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Title: The founders; portraits of persons born abroad who came to the colonies in North America before the year 1701, with an introduction, biographical outlines and comments on the portraits
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Bolton, Charles Knowles, 1867-1950
Subjects: Portraits, American United States -- History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 Biography
Publisher: (Boston) The Boston athenaeum
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ready,with characteristic foresight, he had begun to take noticeof Catharina, the young and charming daughter of hisneighbor on the Brouwer Straat—Oloft van Cortlandt,the brewer. He married her 30 November, 1692. On 12 June, 1693, by royal charter, the Phllipse landsbecame the Manor of Phlllpsborough, and here rose theold Manor Hall which we see today. Here also in hispomp and prosperity we may leave him, a tall andwell-proportioned man, with a quiet grey eye, a Romannose, and a firm, set mouth; in temperament, grave andmelancholy, shrewd almost to craftiness, and yet, ac-counted in society a dull man. Phllipse had two sons: Philip (whose son, Frederick,was the third Lord of the Manor), and Adolphus,second lord, as well as a daughter, Annetje. FrederickPhillpses lands were confiscated in 1779, the family wasimpoverished and scattered, and the very slaves of thegreat estate were burled In the Potters field. Philipse Manor Hall at Yonkers, N. Y., by Edward H. Hall. New York, 1912. 802
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FREDERICK PHILIPSE1626-1702 (803) :.KY Johannes Provoost, son of Elias and nephew of thefighting schoolmaster, David Provoost, was born abroadabout 1630, and was brought to Fort Orange (Albany)as a child. He became an expert penman, and heldoffice almost continuously as assistant commissary ofprovisions at New Amsterdam in 1653; under clerk ofthe Court of Fort Orange and the village of Beavers-wyck from 1656 to 1664; Secretary of Albany untilAugust, 1665, and again from October, 1673, to August,1675; sheriff of Albany County, 1678; and as a magis-trate, 1679 to 1685. Soon after the last date he settled in New York, andwas an assistant alderman from the South Ward in1688-1689. Early in the following year French andIndians laid waste the settlement at Schenectady, andProvoost was sent by Leisler, with 160 soldiers, to pro-tect the neighborhood. Robert Livingston did not thinkhighly of Provoost and his fellow commissioners, whospent their time with drinking and quaffing while theFrench I

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