page_title: Frederick Philipse
section_title: Descendants
hierarchical_section_title: Frederick Philipse / Descendants
caption_attribution_description: English: Adolphus Philipse (1665-1749), son of Frederick Philipse, first Lord of Philipse Manor
context_page_description: Frederick Philipse, first Lord of the Manor of Philipseborough and patriarch of the Philipse family, was a Dutch immigrant to North America of Bohemian heritage. A merchant, he arrived in America as early as 1653. In 1662 he engaged in a marriage to a wealthy and driven widow, Margaret Hardenbrook de Vries. Together, and variously in league with slavers, pirates, and other undesirables, the couple combined their industry to amass a fortune.
  Beginning in 1672 Philipse and some partners started acquiring land in what was to become lower Westchester County, New York. When the British took over the Dutch colony in 1674, Philipse pledged his allegiance to the Crown and was rewarded with a title and manorship for his holdings, which ultimately grew to some 81 sq mi. Serving later on the Governor's executive council, he was subsequently banned from government office for conducting a slave trade into New York.
  Upon his death, Philipse was one of the greatest landholders in the Province of New York. He owned the vast stretch of land spanning from Spuyten Duyvil Creek, in the Bronx, to the Croton River. He was regarded by some as the richest man in the Colony.
context_section_description: John Jay (1745–1829), delegate and president of Continental Congress, drafter of the US Constitution, US Ambassador to France and Spain, first Chief Justice of the US
  Henry Brockholst Livingston (1757–1823), Justice of US Supreme Court
  Alexander Slidell MacKenzie (1842–67), an officer in the United States Navy during the American Civil War and his brother General Ranald S. Mackenzie.
  Jay Pierrepont Moffat (1896–1943), notable American diplomat, historian and statesman who, between 1917 and 1943, served the State Department in a variety of posts, including that of Ambassador to Canada during the first year of United States participation in World War II.
  John Watts de Peyster (1821–1907),  Brigadier General in the New York State Militia during the American Civil War and philanthropist and military historian after the war.
  Eva Philipse, adopted daughter of Frederick Philipse I, born Eva de Vries 1660, married Jacobus van Cortland
  Margaret Philipse, youngest daughter of Frederick II,  bap. Feb. 4, 1733; heiress to Philipse Patent, died intestate some time after 1751 bequeathal and before 1754 division; share redistributed to siblings Philip, Mary, and Susanna.
  Mary Philipse (1730–1825), eldest daughter of Frederick Philipse II, and possible early romantic interest of George Washington, loyalist, wife of British Colonel Roger Morris, owner of the Mount Morris in Manhattan. Heiress to Philipse Patent.
  Philip Philipse, son of Frederick Philipse II, heir to Philipse Patent.
  Susanna Philipse, middle daughter of Frederick Philipse II, married to Beverley Robinson, mother of Frederick Philipse Robinson, heiress to Philipse Patent.  Possible romantic interest of George Washington.
  Sir Frederick Philipse Robinson (1763–1852), son of a Virginian soldier who fought for England during the American War of Independence, also was an Empire Loyalist.
  Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright III (1864–1945), US Congressman and Army officer in the Spanish–American War.
caption: Adolphus Philipse (1665-1749), second son of Frederick, inherited part of the Philipsborough Manor and purchased the Highland Patent.  Today known as the Philipse Patent, it became modern Putnam County, New York.
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