Van der Donck gave Yonkers its name; however, the real founder of the city was another Dutchman, Frederick Philipse I. Philipse came to New Amsterdam in the early 1650s as carpenter for Governor Peter Stuyvesant. Through trade, land acquisition, and a strategic marriage, Philipse amassed a fortune. In 1672, Philipse purchased the Yonkers’ Nepperhan mill site. This was the beginning of what would become a 52,500-acre estate which was established by a royal patent in 1693 as the “Lordship or Mannour of Philipsborough.” By that time, Philipse had already been operating profitable grist mills at both his Yonkers property, or the “Lower Mills,” and his “Upper Mills” site on the Pocantico River, located in what is today the village of North Tarrytown. Philipse constructed a dwelling at his Lower Mills site in the 1680s, although his main residence was in Manhattan. Around the Yonkers site clustered the mills, barns, and other structures from which developed the present city. When Frederick Philipse I died in 1702, the Manor was divided between his oldest surviving son, Adolph, who received the Upper Mills, and his orphaned grandson, Frederick II, who received the Lower Mills and the Manor House.