EXERPT FROM A REPORT WRITTEN BY PETER STUYVESANT IN
1658.
"... On the 13th, 14th and 15th (of June), we were
busy making the east side (of the palisaded enclosure) and Frederick Phillipsen* erected, with the
help of Claes de Ruyter and Thomas Chambers, in the northeast
corner of the enclosure a guard house for the soldiers, 23 feet
long and 16 feet wide, made of boards which had been cut during
my absence."
*Fredrick Philipsen was at the
time the Oficial Carpenter of the Dutch West India Company. He
was to to amass a fortune through trade and a strategic marriage
and to aquire the lands which would become the 52,500 acre estate
which in a royal patent in 1693 would establish the "Lordship
or Mannour of Philipsborough"
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