518 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY WESTCHESTER. 



ried Maria Sparks, daughter of the Governor of Barbadoes, who died im- 

 mediately after the birth of her only child Frederick Philipse in 1698. 

 Philip Philipse did not long survive his wife, dying on the Springhead 

 plantation, Barbadoes in 1700 aged, only thirty-seven. Mr. Philip 

 Philipse' s mother had been a Miss Joyce Farmer. . Mrs. Sparks brother, 

 Mr. Farmer, took his wife with him and went to the West Indies, and (on 

 his niece's marriage to Philipse) they resided for some time together. 

 Mr. Farmer had no children of his own, a which induced them to take 

 charge of the young orphan, Frederick. Old Mr. Frederick Philipse 

 was so shocked at the death of his eldest son, Philip, that he immediately 

 sent for his grandson to New York. This gave great offence to the 

 child's uncle and aunt, Farmer, who had set their heart on the child; so 

 that although they were very rich they only left him ^10,000 in cash 

 and the Springhead plantation, which was afterwards sold to a party 

 named Osbourne/ 



By the will of Frederick Philipse all that portion of the manor of 

 Philipsburgh north of Dobb's Ferry, including the present town became 

 vested in Adolphus or Adolph Philipse, second son of the Testator. 

 This individual was also proprietor of the Great Highland patent, which 

 included all of the present county of Putnam, granted on the 17th of 

 June, 1697 ; and the executor of his brother, Philip Philipse's estate, let- 

 ters of adminstration having been granted to him in that capacity on the 

 2 2d of December, 1 7 1 4.^ Adolphus Philipse was born in New York in the 

 year 1665. On the rumor that the French were about to attack Albany, 

 he was sent in 1691 to Connecticut to demand assistance from that 

 Colony. He was called to the Council on the 7th of February, 1704-5, 

 and in 17 18 was appointed one of the commissioners for running the 

 boundary line between Connecticut and New York. In 1721 he was 

 removed from the Council, on the representation of Gov. Burnet, for 

 opposing the continuance of the Assembly after his Excellency's arrival. d 

 In the following year he was elected to represent the County of Westches- 

 ter in the assembly, and 1725 was chosen speaker. At the ensuing 

 election in 1726, Mr. Philipse was returned one of the four members 

 for the city of New York, again elected speaker and filled that chair 

 until 1737. At the general election that year, however, he lost his seat; 

 but Gerrit Van Home, one of the members elect for the city dying soon 



a Burke's Hist, of Landed Gentry of Great Britain. Another daughter of Gov. Sparks 

 married a Colonel Fullerton, an only son and a man of large property in Scotland. Another 

 daughter of t he Governor remained unmarried. When Gov. Sparks went to Barbadoes his 

 wife had delicate health and remained at his estate, Worcestershire, and kept her two young- 

 est daughters with her. The other two accompanied their father. Philipse's MSS. 



b Philipse MSS. in possession of the late Frederick Philipse of Philipstown. 



c New York Surrogates office Kec, Well's No. vii, 286. 



d Council Minutes, VI., 34. 



