Taking advantage of the hazy description of the eastern boundary, one story even suggests that Philipse cut down the tree marking the eastern border, rode all day and remarked a tree near the CT border. 12 Although Adolph Philipse managed to acquire a patent for the enlarged property, no deed was ever recorded as he likely realized it would have been considered invalid due to the fuzzy Eastern boundary and because no additional compensation had been provided to the Wappinger for this massive eastward expansion. 13 The recording of deeds was--and still is--an important step in the legal process of authenticating land transactions. 14

In 1750 Adolph Philipse died, leaving the 200,000 acre plus holding to his nephew Fredrick Philipse II. Fredrick only lived a year before passing away and bequeathing the land evenly to his three children: Philip, Susannah, and Mary. The Philipse sisters, Susannah and Mary, married Beverly Robinson and Roger Morris respectively. Effectively marrying into wealth, Robinson and Morris each laid claim to approximately 60,000 acres of land, or roughly two thirds, of contested Wappinger land, encompassing over three quarters of today's Putnam County . 15

Bernis Nelson, local real estate attorney at law/researcher, email correspondence, January 2019. Oscar Handlin and Irving Mark, "Chief Daniel Nimham v. Roger Morris, Beverly Robinson, and Philip Philipse - An Indian Land Case in Colonial New York, 1765-1767", Ethnohistory, Vol. 11, No. 3 (Summer 1964), Published by Duke University Press: 198. Henry Noble MacCracken, Old Dutchess Forever! The Story of An American County (New York: Hastings House), 52. Bernis Nelson, local real estate attorney at law/researcher, email correspondence, January 2019. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Philipse Henry Noble MacCracken, Old Dutchess Forever! The Story of An American County (New York: Hastings House), 52. Thomas J. Humphrey, Land and Liberty, Hudson Valley Riots In The Age of Revolution (Illinois: Northern Illinois University Press),15 Thomas F.