By Order of the Common Council of the City of New York, April 6, 1732.

...that *Colonel Philipse , with Mayor Robert Lurting, Alderman Hermanus Van Gelder and Assitant Alderman Isaac De Peyster be a committee to:

... lay out the Ground at the lower end of Broadway near the Fort for a Bowling Green; that they Ascertain the Demensions thereof with the breadth of the Streets on all sides; that the same be leased for the term of Eleven Years for the use aforesaid and not Otherwise, under the Annual Rent of A peper Corn and make their Report with all Convenient Speed.

Thus *Colonol Philipse, Frederick II, The Second Lord of the Manor helped to establish the first City Park in New York

Frederick Philipse II	His wife Joanna Philipse