• The Earliest Image of Philipse Manor Hall.

 

• Adrian Van der Donk, 1656; exerpt from A Description of the New Netherlands, A discussion of Native American Languages from the chapter"How Men and Animals Came on the American Continent.

 

Exerpt from First Governor of New Amsterdam, Peter Stuyvesant's Report on the building of a fortified settlement at Esopus,1658.

 

Excerpt from the Last Will and Testament of Frederick Philipse, October 26,1700; copy in the Collections of Historic Hudson Valley, The Rockefeller Archives, Pocantico Hills, NY, PA 815.

 

• Vote of the Common Council of New York, March 12,1732 (1733, New System)and Order on April 6,(exerpt).

Portrait of Frederick Philipse II

 

• Excerpt from Will and Codicile of Frederick Philipse II, June 6, 1751,June 22, 1751:collection of the Historic Hudson Valley,PX 1567.

 

 

• Notice of a Wedding from the New York Mercury of Monday September 13, 1756.

 

 

 

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