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. The church was promptly built (1752-53) by his heir. He died in 1751. He had ten children, of whom only four -- Frederick, Philip, Susanna, ami Mary -- grew to maturity. Frederick was the third and last lord of the manor; Philip died in 1768, leaving three children; and Susanna and Mary, as already noted, married, respectively. Colonel Beverly Robinson and Major Roger Morris. This Mary was the celebrated Mary Philipse for whom George Washington, according to some of his biographers, formed in his youth a romantic attachment. The Manor of Scarsdale, patented to Colonel Caleb Heathcote in 1701, had only a nominal continuance after his death (1721). He left no male heir to take a personal interest in the development of the

HISTORY OF westchestp:r county

property as one of the great family estates of Westchester County, and thus Scarsdale never ranked with the other manors. It was preserved intact, however, under the joint proprietorship of Heathcote's two daughters, until just before the Revolution, when its lands were disposed of to various persons by partition sale. Its progress in population, although wry slow at first, was ultimately about the same as that of the ordinary rural sections of the county.