598 history of the county of Westchester. 



assessed or levied to collect find dispose of for such uses as the acts of General 

 Assembly shall establish and appoint, to have and to hold, possess, collect, and 

 enjoy, all and singular the said lordship or manor of Philipsborough, together 

 with the aforesaid halls and premises, with their and every of their appertinances 

 unto the said Frederick Philips, his heirs and assignees, to the only proper use, 

 benefit, and behoof of him, the said Frederick Philips, his heirs and assignees 

 1 op \ < r, reserving unto us, our heirs and successors, free egress and ingress of all 

 our and their forces, horse or foot, of our and their coaches, waggons, stores of 

 war, ammunition, and expresses, that shall from time to time pass the said bridge 

 for our their service, or anything contained to the contrary herein in any ways 

 notwithstanding, to be holden of us, our heirs and successors, in free and com- 

 mon soccage according to the tenure of our manor of East Greenwich within our 

 county of Kent in our realm of England, yielding rendering, and paying there- 

 fore, yearly and every year, on the feast day of the Annunciation of the Blessed 

 Virgin Mary, at our fort at New York unto us, our heirs and succssors, the an- 

 nual rent of £4 12s. current money of our said province in lieu and stead of all 

 former rents, services, clues, duties, and demands for the said lordship or manor 

 of Philipsborough and premises. In testimony whereof we have caused the seal 

 of our province of New York to be hereunto affixed. Witness, Benjamin Fletch- 

 er our captain-general and governor-in-chief of our province of New York afore- 

 said, province of Pennsylvania and county of New Castle, and the territory and 

 tracts of land depending thereon in America, at Fort William Henry, the 12th 

 day of June, in the fifth year of our reign, and in the year of our Lord, 1693." 



Frederick Philipse. Esq., by his last will bearing date 9th of Decem- 

 ber, 1702, devised his lands' in this town and part of Greenburgh to 

 Frederick Philipse his grandson, born in Barbadoes ye only son of 

 Philip, his eldest son, viz : — 



"The Island of Papirinemin with the meadows ye toll and all ye lands and 

 meadows called the Yonkers plantation, with all houses, mills, mill-dams, &c, as 

 also a piece of land in the mile square by me late bought of Michael Hawdon and 

 all that tract or parcel of land extending from the Yonkers patent or plantation 

 to a creek called by the Indians Wysquaqua and by the Christians William Por- 

 tugues creek, aud thence according to ye course of that creek into ye woods to ye 

 >f ye same from thence on a last line to the creek called the Yonker's creek, 

 and thence to continue on the same course to Bronck's river; also the boat 

 Yoncker, with her furniture apparel and appurtenances, &c. Upon the death of 

 the lion. Frederick Philipse, the above devisee of his grandfather Frederick in 

 1751, Colonel Frederick Philipse his son became devisee in tail male of the whole 

 manor of Philipsborough." 



These lands continued in the possession of Colonel Frederick Philipse, 

 till the year 1779. When having broken his military parole by not 

 returning to Yonkers, they became confiscated to the people of this State, 

 and sold and conveyed by Isaac Stoutenburgh and Philip van Cortlandt 

 Commissioners of Forfeitures, appointed in pursuance of an act of the 



