joyous throng." " It was he," says Allison in his " History of Yonkers," " who enlarged the Manor House on the Nepperhan in 1745, by extending it to the north, changing its front to the east, and giving it its imposing array of windows, its too por-

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ticoes as now seen, and its surrounding balustrade, from which views of the river and the Palisades are commanded." About the time of his return to America to claim his inheritance, young Frederick was married to Joanna, daughter of LieutenantGovernor Anthony Brockholst, who also had been tenderly reared in England. During the first few years of his residence on his estate he took no part in public life. But from the time of his first election to the assembly, in 1726, until his death, in 1751, he was constantly in official position. His career in the assembly was not specially noteworthy. Despite the rivalry of the Morrises, who stood for political views radically opposed to his own, his seat in the assembly seems never to have been imperiled.