522 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



Anthony Brockholst" (who was descended of a very ancient family, 

 originally of Brockholls, which have been seated at Claughton Hall in 

 Lancashire, England, for many centuries) by his wife Susanna Maria 

 Schaack of Pompton, New Jersey. Mrs. Philipse was unfortunately 

 killed by a fall from her carriage on the Highland estate. The Hon. 

 Frederick Philipse died just three days before the opening of the 

 Supreme Court* on the 26th of July, 1751, and was buried in the family 

 vault in the Dutch church at Sleepy Hollow on the 28th of the same 

 month. His will bears date the 6th day of June, 1751.^ The follow- 

 ing notice of his death appeared in the New York Gazette, for July 

 29th, 1 75 1 : "New York, July 29th, last Friday evening, departed this 

 life in the 56th year of his age, the Honorable Frederick Philipse, Esq., 

 one of his Majesty's Justices of the Supreme Court of this Province, 

 and a Representative in our general Assembly for the County of West- 

 chester. He was a gentleman conspicuous for an abundant Fortune ; 

 but it was not his wealth that constituted his Merit — his Indulgence and 

 Tenderness to his tenants, his more than parental affection for his 

 Children, and his incessant liberality to the Indigent, surpassed the 

 splendor of his Estate ; and procured him a more unfeigned regard than 

 can be purchased with opulence, or gained by Interest. There were, 

 perhaps, few men that even equalled him in those obliging and benevo- 

 lent Manners, which, at the same time that they attracted the Love of his 

 Inferiors, gained him all the respect and veneration due to his rank and 

 station. That he was a Lover of his Country, is gloriously attested by 

 his being repeatedly elected into the Assembly for the last twenty-seven 

 years of his Life. He had a disposition extremely social, and was what 

 few ever attain to be, a good companion. But what I have said of his 

 character is far from being a finished Portrait, it is only a sketch of 

 some few of his excellent Qualities ; many features, I am sure, have 

 escaped me, but I dare say that those I have attempted, are not set off 

 with false colors, but drawn faithfully from the Life." 



His two sons, by Joanna Brockholes, were Frederick and Philip ■ also 



a Gov. Brockholst had been a colonel in the Guards and a great friend of James II. and a 

 rigid Papist. When James abdicated the English Throne, he gave up his government and 

 retired to Pompton with his wife, Susanna Maria Schaack, whose family had emigrated from 

 VVi sbI Priesland, Holland, about the same time that FredericK Ptiilipse left that country. Their 

 eldest daughter, Mary, was injured by a fall at the fort in New York Anthony was the 

 eldest ; Susanna, the second daughter, married Philip French, son of Philip French by 

 Annetje Philipse, daughter of Frederick Philipse, who had issue four daughters— a Philip 

 French who died a bachelor, and a daughter was by a second wife. The four daughters of 

 Philip French, by Susanna Brockholst were adopted by their aunt, Brockholst. One, Susanna, 

 married Gov. Win. Livingston, another married Mr. Van Home ; a third Mr. Clarkson of New 



Jersey; and a fourth married . Another daughter of Gov. Brockholst married Mr. Van 



Vactek, but left no children: Joanna, another daughter, married, as we have seen, the 

 richest man in the province of New York. 



b N. Y. Doc. Col. MSS. vol. vi, 737 



c Surrogates office, N. Y., No. xviil, p. 3. 



