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trader of New Amsterdam in 1659, and had by him one child, a daugh- 

 ter, baptized Oct. 3d, 1660. Rudolphus died in 1661, leaving a con- 

 siderable estate, which by law, devolved upon his widow and child with a 

 community of interest when the Court of Orphan Masters of New Am- 

 sterdam summoned her before them, to render an inventory of her 

 child's paternal inheritance. This she declared she was unable to do, prob- 

 ably in consequence of the commercial character of the assets; where- 

 upon she received the anti-nuptial contract between her and Frederick 

 Philipse in lien of the inventory, in consequence of its embodying an 

 agreement on his part to adopt the child of Rudolphus as his own, and 

 to bequeath her one half of his estate, unless he had children born to 

 himself, and in that case to give her a share equally with them. Adoption 

 was permitted by the laws, and also the limitation of successory estates 

 by marriage contracts ; and the child thus, in legal intendment, became 

 the child of Frederick Philipse upon the consummation of the marriage 

 in December following." " In October, 1662, bans of marriage between 

 Frederick Philipse and Margaret Hardenbrook were published. In the 

 baptismal record the name of the child is written, Maria This may 

 have been, and probably was, an error of the registrar; certain it is, 

 that Frederick Philipse, by his will," as we shall see bye and bye, "made 

 provision for a child, which he called his oldest daughter, named Eva, 

 who was not his child by marriage, as it seems, and he makes no pro- 

 vision for Maria, as he was bound to do by his marriage contract, unless 

 it be that for Eva. The conclusion, therefore, seems irresistible, that 

 Eva and Maria were one and the same person." "It is not certain when 

 Margaret Harden-brook died, though it was not in 1662, as strangely 

 stated by some, for this was the year of her marriage with Frederick 

 Philipse. She was alive and a passenger on the ship with our travelers 

 in 1679, but she must have died before 1692, when Frederick Philipse 

 espoused Catharine Van Cortlandt, widow of John Derval and daughter 

 of Oloff Van Cortlandt, for his second wife."'* 



By his second marriage, Frederick Philipse had no children. By his 

 first wife, Margaret Hardenbrook, he had issue Philip Philipse, baptized 

 March 18, 1664, who pre-deceased his father; Adolphus, baptized Nov. 

 15th, 1665, Annetge, baptized Nov. 27, 1667, and Rombout, baptized 

 Jan. 9, 1670. The latter probably died in infancy, as his name does 

 not occur in the will of his father. 



Frederick Philipse, first lord of the manor of Philipsburgh, died on 



a Mem. of Long Island Hist., Soc., vol. I., Journal of voyage to New York, 1679-SO, Brook- 

 lyn, 1867. Frederick Philipse and Margaret, his wife, who was the acknowledged owner and 

 supercargo of the Charles, and was with her daughter, Annetge, a fellow passenger of our 

 travelers in that ship on the voyage to New York in 1070- 



