Philipse family

The Philipse family was a prominent Dutch family in New Netherlands and the British Province of New York. It owned both the vast hereditary estate in lower Westchester County, New York, Philipsburg Manor, the family seat, and the roughly 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 by the Revolutionary government of the Province of New York and sold by its Commissioners of Forfeitures. Though never compensated for their losses by the Colonial government, various family members did receive payments from the British government in following years.

File:Philipsburg manor map.png|Map of Philipsburg Manor with current borders overlaid on the property File:Map of Philipse Patent (showing the Oblong and Gore).png|Map of Philipse Patent (showing the Oblong and the Gore) Provided by Wikipedia