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mont, knew whereof he spoke when he said that "Kidd's 

 missing treasure could be readily found if the coffers of 

 Frederick Philipse were searched." 



The connection of Philipse with the illegal traffic at last 

 became so notorious that a petition, supported by depositions, 

 asking for his removal from the council was presented to the 

 home government; and, anticipating his removal, Philipse 

 resigned his membership in the council, 1698, retired to his 

 manor and bent his energies to its development. 



Margaret Hardenbroeck had a daughter, Eva, by her first 

 husband, De Vries, whom Philipse legally adopted as his own. 

 She married Jacobus Van Cortlandt, brother of Stephanus 

 and of Catherine, Philipse's second wife. Philipse sold to 

 him fifty acres on George's Point — a bend in Tippett's Brook — 

 with one and one half acres of meadow and twenty-five acres 

 of upland on October 10, 1699. This property had been 

 bought from Doughty by Hadden, who, on February 22, 1670, 

 sold George's Point to Mathias Buckhout, who, subsequently, 

 January 22, 1694, conveyed it to Frederick Philipse. On 

 August 13, 1 701, Clause Dewilt, Karacapacomont, and Neme- 

 ran, native Indians and former proprietors, "remised, released, 

 and quit-claimed unto the said Jacobus Van Cortlandt, and 

 to the heirs of the Betts and Tippetts, and to their heirs and 

 assigns forever, all our right, title, and interest which we ever 

 had, now have, or hereafter may have or claim to the said 

 tract of land called the old Younckers. " The property above 

 described became the nucleus of the Van Cortlandt estate, 

 now included within the park of that name. 



The purchasers of the other sections of Colen Donck did 

 not become prominent as great landholders ; they were, speak- 

 ing generally, quiet farmer folk, who gradually disposed of 

 their holdings to other people like themselves or to their 



