Low, whose name appears in the foregoing list, was the Manor Hall property. Low was a Xew York merchant. Lie bought the Manor Hall property and three hundred and twenty acres of land for £14,520. lie never occupied it, but on May 12, 178G, sold it to William Constable, also a Xew York merchant. From the foregoing record it appears that in 1785 'the Yonkers,' as now bounded, was owned by between sixty and seventy persons, and a

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study of the old map leads to the conclusion that the number of houses within the limits of the present city were in 1785 between three score and four score." The Manor House of the Philipses on the Pocant.ico River -- the ancient "Castle Philipse " -- in the present Town of Mount Pleasant was bought of the commissioners, with 1,000 acres adjoining, by Gerard G. Beekman, Jr., husband of Cornelia Van Cortlandt, that indomitable patriotic lady (daughter of the lieutenant-governor) who

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was the hostess of the Van Cortlandt house near Peekskill during the Revolution, and whose stern reply to an insolent soldier on a perilous occasion is celebrated (see p. 427). Mrs. Beekman died in 1S47 at the age of ninety-four. Besides Philipseburgh Manor, various (states of Tories scattered through the county were confiscated. All of these, however, were conproperties of but moderate dimensions. Several of them were ferred by the State upon patriotic persons as gifts. John Paulding and David Williams, two of the captors of Andre, received forfeited D.