| Philipse | |
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| Current region | New York |
| Place of origin | Netherlands |
| Connected families | Van Rensselaer family Schuyler family Livingston family |
The Philipse family was a prominent Dutch family in New Netherlands and the British Province of New York. It owned both the vast 81 sq mi (210 km2) hereditary estate in lower Westchester County, New York, Philipsburg Manor, the family seat, and the roughly 250 sq mi (650 km2) Highland Patent, later known as the "Philipse Patent", in time today's Putnam County, New York.
Loyalists during the Revolutionary War, the family had its lands seized in 1779[1] by the Revolutionary government of the Province of New York[2] and sold by its Commissioners of Forfeitures. Though never compensated for their losses by the Colonial government,[3] various family members did receive payments from the British government in following years.[4][5]
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Map of Philipsburg Manor with current borders overlaid on the property -
Map of Philipse Patent (showing the Oblong and the Gore)
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- ^ Frederick Philipse genealogy: The entirety of the family property was divided up into almost 200 different parcels of land, with the vast majority of the Philipse Patent becoming today's Putnam County, New York, and other large parcels going to Dutch New York businessman Henry Beekman.
- ^ Purple, Edwin R., "Contributions to the History of the Ancient Families of New York: Varleth-Varlet-Varleet-Verlet-Verleth", New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, vol. 9 (1878), pp. 120–121.
- ^ Description of the Abstract of Sales, Commissioners of Forfeiture "Many citizens of New York, however, still harbored strong resentment against the loyalists, leading the Provincial Congress to effectively nullify the Treaty of Paris of 1783 by an act of May 12, 1784."
- ^ Life of Sir John Beverley Robinson, Bart., C.B., D.C.L.: Chief-Justice of Upper Canada, by Major General Charles Walker Robinson, C.B. (1904), as cited at Loyal American Regiment, Beverley. Ultimately the British Compensation Commission granted them £24,000 toward the original £80,000 value of he and Susanna's personal estate (reflecting about £16,000 Sterling, plus the 60,000 Philipse Patent acres and some city property valued together at about £64,000), though only about £17,000 was ever paid.
- ^ An American Loyalist: The Ordeal of Frederick Philipse III, Stefan Bielinski, New York State Museum (1976). Bielinski claims Frederick Philipse III was "compensated handsomely by the crown" for his loss. No amount, however, was specified, only a prior reference to a royal pension granted him for his "attachment to his majesty's government" that only reached 200 pounds by 1782, a minute fraction of the over 220,000 pound loss he had suffered via attainder.