Adolph, that he enjoyed possession of the whole property -- he ruled with much appreciation of his proprietary dignity and correspondingobservance of ceremony, but to the uniform satisfaction of his tenants, lie displayed none of the puffed-up characteristics of the parvenue lord, but was kind, approachable, moderate, and good to the poor. He presided in person over the manorial court. The inhabitants of the estate, except his immediate household, continued to be tenant farmers. He is said to have had fifty family Servants, of whom thirty were whites and twenty were negro slaves. He was a devoted member of the Church of England, and was The founder of Saint John's Episcopal < murch of Yonkers. But it was not until after his death that that church had its beginning; during his life he was content at such times of the year as he resided in the Manor House to worship at the family altar, his tenants being under the missionary care of the Parish of Westchester. The first Church of England minister established ai Westchester whose duties included visitations of the Yonkers portion of Philipseburgh Manor was the Rev. Mr. Bartow. He died in 1726. "As often as he could," says a contemporaneous church writer, "he visited Yonkers. A large congregation, chiefly of Dutch people, came to hear him. There was no church built here, so they assembled for divine worship at the house of Mr. Joseph Bebits, and sometimes in a barn when empty." That this unsatisfactory condition of things was permitted by the second lord to continue throughout his lifetime, although meanwhile he made the most elaborate expenditures upon his manorial mansion and grounds, must be set down positively to his discredit. When, finally, by his will he directed his executors to expend £4(10 for the erection of a church, he took care to specify that the money should come out of the rentals from tin- tenants, lie donated,, however, a farm, with residence and outbuildings, lying east of the Sawmill River, as a glebe for the minister.